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This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart and the eight- day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar like David before the Ark.

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Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist.

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Letters written from 1716-1718 from the Ottoman Empire by Mary Wortley Montagu, one of the first modern travel writers. A revelation in their day.

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If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night

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Written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, this novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) includes a biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf in Ceylon", and a short story, "Pearls before Swine", which vividly draws on Woolf's experience as a young District Commissioner.

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Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s.

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Veronica was not a casual traveler but a young musician married to a scholar. She was determined to make use of her time in Afghanistan and break out of the charmed circle of the expatriate academic and make real friendships with local women.

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Time Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.' Jan Morris, Independent

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Shortlisted forthe 2018 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

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Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made ends meet.

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A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen. Describing a little known aspect of WWII, a group of British Army soldiers try to prevent bloodshed between feuding Somalian tribes.

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Said to have inspired Greene's The Quiet American, A Dragon Apparent chronicles the charm and grandeur of the ancient native civilizations that survived until the devastation of the Vietnam War.

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"You could say I'm reluctantly retired from writing books": travel writer Dervla Murphy- The Guardian

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Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus.

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When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon where he had lived as a field anthropologist for 18 months.

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A selection of Norman Lewis's work from Eland founder, John Hatt

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By happy agreement with the literary estate of Norman Lewis, the previous five collections of Norman s work have been withdrawn, so that all the best pieces are now in one book.

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A portrait of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, and their disappearing way of life.

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The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Made into a massively successful film in Germany.

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A selection of writing by the most unknown great traveller.

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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine

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The autobiography of William Hudson who spent the first eighteen years of his life on the Argentinean pampas.

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Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard Wool