Robert Louis Stevenson's journey across the Cévennes with his travel partner, a donkey named Modestine

The writer on why Full Tilt (1965) is her favourite travel book

The highs and lows of travel books

Damon Galgut talks about E.M. Forster and his detailed observations of British Raj which he documented in his journals (one such is his book --The Hill of Devi--)

Rory Stewart--s sensitive narrative of the complex Afghan history and landscape make the book --The Places in Between-- Sarah Waters-- favourite travelogue

The author, Sam Miller, feels that Robert Fagles-- translation of Homer--s Odyssey gives the real sense of travel

Author and columnist, Joanna Rakoff, finds it fascinating that Dickens-- account of America still holds true

Amruta Patil feels that Alexandra David- Néel--s work emerge out of personal journeys made through her adult life

Zac O--Yeah on his love for Mark Twain--s travelogue The Innocents Abroad, 1869

If Anita Nair is looking for time travel in the reverse, it is Barbosa that she would reach out for

According to Amish Tripathi, nobody can deny the sheer passion that Mr Blank has for India and for the Ramayana

For Arunava Sinha, Samaresh Basu--s book, Amritakumbher Shawndhaney (In Search of the Nectar-Pot), 1968, is a human document in the form of a travelogue

Writer Isabella Tree talks about Peter Matthiesen's book, The Snow Leopard (1978), which documents the activities and habitat of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal

Indrajit Hazra tells the readers why Buzz Aldrin's book 'Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home From the Moon' (2009) is so close to his heart

Travel writer Eric Newby's account of his expedition - to the wild and remote Hindu Kush mountains - to scale Mir Samir in Afghanistan