On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through conflict in the Islamic world

5 best books like On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through conflict in the Islamic world (Jason Burke): The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby, New Europe

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Author

Andrea Wulf

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid...

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Author	Antonia Fraser
ISBN	0307277747

Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.

Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...

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...

A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby

Author	Mary S. Lovell
ISBN	1857024699

The biography of Jane Digby, an ‘enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart – and hormones – ruled her head.’ Harpers and Queen


A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England...

New Europe

Author	Michael Palin
ISBN	0297844490

Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastnesses of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for...