South Asia

order:
Serge Roetheli's - "The 25,000 Mile Love Story"
3.8
USA

Serge Roetheli

How can a book about a man running around the whole world be so boring?

Xiao Peng's "Ten Years Of Backpacking"
3.2

Xiaopeng

If this book isn’t badly written, then why is it still bad?

Helge Timmerberg's "Shiva Moon"
4.6

Helge Timmerberg

Is it a good thing or a bad thing when a writer starts to write about writing?

Christian Y. Schmidt's "Alone Among 1.3 Billion"
2.8
China

Christian Y. Schmidt

Did he have to try this hard to show that he’s a fanboy?

Nicolas Bouvier's "The Way Of The World"
5.8
Iran

Nicolas Bouvier

Is this a great piece of poetic travel writing, or has it been overly polished?

Nathan Hoturoa Gray's "First Pass Under Heaven"
3.4
China

Nathan Hoturoa Gray

Why does esotericism so often go hand in hand with ignorance?

Vikram Seth's "From Heaven Lake"
6.4
China

Vikram Seth

Is this just an epic journey through China, or does this writer also have mad skills?

Philippe Valéry's "On The Silk Road"
5.2
Afghanistan

Philippe Valéry

Is this another author who distances himself from his story?

Heinz Helfgen's "I'm Cycling Around The World"
4.4
Brazil

Heinz Helfgen

What were German readers looking for in a travel book after World War II?

Odorico da Pordenone's "The Travel"
4.8
China

Odoric of Pordenone

Was this a 14th-century fact finding mission or just another medieval mystery tale?

Sun Shuyun's "Ten Thousand Miles Without A Cloud"
5.2
China

Sun Shuyun

Is this book more about contemplation or more about adventure?

Jehan de Mandeville's "The Travels"
4.2
Iraq

Jean de Mandeville

Why is it so much fun to read Medieval travel stories that are at least partly untrue?

Ji Xianlin's "Wandering Around The World"
5.8
China

Ji Xianlin

Are these travel memoirs worth reading, or has censorship ruined them?

Stanley Stewart's "Frontiers of Heaven"
4
China

Stanley Stewart

Is China really that quirky, or do we sometimes just want things to be a certain way?

Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta's "The Travels"
4.2
Saudi Arabia

Ibn Battuta

Did conservative ethics turn this great adventure story into such a slow read?