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Dasgupta, Rana. Capital: The Eruption of Delhi. Penguin. May 2014.496p. maps, notes. ISBN 9781594204470. $27.95. SOC SCI In this nonfiction debut, British Indian writer Dasgupta (winner of the 2010 Commonwealth [...]

* Carroll, Charlie. Peaks on the Horizon: Two Journeys in Tibet. Soft Skull. Feb. 2015.368p. maps. ISBN 9781619024847. pap. $16.95. TRAV Carroll, an English secondary school teacher, author (On the [...]

Brown, Shelley, M.D. Centred in Truth: The Story of Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda. 2 vols. Kalpa Tree. 2001.1128p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 00-193244. ISBN 0-9706368-0-6. $49.95. REL Swami Nitya-swarup-ananda (1899-1992) was a [...]

Lightner, Sam, Jr. All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo. Broadway. Jun. 2001. c.288p. maps. bibliog. ISBN 0-7679-0756-6. $24.95. TRAV This dynamic narrative combines two journeys to [...]

Yeadon, David. The Way of the Wanderer: Discover Your Hidden Selves Through Travel. Travelers' Tales. Apr. 2001. c.256p. illus. ISBN 1-885211-60-0. pap. $14.95. TRAV Award-winning author and illustrator Yeadon (Lost [...]

Cornell, Judith. Amma: Healing the Heart of the World. Morrow. Jul. 2001. c.288p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-688-17079-X. $24. REL Cornell (Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing) met Ammachi, the East Indian [...]

Lucan, Medlar & Durian Gray. The Decadent Traveller. Dedalus, dist. by SCB. Mar. 2001. c.196p. ed. by Alex Martin & Jerome Fletcher. photogs. ISBN 1-873982-09-7. pap. $15.99. TRAV This is [...]

White, Edmund. The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. Mar. 2001. c.214p. ISBN 1-58234-135-4. $16.95. TRAV This is the first volume of a [...]

Moxham, Roy. The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier That Divided a Nation. Carroll & Graf. Mar. 2001. c.256p. bibliog. ISBN 0-7867-0840-9. $22. TRAV The Indian [...]

*Elliot, Jason. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan. Picador: St. Martin's. Feb. 2001. c.496p. ISBN 0-312-27459-9. $30. TRAV This extraordinary debut is an account of Elliot's two visits to Afghanistan. [...]

Moon, Vasant. Growing Up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography. Rowman & Littlefield. Dec. 2000. c.224p. permanent paper. tr. by Gail Omvedt. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 00-032874. ISBN 0-7425-0881-1. pap. [...]

Stoess, David. Right Foot in the Pacific, Left Foot in the Atlantic: An Adventure Across America. Hellgate: PSI Research. Dec. 2000. c.290p. ISBN 1-55571-521-4. pap. $17.95. TRAV After the death [...]

Smith, Roff. Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia. Adventure: National Geographic. 2000. c.288p, photogs. ISBN 0-7922-7952-2. $26. TRAV In 1996, after 15 years of working as a [...]

Kamdar, Mira. Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into Her Indian Family's Past. PublicAffairs: Perseus. Sept. 2000. 320p. photogs. ISBN 1-891620-58-4. $24. SOC SCI In this story of her grandmother's life, [...]

Taylor, Nelson. America Bizarro: A Guide to Freaky Festivals, Groovy Gatherings, Kooky Contests, and Other Strange Happenings Across the U.S.A. Griffin: St. Martin's. Aug. 2000. c.228p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-312-26286-8. [...]

Greenwood, Douglas. Who's Buried Where in England. 3d ed. Constable, dist. by Trafalgar Square. Jul. 2000. 352p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-09-479310-7. pap. $19.95. TRAV This third edition of a guide [...]

Naipaul, V.S. Reading & Writing: A Personal Account. New York Review. 2000. 64p. LC 99-049615. ISBN 0-940322-38-2. $16.95. LIT Naipaul started his literary career writing comic novels set in Trinidad. [...]

Dalrymple, William. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters. c.375p. ISBN 1-186450-172-3. Lately, books on India by British writers have proliferated, but the accounts by Dalrymple (From the Holy [...]

Dalrymple, William. In Xanadu: A Quest. c.318p. ISBN 1-186450-173-1. $14.95. ea. vol: Lonely Planet (Journeys). 2000. maps. pap. $14.95. TRAV Lately, books on India by British writers have proliferated, but [...]

Lenard, Yvone. The Magic of Provence: Pleasures of Southern France. Princeton. Mar. 2000. c.324p. LC 99-051797. ISBN 0-87127-212-1. $22. TRAV French-born academic Lenard (California State Univ., Dominguez Hills), who has [...]

* Rushby, Kevin. Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond. St. Martin's. Feb. 2000. c.272p, maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-312-22813-9. $24.95. TRAV In [...]

*Hardy, Justine. Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily. John Murray, dist. by Trafalgar Square. Jan. 2000. 266p. photogs. ISBN 0-7195-6140-X. $35. SOC SCI Inspired by Kipling's years as a reporter [...]

Rajadhyaksha, Ashish & Paul Willemen. Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. rev ed. Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999.658p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-57958-146-3. $75. REF The Indian motion-picture industry is one of the largest [...]

Sacred India. Lonely Planet. 1999. 176p. illus. maps. ISBN 1-86450-063-8. $29.95. REL This is a lavishly illustrated account of the religous practice in India--Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and Buddhism, as well [...]

