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Include books by the same authorIndia: A Portrait
Patrick French · 416 pages
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of
Around 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
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Amitav Ghosh · 393 pages
Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself i
Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Directions: A Biker's Whimsical Journey Across India
P.G. Tenzing · 232 pages
Chasing the Monsoon
Alexander Frater · 273 pages
The fascinating and revealing story of Frater's journey through India in pursuit of the astonishing Indian summer monsoon. On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Frater aims to follo
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.
India
Sarina Singh, Lonely Planet, Joe Bindloss, Paul Clammer · 1,140 pages
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
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
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
One Life To Ride: A Motorcycle Journey To The High Himalayas
Ajit Harisinghani · 234 pages
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
Elisabeth Bumiller · 306 pages
Reveals the lives of India's women of all social classes, the Indian women's movement, population control and other issues affecting womens' lives.
Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle
Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd · 522 pages
Roads To Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond · 125 pages
Anecdotes of the English author about his travels to Mussoorie, India.
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux · 496 pages
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change.