Travel

India, the world’s largest democracy, will soon be the most populous country on the planet. If the image of the poorest among poor countries has long been the fate of this great nation, we now discover, thanks to its incredible diversity and vitality, that India is destined to play a major role i... More

Through simple and entertaining stories, Jamuna Rangachari brings out the essence of all religions practiced in India and how, underneath it all, we are all one.Jamuna Rangachari is a software professional. She lives in Mumbai with her husband and two children.... More

2007 marks 60 years of India's independence from colonial rule. Traditionally, in India, the attainment of 60 years, called shashti-poorti, is an important milestone in the life of an individual. It is a time to reflect on one's past and start planning for the future. This volume brings together a b... More

When a young lion at a city zoo escapes in an empty crate, he wakes up to find himself on the way to Africa. Now his animal friends-- a strange menagerie including a giraffe, a koala, a squirrel, and a snake-- must break out of the zoo, braving the concrete jungle of New York City to get him back. Y... More

Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the late years of the Raj, and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin—though he could not speak a word of German�... More

In July 1953, recently graduated as a doctor at the University of Buenos Aires, Che Guevara decided to set off once again to explore the Latin American continent His principal interest was in archaeology and politics, and his first stop was Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far-reaching revo... More

People travel; books do too. Bombay-London-NewYork is a way of measuring the distances that people and books travel. Interweaving the personal and professional, Amitava Kumar blurs the line between literary criticism and memoir in this lucid chronicle of migration and writerly development. The... More

Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa "Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humiliation. This is true of Afghanistan too. Read this harrowing book. The tragic yet heroic tale of two women is told with great simplicity. They will haunt you." -Elie Wies... More

The Darien Gap, the only break in the Pan-American Highway, is a place of legend. In this almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle, and cloud forest between the land masses of North and South America, stories of abduction and murder are rife. In recent years, more people have successfully climbed E... More

Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leone to Ango... More

"Through Different Eyes" is a story about a man who, as a result of a childhood accident, was struck blind at the age of thirty-eight and robbed of everything that he had fought so hard all his life to achieve. 'The bottom line?' the doctor asked. 'Yes.' 'There's nothing we can do.' Those words ... More

Exploring India's growing global importance, this in-depth study examines the political, economic, and social factors in a variety of ways. Coupling lively discussion with background essays contributed by more than 40 prominent people from different spheres of life--including distinguished scholars,... More

Translated by Alexandra KeebleThe film tie-in edition of the established modern classic. In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara. Written eight years... More

In 1984 journalist Peregrine Hodson crossed the Pakistan border into Afghanistan with rebel mujahedin smuggling arms and ammunition, beginning a thousand-mile journey through the war-torn nation. Fluent in Farsi, he was able to observe the war with stunning intimacy and eloquently capture the essenc... More

Born in Germany in 1877, Isabelle Eberhardt has been described as the first hippie. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and the desire to break free from the confinements of her society and its perceived patriarchy, she traveled into northern Africa and the heart of Islam with no money, living from da... More

Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International and brings his inimitable humorous and humane view to Africa. Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally re... More