Stanford Travel Book of the Year
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"Stanford Travel Book of the Year":
2026
Sophy Roberts, A Training School for Elephants- Shafik Meghji, Small Earthquakes
- Monisha Rajesh, Moonlight Express
- Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?
- Mariana Enriquez, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave
- María Sonia Cristoff, False Calm
2025
- Noo Saro-Wiwa, Black Ghosts: A Journey Into The Lives Of Africans In China
- Clare Hammond, On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar
- Tom Chesshyre, Slow Trains to Istanbul: ...And Back: A 4,570-Mile Adventure on 55 Rides
- James Rebanks, The Place of Tides
- Phoebe Smith, Wayfarer
- Jeff Young, Wild Twin
2024
- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
- Alice Albinia, The Britannias: An Archipelago’s Tale
- Mary Colwell, The Gathering Place: A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times
- Tim Hannigan, The Granite Kingdom
- Leon McCarron, Wounded Tigris
- Tom Parfitt, High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
2023
- Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In The Shadow of the Mountain
- Alex Bescoby, The Last Overland: Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition
- Erika Fatland, High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China
- Tobias Jones, The Po: An Elegy for Italy’s Longest River
- Rebecca Lowe, The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
- Shafik Meghji, Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia
- Alice Morrison, Walking with Nomads
- Mary Novakovich, My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland
"Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year":
2022
- Colin Thubron, The Amur River: Between Russia and China
- Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
- Tharik Hussain, Minarets in the Mountains
- Nina Mingya Powles, Small Bodies of Water
- Joseph Zárate, Wars of the Interior
2021
- Paolo Cognetti, Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey
- Erika Fatland, The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage
- Taran Khan, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul
- Nanjala Nyabola, Traveling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move
- Jini Reddy, Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape
- Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia
- C J Schuler, Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice
- Jonathan C Slaght, Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
2020
- Robert Macfarlane, Underland
- Rory Mclean, Pravda Ha Ha
- Paul Theroux, On the Plain of Snakes
- Nicholas Jubber, Epic Continent
- Simon Winder, Lotharingia
- Anna Sherman, The Bells Of Old Tokyo
- Richard Bassett, Last Days in Old Europe
- Monisha Rajesh, Around the World in 80 Trains
- Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars
2019
- William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
- Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
- Damian Le Bas, The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
- Alev Scott, Map and Illustration by Jamie Whyte, Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire
- Witold Szablowski, Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones)
- Daniel Trilling, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe
2018
- Patrick Barkham, Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
- Garrett Carr, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border
- Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
- Kushanava Choudhury, The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
- Philip Hoare, Risingtidefallingstar
- Nick Hunt, Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
- Isambard Wilkinson, Photographs by Chev Wilkinson, Travels in a Dervish Cloak
2017 no award
2016
- James Attlee, Station To Station: Searching for Stories On The Great Western Line
- Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
- Elisabeth Luard, Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe
- Jim Perrin, The Hills of Wales
- Julian Sayarer, Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation
- Paul Theroux, Deep South
2015
- Philip Marsden, Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
- Helena Attlee, The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit
- Horatio Clare, Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
- Nick Hunt, Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
- Jens Mühling, A Journey into Russia
- Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation
"Dolman Best Travel Book Award":
2014
- Oliver Bullough, The Last Man in Russia
- Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road
- Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
- Iain Sinclair, American Smoke
- Sylvain Tesson, Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga
- Sara Wheeler, O My America!
2013
- Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking For Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
- Jeremy Seal, Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River
- Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines
- A. A. Gill, The Golden Door: Letters to America
- Robert MacFarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
- Michael Jacobs, The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia
2012
- Julia Blackburn, Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
- John Gimlette, Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
- Jacek Hugo-Bader, White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
- Olivia Laing, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
- Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
- Colin Thubron, To a Mountain in Tibet
2011
- Nicolas Jubber, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
- Rachel Polonsky, Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
- Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
- Graham Robb, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
- Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
- Simon Winder, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
2010
- William Blacker, Along the Enchanted Way
- Horatio Clare, A Single Swallow
- Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain
- Daniel Metcalfe, Out of Steppe
- Susan Richards, Lost and Found in Russia
- Hugh Thomson, Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico
- Ian Thomson, The Dead Yard
2009
- Alice Albinia, Empires of the Indus
- Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia
- Richard Grant, Bandit Roads
- Kapka Kassabova, Street Without a Name
- Grevel Lindop, Travels on the Dance Floor
- Dervla Murphy, The Island that Dared
2008[citation needed]
- Tim Butcher, Blood River
- Henry Hemming, Misadventure in the Middle East
- John Lucas, 92 Acharnon Street
- Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places
- Christopher Robbins, In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
2007[citation needed]
- Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated
- David McKie, Great British Bus Journeys
- Tom Parry, Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback
- Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa
2006[citation needed]
- Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest
- Joanna Kavenna, The Ice Museum
- Ruth Padel, Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
- Richard Lloyd Parry, In the Time of Madness
- Stevie Smith, Pedalling to Hawaii