The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201…
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1. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
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- nonfiction
2. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- travelogue
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
3. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
6. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
7. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
By: Lindsey Hilsum
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would tur…"-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
8. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
9. SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life
By: Jenny Tough
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
10. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
By: Jenny Graham
4.56
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- cycling
11. Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
By: Erika Fatland
4.34
Format: 634 pages, Hardcover
Bestselgende forfatter Erika Fatland med ny, storslått reiseskildring: fra Himalaya. Erika Fatl… read more
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- history
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- travelogue
12. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
By: Erika Fatland
4.40
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more
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- history
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- travelogue
13. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure
By: Monisha Rajesh
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was m… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- travelogue
14. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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- travelogue
- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- iran
- cycling
15. Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe
By: Tom Chesshyre
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
16. An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East
By: Levison Wood
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Brit… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- travelogue
17. Step by Step: The Life In My Journeys
By: Simon Reeve
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the K… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- travelogue
18. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
19. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
By: Dom Joly
3.69
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
20. After Happy Ever After (Weird Travel #4)
By: Adam Fletcher
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
“I’m quitting my job,” said the woman I was madly in lust with but had only just met. “What?” I spl… read more
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21. Turn Right For Japan: Cycling the Silk Road to the Orient
By: Steve Tallon
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
After a decade of overwork, fidgety food and a sensory overload of noise and neon, British expat St… read more
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