Books tend to be a great place to get some inspiration for your next travel adventure.

Here we’ve put together the Tidal Travel Book List that might inspire a visit to someplace new someday or just for the sheer joy of escapism.

If you’ve any suggestions of your own please add in the comments box below.

SOUTH AMERICA
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, EDUARDO GALEANO
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics), GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

The Andes
Touching The Void, JOE SIMPSON

Argentina – Peru
The Motorcycle Diaries, ERNESTO GUEVARA

Bolivia
Marching Powder, RUSTY YOUNG

Cuba
The House Of The Spirits, ISABEL ALLENDE

Colombia
Killing Pablo: the Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History, MARK BOWDEN

Galapagos
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches (Classics), CHARLES DARWIN

Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchú, RIGOBERTA MENCHU

Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge, JOHN GIMLETTE

Patagonia
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Penguin Modern Classics), PAUL THEROUX

UK & EUROPE
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe, BILL BRYSON
Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader, BRIAN THACKER
On the Shores of the Mediterranean, ERIC NEWBY
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia (The Lemons Trilogy), CHRIS STEWART
Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking ‘round Europe, LISA JOHNSON

The Balkans
Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys, DERVLA MURPHY

France
Almost French: A New Life in Paris, SARAH TURNBULL

AUSTRALIA
Sean and David’s Long Drive (Lonely Planet Journeys), SEAN CONDON
Down Under, BILL BRYSON
The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia, HENRY REYNOLDS

THE PACIFIC
Where We Once Belonged, SIA FIEGEL

NORTHEAST ASIA
Tibet
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa, PETER HOPKIRK
Fire Under The Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Monk (Panther), PALDEN GYATSO

China
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, PAUL THEROUX
The Noodle Maker, MIS JIAN

Japan
The Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan’s Next Generation, KARL TARO GREENFIELD
Memoirs Of A Geisha, ARTHUR GOLDEN

SOUTHEAST ASIA
Borneo
Into the Heart of Borneo: An Account of a Journey Made In 1983 to the Mountains of Batu Tiban with Ja, REDMOND O’HANLON

Cambodia
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, LUONG UNG

Indonesia
This Earth of Mankind, PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER

Thailand
Sightseeing, RATTAWUT LAPCHAROENSAP
The Beach, ALEX GARLAND

Singapore
Tales from a Broad, FRAN LEBOWITZ

Vietnam
The Sorrow Of War, BAO NINH

THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
India
Midnight’s Children, SALMAN RUSHDIE
The God of Small Things, ARUNDHATI ROY
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border, STEPHEN ALTER
Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology, KRISHNA DETTA AND ANDREW ROBINSON
Sam’s Story, ELMO JAYAWARDENA

Nepal
Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster – updated 2nd edition, JON KRAKAUER

NORTH AMERICA
America
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, DEE BROWN
On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics), JACK KEROUAC
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America, BILL BRYSON
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond, DENIS JOHNSON

CARIBBEAN
Jamaica
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (P.S.) by Hurston, Zora Neale published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2008), ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Dread: Rastafarians of Jamaica, JOSEPH OWENS

AFRICA
Africa by Road, BOB SWAIN AND PAULA SNYDER
A History of Africa, JD FAGE
A Traveller’s Literary Companion, OONA STRATHERN
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town, PAUL THEROUX
Things Fall Apart (Penguin Classics), CHINUA ACHEBE
Travels in West Africa, MARY KINGSLEY

Democratic Republic of Congo
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo, MICHELA WRONG

Sahara
Shadows across the Sahara: With Camels from Tripoli to Lake Chad, JOHN HARE

South Africa
My Traitors Heart, RIAN MALAN

THE MIDDLE EAST
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition, MALISE RUTHVEN

Israel
Mezzoterra, AHDAF SOUEIF
A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, KAREN ARMSTRONG
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, GERALDINE BROOKS
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Classics of World Literature), TE LAWRENCE
Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics), WILFRED THESIGER

Turkey, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian Authorities
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

RUSSIA
The Gulag Archipelago [Abridged] (Harvill Press Editions), ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, PETER HOPKIRK

CENTRAL ASIA
Journey to Khiva, PHILIP GLAZEBROOK
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, ERIC NEWBY

Uzbekistan
The Railway, HAMID ISMAILOV

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