Top travel books (Trending topics)

The following are the current most viewed articles on Wikipedia within Wikipedia's Travel books category. Think of it as a What's Hot list for Travel books. More info »

This is a beta release and so the figures may be a day or two out of date. We'd love to get your thoughts.

Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Seven Years in Tibet	1,587
2	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	1,067
3	Travel literature	849
4	The Motorcycle Diaries (book)	835
5	Long Way Round	686
6	The Travels of Marco Polo	543
7	Travels with Charley: In Search of America	539
8	The Voyage of the Beagle	410
9	1,000 Places to See Before You Die	297
10	Guide book	290
11	The Innocents Abroad	271
12	Crap Towns	227
13	Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road	222
14	The World's Most Dangerous Places	219
15	A Walk in the Woods	188
16	Roughing It	174
17	Oku no Hosomichi	143
18	Description de l'Égypte	143
19	Notes from a Small Island	134
20	The Log from the Sea of Cortez	117
21	Blue Highways	116
22	Castaway (book)	111
23	Race To Dakar	101
24	American Notes	93
25	The Sex Lives of Cannibals	91
26	Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes	91
27	A Tramp Abroad	90
28	A Year in Provence	86
29	Rihla	82
30	The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America	80
31	A Cook's Tour	74
32	In Patagonia	63
33	City of Djinns	62
34	Notes from a Big Country	61
35	The Shadow of the Sun	60
36	Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe	60
37	Sorcerer's Apprentice (book)	59
38	Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon	58
39	Great Tang Records on the Western Regions	56
40	The Snow Leopard	53
41	The Tent Dwellers	52
42	Journey Without Maps	50
43	De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas	46
44	Pictures from Italy	45
45	Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	45
46	The Great Railway Bazaar	43
47	An Area of Darkness	42
48	Following the Equator	42
49	An Inland Voyage	42
50	The American Scene	41
51	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	40
52	The Old Patagonian Express	40
53	Rambles in Germany and Italy	39
54	Jupiter's Travels	38
55	Italian Journey	37
56	Shell Guides	37
57	A Russian Journal	36
58	Eastern Approaches	36
59	Come, Tell Me How You Live	36
60	A Time Of Gifts	35
61	India: A Wounded Civilization	35
62	Mondo Enduro	34
63	Solomon Time	34
64	History of a Six Weeks' Tour	33
65	What Am I Doing Here?	32
66	The Bible in Spain	31
67	The Places in Between	31
68	A Journey Beyond the Three Seas	29
69	Picador Travel Classics	29
70	A Walk Across America	28
71	Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom	27
72	Tramp Royale	27
73	In Xanadu	27
74	Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Palin book)	27
75	Outdoor literature	26
76	The Amateur Emigrant	26
77	Tales from the Expat Harem	26
78	One World (book)	25
79	The Silverado Squatters	25
80	Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers	25
81	Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey	25
82	Travels in Arabia Deserta	25
83	Air Babylon	24
84	Safarnama	24
85	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon	24
86	Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile	24
87	The Age of Kali	24
88	A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain	23
89	Anatomy of Restlessness	23
90	Seyahatname	22
91	Iberia (book)	22
92	The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides	22
93	Bill Bryson's African Diary	22
94	The Last Grain Race	22
95	Travels with Herodotus	22
96	The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa	22
97	The Kingdom by the Sea	22
98	Full Circle – Michael Palin	21
99	Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787	21
100	Nine Lives: in Search of the Sacred in Modern India	21
101	The Jaguar Smile	20
102	The Geography of Bliss	20
103	Kabloona	19
104	El Perú (book)	19
105	Sea and Sardinia	19
106	Itinerarium Burdigalense	19
107	Eimi (book)	19
108	The Middle Passage (book)	19
109	Bollocks to Alton Towers	18
110	Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803	18
111	Wrong about Japan	18
112	Istorica Descrizione de' tre regni Congo, Matamba ed Angola	18
113	Coryat's Crudities	17
114	Brazilian Adventure	17
115	The Lost Continent and Neither Here Nor There	17
116	Bartram's Travels	16
