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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
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.
Stranger on a Train
Jenny Diski · 284 pages
The author describes her journey into the heart of the United States during two cross-country trips aboard Amtrak, as she looks at herself and her own life throught the mirror of America and Americans.
Riding Toward Everywhere
William T. Vollmann · 288 pages
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the hearts and minds of the world's poorest inhabitants (Poor People), and now turns his attentions to America itself, to our romanticizing of "fr
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.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
A wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story.
Nine Lives
William Dalrymple · 284 pages
From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to fi
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
David Greene · 318 pages
"After two and a half years as NPR's Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country--a 6,000-mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok--to speak with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. Reaching beyond the headline-grabbing protests in Moscow, Greene speaks with a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenage
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
Ina Caro · 400 pages
Through twenty-five one-day train trips, the author describes outings spanning seven hundred years of French history, including Orléans, Versailles, Place de la Concorde, and Saint-Denis.
Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Directions: A Biker's Whimsical Journey Across India
P.G. Tenzing · 232 pages
India
Sarina Singh, Lonely Planet, Joe Bindloss, Paul Clammer · 1,140 pages
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.
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground
Mark Mason · 376 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
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
The Road by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure
Jack London · 124 pages
Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle
Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd · 522 pages