Search Results for ‘India’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 40 matches found

An Area of Darkness

A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing. In An Area of Darkness, V.S. Naipaul describes his encounter with a force in his life which shocked him into awareness of a need for...

In Bear Country

Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...

India In Slow Motion

In "India in Slow Motion" Mark Tully undertakes a journey that has no true beginning or end, seeking to unravel the mysteries lying at the heart of the country of his birth.
Exploring subjects such...

Last Mughal

The Last Mughal - The Fall of Delhi 1857 is William Dalrymple’s account of the life and death of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the Seige of Delhi and the demise of Mughal rule and culture in India.
‘No vesting...

Nine Lives

Nine lives, nine very different religious paths: 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...

Plain Tales from the Raj

The classic oral history of the period that culminated in the end of British rule in India. An insightful collection of reminiscences from a variety of different people and angles.

Slowly Down the Ganges

In the winter of 1963-4 the Newbys followed the Ganges from the place where it enters the Plains of India to the Sandheads, forty miles offshore in the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges is not among the longest...

The Glass Palace

Rajkumar is only a boy, helping out on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Thus begins this...

Travels With Herodotus

"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket.
As a novice reporter in the 1950s...

White Mughals

William Dalrymple’s fifth book, White Mughals, does not follow his usual technique of travelling and discovering and storytelling. Rather this work is a social history, an account of the much unknown...

A Passage to India

Although younger generations may know David Lean’s 1984 film, E M Forster’s A Passage to India remains a masterly, at times compelling snapshot of an era which still has echoes of prejudice with today...

India: A History

India after Gandhi

“India after Gandhi” is the history of the world’s largest democracy, by Ramachandra Guha.
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion...

The White Tiger

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize 2008.
Meet Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’: Indian servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer…
Born in a remote Indian village, the son of...

In the Valley of Mist

In the Valley of the Mist, by Justine Hardy, tells the story of Mohammed Dar and his three brothers, who were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war...

India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar, creator and writer of The Kumars at No.42 and Goodness Gracious Me, embarks on an epic and uniquely personal journey through the heart of India for his namesake BBC2 series "India with...

India's Unending Journey

Sir Mark Tully, born in India and educated in Britain, is a citizen of two countries - indeed, two continents - and two cultures. In "India's Undending Journey" he shares his formative experiences of...

Mumbai to Mecca

“Mumbai to Mecca” is an incredible travelogue, reminiscent of the journeys written by such travellers as Richard Burton, who saw Mecca, but through different eyes, and with a different faith.
'From...

The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below

The wellspring of “The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below” is the remarkable 17th century figure, Thomas Coryate, unofficial jester to the court of King James I, associate of John Donne, Ben Johnson and Inigo...

A Fine Balance

Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares...