‘Tribes and shamans become your hosts’ – India’s remote Arunachal Pradesh

Tourism is almost non-existent in this north-eastern Indian state, but visitors are given a warm welcome in jungle and highland villages, says travel writer Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent – just beware of the local moonshine

10 of the best travel books … for National Read a Book Day

To celebrate a day for reading, we pick the recently released travel volumes, from a journey round the Hebrides to a vivid picture of the teeming streets of Kolkata

Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor review – vivid focus

Simon Fenwick’s compelling portrait reveals the photographer was much more than just a travel companion to her famous husband

The Epic City review – a love letter to Kolkata

Kushanava Choudhury’s beautifully observed account of life in the West Bengal metropolis is full of humour and wonder

Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs review – the road to enlightenment

This entertaining journey along an ancient road casts light on modern Britain and the national psyche

The Long Road from Jarrow by Stuart Maconie review – ‘a tribute and a rallying call’

In retracing the steps of the Jarrow march of 1936, Stuart Maconie finds that much of the past remains with us

100 best nonfiction books: No 74 – Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park (1799)

The Scottish explorer’s account of his heroic one-man search for the river Niger was a contemporary bestseller and a huge influence on Conrad, Melville and Hemingway

One Man and a Mule: Across England With a Pack Mule by Hugh Thomson – review

No animal was harmed in Hugh Thomson’s entertaining and instructive journey from coast to coast

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 70 – Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope (1832)

Rich in detail and Old World snobbery, Frances Trollope’s classic travelogue identifies aspects of America’s national character still visible today

The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag review – animal magic

Michael Haag conjures up the Durrell family’s prewar Mediterranean idyll, and the young Gerald’s first menagerie

Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell review – a beautiful roam through time and space

Rothwell takes us from the outback to Tostoy’s Russia in contemplation of sacred places

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 57 – Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)

The Scottish writer’s hike in the French mountains with a donkey is a pioneering classic in outdoor literature – and as influential as his fiction

Island People by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro review – a heartfelt Caribbean journey

The writer and geographer has travelled through the places, literature and music of the region to beautifully illuminate the histories of people and continents

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova – review

This study of a conflict-strewn corner of Europe, where minorities have frequently been oppressed, is highly topical

Edward Stanford travel writing awards unpack 2016 shortlists

Julian Barnes and Yann Martel lead race for fiction prize, while other categories honour children’s books, adventure, illustrated, food and innovation titles