Travelogue & Memoirs
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Soon after Stewart, a British diplomat and professional adventurer, traveled to Iraq late in 2003 to search for work, he was named a provincial governor. In characteristic understatement, he says of his ... more
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into ... more
Babur Nama (Memoirs of Empire Babur)
The "Babur Nama", a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. ... more
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
The distance between Kabul, Afghanistan, and Chiapas, Mexico, is 5,000 miles. Geddes undertook a journey between those two points to retrace the voyage of Huishen, a fifth-century Buddhist monk who fled ... more
Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan
In the spring of 1984, British journalist Hodson traveled 1500 miles in Afghanistan, walking, living and dodging Soviet attacks with mujahedin, the rebel fighters. In this well-written, vivid, poignant ... more
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
Any carping about this being an instant book should be quelled when readers actually encounter Ansary's considered prose prose he himself contrasts to the e-mailed commentary he fired off on September ... more
