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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
West with the Night
Beryl Markham · 293 pages
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company
Varun Agarwal · 256 pages
Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle
Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd · 522 pages
India Wins Freedom: The Complete Version
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad · 277 pages
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Madhur Jaffrey · 320 pages
Whether acclaimed food writer Madhur Jaffrey was climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, today these childhood pleasures evoke for her the tastes and textures of growing up. This memoir is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood a
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
Rahul Pandita · 272 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
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Nirad C. Chaudhuri · 515 pages
Truth, Love and a Little Malice
Khushwant Singh · 427 pages
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda · 502 pages
The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation.The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book:"Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended w
Revenue Stamp: An Autobiography
Amrita Pritam · 130 pages
My Boyhood Days
Rabindranath Tagore · 54 pages
Autobiographical reminiscences of author's childhood.
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
Andrea Lankford · 250 pages
One Life Is Not Enough : An Autobiography
K. Natwar Singh · 410 pages
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Julia Butterfly Hill · 256 pages
The woman who spent more than two years living in Luna, a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California, tells the story of protecting old growth forests, siege by opponents, threatening weather, and unexpected support from around the world.
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
Suzanne Roberts · 262 pages
It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
Thrity Umrigar · 294 pages
First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predo
Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam · 192 pages
"It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. I had delivered a lecture 'Vision to Mission' and the session got extended from one hour to two. I had lunch with a group of research students and went back to class. As I was returning to my rooms in the evening the vice-chancellor, Prof. A. Kalanidhi, fell in step with me. Someone had been frantically trying to get in touch wit
The Test of My Life
Yuvraj Singh, Sharda urga, Nishant Jeet Arora · 189 pages
Autobiography of an Indian cricket player.