Kamzang Journeys | Travel Books
‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.’ – St Augustine
A few travel books for your duffel bag to enrich your journey in Nepal, India, Tibet, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma) and a few other Asian and Central Asian countries that we journey through. We’ve not included all of the major guidebooks such as Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, Bradt Guides, Himalayan Travel Guides, Trailblazer, Fodors and Frommers, worth taking with you for history and reference during your travels in Asia and the Himalaya.
Kamzang Journeys been recommended in The Lonely Planet, Bradt Guides, Rough Guides & Himalayan Travel Guides. Kamzang Journeys has been mentioned in The New York Times, Nepali Times, National Geographic, India Today, the Colgate Scene, India Today, ECS Magazine, KimKim and other travel publications!
Great Journeys | Central Asia & The Himalayas
Trekking in the Himalaya: 20 Memorable Expeditions – Cicerone
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling’s Great Game – Peter Hopkirk
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road – Peter Hopkirk
The Great Game – Peter Hopkirk
A Ride to Khiva – Peter Hopkirk
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire – Peter Hopkirk
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia – Peter Hopkirk
Stones of Silence – George B. Schaller
Tim Cope – On the Trail of Ghengis Khan
Younghusband – Patrick French
Full Tilt – Dervla Murphy
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Empires of the Indus – Alice Albinia
My Life as an Explorer – Sven Hedin
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
Stones into Schools – Greg Mortenson
Shadow of the Silk Road – Colin Thubron
The Places In Between – Rory Stewart
Danziger’s Adventures: From Miami to Kabul – Nick Danziger
Danziger’s Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers – Nick Danziger
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books – H. W. Tilman and Jim Perrin
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Peasant Traders & Merchants – Janet Rizvi
A Hermit in the Himalayas – Paul Brunton
Himalaya – Michael Palin
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
A Woman Among Warlords – Malalai Joya
The Road to Oxiana – Robert Byron
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes – Christopher Kremmer
Eric Shipton – Blank on the Map
Cycling Journeys
Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America – Neil M Hanson
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road – Kate Harris
This Road I Ride – Juliana Buhring
Saving Lucy: A Girl, a Bike, a Street Dog – Ishbel Rose Holmes
Mind is the Ride – Jet McDonald
Travels with Surly: Cycling across the USA – Mick Dolan
50 Shades Of The USA (Anna’s Adventures) – Anna McNuff
Cycling, Wine, and Men: A Midlife Tour de France – Nancy Brook
Ride for Hope: One Woman’s 3,527 Mile Solo Bicycle Ride That Inspired the Nation – Tracy Herbert
The Divide: A 2700 Mile Search For Answers – Nathan Doneen
One More Horizon: The Inspiring Story of One Man’s Solo Journey Around the World on a Mountain Bike – Scott Zamek
Nepal Journeys
Tigers for Breakfast – Michel Peissel
The Great Himalayan Passage – Michel Peissel
Himalayan Pilgrimage – David Snellgrove
The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal – Dervla Murphy
Soul of the Rhino – Hemanta Mishra
Bones of the Tiger – Hemanta Mishra
The Living Goddess – Isabella Tree
Kathmandu – Thomas Bell
Snake Lake – Jeff Greenwald
Palpasa Cafe – Narayan Wagle
Sold – Patricia McCormick
Buddha’s Orphans – Samrat Upadhay
Little Princes – Conor Grennan
Jumla – Radha Paudel
Massacre at the Palace – Jonathan Gregso
Arresting God in Kathmandu – Samrat Upadhyay
The Royal Ghosts: Stories – Samrat Upadhyay
The Guru of Love – Samrat Upadhyay
Land Where I Flee – Prajwal Parajuly
The Gurkha’s Daughter – Prajwal Parajuly
Video Night in Kathmandu – Pico Iyer
Sacred Journey: The Ganges to the Himalayas – David Howard
I’ll Call You in Kathmandu: The Elizabeth Hawley Story – Bernadette McDonald
