China 6.5 Colette Modiano What happens when rich Europeans visit China at the height of the "Cultural Revolution"?
Germany 7 Heinrich Heine Why do these travel stories from 19th century Germany remain so recommendable?
Iraq 5.3 Jean de Mandeville Why is it so much fun to read Medieval travel stories that are at least partly untrue?
China 6.3 Sven Hedin Are we looking at a career-obsessed explorer or at a blueprint for Indiana Jones?
Greece 4.5 Michael Olbert What happened to this otherwise decent book that caused it to be so annoying?
Saudi Arabia 5.3 Ibn Battuta Did conservative ethics turn this great adventure story into such a slow read?