117	Sahara (Michael Palin)	16
118	The Dark Heart of Italy	16
119	Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks	16
120	The Sign of the Cross	15
121	Himalaya (book)	15
122	From the Holy Mountain	15
123	The Lawless Roads	15
124	Periplus Ponti Euxini	15
125	Big Ten Country	15
126	Up North (book)	15
127	The Happy Isles Of Oceania	15
128	Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie	14
129	30 Days in Sydney	14
130	Beyond the Mexique Bay	14
131	Observations (Pierre Belon)	14
132	Pole to Pole (book)	14
133	Hemingway Adventure (book)	14
134	Heart's Desire (book)	13
135	From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel	12
136	Coasting (book)	12
137	Pole to Pole – The Photographs	12
138	New Europe (book)	12
139	Smile, You're Traveling	12
140	Domestic Manners of the Americans	11
141	Edo Meisho Zue	11
142	English Hours	11
143	The Man Who Walked Through Time	11
144	The Whispering Land	11
145	Stranger in the Forest (book)	11
146	A Turn in the South	11
147	Road of Winds	10
148	Above New York	10
149	Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America	10
150	Wang ocheonchukguk jeon	10
151	Bad Land: An American Romance	10
152	The Caliph's House	10
153	Mingling Among the Mongols	10
154	A Little Tour in France	9
155	Italian Hours	9
156	The Thousand Mile Summer	9
157	A Handbook for Travellers in Spain	9
158	Au Maroc	9
159	One Man and His Bog	9
160	North of South	9
161	In Search of King Solomon's Mines	9
162	Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish (1698)	9
163	A Naturalist in Indian Seas	8
164	In Wonderland	8
165	Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond	8
166	Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law	8
167	All in the Same Boat	8
168	Begums Thugs and White Mughals	8
169	In Arabian Nights	8
170	For Love & Money: A Writing Life, 1968-1987	8
171	To Chicago and Back	7
172	Le Rhin	7
173	Le Tour du Québec en BD	7
174	Description of the Starry Raft	7
175	The Pillars of Hercules (book)	7
176	20 Hrs., 40 Min.	7
177	Keeling's Guide to Japan	7
178	Babylon by Bus (book)	7
179	Around the World in Seventy-Two Days	7
180	Rosie Whitehouse	7
181	News from Tartary	6
182	Sefâretnâme	6
183	Inside Himalaya	6
184	Full Circle – The Photographs	6
185	From Wimbledon to Waco	6
186	The River at the Center of the World	6
187	Beyond the Devil's Teeth	6
188	Venice for Lovers	6
189	Pictures from the Water Trade	6
190	The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide	less than 5 views
191	Those United States	less than 5 views
192	The Far Islands and Other Cold Places	less than 5 views
193	Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa	less than 5 views
194	Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean	less than 5 views
195	The Roads to Sata	less than 5 views
196	Inside Sahara	less than 5 views
197	I riddarnas spår	less than 5 views
198	Old Glory: An American Voyage	less than 5 views
199	Du Chakay Duniya	less than 5 views
200	Decades of the New World	less than 5 views
201	Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars, in the years 1712, 13, 14, and 15	less than 5 views
202	Desert Encounter	less than 5 views
203	Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith	less than 5 views
204	Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns	less than 5 views
205	Travels through France and Italy	less than 5 views
206	Letters from High Latitudes	less than 5 views
207	One's Company	less than 5 views
208	Are You Carrying Any Gold or Living Relatives?	less than 5 views
209	The Last Heathen	less than 5 views
210	A Fete Worse Than Death	less than 5 views
211	Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light	less than 5 views
212	Classic Locations Oxfordshire	less than 5 views
213	Pocketful of Mint	less than 5 views
214	Sail South till the Butter Melts	less than 5 views
215	Arabia Through the Looking Glass	less than 5 views
216	One for the Road (Bjørn Christian Tørrissen book)	less than 5 views
217	The City of the Magyar	less than 5 views
218	Heutelia	less than 5 views
219	Trail of Feathers	less than 5 views
220	House of the Tiger King	less than 5 views
221	Report from Practically Nowhere	less than 5 views
222	Wacky Nation	less than 5 views
223	Journals of Isenberg and Krapf	less than 5 views
224	Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die	less than 5 views