India Travel

Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the listener up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the region today.

From the author of the bestselling Pelican Cove series - Meet Meera Patel - college dropout and seasoned amateur sleuth Charlie Gibson is not the warm and fuzzy type. So the town of Swan Creek is surprised when he takes in a homeless boy. Then Charlie is found dead. No good deed goes unpunished, right? The Patel family sets off on Route 66 for an epic trip to the coast. But Meera can't join in the fun when an innocent youngster is accused of murder. Travel the I-40 with the Patels, with roadside diners and chili burgers, bhel poori and fajitas! There is a long distance murder mystery to be ...

Josh and Samantha fall in love, their attraction to one another defies everything they believe in. They share a passion that is bound to erupt like a volcano and then, who knows?' 'It is a love story yes but it is more than that it is a fascinating insight into the world of the back packer. Travelers and travel is what this very readable volume is all about, it is not a tour guide it is an insight into the day to day world of being on tour.' In an interview for The Moment Magazine the author said that Foxtrot was the almost winner of The Constable Trophy. I entered A Foxtrot Through India ...

Ever wondered what it's like to backpack across India? Two sixty-somethings go for one more adventure and just about survive a five-week journey involving world famous sights, crazy incidents and lots of cows.

On his 44th birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1,200-mile length of India's holy river. In a misguided attempt to keep him out of trouble, Wanda, his lifelong travel companion and wife, is to be his fellow boatwoman. Their plan is to begin in the great plain of Hardwar and finish in the Bay of Bengal, but the journey almost immediately becomes markedly slower and more treacherous than either had imagined - running aground 63 times in the first six days.

Greater Than a Tourist: Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Sandra Katarzyna Blawat offers the inside scoop on Udaipur. Most travel guides tell you how to travel like a tourist. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this guide will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture.

An intimate and inspiring true story of love, loss, addiction, and redemption. Lisa’s life is high-glamour and high-octane, publishing bestselling books and walking the red-carpet at London movie premieres. But the reality behind the gloss is very different: she is stuck in an unhappy marriage, stressed out in a toxic job, and grieving for her parents. She begins to rely on alcohol to get her through it all and embarks on an illicit affair. Lisa leaves her husband, hoping to find absolution and happiness in a new relationship, but the world of dating for a 43-year-old is not what she ...

After a devastating betrayal shattered her faith and her sense of self, writer Lauren Cibene found herself paralyzed by anxiety, borderline agoraphobia, and depression. Desperate for something—anything—to pull her back to life, she took a spontaneous leap: India. Cibene fled to escape the church that wanted to rush past the pain and get to the promise.

Vedic Path to Infinite Motivation: Unleash Ancient Secrets to Overcome Stress, Learn Gayatri Meditation, Unfold Wisdom, and Achieve Blissful Success Do you want to overcome Stress without medicines and achieve ‘Blissful Success’? Do you wonder why, despite material success, happiness seems far away? Do you want to change your life by learning a powerful way to inspire yourself and others through Gayatri Meditation?Vedic Path to Infinite Motivation is the fourth book in the Corporate Transformation Series. It is your guide to overcoming a stressful life and learning the subtle art of ...

The journey through life came to a T-junction. This is your invitation to pry into the diary, be the other tourist on the train, a voyeur at the accident, an eavesdropper on the argument. Two one-track minds merge with train-wreck results.

SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller, is a brilliant narrative, which combines mystery, mythology, and meditation to reveal a profound spiritual journey. Shailendra presents Shiva, The Supreme Lord of Yoga, as the protagonist who rises through time and space to establish His sublime presence in the most endearing way, transforming and delighting the reader. In a timeless love story, the perfect Yogi meets the perfect Yogini. Will they be able to embrace the perfect destiny... or will the world create obstacles, not having understood perfect love? Shiva, who sports the title of 'The God beyond...

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker.

Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spending the nights sleeping under the stars, in the homes of welcoming strangers, or in small towns and villages, he experienced the dusty enchantment of ordinary, real India on the smallest of budgets. There Are Other Rivers tells the story of the walk through an account of a single day as well as reflecting on the allure of difficult journeys and the eternal appeal of the open road.

The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island. Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an 18-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island: its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back.

Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: In Delhi, all things are true at once. When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of 16 million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once. Delirious Delhi depicts India's capital as the two experienced it, from office life in the rising tech hubs to the traffic jam philosophy that keeps people sane in the gridlock leading to them. With only their sense of humour as their guide, Dave and Jenny set out to explore a city in which ancient stone monuments compete with glass-clad shopping malls to define the landscape.

Greater Than a Tourist: Cartagena de Indias, Bolivar, Colombia by Simón Cartagena Sevillano offers the inside scoop on Cartagena. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

A guide with personal reflections of Jaipur, Agra and Delhi from the perspective of a solo female traveler on a first trip to India. This book includes safety tips for solo travelers, tips on logistics: trains, planes and buses. Offers touring times for three cities: Jaipur, Agra and Delhi as well as real life experiences.

India is a huge country. But it is not apparent to many of its populace. Mercator projection is to blame when we glance at the maps, but other omissions also abound. From the scorching desert of Thar to the bustling metropolis of Mumbai, from the heavy tint greens of Bengal, to the red soil topography of Tamil Nadu, India is a land of interesting differences. To the trained eye, however,this is all but a molecule on the surface of the Indian ocean. The deeper parts of the metaphorical, but amusingly synonymous, ocean lies in things that are not visible by the glances through the iris. The ...

Haunted Bhangarh: True Stories of Those Who Dared to Enter plunges readers into the chilling heart of India’s most notorious haunted fort. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this collection weaves together the terrifying experiences of travelers, historians, photographers, spiritual seekers, and paranormal investigators who crossed the sunset ban to explore Bhangarh’s cursed walls. From ghostly apparitions and disembodied voices to visions of ancient betrayals, each story reveals how Bhangarh’s dark past refuses to stay buried. Perfect for fans of true paranormal tales and lovers ...