Travel Classic Revived!
Robert Louis Stevenson’s journey across the Cévennes with his travel partner, a donkey named Modestine
Travel classic: The Hill of Devi, 1953
Damon Galgut talks about E.M. Forster and his detailed observations of British Raj which he documented in his journals (one such is his book –The Hill of Devi–)
Travel classic: The Places in Between, 2004
Rory Stewart–s sensitive narrative of the complex Afghan history and landscape make the book –The Places in Between– Sarah Waters– favourite travelogue
Travel classic: The Odyssey
The author, Sam Miller, feels that Robert Fagles– translation of Homer–s Odyssey gives the real sense of travel
Travel classic: American Notes, 1843
Author and columnist, Joanna Rakoff, finds it fascinating that Dickens– account of America still holds true
Travel classic — Vie et voyages, 1996
Amruta Patil feels that Alexandra David- Néel–s work emerge out of personal journeys made through her adult life
Travel classic: The Innocents Abroad
Zac O–Yeah on his love for Mark Twain–s travelogue The Innocents Abroad, 1869
Travel classic: The Book of Duarte Barbosa
If Anita Nair is looking for time travel in the reverse, it is Barbosa that she would reach out for
Travel classic: Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God
According to Amish Tripathi, nobody can deny the sheer passion that Mr Blank has for India and for the Ramayana
Travel classic: In Search of the Nectar-Pot
For Arunava Sinha, Samaresh Basu–s book, Amritakumbher Shawndhaney (In Search of the Nectar-Pot), 1968, is a human document in the form of a travelogue
Travel classic: The Snow Leopard
Writer Isabella Tree talks about Peter Matthiesen’s book, The Snow Leopard (1978), which documents the activities and habitat of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal
Travel classic: Magnificent Desolation
Indrajit Hazra tells the readers why Buzz Aldrin’s book ‘Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home From the Moon’ (2009) is so close to his heart
Travel classic: An expedition to the Hindu Kush
Travel writer Eric Newby’s account of his expedition – to the wild and remote Hindu Kush mountains – to scale Mir Samir in Afghanistan