The Indie Travel Literature Bestseller List

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 6, 2014.

1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074

2. Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters, FSG, $26, 9780374298630

3. Uganda Be Kidding Me
Chelsea Handler, Grand Central, $27, 9781455599738

4. The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen, Penguin, $17, 9780143105510

5. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $15.99, 9780767902526

6. Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Robyn Davidson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780679762874

7. The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, From Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Philip Caputo, Picador USA, $16, 9781250048745

8. Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
David Downie, Pegasus, $16.95, 9781605985565

9. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Paul Theroux, Mariner, $15.95, 9780544227934

10. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails From Milan to Palermo
Tim Parks, Norton, $15.95, 9780393348828

11. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz, Workman, $21.95, 9780761156864

12. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
Kristin Newman, Three Rivers, $14.99, 9780804137607

13. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060589462

14. Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams, Plume, $16, 9780452297982

15. In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $15.99, 9780767903868

16. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Patrick Leigh Fermor, New York Review of Books, $30, 9781590177549

17. Nothing Daunted
Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner, $16, 9781439176597

18. Hitchhiking With Larry David: An Accidental Tourist’s Summer of Self-Discovery in Martha’s Vineyard
Paul Samuel Dolman, Gotham, $16, 9781592408740

19. Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape
Bill McKibben, St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99, 9781627790208

20. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Robert MacFarlane, Penguin, $18, 9780147509796

21. Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World — From the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
Tom Zoellner, Viking, $27.95, 9780670025282

22. Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World
Lynne Martin, Sourcebooks, $14.99, 9781402291531

23. Travels With Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $11, 9780140053203

24. A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure & Discovery on the Road
James Oseland (Ed.), Lonely Planet, $15.99, 9781743218440

25. The Best American Travel Writing 2013
Elizabeth Gilbert, Jason Wilson (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547808987