 | The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania by Robert Carver
Buy new: £7.24 / Used from: £2.22 Utterly fantastic portrait of Europe's Greatest ongoing Tragedy. It makes you wonder how this tiny land has just side-stepped all the progress Eastern Europe has made.
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 | The Wrong Way Home by Peter Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 Hillarious, inspirational and informative. Moore's best book so far. A true traveller.
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 | The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan
Buy used from: £9.95 A humbling insight into the World's most secretive regime
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 | A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life by John Simpson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The World's greatest journalist and reporter has some incredible stories to tell
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 | The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by C Courtois
Buy new: £34.15 / Used from: £26.00 A hefty book, but worth the effort to understand some of mankind's worst mistakes
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 | Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks
Buy used from: £0.01 Hawks' best and funniest book. A little seedy at times, but is the definitive book on Moldova....is there another?
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 | Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £2.54 A one-sided but interesting take on UN-US relations. Very reedable.
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 | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.43 A harrowing book that people should read so that they truly value Liberal Democracy
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 | Red Lights and Green Lizards: Cambodian Adventure by Frances Elizabeth Anderson
Buy used from: £2.11 An excellent account of life in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia with great insights into its culture and personality
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 | Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
Buy used from: £6.35 Unintentionally funny book about how a Canadian teacher in bhutan believes her relationship with a local can survive. Otherwise a fairly intersting read.
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 | The Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet (Summersdale travel) by Alec Le Sueur
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £0.01 A witty account of running a Holiday Inn in Tibet. Thoroughly unpolitical which is a relief and contains excellent character portraits of both locals and other ex-pats
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 | In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads by Stanley Stewart
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £0.01 The best book available on Mongolia, and there is a fair bit of competition. No other author has delved so deep into its society
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 | Kim Il-Sung: North Korean Leader (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by D S Suh
Buy new: £21.38 / Used from: £9.35 The truly definitive book about the man responsible for the World's most bizarre country
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 | South East Asia (Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides) by Tony Wheeler
Buy used from: £1.87 A book no true traveller would be seen without. More holy than the Bible and Qu'ran combined. LP are the ultimate travel publishers.
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 | The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home by Pico Iyer
Buy used from: £6.83 A few factual inaccuracies aside (Derek Redmond wasn't a hurdler), this is a well written and thoughtful book about the Global Village and welcomingly leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions
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 | The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.20 A comprehensive book on Africa by one of the world's best Africa experts. Few can match his depth and experience
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 | Red Dust by Ma Jian
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 A most assuredly reccommended book that details a courageous journey that all travellers would love to re-trace
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 | Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.34 / Used from: £0.01 The list would not be complete without Bill Bryson. This is his best book because it picks on Americans. Witty social comment as always from Bill.
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 | Stories I Stole: A Journey to Georgia by Wendell Steavenson
Buy used from: £0.01 A little written about area receives a worthy write up in a book. An honest and likeable author makes it even more pleasurable.
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 | Beyond the Oxus: The Central Asians by Monica Whitlock
Buy used from: £29.70 A region of Planet Earth that the Global Village has found hard to penetrate, and even the Soviets didn't fully succeed with their wicked ways. This book is the best (if not only) account of C. Asia
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 | Islomania: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands by Thurston Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01 A cheerful and uplifting tale of a man's journey from island to island revealing the way of life of Islanders from Scotland to Hawaii and their struggles of past, present and future
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 | Lost White Tribes: Journeys Amongst the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £3.95 A compelling account of people who I did not relise existed. Did you know a Polish community lives in Haiti fo all places? Orizzio did and tracked them and many others down to create a wonderful book
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 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £0.01 A flippant and provocative book by a flippant and provactive man. As long as you don't take Moore too seriously, this book should get you thinking at least a little.
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 | The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
Buy used from: £0.01 A strong minded author puts across a very well reasoned take of the English people that is unexpectedly readable and highlights some of the age old English characteristics. "I've lost my leg, by God!"
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 | In-Flight Entertainment by Elliott Hester
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A jolly good fun book about what the trolley dollies really think when you ask for an extra whisky and what really goes on behind the curtains
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