India 6.5 Richard Halliburton Does it make sense to refer to this author as the godfather of travel writing?
USA 4 Fabian Sixtus Körner Do nice photos, a lot of visited countries, and slick design make for a good travel book?
South Asia 5.8 Helge Timmerberg Is it a good thing or a bad thing when a writer starts to write about writing?
Iran 7.3 Nicolas Bouvier Is this a great piece of poetic travel writing, or has it been overly polished?
China 8 Vikram Seth Is this just an epic journey through China, or does this writer also have mad skills?
China 6 Odoric of Pordenone Was this a 14th-century fact finding mission or just another medieval mystery tale?
Iraq 5.3 Jean de Mandeville Why is it so much fun to read Medieval travel stories that are at least partly untrue?
China 5 Stanley Stewart Is China really that quirky, or do we sometimes just want things to be a certain way?
Saudi Arabia 5.3 Ibn Battuta Did conservative ethics turn this great adventure story into such a slow read?
India 6.3 Fernão Mendes Pinto If this is one of the classics of Portuguese literature, why is it such a slow read?
Himalayas 7.5 Jon Krakauer Do we really care whose fault it was, or can we just accept that mountains are deadly sometimes?