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10 best books like Baghdad Sketches (Travel) (Freya Stark): Naked in Baghdad, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, The Marsh Arabs, The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt, The Best American Travel Writing 2009, Eothen, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

Naked in Baghdad
AuthorAnne Garrels
ISBN0312424191
As National Public Radio's much loved and respected senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In Naked in Baghdad she reveals how as one of only sixteen non-embedded journalists who stayed in the now legendary Palestine...
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
AuthorTim Mackintosh-Smith
ISBN0330491148
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include and Islamic Butlin's...
The Marsh Arabs
AuthorWilfred Thesiger
ISBN0141442085
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance...
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
AuthorChristopher Kremmer
ISBN0060097329
Apart from oil, rugs are the Muslim world's best-known commodity. While rugs are found in most Western homes, the story of religious, political, and tribal strife behind their creation is virtually unknown. In "The Carpet Wars, award-winning journalist Christopher Kremmer chronicles his fascinating...
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
AuthorJason Elliot
Highly memorable description of the lives of ordinary people in 21st century Iran. I have a memory like a sieve so it says a great deal about this book that I remember so much even though I read it 5 or so years ago. It left a huge impression on me. Every time I hear or read about Iran, I remember that ordinary...
The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
AuthorIsabelle Eberhardt
ISBN1566565081

Isabelle Eberhardt in sailor's uniform.

ISABELLE Eberhardt was a Swiss-Algerian explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. She was a polyglot as she was fluent in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Russian, German, French and Italian. Her mother took her to North Africa...
The Best American Travel Writing 2009
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0618858660
**Heh, 3.5 stars if GoodReads had such a thing**

I tethered with the rating on this one because some of the essays were non-memorable and almost boring, not bothering to uncover the travel experience through narrator experience and setting authenticity.

Yet some were indeed memorable....
Eothen
AuthorAlexander William Kinglake
ISBN1426410794
A solitary Western traveler in the Middle East in 1834, this is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's internal journey than it is about monuments and museums, one that replicates the personal experience of travel and how it changes who we are. Kinglake's intimate, conversational...
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
AuthorWilliam Langewiesche
ISBN0679750061
It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said thatmigratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche came to the Sahara to see it as its inhabitants do, riding its public transport, braving...
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0679770046
In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality...
Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark
AuthorJane Fletcher Geniesse
ISBN0375757465
Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.

Leaving...
England as You Like It
AuthorSusan Allen Toth
ISBN0345401905
"Tucked into the deep hills of western Dorset, just off the major tourist routes across England, Chedington is so small that its handful of cottages doesn't even appear on some large-scale maps. Here, far from crowds that haunt Blenheim Palace, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, or Haworth, I find...
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
AuthorAfsaneh Najmabadi
ISBN0520242637
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi...
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation
AuthorMartin Fletcher
ISBN0312534817
From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel. With its dense history of endless conflict and biblical events, Israel's coastline is by far the most interesting hundred miles in the world. As longtime chief of NBC’s Tel Aviv news bureau, Martin...
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
AuthorElaine Sciolino
ISBN0743284798
The book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran.
As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, Sciolino has had more experience covering revolutionary Iran than any...
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad
AuthorAlia Mamdouh
ISBN1558614931
Seen through the eyes of a strong-willed and perceptive young girl, Naphtalene beautifully captures the atmosphere of Baghdad in the 1940s and 1950s. Through her rich and lyrical descriptions, Alia Mamdouh vividly recreates a city of public steam baths, roadside butchers, and childhood games played...
The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia
AuthorGertrude Bell
ISBN0815411359
A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I. The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated...
The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran
AuthorRobin Wright
ISBN0375706305
Robin Wright has reported from over 120 countries for many leading news organizations, but her perceptive coverage of Iran has garnered her the most respect and praise among her colleagues. In The Last Great Revolution, Wright meticulously describes the ongoing transformation of society, politics...
Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East
AuthorPatrick Cockburn
ISBN1682190285
“One of the best informed on-the-ground journalists. He was almost always correct on Iraq.” —Sidney Blumenthal in an email to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

“Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today.” —Seymour Hersh

“Has anyone...
Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
AuthorAhmed Rashid
ISBN0670023469
An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan--from the bestselling author of "Descent""Into Chaos" and "Taliban" Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities--and...
Passenger to Teheran
AuthorVita Sackville-West
ISBN1845113438
In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the...
A Barbarian in Asia
AuthorHenri Michaux
ISBN0811209911
And now, said Buddha to his disciples, when about to die:
'In the future, be your own light, your own refuge.
'Seek not another refuge.
'Go not to seek refuge other than in Yourselves.'
'Pay no attention to another's way of thinking.
'Hold fast in your own island.
'GLUED TO CONTEMPLATION.'

Michaux...
Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution
AuthorJohn R. Bradley
ISBN1403984778
The government of Egypt banned Inside Egypt in 2008—the first time a book on Egyptian politics had been banned in the country in decades—and quickly rescinded it after the media firestorm that followed. The book depicts the country before the collapse, and then explores recent events in Egypt...
The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge
AuthorHooman Majd
ISBN0393072592
Hooman Majd offers a dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and enormous implications for world peace. Drawing on privileged access to the Iranian power elite, Majd argues that despite the violence of the disputed 2009 elections, a group of influential...
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