Aama in America – Broughton Coburn
Nepali Aama: Life Lessons of a Himalayan Woman – Broughton Coburn
Forget Kathmandu – Manjushree Thapa
Tutor of History – Manjushree Thapa
Bringing Progress to Paradise – Jeff Rasley
Buried in the Sky – Peter Zuckerman & Amanda Padoan
Himalayan Traders – Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf
Trekking & Climbing in Nepal – Steve Razetti
Everest (Khumbu) Region
Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy – Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman & Audrey Salkeld
Gaiety of Spirit: The Sherpas of Everest – Frances Klatzel
Trekking in the Everest Region – Jamie McGuinness
Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal – James F. Fisher
Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest – Tashi Tenzing and Judy Tenzing
View from the Summit – Sir Edmund Hillary
Touching My Father’s Soul – Jamling Norgay
Tigers Of The Snow – Jonathan Neale
The Climb – Anatoli Boukreev
High Crimes – Michael Kodas
Penguins on Everest – David Durkan
Doctor on Everest – Dr. Kenneth Kamler
A Day To Die For: 1996: Everest’s Worst Disaster – Graham Ratcliffe
Climbing High: A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy – Lene Gammelgaard
The Lure of Everest – Clint Rogers
Into Thin Air – John Krakauer
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine – Hemmleb, Johnson, Simonson & Nothdurft
Everest: The West Ridge – Thomas Hornbein
The Girl Who Lived Twice – David Lagercrantz
Upper Dolpo
High Frontiers: Himalayan Pastoralists in a Changing World – Kenneth Michael Bauer
Yak Girl | Dorje Dolma
Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya – George B. Schaller
The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
Himalayan Pilgrimage – David Snellgrove
Four Lamas of Dolpo – David Snellgrove
Dolpo: The Hidden Paradise – Karna Sakya
Trek to Nepal’s Sacred Crystal Mountain – Joel Ziskin
Tales of the Turquoise – Cornelia Jest
The Only Son – Simonka de Jong (Documentary Film)
Himalaya – Eric Valli (Film)
Caravans of the Himalaya – Eric Valli (Film)
Upper Mustang
Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom – Michel Peissel
East of Lo Monthang – Peter Matthiessen
Journey to Mustang – Giuseppe Tucci
Horses Like Lightning – Sienna Craig
Earth Door Sky Door: Paintings of Mustang – Robert Powell
Himalayan Pilgrimage – David Snellgrove
Mustang Bhot in Fragments – Manjushree Thapa
Himalayan Doctors & Healing Herbs – Lo-Kunphen Mensikhang
Wonders of Lo: The Artistic Heritage of Mustang – Erberto Lo Bue
Last Forbidden Kingdom – Clara Marullo
Mustang: The Untrodden Trails – Paulo Grobel
Mustang, Paradise Found – Dinesh Shrestha & Mark Wittaker
A Blessing for the Land: The Architecture, Art and History of a Buddhist Convent in Mustang – Ramble, Harrison & Luczanits
Secrets of the Sky Caves – Sandra K. Athans
Sky Caves of Nepal (National Geographic Documentary on Mustang – 3 Parts)
Manaslu & Tsum Valley
Tibetan Diary – Geoff Childs
From a Trickle to a Torrent – Geoff Childs
Where Rivers Meet – Clint Rogers
Nepal Himalaya – H.W. Tilman
The Manaslu Adventure – Mark Horrell
Trekking in the Manaslu Region & Tsum Valley – Lopsang Chhiring Lama & Sonam Lama
Unmistaken Child – Nati Baratz (Documentary Film on Tsum)
Annapurnas
Annapurna – Maurice Herzog
Secrets of Manang – Clint Rogers
Stories & Customs of Manang – Frances Klatzel
Annapurna Circuit: Himalayan Journey – Andrew Stevenson
Annapurna: A Woman’s Place – Arlene Blum
Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing on a Page of Snow – Yuyutsu Sharma
Annapurna Blues – James Wills
Kanchenjunga & Makalu
The Boardman Tasker Omnibus – Joe Tasker & Peter Boardman
Himalayan Campaign – Paul Bauer
Round Kanchenjunga – Douglas W Freshfield
Kangchenjunga, A Valley Too Far – David G. A. Walkey
Kanchenjunga – John Tucker
Living on the Edge: The Winter Descent of Kanchenjunga – Cherie Bremmer-Kamp
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai (Kanchenjunga, India)
Kanchi’s Tale: Kanchi goes to Makalu Base Camp – Pritchard-Jones, Gibbons & Gurung
Nar Phu, Humla & Limi Valleys
