✈️ Travel & Exploration · Japan
Best Travel & Exploration Books from Japan
Travel writing is among the oldest literary forms — Homer's Odyssey is the first travel book, and Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and James Cook established the genre of exploration narrative. Japan has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in travel & exploration, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best travel & exploration from Japan by editorial consensus.
#1
biography-memoir
Goethe's Werke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#2
biography-memoir
Sämtliche Werke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#3
literary-fiction
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1779
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#4
biography-memoir
Aus meinem Leben
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#5
biography-memoir
Italienische Reise
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1860
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#6
travel-exploration
Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain
Daniel Defoe· 1724
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#7
travel-exploration
Letters from an American farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur· 1782
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#8
travel-exploration
A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Daniel Defoe· 1738
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#9
travel-exploration
Itinerarium
Willem van Ruysbroeck· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#10
travel-exploration
Diário de um mago
Paulo Coelho· 1995
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#11
travel-exploration
Tourism
Charles R. Goeldner· 2003
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#12
travel-exploration
Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons
Joe Durrell· 1977
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#13
travel-exploration
A rough map of Greece
Phoebe Lou Adams· 1962
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#14
travel-exploration
Running the Amazon
Joe Kane· 1989
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#15
travel-exploration
hippie
Paulo Coelho· 2018
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#16
travel-exploration
Thailand
Joe Cummings· 1983
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#17
travel-exploration
Europe in the sixteenth century
H. G. Koenigsberger· 1968
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#18
travel-exploration
Four Seasons in Rome
Anthony Doerr· 2007
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#19
travel-exploration
Bangkok
Joe Cummings· 1994
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#20
travel-exploration
Miracle of Castel Di Sangro, The
Joe McGinniss· 1999
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#21
travel-exploration
The Soul of Baseball
Joe Posnanski· 2007
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#22
travel-exploration
The story of Jumping Mouse
John Steptoe· 1950
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#23
travel-exploration
The Smithsonian Institution
Paul H. Oehser· 1970
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#24
travel-exploration
O Aleph
Paulo Coelho· 2011
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#25
travel-exploration
Exploring space
Judy Monroe Peterson· 2008
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#26
travel-exploration
Human travel to the moon and Mars
Matt Doeden· 2011
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#27
travel-exploration
Space Economics (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
Joel S. Greenberg· 1992
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#28
travel-exploration
Man in space
Walter Froehlich· 1971
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
#29
travel-exploration
The space program and the urban problem
John V. Moeser· 1969
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
#30
travel-exploration
Apollo 16 at Descartes
Walter Froehlich· 1972
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score25/100
