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India
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V. S. Naipaul |
Naipaul, of Indian heritage, was born and raised in Trinidad, but he recognized that it was his ancestral culture that governed who he was and how he thought. In this passionate portrait of a culture… |
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The Honey Gatherers: Travels with The Bauls
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Mimlu Sen |
One woman's extraordinary adventure into the rural heart of India, uncovering a fascinating, hidden world.Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance b… |
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An African diary
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Valmik Thapar |
Pictorial work of the author's twelve days experiences in Ol ari Nyiro, a sprawling wildlife paradise in northern Kenya. |
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Karma cola
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Gita Mehta |
Karma Cola is a non-fiction book about India written by Gita Mehta originally published in 1979. |
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Where the streets lead
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Sarayu Srivatsa |
Author's travel impressions of some cities and towns in India. |
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The beautiful and the damned
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Siddhartha Deb |
"A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis, The beautiful and the damned examines India's many contradictions through five individual perspectives"--Publisher's description. |
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Delirious Delhi
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Dave Praeger |
"When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave Prager and his wife, Jenny, moved to a city of sixteen million people-with seemingly twice as many honking horns. This book, is Dave's top-to-botto… |
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Kaleidoscope city
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Piers Moore Ede |
I will never forget my first sight of the river in Varanasi, from the narrowness and constriction of the alleys, thronged with activity, to the sudden release of the waterfront, the labyrinth's end. … |
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Eat, pray, eat
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Michael Booth |
Approaching his fortieth birthday, Michael Booth found himself in a slump. Physically, and existentially. Increasingly glued to the computer screen, gaining weight and obsessed with attempting (and f… |
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Road East to India
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Devika A. Rosamund |
ix, 190 pages : 22 cm |
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At the court of the fish-eyed goddess
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William Dalrymple |
xvi, 323p. : 24 cm |
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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Eric Newby |
It is an autobiographical travelogue of Eric Newby,describing,in a comic,understated style,his ascent to Mir Samir. |
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Baksheesh & Brahman
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Joseph Campbell |
"Joseph Campbell was one of the foremost interpreters of myth in our time. Yet when he traveled to Asia for the first time he was nearly fifty and at the crossroads of his life and career. This journ… |
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Sacred Waters
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Stephen Alter |
"This is an account of a journey taken in India. The destination is the source of the Ganges, the holy and most famous of Indian rivers. It is a physical journey, involving months of trekking through… |
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Letters from India
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Victor Jacquemont |
A delightful collection of letters written on travels around the Cape of Good Hope to Kolkata and then to Shimla and central Asia over several years beginning in 1828.
Victor Jacquemont himself is… |
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Engineering the Taj Mahal
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Laura K. Murray |
"The Taj Mahal, a majestic mausoleum in India, continues to amaze visitors with its beauty nearly 400 years after its construction. Engineering the Taj Mahal discusses the emperor behind the famous s… |
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Maximum City
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Suketu Mehta |
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hind… |
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The Customs of the Kingdoms of India
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Marco Polo |
As Marco Polo (1254-1324) returned home across the Indian Ocean, after years in the service of Genghis Khan, he picked up a fabulous array of stories from sailors and merchants, about the peoples of … |
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Letters from Madras during the years 1836-1839
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Julia Charlotte Maitland |
Travel impressions of Julia Charlotte Maitland, d. 1864, British woman and wife of a British civil servant to places in Madras Presidency, India through a series of letters. |
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