order:

4.8
Argentinia
Serge Roetheli
How can a book about a man running around the whole world be so boring?

3.8
Austria
Andrew McCarthy
Is it possible to write a whole a book like a Roxette song, and should anyone read it?

6.8
Democratic Republic of the Congo
David Livingstone
Should this collection of diary entries be edited into a more readable book?

5.3
Afghanistan
Jean de Mandeville
Why is it so much fun to read Medieval travel stories that are at least partly untrue?

5.3
Afghanistan
Ibn Battuta
Did conservative ethics turn this great adventure story into such a slow read?

7.5
Bahamas
Christopher Columbus
Was this guy an evil proto-colonialist, or was he a sort of likeable dreamer?

6.3
Cambodia
Fernão Mendes Pinto
If this is one of the classics of Portuguese literature, why is it such a slow read?