BooksList.Best
Search

Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road

10 best books like Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road (Stuart Stevens): Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, Slowly Down the Ganges, Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, News From Tartary, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, Across China, In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History

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...
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
AuthorChristopher Robbins
ISBN0977743381
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly...
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...
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...
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
AuthorBill Holm
ISBN1571312501
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the bureaucratic absurdities an American teacher and traveler experiences in the 1980s,...
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...
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...
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...
Across China
AuthorPeter Jenkins
ISBN0449214567
It's truly a rare thing for an American during that time period to have been able to traverse the width and breadth of China--and especially handy to have had an interpreter with him the whole time. I appreciate the insight into far-flung regions of China, and am frankly in awe and envious of the author's...
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...
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...
Eothen
AuthorAlexander William Kinglake
ISBN1426410794
A solitary Western traveler in the Middle East in 1834, this is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's internal journey than it is about monuments and museums, one that replicates the personal experience of travel and how it changes who we are. Kinglake's intimate, conversational...
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...
Journey into Cyprus
AuthorColin Thubron
ISBN0140124063
It was an unique journey - a 600 mile trek on foot around Cyprus, in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron writes about it and with great immediacy, intertwining myth, history and personal anecdote. What emerges is a tapestry from which characters and places, architectures and landscape...
The Gates of Damascus
AuthorLieve Joris
ISBN0864423683
It usually happens to me that I reread a book and am disappointed, because I remember it being more interesting that it turns out. Well, this was an opposite case. I've read it perhaps 10 years ago, and I remember I was not impressed; but this time I couldn't put it down. As I spent three weeks in Syria approximately...
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....
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...
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...
Danziger’s Travels
AuthorNick Danziger
ISBN0586087060
This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, entering Afghanistan illegally in the...
North of South: An African Journey
AuthorShiva Naipaul
ISBN0140188266
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery...
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
AuthorRalph Leighton
ISBN0393320693
In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick— fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton—set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine...
Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese
AuthorRobert D. Kaplan
ISBN0375714332
In Mediterranean Winter, Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, relives an austere journey he took as a youth thru the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up. Other tourists are gone. Cold damp weather takes him back to the 1950s & earlier--a golden, intensely personal age...
Life along the Silk Road
AuthorSusan Whitfield
ISBN0520232143
In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024