A Travel guide for anyone visiting Calcutta, especially first-timers, this is a book that even old residents of the metropolis will find a treasure trove of detail and history.
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This classic traveler's story relates author's abandonment of the dubious delights of London's fashion trade for the even more dubious pleasures of a short walk in the wild mountains of the Hindu Kush.
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This work is the distillation of ten years of relentless travelling around the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent by the multiple award-winning author.
In this new collection of essays, the author travels from the fortresses of the drug barons of the North West Frontier to the j...
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An original, wonderfully entertaining and convincing account of an ambitious and unusual journey in pursuit of the monsoon, all the way up the Indian subcontinent. (Alexander Frater's book is a wonderful amalgam of the beauty, strength, untamed power, frightening ferocity and the gentleness of t...
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An entertaining mix of history and diary informed by a deep curiosity about the ways in which he ghosts of even the most distant past still walk Delhi in the twentieth century. The city of djinns is Delhi and Dalrymple reveals is like a Dance of the Seven veils. It is very intricately organized:...
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A delightful narration of journeys across Indian subcontinent, this work is written with a sense of adventure, full of sharp vignettes. It is the stuff of the subcontinent, exhilarating, shocking, comic and moving.
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This volume consists of three pieces by Amitav Ghosh. The first,' Dancing in Cambodia', begins with a deft evocation of the first ever visit to Europe by a troupe of Cambodian dancers, in 1906. Their performances inspired Rodin to write:' When they left ..I thought they had taken
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This delightful book breathes new life into a crowd of images, which seem almost to belong to another world. One finds in Calcutta, both romance and an inspiration. The city, frequently designated as one of the most commonplace, is in reality one of the most interesting cities in the world.
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Translated from the French original by Aruna Vasudev these are notes of travel in India by Jean-Claude Carriere with Peter Brook, who criss-crossed India In search of the Mahabharata.
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