Eastern Europe

order:
Xiao Peng's "Ten Years Of Backpacking"
3.2

Xiaopeng

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

Colette Modiano's "Twenty Snobs and Mao"
5.2
China

Colette Modiano

What happens when rich Europeans visit China at the height of the “Cultural Revolution”?

Wolfgang Büscher's "Berlin - Moscow"
6
Russia

Wolfgang Büscher

Will the search for the “Russian soul” ruin an otherwise great book?

Giovanni DiPlano Carpini's "The Story Of The Mongols Whom We Call The Tartars"
5.8
Mongolia

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine

Was it naive to hope for peace with the Khan?

Guillaume de Rubrouck's "Account of the Mongols"
6.8
Mongolia

William of Rubruck

How is it possible that 750 years don’t seem to leave a trace?

Karl Bushby's "Giant Steps"
5.4
Russia

Karl Bushby

Who would have thought it was possible to cross the Bering Strait on foot?

Johann Gottfried Seume's "Stroll To Syracuse In The Year 1802"
6.8
Italy

Johann Gottfried Seume

Why is this book still so awesome after so many years?

Heinrich Heine's "Travel Pictures"
5.6
Germany

Heinrich Heine

Why do these travel stories from 19th century Germany remain so recommendable?

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?

Sven Hedin's "In The Heart Of Asia"
5
China

Sven Hedin

Are we looking at a career-obsessed explorer or at a blueprint for Indiana Jones?

Michael Olbert's "Chatwin's Guru And Me"
3.6
Greece

Michael Olbert

What happened to this otherwise decent book that caused it to be so annoying?

Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time of Gifts / Between the Woods and the Water"
7
Hungary

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Is there anything not perfect about this travel book?

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?

Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky's "Mongolia and the Land of the Tanguts"
4.2
China

Nikolai Przhevalsky

Is this too much racism even for an imperialist?

Johann Schiltberger's "The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger"
5.8
Turkey

Johann Schiltberger

Is this guy our average Joe from the Middle Ages?