order:

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

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?