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?
India 5.8 Helge Timmerberg Is it a good thing or a bad thing when a writer starts to write about writing?
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?
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?