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Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-12-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0307761908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.
Author: Debbie Lisle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521867801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1932361626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Features themes that encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine.
Author: Amy Willesee
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1466872322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On June 1, 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military fatigues, armed himself with automatic weapons, walked in on a quiet family gathering, and, without a word, mowed his family down before turning a gun on himself. But Dipendra did not die immediately, and while lying in a coma was declared king. He was now a living god. Award-winning journalists Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker set out to understand what could have led to such a devastating tragedy, one that fascinated and appalled the world. Exploring Kathmandu and other parts of the kingdom, they conducted exhaustive interviews with everyone from Maoist guerillas to members and friends of the royal family, gaining insight into the people involved in and the events behind the massacre. At the heart of the story is the love affair between Dipendra and the beautiful aristocrat Devyani Rana, whom he was forbidden to marry. Culminating their portrait of Nepal is a chilling reconstruction of the events of that fatal day. As conspiracy theories circulate and rebels threaten to topple the monarchy, the future of this small Himalayan kingdom promises to be as tumultuous as its past. Revealing a country where the twenty-first century mingles uneasily with the fourteenth, Love and Death in Kathmandu is both an enlightening portrait of a place that is a world apart and a riveting investigation of an incredible crime.
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 045149394X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 030742801X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer’s latest itinerary. But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk geopolitics with the Dalai Lama. He navigates the Magritte-like landscape of jet lag, “a place that no human had ever been until forty or so years ago.” And on every page of this poetic and provocative book, he compels us to redraw our map of the world.
Author: William Warren
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781861891297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Bangkok" is an informal portrait of the city, where the districts and cities of modern Bangkok are explored in a series of personal impressions of the people, their customs, cuisines and modern life.
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-10-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0307764648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.
Author: Bernadette McDonald
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0898868009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Elizabeth Hawley, an American woman on her own in Nepal for more than four decades, celebrated as the official chronicler of Himalayan expedition climbing.
