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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

10 best books like Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia (Tony Horwitz): The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Arabian Sands, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Slowly Down the Ganges, The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, The 8:55 to Baghdad, Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea

The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
AuthorEdward Gargan
ISBN0375705597
Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself,...
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679737324
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
Arabian Sands
AuthorWilfred Thesiger
ISBN0140095144
"Arabian Sands" is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the...
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
AuthorPico Iyer
ISBN0679722165
Iyer in his introduction tells us this is “less like a conventional travel diary than a series of essays” of a “casual traveler’s casual observations” of the Asia he saw “over the course of two years... [spending] a total of seven months crisscrossing the continent.” Each chapter covers...
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
AuthorStuart Stevens
ISBN0871131900
"Chop Stuart"

Travellers come in many flavors, just like ice cream. Some try to "get in" with the natives of the places they go in order to learn more about foreign ways and perceptions. Others prefer to challenge themselves with tests of strength and endurance, paddling up jungle rivers or...
Slowly Down the Ganges
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN0864426313
On his 44th birthday, Eric Newby, a self-confessed river lover, sets out on a 1200 mile journey down the Ganges River from Hardwar to the Bay of Bengal, accompanied by his wife, Wanda. Things do not start smoothly as they run aground 63 times in the first six days, but gradually India's holiest river, The...
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...
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
AuthorEric Hansen
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.

As...
The 8:55 to Baghdad
AuthorAndrew Eames
From BBC radio 4 Extra:
"Her adventure had been taken at a moment of major personal change; mine was beginning at a moment that could change the world".

In 1928, crime writer Agatha Christie made a spur-of-the-moment decision to go on holiday, alone, to Iraq. Then in her late thirties she...
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274172
A Restless Women Travelers title

Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and...
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0618118780
Already a best-selling addition to the series, this year’s Best American Travel Writing is a far-flung collection chosen by travel writer extraordinaire Paul Theroux, who has selected pieces about “the spell in the wilderness, the letter home from foreign parts, the dangerous adventure, the...
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...
Arabia
AuthorJonathan Raban
ARABIA is the story of Jonathan Raban's magic carpet ride through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. Not only does it reveal the Arabs and their culture, it also introduces us to a series of memorable individuals.

Much of the book's strength is the author's gift for friendships....
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
AuthorFreya Stark
ISBN0375757546
In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes of the Hadhramaut Valley,...
Hold the Enlightenment
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN0375713298
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant...
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
AuthorJason Elliot
ISBN0312288468
Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people...
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