Tag Archives: Essays & Travelogues
A Diamond in the Desert
by Jo TatchellPart history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book ….
Clara’s Grand Tour
by Glynis RidleyA biography of Clara, an eighteenth-century globe-trotting celebrity that also happened to be a fully grown Indian rhinoceros
Blood River
by Tim Butcher“The day of the solitary intrepid traveler is not over. Tim Butcher’s extraordinary, audacious journey through the Congo is worthy of the great nineteenth-century…
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God
by Jonah Blank“Possibly the most perceptive book that I have come across on India since the British Raj ended.” –Pranay Gupte, The Washington Post
American Nomads
by Richard Grant“Grant succumbs to indigenous American wanderlust, exploring the land mostly left of the Mississippi in a journey of discovery for himself and other agoraphobics….
All the Wrong Places
by James Fenton“James Fenton is part journalist, part Indiana Jones. He has been reporting from the front lines of the major upheavals in the Pacific Rim…
12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time
by Mark Jacobson“Jacobson is a very funny writing. . . . He also weaves in enough memoir . . . to tie the current adventure to…
