Search Results for ‘India’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 29 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 as...

On a Shoestring to Coorg

Dervla Murphy is a veteran traveller whose adventures include solo journeys by mule and bicycle through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. This time she sets off for what is for her a mere...

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...

The Last Mughal

Dalrymple’s "The Last Mughal" tells the dramatic tale of India’s last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II. Directly descended from Genghis Khan and Timur of Akbar and Shah Jahan, his Mughal ancestors...

The Story of India

Michael Wood’s “The Story of India” is a lavishly illustrated and spellbinding narrative on the 10,000-year history of India, also featured in a BBC TV series.
Home today to more than a fifth of the...

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...

Magic Bus

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...

Age Of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters

William Dalrymple travels around the Indian subcontinent, journeying to places that few travellers ever get to see and often he goes at great personal risk. The name of the book comes from the author...

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

Dalrymple’s second book was the result of a six year stay in Delhi. Here he removes the focus from his own experiences to instead attempt to uncover the various layers of both old and new Delhi. Continually...

Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure

After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided she hates this country of chaos and contradiction with a passion.
And when a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists...

No Full Stops in India

India's Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, 'want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops'.
From that striking insight Sir Mark Tully has woven a superb series of...

River Dog

Faithfully accompanied by Bhaiti, his Indian pi-dog, Shand attempts to complete a journey from the beginnings of the Brahmaputra in Tibet to its delta in the Bay of Bengal. A wonderful account of an...

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim...

Tibetan Foothold

In July 1963 Dervla arrives in Delhi after having cycled for thousands of miles (if you want to know more about that part of the story, read her first book Full Tilt). The weather is too hot to cycle...

The Backpacker

in John Harris' "The Backpacker", John's holiday in India begins badly. His girlfriend returns home after falling ill and he finds himself at the end of a knife in a train station latrine.
But then...