India 6.5 Richard Halliburton Does it make sense to refer to this author as the godfather of travel writing?
Italy 7.3 Dennis Gastmann Should travel writers deliberately look for interesting stories or just go with the flow?
Iran 7.3 Nicolas Bouvier Is this a great piece of poetic travel writing, or has it been overly polished?
New Zealand 5.8 Gregor Sieböck Why is this book only for those who are really into environmentalism?
Southern Europe 5.3 Joachim Fest Is it possible for a traveler to be too intellectual, and how could this impact his writing?
China 6 Odoric of Pordenone Was this a 14th-century fact finding mission or just another medieval mystery tale?
Camino de Santiago 7.3 Tim Moore If this was a good writer with a good story, then why did the editors not polish it a bit?
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?
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?
Camino de Santiago 7 Hape Kerkeling Is this the only instance where a TV person turned into a good travel writer?
Camino de Santiago 4.3 Shirley MacLaine Is this a decent book that has been ruined by esotericism, or was it bad all along?
Italy 5.8 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Is this German classic really that awesome, or could it be just a bit overrated?
Bahamas 7.5 Christopher Columbus Was this guy an evil proto-colonialist, or was he a sort of likeable dreamer?
India 6.3 FernĂŁo Mendes Pinto If this is one of the classics of Portuguese literature, why is it such a slow read?
Camino de Santiago 3 Paulo Coelho Is this the worst travel book anyone could ever imagine, or is it just the worst travel book ever created?