An entrancing and compelling travelogue about an endlessly fascinating land.
At the age of fifty, R K Narayan left India for the first time to travel through America. In this account of his journey, the writer's pen unerringly captures the glamor and energy of New York city, the friendlin...
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Wonderfully descriptive and often startlingly insightful, this book is not only the record of a journey but the account of one man's attempt to comprehend the cultural complexity of the nation he has made his home.
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Beginning with a brilliantly insightful introduction by Dom Moraes, this anthology provides an absorbing, lively and always interesting portrait5 of life in contemporary India and brings together travel pieces by some of the best contemporary writers in the English language.
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Since its publication in 1994, this classic with its gentle, perceptive humor has charmed readers in Britain and in India.Joe Roberts stayed five months with the Trivedis in Bangalore. Using that as a base he traveled all over southern India. Major Trivedi warned him that 'nothing is as fixed a...
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Translated from the original French edition of 1676, this work in two volumes bound in one is a complete and unabridged narrative of one of the most renowned traveler of the seventeenth century.
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Translated from the German original, this book contains account of the Government and Character of the Sikhs and includes varied incidents of personal adventure and travels in India.
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Here is a story that rivals the search for the sources of the Nile and the race for the South Pole. As a challenge for explorers the mountain wilderness between India and Inner Asia was unique. The Western Himalayas were seen as a barrier guarding fabled cities unvisited since Marco Polo, barrin...
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