Travel Books
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story, Stranger in the Woods provides a rare and intimate look at the vanishing way of life of one of the last surviving groups of rainforest dwellers.
Tajna Kina
The book is a travelogue-reportage work by the "crazy reporter" Egon Ervin Kisch, which presents impressive accounts of China in the turbulent period of the 20th century.
Tu nema ničega!
In her provocative essay, Dubravka Ugrešić considers life in post-socialist Europe and Croatia using the example of spas.
U Europi 1: Putovanje kroz XX. stoljeće
Geert Mak’s fascinating journey through the European 20th century. The first part covers the period ranging from the optimism of the century’s beginning, through the horrors of the First and Second World Wars, to the division of Europe.
Usred leda
"In the Middle of the Ice" (1965) is a travelogue by Estonian writer Juhan Smul from the ship "Kooperacija" of the Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1962, from Estonia across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to the Antarctic station Mirni.
U zemlji Amanullaha
A vivid account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1921-1922, a country in a turbulent period of modernization under the reformist king Amanullah Khan, the clash of tradition and the new age, and the exotic life of Afghan society.
