Iron and Silk
10 best books like Iron and Silk (Mark Salzman): The Mosquito Coast, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618658963 |
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer...
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
| Author | Peter Hessler |
| ISBN | 0061804096 |
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679737324 |
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...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0804104549 |
3 Things about Riding the Iron Rooster:
(1) land sakes, Paul Theroux does not like human beings! he seem like a very disdainful and contemptuous person in general. that disdain and contempt certainly includes the Chinese - which was an off-putting and distancing thing to experience when reading...
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0449908585 |
"Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands."
TIME
Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific...
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0140249796 |
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.
A witty sharply observed journey...
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679722165 |
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...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679727140 |
A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...
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...
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
| Author | Robert D. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0375705767 |
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...
