Search Results for ‘India’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 25 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...

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...

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...

Along the Ganges

“Along the Ganges” is a wonderful portrait of a river and its people written with great humanity and understanding by a prize-winning author.
Ilija Trojanow travelled hundreds of miles along the Ganges...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An Indian Odyssey

From journalist, broadcaster and writer Martin Buckley, a regular contributor to the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent, comes “An Indian Odyssey” - a beautiful, engaging and romantic history of the Indian...

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...