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Big List of Books Beyond Borders

Click on the ones that you peeked at, flipped through, read partially (or if you've read cover to cover, check it off too)
The list (admittedly eclectic) is not all guide books or travel journals.The main idea is to encourage interest in books by writers from all genres who traveled and researched far "beyond their own borders" for their source material and stories.
This list groups titles by:
-travel guides
-Table books (ie photo albums etc)
-travel Literature (non fiction)
-Popular sciences
-humanities
-Memoirs (with traveling characters)
-travel Literature (fiction)
-Other Fiction (representing different cultural, geographic settings)
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Atlas Obscura (Joshua Foer)
Atlas Obscura
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Joshua Foer
DK Eyewitness Travel Books (DK Publishing)
DK Eyewitness Travel Books
2
DK Publishing
1000 Places to See Before You Die
1000 Places to See Before You Die
3
501 Must Visit Destinations (David Brown)
501 Must Visit Destinations
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David Brown
The Travel Book (Lonely Planet)
The Travel Book
5
Lonely Planet
The Lonely Planet Story (Tony and Maureen Wheeler)
The Lonely Planet Story
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Tony and Maureen Wheeler
Rick Steves' Travel as a Political Act (Rick Steves)
Rick Steves' Travel as a Political Act
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Rick Steves
The Edible Atlas (Mina Holland)
The Edible Atlas
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Mina Holland
Anthony Bourdain Omnibus (Anthony Bourdain)
Anthony Bourdain Omnibus
9
Anthony Bourdain
Lonely Planet's Global Coffee Tour (Lonely Planet Food)
Lonely Planet's Global Coffee Tour
10
Lonely Planet Food
The Drunken Botanist (Amy Stewart)
The Drunken Botanist
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Amy Stewart
National Geographic Atlad of Beer: A Globe-Trotting Journey Through the World of Beer (Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, Garrett Ol)
National Geographic Atlad of Beer: A Globe-Trotting Journey Through the World of Beer
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Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, Garrett Ol
Pizza! (Nico Amandonico)
Pizza!
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Nico Amandonico
Rice, Noodle, Fish (Matt Goulding)
Rice, Noodle, Fish
14
Matt Goulding
100 Million Years of Food (Stephen Le)
100 Million Years of Food
15
Stephen Le
Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past (Sarah Parcak)
Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
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Sarah Parcak
The Illustrated a Brief History of Time / the Universe in a Nutshell (Stephen Hawking)
The Illustrated a Brief History of Time / the Universe in a Nutshell
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Stephen Hawking
Finding Zero: A Mathemetician's Odyssey to Finding the Origins of Numbers (Amir Aczel)
Finding Zero: A Mathemetician's Odyssey to Finding the Origins of Numbers
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Amir Aczel
Proof! How the World Became Geometrical (Amir Alexander)
Proof! How the World Became Geometrical
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Amir Alexander
Here's Looking at Euclid (Alex Bellos)
Here's Looking at Euclid
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Alex Bellos
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
21
Stephen Greenblatt
How to Read Buildings (Carol Davidson Cragoe)
How to Read Buildings
22
Carol Davidson Cragoe
Bridges: A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans (Judith Dupre)
Bridges: A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans
23
Judith Dupre
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings (James Crawford)
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
24
James Crawford
Collapse
Collapse
25
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
26
Jared Diamond
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change (Peter Calthorpe)
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
27
Peter Calthorpe
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Wade Graham)
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
28
Wade Graham
Thunder From the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia (Nicholas D. Kristof)
Thunder From the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia
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Nicholas D. Kristof
China Wakes (Nicholas D. Kristof)
China Wakes
30
Nicholas D. Kristof
Blue Zones of Happiness (Dan Buettner)
Blue Zones of Happiness
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Dan Buettner
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Ken Jennings)
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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Ken Jennings
Junkyard Planet (Adam Minter)
Junkyard Planet
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Adam Minter
Secondhand (Adam Minter)
Secondhand
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Adam Minter
Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine)
Last Chance to See
35
Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century (Daniel Hernandez)
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
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Daniel Hernandez
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
37
Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru (Tahir Shah)
Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
38
Tahir Shah
The Motorcycle Diaries (Che Guevara)
The Motorcycle Diaries
39
Che Guevara
In Patagonia (Bruce Chatwin)
In Patagonia
40
Bruce Chatwin
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