The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
5 best books like The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (Patrick Leigh Fermor): From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Che, Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
| Author | William Dalrymple |
| ISBN | 0805061770 |
In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting...
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...
| Author | Artemis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0719554497 |
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated...
| Author | Spain Rodriguez |
| ISBN | 1844671682 |
Since his death in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium...
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...
