Whether you're planning a trip or just traveling by proxy, these books will surely be an inspiration.

Will Travel for Food

Spain - a culinary road trip by Mario Batali with Gwyneth Paltrow

Around the world in 80 dinners: the ultimate culinary adventure by Cheryl and Bill Jamison

The year of eating dangerously: a global adventure in search of culinary extremes by Tom Parker Bowles

Eat my globe: one year to go everywhere and eat everything by Simon Majumdar

Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop

Food journeys of a lifetime: 500 extraordinary places to eat around the globe by introduction by Keith Bellows

Her fork in the road: women celebrate food and travel by edited by Lisa Bach

No reservations: around the world on an empty stomach by Anthony Bourdain

Microbrewed adventures: a lupulin-filled journey to the heart and flavor of the world's great craft beers by Charlie Papazian

Comic Travel Tales

Don't Forget to Pack Your Sense of Humor

By the seat of my pants : humorous tales of travel and misadventure by edited by Don George

The road to McCarthy : around the world in search of Ireland by Pete McCarthy

Around the world in 80 rounds : chasing a golf ball from Tierra del Fuego to the land of the midnight sun by David Wood ; foreword by Turk Pipkin

Sand in my bra and other misadventures : funny women write from the road by edited by Jennifer L. Leo

Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell

Round Ireland with a fridge by Tony Hawks

Travels with my donkey : one man and his ass on a pilgrimage to Santiago by Tim Moore

The greedy bastard diary : a comic tour of America by Eric Idle

Stephen Fry in America by photographs by Vanda Vucicevic

A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

Molvanîa: a land untouched by modern dentistry by [written by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch]

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