Cloud Dwellers of the Himalayas: The Bhotia – Windsor Chorlton & Time-Life Books
Hidden Himalayas – Caroll Dunham + Thomas Kelley
Humla – Journey into the Hidden Shangri La – Naresh Kusi + Geraldine Werhahn
Indian Himalaya Journeys
(Ladakh & Zaskar)
Trekking and Climbing in the Indian Himalaya – Harish Kapadia
Trekking in the Himalayas – Tomoya Iozawa
Trekking in India & Pakistan – Hugh Swift
When Men & Mountains Meet – John Keay
Empires of the Indus – Alice Albinia
Blue Sky Kingdom – Bruce Kirby
Ancient Futures – Helena Norberg Hodge
Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia – Janet Rizvi
Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Peasant Traders & Merchants – Janet Rizvi
Zanskar: The Hidden Kingdom – Michael Peissel
Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas – Kim Gutschow
Peaks and Lamas: A Classic Book on Mountaineering, Buddhism and Tibet – Marco Pallis
Tibetan Foothold – Dervla Murphy
A Journey in Ladakh – Andrew Harvey
Zanskar, From Earth to Sky – Oliver Folmi
Wonders of the Himalaya – Francis Younghusband
Kulu: The End of the Hospitable World – Penelope Chetwoode
Man-Eaters of Kumaon – Jim Corbett
Kashmir & Srinagar
Curfewed Night – Basharat Peer
In the Valley of Mist – Justine Hardy
Kashmir – The Case for Freedom – Arundhati Roy + Various Authors
A Street in Srinagar – Chandra Kanta
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits – Rahul Pandita
The Collaborator – Mirza Waheed
India Journeys
India – V.S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now – V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
The Last Nizam – John Zubrzycki
India: A History – John Keay
India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization – John Keay
The Honorable Company – John Keay
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India – William Dalrymple
White Mughals – William Dalrymple
The Last Mughal – William Dalrymple
City of Djinns – William Dalrymple
The Age of Kali – William Dalrymple
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Raj Quartet – Paul Scott
Delhi – Khushwant Singh
Partitions – Amit Majmudar (India & Pakistan)
Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire) – Amitav Ghosh
The Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh (India & Burma)
The Hungry Tide – Amitav Ghosh
The Circle of Reason – Amitav Ghosh
Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh
In an Antique Land – Amitav Ghosh
Slowly Down the Ganges – Eric Newby
The Taj Mahal Trilogy (The Twentieth Wife, The Feast of Roses, Shadow Princess) – Indu Sundaresan
In the Convent of Little Flowers (Short Stories) – Indu Sundaresan
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
The Alchemy of Desire – Tarun J Tejpal
The House of Blue Mangoes – David Davidar
Chasing the Monsoon – Alexander Frater
The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Taroor
Plain Tales from the Raj – Charles Allen
May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons – Elisbeth Bumiller
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
The Death of Vishnu – Manil Suri
The Space Between Us: A Novel – Thrity Umrigar
The Hindi-Bindi Club – Monica Pradham
English, August – Upamanyu Chatttergee
The Dowry Bride – Shobhan Bantwal
A Good Indian Wife – Anne Cherian
Desirable Daughters – Bharati Mukherjee
Passion India – Javier Moro
A God in Every Stone – Kamila Shamsie
Philosophies of India – Heinrich Zimmer (edited Joseph Campbell)
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood – Thrity Umrigar
Transition – Meghan Joshi
Imaginary Men – Anjali Banerjee
Sister of My Heart: A Novel – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mango Season – Amulya Malladi
Ladies Coupe – Anita Nair
Tibet Journeys
Trekking in Tibet – Gary McCue
The Tibet Handbook: A Pilgrimage Guide – Victor Chan
Mapping the Tibetan World – Atsushi Kanamaru
The Tibet Guide – Central & Western Tibet – Stephen Batchelor
To Lhasa And Beyond – Giuseppe Tucci
The Great Game – Peter Hopkirk
Trespassers on the Roof of the World – Peter Hopkirk
The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices – Barbara & Michael Foster
