A few days ago I asked, “What are your favourite literary travel books?” Thank you for your suggestions, added to mine below to compile a quintessential shelf of travel literature:

1. Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour – Gustave Flaubert
   
2. Rings of Saturn – W. G. Sebald
3. Travels with Herodotus – Ryszard Kapuściński
4. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare – Henry Miller
5. Songlines – Bruce Chatwin
6. The Motorcycle Diaries – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
7. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
8. In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
9. Pictures from Italy – Charles Dickens
10. Collected Travel Writings: The Continent and Great Britain and America – Henry James
11. The Roads to Sata – Alan Booth
12. The Way of the World – Nicolas Bouvier
13. Into the Heart of Borneo – Redmond O’Hanlon
14. A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor
15. Hokkaido Highway Blues – Will Ferguson
16. Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It – Geoff Dyer
17. Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World – Pico Iyer
18. Riding the Iron Rooster – Paul Theroux
19. To Noto: Or London to Sicily in a Ford – Duncan Fallowell
20. Angry White Pyjamas – Robert Twigger
21. Arabian Sands – Wilfred Thesiger
22. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland – Gretel Ehrlich