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Best Travel Books

Name: Best Travel Books
Creator: Open Library
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Most-published travel writing and guides to destinations around the world.

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Name↕	Title↕	Author↕	First Published↕	Subjects↕	Editions↕	Languages↕
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	Alice (fictitious character : carroll), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, JUVENILE FICTION	3,546	guj, jpn, por
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1876	adventure and adventurers, Adventure stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature	2,552	arm, jpn, alb
Robinson Crusoe	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville	1686	Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Survival, Fiction	2,419	arm, por, bre
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus	Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus	Mary Shelley	1818	Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character), Fiction, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character)	2,188	spa, rus, ger
Treasure Island	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	1880	Fiction, Treasure Island (Imaginary place), Treasure-trove, Pirates	1,988	guj, jpn, alb
Gulliver's Travels	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726	YA, Young adult, Juvenile, Fiction	1,810	arm, jpn, por
Great Expectations	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	1861	Authors, Benefactors, Bildungsromans, Boys	1,489	heb, spa, rus
A Midsummer Night's Dream	A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare	1600	Drama, Courtship, Plays, Hippolyta (Greek mythology)	1,483	jpn, por, dan
The Wind in the Willows	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	1908	Children's fiction, Animals, fiction, Friendship, fiction, England, fiction	1,346	pol, heb, spa
The Time Machine	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells	1895	Self-experimentation in medicine in fiction, Fiction, Time travel in fiction, Dystopias in fiction	1,146	epo, pol, spa
Walden	Walden	Henry David Thoreau	1854	Biography, Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs	1,138	eng, fre, chi
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)	Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)	Jerome Klapka Jérôme	1889	Humorous stories, Male friendship, Description and travel, Humor (Fiction)	1,133	epo, heb, guj
King Solomon's Mines	King Solomon's Mines	H. Rider Haggard	1880	Children's fiction, Mines and mineral resources, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Large type books	1,091	eng, ger, tur
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	1820	Fiction, Ghosts, History, Children's stories, American	1,017	jpn, baq, por
Kim	Kim	Rudyard Kipling	1901	Fiction, Irish, Lamas, Irish in fiction	934	pol, heb, spa
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain	1889	Time travel, Fiction, Arthurian romances, Kings and rulers	788	eng, heb, spa
The Marvelous Land of Oz	The Marvelous Land of Oz	L. Frank Baum	1904	Children's stories, American, Juvenile fiction, Translations into Russian, Children's literature, English	724	eng, ara, rus
A Room with a View	A Room with a View	E. M. Forster	1905	British, Fiction, Young women, British in fiction	692	eng, spa, fre
Le petit prince	Le petit prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1943	adventure, fantasy, friendship, love	688	arm, jpn, por
All's Well That Ends Well	All's Well That Ends Well	William Shakespeare	1734	Drama, Married women, Runaway husbands, Problems, exercises	685	pol, heb, spa
The Jungle	The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	1707	Slaughtering and slaughter-houses, Sociology, Lithuanian Americans, Fiction	673	pol, spa, cze
Meditations	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1626	Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Stoics, Classic Literature	642	arm, spa, cze
The Emerald City of Oz	The Emerald City of Oz	L. Frank Baum	1910	Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Oz (Imaginary place), Fantasy	634	eng
The Prisoner of Zenda	The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope, Gary Hoppenstand	1800	Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, action & adventure, Ruritania (imaginary place), fiction	627	eng, heb, ara
The Story of the Amulet	The Story of the Amulet	Edith Nesbit	1905	Roman pour la jeunesse, Litterature fantastique, Classic Literature, Fiction	578	eng, heb, ger
The Invisible Man	The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	0	Ciencia-ficción, Classic Literature, Fiction, Mentally ill	563	spa, rus, ger
Heart of Darkness	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1899	Fiction, Romance, Degeneration, Literature	552	spa, mul, ger
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll	1889	adventure and adventurers, adventure and adventurers, fiction, adventure stories, adventure travel	543	pol, spa, rus
The Pickwick Papers	The Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens	1800	Fiction, Men, Societies and clubs, Male friendship	538	eng, spa, ita
A history of New York	A history of New York	Washington Irving	1800	Dutch Americans, Social life and customs, Literature, Fiction	472	ger, eng, fre
Voyage Out	Voyage Out	Virginia Woolf	1915	Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, general, Young women, fiction, Young women -- Fiction	465	eng, ger, spa
The Alhambra	The Alhambra	Washington Irving	1800	Alhambra, Alhambra (Granada, España), Alhambra (Granada, Spain), Cuentos populares árabes	459	heb, spa, rus
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours	Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours	Jules Verne	1872	Viajes alrededor del mundo, Translations into Gujarati, Fiction, Translations from French	426	guj, spa, jpn
Roughing It	Roughing It	Mark Twain	1872	19th century, American Authors, Biography, Business	408	ger, eng, pol
Two years before the mast	Two years before the mast	Richard Henry Dana	1000	Alert (Brig : 1843-1862), Large-type books, Pilgrim (Brig), Sailors	369	eng, fre, spa
Os Lusíadas	Os Lusíadas	Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho	1572	Poetry, History, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel	367	eng, ita, ger
Kidnapped	Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	1886	Juvenile fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure and adventurers	352	epo, spa, chi
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq	The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq	Washington Irving	1819	Fiction, Description and travel, Christmas, Social life and customs	351	chi, eng, ger
Lord Jim	Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad	1900	Fiction, British, Officers, Merchant marine	344	spa, ger, fre
Tom Sawyer Abroad	Tom Sawyer Abroad	Mark Twain	1894	Balloon ascensions, Travel, Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), Americans	333	eng, fin