My Journey to Lhasa – Alexandra David-Neel
Magic & Mystery in Tibet – Alexandra David-Neel
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land – Patrick French
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer – Patrick French
Freedom in Exile & The Art of Happiness – HH the Dalai Lama
The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Places – Ian Baker
A Stranger in Nepal & Tibet: The Adventures of a Wandering Zen Monk – Scott Berry
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang & Tibet – Vikram Seth
Guge: Ages of Gold – Peter Van Ham
Hidden Himalayas – Caroll Dunham & Thomas Kelley
Dragon in the Land of Snows – Tsering Shakya
In Exile from the Land of Snows – John Avedon
Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
Return to Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
The Last Barbarians: The Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet – Michel Peissel
Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun – Ani Pachen
No Wall Too High: One Man’s Daring Escape from Mao’s Darkest Prison
Book – Xu Hongci
Tears of Blood – Mary Craig
Sky Burial – Xinran
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices – Xinran
Fire Under the Snow – Paldan Gyatso
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk – Palden Gyatso
Stick Out Your Tongue – Ma Jian
A Year in Tibet – Sun Shuyun
Born in Tibet – Chogyam Trungpa
The Hotel on The Roof of The World – Alec Le Sueur
Diary of a Journey Across Tibet – Captain Hamilton Bower
A Conquest of Tibet – Sven Anders Hedin
Peaks and Lamas: A Classic Book on Mountaineering, Buddhism and Tibet – Marco Pallis
Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies – Geoffrey Samuel
The Sacred Life of Tibet – Keith Dowman
The Power Places of Central Tibet – Keith Dowman
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Invading Tibet – Mark Frutkin
High Road to Tibet – John Dwyer
Across the Top – Sorrel Wilby
Tibet Wild: A Naturalist’s Journeys on the Roof of the World – George B. Schaller
The Way of the White Clouds – Lama Anagarika Govinda
Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet – Sven Hedin
Danziger’s Travels – Nick Danziger
Out of this World, Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet – Lowell Thomas Jr
Folk Tales of Tibet – Norbu Chopel
A Home in Tibet – Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Mount Kailash (Tibet)
Pilgrim’s Guide to Tibet – Victor Chan
Circling the Sacred Mountain – Robert Thurman & Ted Wise
Sacred Mountain: The Complete Guide to Tibet’s Mount Kailas – John Snelling
A Mountain in Tibet – Charles Allen
The Search for Shangri La – Charles Allen
John Snelling – The Sacred Mountain
To a Mountain in Tibet – Colin Thubron
Tibet’s Sacred Mountain, The Extraordinary Pilbrimage to Mount Kailas – Russell Johnson & Kerry Moran
Kangshung & Kharta Everest (Tibet)
Everest: Kangshung Face – Stephen Venables
Snow in the Kingdom – Ed Webster
China Journeys
China – John Keay
Life and Death in Shanghai – Nien Cheng
The Private Live of Chairman Mao – Li Zhisui
Wild Swans – Juan Chang
Mao: The Unknown Story – Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Empress Dowager Cixi – Jung Chang
Empress Orchid – Anchee Min
The Last Empress – Anchee Min
Wild Ginger – Anchee Min
Becoming Madame Mao – Anchee Min
Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
Red Dust: A Path Through China – Ma Jian
The Noodle Maker – Ma Jian
The Valley of Amazement – Amy Tan
The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah
To Live – Yu Hua
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant – Yu Hua
Shanghai Girls (#1) – Lisa See
Dreams of Joy (#2) – Lisa See
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan – Lisa See
Peony in Love – Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See
China Dolls – Lisa See
Flower Net (#1) – Lisa See
The Interior (#2) – Lisa See
Dragon Bones (#3) – Lisa See
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family – Lisa See
Waiting – Ha Jin
To Live – Yu Hua
Feathers in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos – Emily Wu & Larry Engelmann
