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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

10 best books like Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World (Pico Iyer): From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, Into the Heart of Borneo, Bad Trips, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Slowly Down the Ganges, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers, Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
AuthorVikram Seth
Vikram Seth took nearly 2 months from China to India hitchhiking all the way across and finally giving go to temptation only in Kathmandu when he took a flight to Delhi. He passed through rural China, Tibet and Nepal ..enjoying most of the time and even the frequent inconveniences caused by natural disasters...
Into the Heart of Borneo
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0394755405
Humor can be found on the mere incongruity of the person with the place he finds himself in. That is why we enjoy watching those Tarzan-in-the-big-city themed movies: the bewildered savage treating modern civilization as just another type of jungle and behaving just as he was before in his former habitat.

This...
Bad Trips
AuthorKeath Fraser
ISBN0394221516
As with any anthology, this collection of travel stories includes a range of quality. Some of these stories are quite good, transporting the reader to a specific place and time, immersing us in the writer’s experiences. Others are a bit more pedestrian, providing some interesting glimpses at other...
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...
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...
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0060598611
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean...
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
AuthorColin Angus
ISBN0767912802
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.

Exploration is...
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0679740309
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling...
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
AuthorPatricia Storace
ISBN0679744789
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint."  So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.

Whether...
Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet)
AuthorTony Wheeler
ISBN1741791863
'You guys really are the axis of evil', our guide splutters over his stein of beer in the Pyongyang duck restaurant. 'You're always leaning out of the windows and taking photographs when I tell you not to.'

In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of...
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0195030680
The kind of felicity to which the Blue Train conveyed you, as it let you off at Marseilles or Toulon or Cannes or Nice or Monte Carlo, whence you could go on to the Italian Riviera, to Rapallo and all the way down to the Amalfi Coast, seemed novel in the 20’s. It seems novel no longer because those places have...
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...
No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
AuthorScott Huler
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s...
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN0552771570
Tim Cahill brings 'em back alive. Not only has he survived fantastic journeys through the Himalayan rapids, the Grand Terror of Montana, and Dian Fossey's forbidden zone, he writes about them, too. Fearless and hell-bent on destroying all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to places rarely seen...
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
AuthorCees Nooteboom
ISBN1843430428
”Anyone who is travelling is always somewhere else, and therefore always absent. This holds good for oneself, and it holds good for the others, the friends; for although it is true that you are ‘somewhere else,’ and that, consequently, there is somewhere you are not, there is one place where you...
Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal
AuthorJeff Greenwald
ISBN1609520947
Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue takes the reader on a journey across the Himalayan peaks and through the rustic lanes of Kathmandu in search of the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters—from a passionate palmist to a flying lama...
What Am I Doing Here?
AuthorBruce Chatwin
ISBN0099769816
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that...
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
AuthorRobert D. Kaplan
ISBN0375705767
Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.

Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a...
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