Charting the Mekong river
John Keay--s book describes the French expedition along the Mekong and how it left an impact on the Southeast Asian countries
John Keay--s book describes the French expedition along the Mekong and how it left an impact on the Southeast Asian countries
Ruth Padel--s --Tigers in Red Weather-- is an account of her adventures to different parts of Asia in search of tigers
For his book --The Devil--s Picnic--, Taras Grescoe travels around the world looking for illegal substances. Read at own risk
A book on everything that--s good about Botswana-- Will Randal, in his book --Botswana Time-- paints a warm portrait of the country.
--An Angel in the Cockpit-- is an account of Vijaypat Singhania's eventful cross-continental flight in a microlight aircraft
R.V. Smith explores Delhi--s myriad moods--from people to culture--in his book --Delhi Unknown Tales of a City--
Fan of south Indian food Sabita Radhakrishna--s cookbook on Tamil cuisine will leave you drooling for the goodies from the south
Douglas Dewar--s book --Jungle Folk Indian Natural History Sketches-- talks of the times when bird watching was a moment of discovery sans lenses and field guides
Bill Bryson--s A Walk in the Woods tickles Yashodhara Lal--s funny bone
A charming book by Avay Shukla on the mighty Himalayas meant for trekkers who are genuinely interested in the mountains, beyond merely the highest point on the trail
With undeniable visual appeal and compassionate observations on the evolution of the Franco-Tamil culture, this book is a neatly and chronologically narrated account of the French occupation of Pondicherry,
The Heat and Dust Project is a book about a couple--s travel across India on a shoestring budget
You can--t take Benaras out of a Benarasi. Roli Jindal, in her book (Benaras A Journey Within) tells us what is so unique about the city's culture and food
Moorthy gives us a glimpse of the Buddhist Circuit--the first pilgrimage trail in the Indian sub-continent--in his book --The Vanished Path A Graphic Travelogue--
Mecca The Sacred City, by Ziauddin Sardar, documents Mecca as one of Islam--s holiest cities and also as a place of turbulence
Bengali littrateur Syed Mujtaba Ali's tongue-in-cheek narrative about life in Afghanistan in the 1920s. Translated by Nazes Afroz.
A comprehensive work on contemporary Indian textiles and their making
American Phil Deutschle chronicles his days as a teacher in a Nepali village and as a trekker in the Khumbu region
Damon Galgut talks about E.M. Forster and his detailed observations of British Raj which he documented in his journals (one such is his book --The Hill of Devi--)
Spirit of Kumbh is a coffee-table book full of scenes from one of the largest religious gathering--Kumbh Mela
Rory Stewart--s sensitive narrative of the complex Afghan history and landscape make the book --The Places in Between-- Sarah Waters-- favourite travelogue
JonathanGil Harris-- book The First Firangis is a tale of highway robberies with a twist--the dacoits and the victims being migrants to India during the reign of Shah Jahan
A Book of Simple Living--a collection of brief notes by Ruskin Bond on nature and people of his beloved Garhwali hills
Travelling In, Travelling Out, an anthology, is a dismal failure -- like flowers of varying lustre tossed higgledy-piggledy into a vase
The author, Sam Miller, feels that Robert Fagles-- translation of Homer--s Odyssey gives the real sense of travel
This cookbook is more about sampling lesser-known -- yet hardly lesser -- banquets of historic legacy
Wild Fire is a great way to immerse oneself in the wildlife wonderland that was India
Author and columnist, Joanna Rakoff, finds it fascinating that Dickens-- account of America still holds true
Goa Travels is an exquisite collection of travelogues about the state we have all come to love
The historic ruins of the Vijayanagara Empire through the lens of ace photographer, Raghu Rai