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  • India Rising

    Tales from a Changing Nation

    by Oliver Balch ...
    India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire entrepreneurs are springing up at every turn. Bollywood is going global and Indian expats are flooding back home. What's more, these changes are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Under the Tump

    Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders

    by Oliver Balch ...
    Sheep, hills and inbreds. The typical image of rural Wales is hardly flattering. So why is a little market town in the Welsh Marches attracting waves of newcomers? Hay-on-Wye is hardly 'typical'. Nestled under the Black Mountains, it's home to 20 second-hand bookshops and the UK's largest literary festival. Yet is that the sum of its appeal?From an old pottery workshop under a castle tump, Oliver ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden Voices

    by Mark Helyar ...
    Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden VoicesNew, updated edition.Quitting his job and selling his house, Mark travels to India. He lands in Delhi, belted, braced and prepared for all eventualities. Or so he thinks. Though he craves the ultimate travel adventure, a load of western baggage weighs him down: a rucksack rattling with medication, reams of 'to do' lists and a mobile phone loaded with ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by Suketu Mehta ...
    A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Paris, France Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    by Kelly Sanderson ...
      Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Paris, France.   Paris, the cosmopolitan capital of France, is - with 2.2 million people living in the dense (105 km²) central city and almost 12 million people living in the whole metropolitan area - one of the largest agglomerations in Europe. Located in the north of the country on the river Seine, Paris has the reputation of being the ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • The Uncommercial Traveller

    With original illustrations

    by Charles Dickens ...
    The role of the explorer and investigator of interesting things was explained by Dickens in the introduction to the work:No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Divided Island

    Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War

    by Samanth Subramanian ...
    Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island.In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to an end the civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Gibraltar Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    by Esteban Tarrio ...
    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the rock of Gibraltar, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on the southern coast of Spain at the entrance to the Mediterranean sea. Gibraltar has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain and adjoins the Costa del Sol, Spain.Gibraltar is a unique place for the curious traveller who can explore its unique caves and tunnels and see the impressive ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • Two Years in St. Andrews

    At Home on the 18th Hole

    by George Peper ...
    The Old Course at St. Andrews is to golfers what St. Peter's is to Catholics or the Western Wall is to Jews: hallowed ground, the course every golfer longs to play -- and master. In 1983 George Peper was playing the Old Course when he hit a slice so hideous that he never found the ball. But in looking for it, he came across a For Sale sign on a stone town house alongside the famed eighteenth hole. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • India

    From the sublime to the ridiculous (With Illustrations)

    by Mr. W.J. Rogers, Mrs. W.J. Rogers ...
    This book described about the true life of India, the land Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Rogers used to travel.  There were some amazing angles you should know about India. The contents of this book consisted of Americans Complimented Scene at Jain and Rahm Temple A Strange Occurrence A Hindu Wedding Isaac At Lover’s Lodge “That’s What Gets Me” The Devil in the Well Officers at Igatpuri Superstitions Defeated ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Love and Mr. Lewisham

    by H. Georges Wells ...
    The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love - indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third - and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Age of Kali

    Indian Travels & Encounters

    by William Dalrymple ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness” predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, Dalrymple encountered a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD