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Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 356 pages
"Ibn Battutah, the greatest traveler of the pre-mechanical age, set out in 1325 from his native Tangiers on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, traveling three times the distance Marco Polo allegedly covered.". "Captivated by the paths taken and the words written by this inquistive, untiring man - a great Tangerine, or
Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
Ben Coates · 293 pages
"Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so signi
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tony Horwitz · 496 pages
"James Cook's three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, during a bloody clash in Hawaii, the map of the world was substantially complete. Cook explored more of the earth's surface than anyone in history - sailing from the Arctic to the Antarct
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
John Gimlette · 363 pages
"Paraguay - the name conjures up all that is most exotic and extreme in South America. It is a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, Utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's the world's greatest importer of Scotch Whisky and was the setting for the bloodiest war mankind has known (eighty per cent of Paraguayans perished). It's not a place for the timid. It doesn
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
Diccon Bewes · 310 pages
Between the Woods and the Water
Patrick Leigh Fermor · 252 pages
*Between the Woods and the Water* is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, the second in a series of three books narrating the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34. The first book in the series, *A Time of Gifts,* recounts Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the Middle Danube. *Between the Woods and the Water* (1986) begins wi
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
Simon Winchester · 432 pages
The White Rock
Hugh Thomson · 316 pages
**From Goodreads:** Following in the footsteps of the explorers Gene Savoy and Hiram Bingham, Thomson set off into the jungle to find the lost city of Llactapat. This is the story of his journey to discover it via the interconnecting paths the Incas laid across the Andes.
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
Jason Elliot · 440 pages
"Drawing on three years of travel and research, Jason Elliot's Mirrors of the Unseen is a portrait of Iran, a much-misrepresented country and once home to the world's earliest superpower." "In Mirrors of the Unseen we are introduced to the urban contradictions of the capital, Tehran, and invited to ponder the sublime architecture of Isfahan; we travel on horseback through the forests of the north
Travels of Carl Philipp Moritz in England in 1782
Karl Philipp Moritz · 278 pages
Shadow of the Silk Road
Colin Thubron · 363 pages
A journey along the greatest land route on earth: out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor to the ancient port of Antioch. The S
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
Tim Butcher · 325 pages
Chasing the Devil tells the story of Tim Butcher's audacious expedition from Freetown at the mouth of the Sierra Leone river overland through forest-covered mountains and malarial plains to the coast of Liberia. He ventures deep into areas not visited by outsiders for years. Both nations are on a developmental cusp and Tim explores whether national and international attempts to chase away the devi
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Roz Hopkins · 444 pages
The Travels
Marco Polo · 480 pages
"Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar re
Imperium
Ryszard Kapuscinski · 331 pages
"Between 1989 and 1991, Kapuscinski made a series of extended journeys through the disintegrating Soviet empire, and his account of these forms the heart of the book. Bypassing official institutions and itineraries, he traversed the Soviet territory alone, from the border of Poland to the site of the most infamous gulags in far-eastern Siberia (where "nature pals it up with the executioner"), from
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Ibn Battuta · 400 pages
Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca . . . He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Tim Cope · 509 pages
"The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century--a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads lead, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn't been success
Kolyma Diaries: A Journey Into Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Jacek Hugo-Bader · 354 pages
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce Feiler · 488 pages
The author recounts his ten-thousand-mile journey across the Middle East in search of the roots of the Bible to discover whether it was an abstraction or a living, breathing entity.