![Philippe Valéry's "On The Silk Road"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-144820.jpg)
Philippe Valéry
Is this another author who distances himself from his story?
![Guillaume de Rubrouck's "Account of the Mongols"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-150232.jpg)
William of Rubruck
How is it possible that 750 years don’t seem to leave a trace?
![Sun Shuyun's "Ten Thousand Miles Without A Cloud"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-145456.jpg)
Sun Shuyun
Is this book more about contemplation or more about adventure?
![Jehan de Mandeville's "The Travels"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-150158.jpg)
Jean de Mandeville
Why is it so much fun to read Medieval travel stories that are at least partly untrue?
![Sven Hedin's "In The Heart Of Asia"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-150256.jpg)
Sven Hedin
Are we looking at a career-obsessed explorer or at a blueprint for Indiana Jones?
![Stanley Stewart's "Frontiers of Heaven"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-144537.jpg)
Stanley Stewart
Is China really that quirky, or do we sometimes just want things to be a certain way?
![Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta's "The Travels"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-150437.jpg)
Ibn Battuta
Did conservative ethics turn this great adventure story into such a slow read?
![Mildred Cable's "The Gobi Desert"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-144009.jpg)
Mildred Cable
Is this just a book about three ladies taking it slow, or is it an epic adventure?
![Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky's "Mongolia and the Land of the Tanguts"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-150040.jpg)
Nikolai Przhevalsky
Is this too much racism even for an imperialist?
![Johann Schiltberger's "The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-150404.jpg)
Johann Schiltberger
Is this guy our average Joe from the Middle Ages?
![Ella Maillart's "Forbidden Journey"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-144857.jpg)
Ella Maillart
If Fleming is the more gifted writer, then why is this book better than his?
![Peter Fleming's "News from Tartary"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-144950.jpg)
Peter Fleming
Would a little less irony have made this book even better?