On her web site, A Traveler's Library, freelance writer Vera Marie Badertscher reviews books (and sometimes movies) that inspire travel whether they would be found in the travel section or not--novels, non fiction, travel narrative, memoir, history, etc.--that have a strong sense of place and/or culture.
TraveLit--A blog about travel literature.
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.