In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History
10 best books like In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History (Stanley Stewart): The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, I Have Seen the World Begin: Travels through China, Cambodia, and Vietnam, Red Dust: A Path Through China, The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China, Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya, Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe, The 8:55 to Baghdad
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
| Author | Edward Gargan |
| ISBN | 0375705597 |
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,...
| Author | Stuart Stevens |
| ISBN | 0871131900 |
"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...
Yemen: The Unknown Arabia
| Author | Tim Mackintosh-Smith |
| ISBN | 1585671398 |
Arguably the most fascinating and least understood country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fantastic. A country long regarded by classical geographers as a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves, while...
I Have Seen the World Begin: Travels through China, Cambodia, and Vietnam
| Author | Carsten Jensen |
| ISBN | 0151007683 |
When Carsten Jensen set out by train from Denmark on a journey to the East, he expected to find lands of rich history and culture, and people undergoing radical change at the end of the twentieth century. In this illuminating narrative of his travels, there is this and much, much more.
Fusing...
Red Dust: A Path Through China
| Author | Ma Jian |
| ISBN | 0385720238 |
In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes...
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La
| Author | Alec Le Sueur |
| ISBN | 1571431012 |
On a par with the best of Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer, Alec Le Sueur's bestselling insider account of life at the world-famous Holiday Inn, Lhasa, Tibet (altitude 14,000 feet) pits Communist owners against capitalist manager to create a chain hotel in Shangri-La. Against all odds, heroic Tibetan workers...
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
| Author | Colin Thubron |
| ISBN | 0099459329 |
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals...
| Author | Britta Das |
| ISBN | 1840244984 |
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beautiful memoir reveals hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West. When Britta, a young physiotherapist, goes to work in a...
Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe
| Author | Nicholas Crane |
| ISBN | 0140243321 |
Rather like Crane himself, I found this journey took far longer than expected, but what a superb odyssey! Here is a really excellent writer, who captures the mood and environment as he strides across no fewer than four mountain ranges that link the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. Sleeping rough and spending...
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...
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0688115853 |
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
From the southeast coast of South America through an expanse of Peruvian sands en route to the West Coast, then onward through Central American jungles and rainforest, and finally to New York, Tschiffely's journey was considered impossible and absurd by many newspaper writers in 1925. However, after...
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for...
| Author | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0767912802 |
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...
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel...
| Author | Claire Scobie |
| ISBN | 1846040051 |
Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her journey took her to Pemako, where few Westerners have set foot and where the myth of...
Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide
| Author | Mark C. Ross |
| ISBN | 0786890428 |
On March 1, 1999, American safari guide Mark Ross was camping with four clients in Uganda searching for endangered mountain gorillas. By day's end, two of these clients and six other tourists were dead at the hands of Rwandan rebels. As a man who loves East Africa, Ross felt betrayed by this horror, which...
| Author | Gavin Francis |
| ISBN | 1846970784 |
The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins in the Shetland...
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
| Author | Ruth Padel |
| ISBN | 0802715443 |
Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's...
| Author | Peter Moore |
| ISBN | 0553817000 |
When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music, they had the best drugs, they had the best sex. But most of all, they had...
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
| Author | Philip Marsden |
| ISBN | 0006376673 |
After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas...
Lost White Tribes: The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, Namibia, and Guadeloupe
| Author | Riccardo Orizio |
| ISBN | 0743211979 |
Over 300 hundred years ago, the first European colonists landed in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II, when some of these tropical colonies became independent black nations and the white colonials...
A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
| Author | Jeremy Seal |
| ISBN | 0156003937 |
"Europe observes Turkey's growing pains through suspicious eyes, seeing a country that walks a geographic, ethnic, and cultural tightrope, balanced uneasily between two worlds; a bridge between East and West with a foot in both camps, but with her heart in neither."
Turkey is...
