Glamping (Travel news)
A study in folly
The author travelled to the worst-affected nations when the US subprime bubble blew up in 2008
A history of cartography in India
The author has done a great service to map lovers everywhere with this book
Adrift in the airport lounge
The short fiction series revolves around a group of people stranded at the Heathrow airport waiting lounge
Indian and African wildlife in pictures
Once-in-a-lifetime experiences, mostly captured in emulsion film over three decades
Journey of the nomadic Tuaregs
The book dwells on the theme of land and displacement and gives a sensual description of the Sahara desert
City of forgotten dreams
The book unravels the constellations of social, institutional and religious histories of Pakistan
Salt mining in Sahara
The author is transformed by the immensity of the desert and the sturdiness of the people during his travel with a caravan
Urbs without blurbs
A book on how Paris and New York -- with such different histories -- have so much in common
Finding oneself
The author, enamoured of her mixed blood, sets out for India to study her ancestors
In the life of a reporter
Known Turf is a warm, heartfelt and honest book about being a journalist
The mangrove goddess
In an excerpt from her new book, In Good Faith A Journey in Search of an Unknown India, the author meets a unique deity, Bonbibi, in the Sunderbans
The river's story
The book combines the history, legends, mythology, religion, festivals, commerce, warfare and geography of the sacred river Kaveri
India's tiger man
As a long standing friend, Taraporewala manages to bring to life many facets of Fateh Singh Rathore -- the man who carved out Ranthambhore National Park
A tale of two grandmothers
An extract from Andr Bteille--s Sunlight on the Garden A Story of Childhood & Youth, where the author talks about an idyllic childhood in the French enclave of Chandannagar
Backpacking and more
A solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail helps the author come face to face with nature and find herself
Life in rural Bengal
The author documents his ancestral village through a collection of photos and an essay
Comic misadventures
This book should be compulsory reading for the proudly Indian -- seeing ourselves as others see us
Nostalgic moments from Goa
An intimate portrait of the Catholic community of Goa in 70 stunning pictures
Head-craft
The author feels being a hippie is a dangerous occupation, unless you can package it and get paid by the paragraph
An anthology on Delhi
An engrossing collection of short stories that will transport you to the darker side of Delhi
Travel classic The Innocents Abroad
Zac O--Yeah on his love for Mark Twain--s travelogue The Innocents Abroad, 1869
Travel classic Travels in the Mogul Empire
Annie Zaidi--s assumptions about the Mogul Empire got cleared after reading Francois Bernier--s book
After the Bali bombings
Part chatty political history lesson, part travelogue, Dhume--s book is an engaging one, enlivened by quirky details
A garden lover--s delight
The colonialisation bit would have been incomplete without taking over the wild hence the English touch to the gardens in India
A glimpse of Tagore's Shantiniketan
The book is an attempt to define Rabindranath Tagore's concept of space while building the campus in Shantiniketan
Tales of woe
This carefully tempered prose has it all -- from Chernobyl to Yamuna -- places that one would like to see in a different light
Parr excellence
A photo book that chronicles this eponymous British photographer's pit-stops in India
Diary of a journalist
An shocking collection of essays about encounters with dacoits, eve-teasing and malnourished babies
The blue man's epic journey
An intriguing book about life of tribals in western Sahara by a Nobel winning author
Immigrants of the late 19th century
Robert Louis Stevenson was brutally honest in the travelogue of his journey to America






























