A TRAVELLER'S READING LIST

Travelling around the world is not all white-water rafting and getting beaten up by Buttsuji monks. There's always a fair share of waiting for cancelled planes, delayed buses and errant ferries. And, in times like these, the joys of reading are hard to beat.

So we thought we'd put together a little reading list of some of the books Michael's read on his journeys. There are guidebooks, factual books, fictional books, and some that are simply beyond description. Some entertaining, some scary and some insightful. And all worth a read. So it's time to pop down to the local library...!

80 DAYS

Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days
Joyce Carey: The Horse's Mouth
Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God
Lu Wenfu: Short Stories
Kingsley Amis: Stanley and the Women
Salah El-Ghobashy and Hilary Wise: Get by in Arabic

POLE TO POLE

Rough Guides
Lonely Planets
Insight Guides
Martin Walker: Independent Travellers Guide to the Soviet Union
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Roland Huntford: The Last Place on Earth
Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa
Mammals of Africa

FULL CIRCLE

Jung Chang: Wild Swans
Charles Nicholl: The Fruit Palace
Rob Newman: Dependence Day
Robert Payne: The White Rajahs of Sarawak
Richard Tames: Traveller's History of Japan
Erik and Allegra Azulay: The Russian Far East

HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE

Ernest Hemingway:
Three Stories and Ten Poems
In Our Time
The Sun Also Rises
Men Without Women
A Farewell to Arms
Death in the Afternoon
Winner Take Nothing
Green Hills of Africa
To Have and Have Not
The Fifth Column
The First 49 Stories
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Islands in the Stream
Across the River and into the Trees
The Garden of Eden
The Old Man and the Sea
True at First Light
A Moveable Feast
The Dangerous Summer

SAHARA WITH MICHAEL PALIN

Rough Guide: West Africa
Lonely Planet: Africa on a Shoestring
Footprint Guides: Morocco, Libya and Tunisia
Barnaby Rogerson: Cadogan Guide to Morocco and A Traveller's History of North Africa
Ross Velton: Bradt Guide to Mali
Kim Naylor: Discovery Guide to West Africa
James Wellard: The Great Sahara
Hollyman and Van Beek: The Dogon
Sanche de Gramont: The Strong Brown God
T. Coraghessan Boyle: Water Music
Eland edition of Mungo Park's Travels into the Interior of Africa
Quentin Crewe: In Search of the Sahara
Jeremy Keenan: Sahara Man
Richard Trench: Forbidden Sands
Martin Buckley: Grains of Sand
Hachette: Guide de Sahara
Chris Scott: Sahara Overland
Simon Glen: Sahara Handbook

HIMALAYA

Footprint guides
Lonely Planets
Rough Guides
Isobel Shaw: Pakistan Handbook
Michael Buckley: Bradt Guide to Tibet
Francoise Pommaret: Odyssey Guide to Bhutan
Insight Guides
Patrick French: Younghusband; Tibet Tibet; Liberty or Death
Kathleen Jamie: Among Muslims
Peter Matthiessen: The Snow Leopard
Geoffrey Moorhouse: To The Frontier
Sun Shuyun: Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud
Namu: Leaving Mother Lake
Romesh Bhattacharji: Lands of Early Dawn

MICHAEL PALIN'S NEW EUROPE

Rough Guides
Bradt Guides
Time Out City Guides
Lonely Planet's Moldova and Ukraine Guides
Misha Glenny: The Balkans
Dervla Murphy: Through the Embers of Chaos
Janine de Giovanni: Madness Visible
Robert Carver: The Accursed Mountains & Journeys in Albania
Robert Kaplan: Balkan Ghosts & Eastward to Tartary
Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts & Between the Woods and the Water
Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul
Victor Sebestyen: Twelve Days & Revolution 1956
Anna Reid: Borderland
Radek Sikorski: The Polish House
Norman Davies: Heart of Europe & The Past in Poland's Present
Eva Hoffman: Lost in Translation
Timothy Garton Ash: The Polish Revolution
Anna Funder: Stasiland
Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin
Ismail Kadare: The General of the Dead Army & Three Elegies for Kosovo
Dubravka Ugresic: The Ministry of Pain
Joseph Roth: The Radetzky March

MISCELLANEOUS

Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
Michel Houellebecq: Platform
Tom Segev: One Palestine, Complete
Alistair Horne: A Savage War of Peace
Anthony Swofford: Jarhead
Richard Darwood: How to Stay Healthy Abroad