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Sep 28, 2017
Wanderlust is notoriously difficult to manage. Once you’ve tasted the adrenaline rush of travel, it can feel unbearable to sit at home, knowing that adventure is out there waiting to be had.

But if you can’t always get out and explore, then it’s best to let a book do it for you. The wanderlust-quenching adventures below aren’t the same titles you’ll find on run-of-the-mill lists of “beach reads.”

From Australia to America, and Bulgaria to Burma, The Telegraph draws on 2016’s travel books.


This is London: Life and Death in the World City

This is London: Life and Death in the World City

Ben Judah

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Read an exclusive blog by Ben Judah here 'Judah grabs hold of London and shakes out its...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 26

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 26

Rosamund Kidman Cox

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For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and...

Burma: An Enchanted Spirit

Burma: An Enchanted Spirit

David Heath

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Traveling by canoe, plane, boat, train, on foot and hitching a ride on the occasional dump truck,...


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Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter

Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter

Melissa Harrison

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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... in prose and poetry both old and new, the acclaimed Seasons series...


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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

Tim Moore

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"Bill Bryson on two wheels". (Independent). Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore...

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A fine adaptation of whats considered a not-so-great story. Yes it's simplistic and pretty straightforward adventure tale. Yes, it follows very closely to the televised story with only a few minor deviations. Neither of which change the fact that it is immensely enjoyable to read, and as always with novelizations of lost or incomplete stories, it paints a great picture of something we may never get to see in the flesh...