Travelling through Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Five essential reads

Is great travel writing one of the dying literary arts? Our editor (once a travel writer himself) has a few thoughts on the subject here. What’s certain is that over the past century Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have spurred numerous great authors to put pen to paper, creating a vast repository of travel writing dedicated to a region where compelling stories are never too difficult to find.

We’ve whittled our library down to the five following five books, all available in English, which should serve as…