Travel/adventure recommendations?

[charlatti]

I didn't see this in the stickied recommendation post, so I thought it might be a good one to start. What are your favorite travel or adventure books? Probably nonfiction, but well-researched fiction might fit too.

Mine:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof

[mollymoe]

I haven't read too many adventure books. Last year I read Into Thin Air by John Krakauer and really liked it. I also read the Lost City of Z by David Grann. It was about an explorer who disappeared in Brazil. The book was interesting but I felt the ending was disappointing. I felt like the book just ended.

[mdgirl]

Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz, which is probably not technically travel/adventure, but he retraces Capt. Cook's journeys to see what the people in those places think of him now, so there's a lot of travel and adventure involved.

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. I read it while in Australia for my honeymoon and it made me want to stay and see more.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost. I think the author is a bit of a twit but I don't think I'd ever even heard of Kiribati before I read the first one.

[duckduck]

I'll second In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. It's fantastic.

My favorite travel books are oldies-- Roughing It and The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.