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Around the World in 80 Treasures (Phoenix Press)

Around the World in 80 Treasures (Phoenix Press) by Dan Cruickshank (Paperback )

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A grand world tour—in a new, smaller size! One of Britain’s leading authorities on historic architecture takes readers on an incredible visit to mankind’s finest monuments in this companion volume to the BBC television series. Documenting his extraordinary journey to 80 historic sites around the read more...
 
Jahajin

Jahajin by Peggy Mohan (Paperback 2008)

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From Calcutta to Trinidad they went, the grimityas, crossing two oceans to reach their new homes on the other side of the world. This title illuminates for us the experience of that journey: The train ride from Faizabad to Calcutta, the passage down the Hoogly, the three months cape and up the read more...
 
Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage To The Many Sources Of The Ganga

Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage To The Many Sources Of The Ganga by Stephen Alter (Paperback 2001)

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This is an account of a journey taken in India. The destination is the origin of the Ganga, the holiest and most famous of Indian rivers. It is a physical journey, involving months of trekking through forested valleys and snow-covered mountains. It is also a journey of the spirit, taking a man deep read more...
 
Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer

Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer by Timothy Moore (Hardcover 2000)

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Guided by the fastidious journals of an eminent Victorian adventurer by the name of Lord Dufferin, Time Moore sets off to prove his mettle in the most stunningly inhospitable place on Earth-the Arctic. Armed only with his searing wit, wicked humor, and seasickness pills, our pale read more...
 
Paradise In Our Backyard A Blueprint For Nepal

Paradise In Our Backyard A Blueprint For Nepal by Karna Sakya (Paperback )

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If we say that Nepal has plunged into darkness, then it is our duty, our right, and indeed, our joy to save it. The fate of the country is in our hands. In Paradise in Our Backyard, Karna Sakya—conservationist, entrepreneur and patriot— relates how he set up the now iconic Kathmandu Guest House in read more...
 
Tokyo Cancelled

Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta (Paperback 2005)

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Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell each other stories. Robert De Niro's child, conceived in a Laundromat, masters the read more...
 
Great Journeys : Adventures in the Rocky

Great Journeys : Adventures in the Rocky by Isabella L Bird (Paperback 2007)

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Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A read more...
 
The Mumbai Factfile

The Mumbai Factfile by Derek O Brien (Paperback )

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Empires Of The Indus :The Story Of A River

Empires Of The Indus :The Story Of A River by Alice Albinia (Paperback 2009)

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One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five read more...
 
Ten Heritage Walks Of Mumbai

Ten Heritage Walks Of Mumbai by Fiona Fernandez (Paperback 2007)

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In Ten Heritage Walks of Mumbai, the author takes you along many fascinating journeys through a different Mumbai altogether – oft-forgotten sights, sounds and roads. The book offers tourists as well as the city-bred junta a wider canvas to probe further into Mumbai’s invaluable expanse of heritage read more...
 

 


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