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10 best books like Slowly Down the Ganges (Eric Newby): The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, The Marsh Arabs, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, News From Tartary, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, An Area of Darkness, A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism, Journey into Cyprus

The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
AuthorWilliam Dalrymple
ISBN1864501723
William Dalrymple has proved himself to be one of the most perceptive and enjoyable travel writers of the 1990s. His first book, In Xanadu, became an instant backpacker's classic, winning a stream of literary prizes. City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain soon followed, to universal critical praise....
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...
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...
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...
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...
An Area of Darkness
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
ISBN0375708359
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty...
A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism
AuthorAndrew Harvey
ISBN0618056750
Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by...
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...
Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN0061137375
Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found...
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 Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN1590173805
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
When the Going Was Good
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
ISBN0316926477
When The Going Was Good presents five long excerpts from the four travel books Evelyn Waugh wrote between 1929 and 1935, chosen by the author. Starting with a tour of Mediterranean pleasure dens, Waugh pushes on to Abyssinia (where he reports indelibly on the coronation of Haile Selassie), across the...
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...
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
AuthorNorman Lewis
It's easy to see why Graham Greene was lured to Vietnam by Lewis's account. The sense of a country -- indeed, an entire region -- on the verge of revolution, beleaguered colonial officials gamely assisting the author in procuring transport from one crumbling outpost to the next, the documentary feel...
On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
AuthorDervla Murphy
ISBN0006547990
This is a diary style book, with diversions into the local history, the local culture and some of the many people that the author a her five year old daughter come into contact with on their four month travels in Coorg, in 1973/74.

Never a fan of big cities, Murphy heads out of Bombay relatively...
Chasing the Monsoon
AuthorAlexander Frater
The fascinating and revealing story of Frater's journey through India in pursuit of the astonishing Indian summer monsoon. On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India...
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