The World Is At Your Fingertips

"After five years' travel," veteran guidebook writer Geoff Crowther once recalled, "most of us went feral." So did the books they wrote. Jammed into backpacks, ripped into pieces, guidebooks escape into the wild to get lost or abandoned for the next edition. Here are a few classic guidebooks that have stood the test of time:

Traveling Through Europe on Only $4,300 a Day

Seriously, What the Balls Are You Thinking?
A Guide to the Sights and Sounds of Saudi Arabia

Take What You Want, but for God’s Sake Leave the Children
A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of Bogota, Columbia

We Don’t Take Kindly To Your Kind Round’ Here
Offbeat Travels Through America's South

When Life Gives You AIDS, Make Lemonades
Traveling Through Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel

Getting Stoned In Iran
It Turns Out That Means Something Totally Different Over There

Clogged Highways, Clogged Arteries: A Journey into America’s Heartland

Southeast Asia from A-Z
You’ll Come for the Child Prostitutes, You’ll Stay for the Child Slaves

The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation, Otherwise Known as the Butt-Fuck of the Natural World