Red Sorghum – Howard Goldblatt
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze – Peter Hessler
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China – Peter Hessler
Country Driving: A Chinese Road – Peter Hessler
The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao – Charles N Li
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution – Moying Li
The Garlic Ballads – Yen Mo
Crimson China – Betsy Tobin
The Piano Teacher – Janice YK Lee
The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang
The Vagrants – Yiyun Li
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
Mongolia Journeys
On the Trail of Ghengis Khan – Tip Cope
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
Into Wild Mongolia – George B Schaller
Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Monglia – Louisa Waugh
Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – Stephen Bodio
Walking the Gobi: 1,600 Mile-trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair – Helen Thayer
Mongolia: Nomad Empire of Eternal Blue Sky – Carl Robinson
Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia – George Crane
Wolf Totem – Jiang Rong
Sky Shamans of Mongolia: Meetings with Remarkable Healers – Kevin Turner
A Hunt In Flight: Kazakh Eagle Hunters – Lisa A. Selner
The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son – Rupert Issacson
The Cave of the Yellow Dog – Byambasuren Davaa (also a film)
Secret History of the Mongols – an adaption by Paul Kahn
Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan – Paula L.W. Sabloff
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia – James Palmer
Across Mongolian Plains – Roy Chapman Andrews
In the Empire of Genghis Khan, A Journey Among Nomads – Stanley Stewart
Beasts, Men and Gods – Ferdinand Ossendowski
Gobi: Tracking the Desert – John Man
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China – John Man
Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection – John Man
Dateline Mongolia, An American Journalist in Nomad’s Land – Michael Kohn
Men & Gods in Mongolia – Henning Haslund
Mongolia: Travels in the Untamed Land – Jasper Becker
Travels in Northern Mongolia – Don Croner
Wild East, The New Mongolia – Jill Lawless
Mission Mongolia: Two Men, OneVan, No Turning Back – David Treanor
Edge of Blue Heaven: A Journey Through Mongolia – Benedict Allen
Modern Mongolia, From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists – Morris Rossabi
Mongolian Buddhism, The Rise and Fall of the Sangh – Michael K Jerryson
The Adversary – Michael Walters
Genghis, Birth of an Empire – Conn Iggulden
Conqueror (Four Novels) – Conn Iggulden
Bhutan Journeys
Trekking in Bhutan (Cicerone, New Edition) – Bart Jordans
So Close to Heaven – Barbara Crossette
Beyond the Sky and the Earth – Jamie Zepa
Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan – Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck
Bhutan: Himalayan Mountain Kingdom (Odyssey Guide. Bhutan) – Françoise Pommaret
Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: A Journey Through Bhutan – Katie Hickman
Buttertea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya – Britta Das
Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth – Lisa Napoli
Beneath Blossom Rains – Kevin Grange (Lunana Trek)
Married to Bhutan – Linda Leaming
The Cloud Garden – Barbara van Schaik (Bhutan)
Blacklisted in Bhutan – Rieki Crins
Myanmar | Burma Journeys
Letters from Burma – Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Days – George Orwell
Finding George Orwell in Burma – Emma Larkin
Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh
Elephant Bill – J. H. Williams
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Philipp Sendker
A Well-Tempered Heart – Jan-Philipp Sendker
Elephant Company – Vicki Croke
The Last Mughal – William Dalrymple
Burmese Lessons – Karen Connolly
The River of Lost Footsteps – Thant Myint-U
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire – Andrew Marshall
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma – Thant Myint-U
Burma: Rivers of Flavor – Naomi Duguid
