Laurence Bergreen’s Five Best Books on Exploration
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 12.04.07 | 7:27 AM ET
The author of the new and well-received book Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu offered his five best books on exploration for the Wall Street Journal. His picks, in order: Henry M. Stanley’s “Through the Dark Continent,” William Dalrymple’s “In Xanadu,” Ryszard Kapuscinski’s “Travels With Herodotus,” Giles Milton’s “White Gold” and Ross E. Dunn’s retelling of “The Adventures of Ibn Battuta.”