Travel and Humour

1. TRAVEL
A Single Tear
It's an autobiography by a chinese academic of his experiences of being shunted around the country and his experience generally during Mao's regime and beyond 1976. Fabulous read, not strictly a 'travel book', but fascinating insight into Maoist China and the accompanying social and agrarian revolution.

2. As for LAUGHTER, you can't beat Billy about Billy Connolly written by his wife Pamela Stevenson. Fantastic book - starts with the abuse he sustained during childhood in Scotland and develops through his adulthood and parenthood. I'm not doing it justice, but it's a brilliant read, hysterically funny at times, and well written.