5 Top memoir books like Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China by Bernard Ollivier

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Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China

By: Bernard Ollivier

4.32

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Des neiges du Pamir aux ruelles de Kashgar, seule métropole d'Asie centrale à vivre encore à l'heur…

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1. Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt

By: Nina Burleigh

3.77

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared tra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. A Land More Kind Than Home

By: Wiley Cash

3.88

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind … read more

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  • audiobook
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3. The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

By: None , Judith M. Heimann

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

N ovember 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off t… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir

5. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

By: Susan Casey

4.00

Format: 371 pages,

Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth. Ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. The Painted Veil

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more

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  • china
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7. Half Blood Blues

By: Esi Edugyan

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was… read more

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8. Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

By: Susan Casey

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From Susan Casey, the New York Timesbestselling author of The Waveand The Devil's Teeth, a breathta… read more

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9. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.60

Format: None pages,

A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" - Enterta… read more

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10. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more

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11. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

By: Denise Kiernan

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial r… read more

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12. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

By: R.A. Dick , Josephine Leslie

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Co… read more

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13. Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (Vintage Departures)

By: Eric Hansen

3.48

Format: None pages,

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14. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos

4.36

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"

-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

15. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more

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16. Walking The Himalayas

By: Levison Wood

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest … read more

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17. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

By: William K. Klingaman , None

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Like Winchester's Krakatoa,The Year Without Summerreveals a year of dramatic global change long for… read more

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18. My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of How One Young Blind Woman Brought Hope to the Blind Children of Tibet

By: None

3.62

Format: 240 pages,

While studying Chinese and Asian civilizations in college, Sabriye Tenberken was stunned to learn t… read more

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19. Collected Stories

By: W. Somerset Maugham , Nicholas Shakespeare

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

31 stories: In a strange land -- Rain -- The Fall of Edward Bernard -- The Pool -- Mackintosh -- Th… read more

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20. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • france
  • audiobook
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21. La Panthère des neiges

By: Sylvain Tesson

3.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

En 2018, Sylvain Tesson est invité par le photographe animalier Vincent Munier à observer aux confi… read more

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  • travel
  • asia
  • france
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

22. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Next to Last Stand (Walt Longmire, #16) by Craig Johnson

23. Next to Last Stand (Walt Longmire, #16)

By: Craig Johnson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.One of the most viewed pain… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East by Rebecca Lowe

24. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
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25. The Woman at the Wheel

By: Penny Haw

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspiring historical fiction based on the real life of Bertha Benz, whose husband built the first p… read more

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  • audiobook
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26. Tuk-Tuk for Two

By: Adam Fletcher

4.21

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

“The race…” She said. “India. Were you serious?”About racing a tuk-tuk one thousand kilometres thro… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker

27. You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

By: Elizabeth Becker

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2022 SPERBER PRIZE The long-buried story of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China

By: Bernard Ollivier

4.32

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Des neiges du Pamir aux ruelles de Kashgar, seule métropole d'Asie centrale à vivre encore à l'heur… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Ollivier's Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China book and Bernard Ollivier's Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • asia
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • walking
  • china
  • audiobook
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29. The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure

By: Carl Hoffman

3.85

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. No Room for Regret

By: Janeen Ann O'Connell

4.27

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he’s not, he’s … read more

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31. 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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  • travel

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