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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAround India in 80 Trains
Monisha Rajesh · 264 pages
In 1991 Monisha and her family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home again. But fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads, paying bribes, and the creepy colonel across the road, they soon returned to England, determined never to go back again. But twenty years later, Monisha takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, turns to a map of the Indian rail
Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
Jenny Feldon · 321 pages
When Jenny's husband gets transferred to India for work, she looks forward to a new life filled with glamorous expat friends and exciting adventures. What she doesn't expect is endless bouts of food poisoning, buffalo in the streets, and crippling loneliness in one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Ten thousand miles away from home, Jenny struggles to fight off depression and a
Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Directions: A Biker's Whimsical Journey Across India
P.G. Tenzing · 232 pages
An Area of Darkness
V.S. Naipaul · 281 pages
This is V.S. Naipaul's record of his sojourn to India, the land of his fathers. Throughout the book, Naipaul's intense perceptions sweep the reader into the turmoil and fabulous richness of the length and breadth of India.
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago
Jane Christmas · 288 pages
Turtle Feet
Nikolai Grozni · 326 pages
Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianisttraining at the prestigious Berklee College of Musicin Boston, when suddenly he decided to transformhis life. He moved to India to become a Buddhistmonk—shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donninglong traditional robes. In the Himalayas—livingin a hut a stone's throw from the Dalai Lama's compound—Grozni became entrenched in a sometimescomical,
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
William Dalrymple · 385 pages
In Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India itself, William Dalrymple searches for evidence of Kali Yug, the Hindu "age of darkness." Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he travels deep into guerilla territory with the Tamil Tigers. Visits Benazir Bhutto and meets the drug lords of the North West Frontier. He inveils a region where the strengths and problems of both modernity and tradition rema
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta · 542 pages
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 Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in sea
Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
Suzanne Morrison · 339 pages
"When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be transformed from a twenty-five-year-old with a crippling fear of death into her enchanting yoga teacher, Indra--a woman who seems to have found it all: love, self, and God. But things don't go quite as expected."--Page 4 of cover.
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
Katherine Russell Rich · 360 pages
"In this inspirational memoir, Rich documents her experiences in India ? ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating -- using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her. Fascinated by the process, she went on to interview linguistics experts around th
One Life To Ride: A Motorcycle Journey To The High Himalayas
Ajit Harisinghani · 234 pages
I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago
Hape Kerkeling · 333 pages
Kein Witz: Hape Kerkeling, Deutschlands vielseitigster TV-Entertainer, geht zum Grab des heiligen Jakob: 600 Kilometer durch Frankreich und Spanien bis nach Santiago de Compostela, und erlebt die außergewöhnliche Kraft einer Pilgerreise.Es ist ein sonniger Junimorgen, als Hape Kerkeling, bekennende couch potato, endgültig seinen inneren Schweinehund besiegt und in St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port aufbricht.
A Search in Secret India
Paul Brunton · 317 pages
Roads To Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond · 125 pages
Anecdotes of the English author about his travels to Mussoorie, India.
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert · 341 pages
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cult
Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle
Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd · 522 pages
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Mahatma Gandhi · 420 pages
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God
Slowly Down the Ganges
Eric Newby, Wanda Newby · 326 pages
The author recounts his experiences traveling down the Ganges River in India with his wife, and shares his observations on the country and its people.
Almost French: A New Life In Paris
Sarah Turnbull · 320 pages
A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frederic together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decides to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite f
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
Eric Weiner · 349 pages
After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff · 137 pages