Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia

Description
Good non-fiction adventure travel & exploration in Asia. Countries and territories: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia (Asian part), Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen. See also: - Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa - Adventure Travel & Exploration In Australia & Oceania - Adventure Travel & Exploration In Europe - Adventure Travel & Exploration In North America - Adventure Travel & Exploration In South America - Adventure Travel & Exploration In The Polar Regions
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Le désert des déserts. Avec les Bédouins, derniers nomades de l’Arabie du Sud
de Wilfred Thesiger
1,234 membres
25 critiques
4.2
3 Members
Ravic, thorold, cosmicdolphin
2
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
de Jamie Zeppa
477 membres
13 critiques
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Akubra
3
Route d'Oxiane
de Robert Byron
1,226 membres
13 critiques
3.9
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: One of the most influential travel books ever written, and one of the grumpiest (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan)
4
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
de Nick Danziger
255 membres
3 critiques
3.8
Member
Akubra
5
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan
de Dervla Murphy
145 membres
5 critiques
4
Member
srdr
6
Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet
de Sven Hedin
40 membres
1 critique
3
Member
Ravic
7
Grand Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-Century Chinese Poet
de Philip Watson
19 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
bluepiano
8
The Silk Road
de Sven Hedin
46 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Ravic
10
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
de Dervla Murphy
519 membres
14 critiques
3.9
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Ireland's answer to Thesiger
11
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
de Edward Gargan
164 membres
4 critiques
3.8
Member
Akubra
12
The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia
de Sven Hedin
36 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
Ravic
13
In Xanadu: A Quest
de William Dalrymple
874 membres
18 critiques
3.8
Member
thorold
14
Walking the Gobi: 1,600 Mile-trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
de Helen Thayer
89 membres
5 critiques
4.1
Member
Akubra
15
Across the Gobi Desert
de Sven Hedin
24 membres
Member
Ravic
16
Eothen
de Alexander William Kinglake
459 membres
8 critiques
3.9
Member
thorold
17
The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
de Ian Baker
353 membres
11 critiques
3.9
Member
Akubra
18
An unexpected light : travels in Afghanistan
de Jason Elliot
644 membres
8 critiques
4.1
Member
Akubra
19
Up the Country; Letters From India
de Emily Eden
93 membres
2 critiques
3.8
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: The Governor's lady "roughing it" in rural India in the 1830s. (Camping with a party of 12,000!)
20
Les Arabes des marais. Tigre et Euphrate
de Wilfred Thesiger
513 membres
8 critiques
4
Member
thorold
21
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
de Eric Hansen
408 membres
11 critiques
4.1
Member
Akubra
22
Les sept piliers de la sagesse
de T. E. Lawrence
4,781 membres
55 critiques
4
Member
thorold
23
L'Empire du vent
de Stanley Stewart
197 membres
5 critiques
3.8
Member
Akubra
24
L'usage du monde
de Nicolas Bouvier
578 membres
10 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: to the Khyber Pass by Cinquecento in the fifties
25
Beyond the Last Village: A Journey Of Discovery In Asia's Forbidden Wilderness
de Alan Rabinowitz
96 membres
3 critiques
4
Member
Akubra
26
Beyond Ararat: Journey Through Eastern Turkey
de Bettina Selby
18 membres
1 critique
3.8
Member
Akubra
27
Kulu: the end of the habitable world
de Penelope Chetwode
7 membres
1 critique
3
Member
thorold
28
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
de Vikram Seth
538 membres
6 critiques
3.8
Member
thorold
29
Mes déserts : un voyage au Rajasthan
de Robyn Davidson
207 membres
10 critiques
3.8
Member
Akubra
30
Voyages
de Ibn Battuta
336 membres
5 critiques
3.9
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Not all that much on the difficulties of travel, but he did go practically everywhere in the known world
31
Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: A Journey Through Bhutan
de Katie Hickman
55 membres
2 critiques
3.8
Member
Akubra