Regular contributor Mac ruminates on the world of travel & some of his adventures along the way  This time round he’s spotted this WorldHum.com list of top travel books:-

No. 1: “Arabian Sands” by Wilfred Thesiger

No. 2: “The Road to Oxiana” by Robert Byron

No. 3: “The Great Railway Bazaar” by Paul Theroux

No. 4: “The Soccer War” by Ryszard Kapuściński

No. 5: “No Mercy” by Redmond O’Hanlon

No. 6: “North of South” by Shiva Naipaul

No. 7: “Golden Earth” by Norman Lewis

No. 8: “Video Night in Kathmandu” by Pico Iyer

No. 9: “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain

No. 10: “In A Sunburned Country” by Bill Bryson

No. 11: “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen

No. 12: “The Songlines” by Bruce Chatwin

No. 13: “Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck

No. 14: “Riding to the Tigris” by Freya Stark

No. 15: “Europe, Europe” by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

No. 16: “City of Djinns” by William Dalrymple

No. 17: “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush” by Eric Newby

No. 18: “All the Wrong Places” by James Fenton

No. 19: “Hunting Mister Heartbreak” by Jonathan Raban

No. 20: “River Town” by Peter Hessler

No. 21: “Road Fever” by Tim Cahill

No. 22: “When the Going was Good” by Evelyn Waugh

No. 23: “Behind the Wall” by Colin Thubron

No. 24: “Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere” by Jan Morris

No. 25: “A Time of Gifts” by Patrick Leigh Fermor

No. 26: “Baghdad Without a Map” by Tony Horwitz

No. 27: “The Size of the World” by Jeff Greenwald

No. 28: “Facing the Congo” by Jeffrey Tayler

No. 29: “Venture to the Interior” by Laurens van der Post

No. 30: “A Turn in the South” by V.S. Naipaul

What do you think – do you agree with this list or are there some must reads missing ? Feel free to express your opinions to The Ant…