Lost Travel Book

[aerodrome1]

Can anyone help on this? I'm looking for the title and author of a travel book I once owned back many a year ago. The author was French or Belgian, and the book recounts the overland trip he and a friend from the Yugoslav coast through Iran to India in the mid-1950s. I recall that the author later went on to write a well-regarded travel memoir about Japan in the 1960s. I wish I could recall more about the book, but my mind is just blank. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks!

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[kinetikatrue]

You're Looking for the Swiss (Francophone, tho not Belgian or French) writer/photographer Nicolas Bouvier's L'Usage du monde/The Way of the World and Chroniques Japonaises/Japanese Chronicles!

[aerodrome1]

Thank you! I've been meaning to re-read both, and only M. Bouvier's first name hovered in my memory. Much appreciated.