Burma Chronicles – Guy Delisle
Burma’s Spring – Rosalind Russell
Vietnam & Cambodia Journeys
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers – Loung Ung
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family – Mai Elliott
River of Time – Jon Swain
The Road of Lost Innocence – Somaly Mam
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places – Le Ly Hayslip
Child of War, Woman of Peace – Le Ly Hayslip
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam – Andrew X. Pham
The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars – Andrew X. Pham
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The River’s Tale: A Year on the Mekong Paperback – Edward Gargan
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam – Bao Ninh
Pakistan Journeys
Mottled Dawn – Saadat Hasan Manto
Residue Hardcover – Nitasha Kaul
The Wandering Falcon – Jamil Ahmed
Shame – Salman Rushdie
The Crow Eaters – Bapsi Sidhwa
A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Mohammed Hanif
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders – Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moth Smoke – Mohsin Hamid
Meatless Days – Sara Suleri
Home Boy – HM Naqvi
Burnt Shadows – Kamila Shamsie
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
Stones Into Schools – Greg Mortenson
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders – Daniyal Mueenuddin
Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
Amal Unbound – Aisha Saeed
The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan – Rafia Zakaria
The Night Diary – Veera Hiranandani
Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
Toba Tek Singh – Saadat Hasan Manto
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders – Daniyal Mueenuddin
Pakistan – Ian Talbot
Pakistan in the Twentieth Century – Lawrence Ziring
Frontier of Faith – Sana Haroon
Cracking India – Bapsi Sidhwa
Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man – Ali Eteraz
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River – Alice Albinia
Sri Lanka Journeys
Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje
Tea Planter’s Wife – Dinah Jefferies
Eight Years’ Wanderings in Ceylon – Sir Samuel White Baker
The Story of Sigiriya – Senani Ponnamperuma
Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
Sri Lanka: Running in the Family – Michael Ondaatje
A Village in the Jungle – Leonard Woolf
Seeing Ceylon & Discovering Ceylon – RL Brohier
Woolf in Ceylon – Christopher Ondaatje
July – Karen Roberts
A Year in Green Tea & Tuk-Tuks – Rory Spowers
Island of a Thousand Mirrors – Nayomi Munaweera
Great Journeys & Travel Books
Travels – Marco Polo
Travels – Ibn Battúta
The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown – Paul Theroux
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings – Paul Theroux
Last Post: The End of Empire in the Far East – John Keay
The Spice Route – John Keay
From the Holy Mountain – William Dalrymple
In Xanadu – William Dalrymple
The Global Soul – Pico Iyer
The Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mafouz
The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle – Dervla Murphy
Who Needs a Road: The Story of the Longest & Last Motor Journey Around the World
– Harold Stephens & Albert Podell
Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback Paperback – Robyn Davidson
West with the Night – Beryl Markham
On the Shores of the Mediterranean – Eric Newby
Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold – Michael Benanav
The World’s Most Dangerous Places – Robert Young Pelton
Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale – Amitav Ghosh
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Seven Pillars of Wisdom – TE Lawrence
The World: Travels 1950-2000 – Jan Morris
Adrift – Steven Callahan
Wild – Cheryl Strayed
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Other Important Reads
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur – Hamila Bashir & Damien
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Woman Among Warloards – Malalai Joya
National Geographic Adventure’s
Best 100 Adventure Books