Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Shields Nancy)(Paperback)

Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Shields Nancy)(Paperback)

The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveler, are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman. In this book, editor Nancy Shields skillfully interweaves extracts from the journals with passages from the diary of Charly, Henrietta's precocious

East of Croydon - Travels through India and South East Asia inspired by her BBC 1 series 'The Ganges' (Perkins Sue)(Paperback / softback)

Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers (Erize Francisco)(Paperback)

A stunningly illustrated field guide to non-passerine birds of South America Here in an easy-to-use format is an essential guide to the nearly 1,300 species of non-passerine South American birds. It complements Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor's large reference volumes on the passerines, which are also

Travels in the South of France (Stendhal)(Paperback)

Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in

A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland (Solnit Rebecca)(Paperback)

In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by

A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India (Lewis Norman)(Paperback)

An account of the seminal British travel writer's journeys through India. Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of traveling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar -

India Conquered - Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire (Wilson Jon)(Paperback / softback)

India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South

The Tainted (Madhavan Cauvery)(Paperback)

It's spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in south-east India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with its heaving bazaar, reeking streets and brothels. Everyone in

Birds of the Dakotas Field Guide (Tekiela Stan)(Paperback)

Identify Birds with North Dakota and South Dakota's Best-Selling Bird Guide Make bird-watching in the Dakotas even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in

Passage to India (Forster E M)(Paperback / softback)

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming

Jasmine (Mukherjee Bharati)(Paperback / softback)

Jasmine Vijh, widowed in India at 17, flees to America. This is the story of her daring travels, her painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis and, eventually, the home she finds in Iowa where she accepts how inextricably her fate has become part of

British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s (Rhodes Mike)(Paperback)

Previously unpublished images of British buses in Canada, Macau, India South Africa, Portugal and Hong

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Reddy Gayatri)(Paperback)

With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the 'third sex' of India-individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men