A first, methodological explanation for this standing out of t HDI is tt, while it considers

t the majority of the countries of the world, social science n t travel writing views are or
may be comparing explicitly or implicitly t countries of Iberia wi Western Europe or t
Western World/First World. A second possibilitiy is tt, in t specific case of t set of books
under aan, components or some components of HDI do not translate directly into a
visible reality as cd b experienced by travel writings. These authors, of course, resort to
sources of information other than experience (like t media or even statistics outright),
but it is expected tt to a significant extent ty write about wt ty live within Otherness.