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Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
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Alexandra Fuller · 271 pages
With the same disarmingly unguarded prose that won her critical acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller tells of her unusual friendship with "K"—a white African and veteran of the brutal, racially divided Rhodesian War. An engrossing and haunting tale of love, godliness, hate, war, and survival, Scribbling the Cat recounts the journey she makes with K into the lands that h
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
Christina Lamb · 352 pages
The Histories
Herodotus · 833 pages
Recounts the causes and history of the wars between the Greek city-states and Persia.
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
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
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
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
Christopher Robbins · 296 pages
Travel writer Christopher Robbins relates a story by turns hilarious and grim as he finds Eminem-worship by a shrinking Aral Sea, hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town, joins nomads hunting eagles, eats boiled sheep's head (a delicacy), and explores some of the most beautiful, unspoiled places on earth. Meet the country that gave the world apples, trousers, and possibly King Ar
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
John Gimlette · 358 pages
Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimlette returns to South America to find out what has become of this primeval land. It is a journey that takes him through the old colonies of British, Dutch and French Guiana, through some of the most fantastic forests in the world and through four hundred years of shameless, and often horrifying, colonial h
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
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
City of Djinns: A Year In Delhi
William Dalrymple · 351 pages
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djin