Blume, Mary. A French Affair: The Paris Beat, 1965-1998. Free Pr. Nov. 1999. c.304p. illus. LC 99-17142. ISBN 0-684-86301-4. $23. TRAV Blume (Cote d'Azur: Inventing the French Riviera) has lived [...]

Roy, Arundhati. The Cost of Living. Modern Library. Oct. 1999. c.144p. ISBN 0-375-75614-0. pap. $11.95. SOC SCI The phenomenal success of Roy's Booker Prize winning first novel The God of [...]

Goswamy, B.N. Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State. Univ. of Washington. 1999. c.304p. illus.bibliog. ISBN 3-907070-76-3. $65. FINE ARTS Little is known of the lives [...]

Klawinski, Rion. Chasing the Heretics: A Modern Journey through the Medieval Languedoc. Hungry Mind, dist. by Consortium. Jun. 1999. c.210p, maps. bibliog. ISBN 1-886913-27-7. $23. TRAV Klawinski, a freelance writer, [...]

Shrady, Nicholas. Sacred Roads: Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail. HarperSanFrancisco: HarperCollins. Jun. 1999. c.288p. ISBN 0-06-067112-2. $22. TRAV 'The notion that God, or the Absolute, can be approached while journeying [...]

* Bahadur, Gaiutra. Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Univ. of Chicago. Nov. 2013. 352p. illus, notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780226034423. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780226043388. HIST Guyana-born U.S. journalist Bahaduir [...]

Amrith, Sunil S. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Harvard Univ. Oct. 2013. 356p. illus, notes, index. ISBN 9780674724839. $29.95. HIST The [...]

* Fontanella-Khan, Amana. Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India. Norton. Aug. 2013. 288p. illus. notes. ISBN 9780393062977. $26.95. SOC SCI Sampat Devi Pal is an [...]

Hofmeyer, Isabel. Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading. Harvard Univ. Mar. 2013. 232p. illus, maps. notes, index. ISBN 9780674072794. $24.95. COMM Hofmeyer (African literature, Univ. of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg, South [...]

Allen, Charles. Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor. Overlook, dist. by Penguin. 2012. c.460p, illus, index. ISBN 9781468300710. $29.95. HIST Historian Allen (The Buddha and Dr Fuhrer) has produced [...]

* Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Random. Feb. 2012. c.288p. ISBN 9781400067558. $27. SOC SCI This is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Boo's [...]

Prakash, Gyan. Mumbai Fables. Princeton Univ. Oct. 2010. c.384p, illus, maps. index. ISBN 9780691142845. $29.95. HIST In this finely researched account, Prakash (Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton Univ.; Bonded Histories) [...]

* Dalrymple, William. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. Knopf. Jun. 2010. c.304p, maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-307-27282-9. $26.95. REL For the last 20 years, Scotsman [...]

Ede, Piers Moore. Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi. Bloomsbury USA. Apr. 2015.224p. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9781608198689. $26. ebook available, TRAV Often relegated to the periphery of most books [...]

Barker, Adele. Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka. Beacon, dist. by Houghton. Jan. 2010. c.320p. photogs. ISBN 978-0-8070-0061-8. $24.95. TRAV Barker received a Fulbright scholarship for a [...]

Encyclopedia of India. 4 vols. Scribner Reference: Gale Group. 2006. 2000p. ed. by Stanley Wolpert. illus, maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-684-31349-9. $475. REF This four-volume encyclopedia edited by Wolpert (emeritus, [...]

Meetings with Remarkable Muslims: A Collection of Travel Writing. Dufour. Mar. 2006. 312p. ed. by Barnaby Rogerson & Rose Baring. ISBN 0-907871-64-X. $39.95. TRAV The essays in this collection provide [...]

Ferguson, Will. Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada. Canongate, dist. by Grove/Atlantic. Jun. 2005. c.368p. ISBN 1-84195-652-X. $24. TRAV Ferguson (Happiness; Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan) [...]

* Clarke, Stephen. A Year in the Merde. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. May 2005. c.304p. ISBN 1-58234-591-0. $22.95. TRAV Clarke, a British writer working for a French press group [...]

* MEHTA, SUKETU. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. Knopf. Sept. 2004. c.528p. ISBN 0-375-40372-8. $27.95. TRAV Bombay-born Mehta, a screenplay (Mission Kashmir) and fiction writer, was transplanted to New […]

GOLIA, MARIA. Cairo City of Sand. Reaktion, dist. by Consortium. (Topographics). Aug. 2004. 232p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 1-86189-187-3 pap. $27. TRAV Golia, a long-term resident of Cairo, exhibits a strong […]

Pandian, Anand & M.P. Mariappan. Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. Indiana Univ. Apr. 2014. 232p. illus. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780253012586. $65; pap. ISBN 9780253012500. $24; ebk. [...]

Smith, Aaron. Shanti Bloody Shanti: An Indian Odyssey. Roaring Forties. 2013. 260p. ISBN 9781938901119. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781938901133. TRAV A drug dealer's contract on his life forces Australian ex-punk [...]

Bose, Sumantra. Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy. Harvard Univ. Sept. 2013. 342p. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780674050662. $35. INT AFFAIRS Bose (international & comparative politics, London Sch. [...]

Arnett, Robert. May 1997. c.215p. photogs. index. LC 96-X5065. ISBN 0-9652900-7-7. $45. TRAV A profound meditation experience led Arnett, an art collector and instructor, to spend 18 months in India [...]

Roy, Arundhati. Walking with the Comrades. Penguin. Nov. 2011. c.240p, illus. ISBN 9780143120599. pap. $15. INT AFFAIRS This short book of three pieces by novelist and essayist Roy focuses on [...]