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Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

10 best books like Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Eric Hansen): Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Slowly Down the Ganges, Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, The Marsh Arabs, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran, News From Tartary, Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

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...
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
AuthorTom Bissell
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation...
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...
Yemen: The Unknown Arabia
AuthorTim Mackintosh-Smith
ISBN1585671398
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...
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...
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679727140
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...
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...
News From Tartary
AuthorPeter Fleming
ISBN1843410036
In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across the roof of the world. He chose as his traveling companion Ella Maillart, a beautiful Swiss journalist. Fleming is one to underemphasize...
Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
AuthorTony Horwitz
ISBN0452267455
"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."-- The New York Times Book Review

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia...
In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History
AuthorStanley Stewart
ISBN1592281060
Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols...
Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
AuthorChristiane Bird
ISBN0671027565
Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to travel writing and to cultural studies, as well as a timely illumination of a nation deeply misunderstood by most Westerners. In describing life in Iran...
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,...
Road Fever
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN0394758374
What a road trip! So much of what Tim Cahill describes involves the preparation -- the paperwork, logistics, and financial backing -- that must be figured out before starting a marathon trip such as the one General Motors bankrolled. I understand he was trying to make a point, but I would've enjoyed the...
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
AuthorJennifer Steil
ISBN0307715876
 
 
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel?  Hadn’t I once...
International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity
AuthorTim Dunne
ISBN0199548862
Drawing on a wealth of expertise from an international team of contributors, the second edition of International Relations Theories presents a diverse selection of theoretical positions.
Arguing that theory is central to explaining the dynamics of world politics, editors Tim Dunne, Milja...
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