Travel Books
This is a list of the books about some countries I travelled to.
The underlined titles are the ones I liked most:
Asia in general
* The Great Railway Bazaar: by Train through Asia - Paul Theroux
India & Pakistan
* Such A Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry)
* Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure (Sarah Mc Donald)
* Notturno Indiano (Antonio Tabucchi)
* Love And Longing in Bombay (Vikram Chandra)
* The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
* The Age Of Kali (William Dalrymple)
* The Inscrutable Americans (Anuragh Mathur)
* A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
* Interpreter of Maladies (Jumpa Lahiri)
* Half A Life (V.S. Naipaul)
* The Glass Palace (Amitav Gosh)
* Clear Light Of Day (Anita Desai)
* The Calcutta Chromosome (Amitav Gosh)
* Are You Experienced? (William Sutcliffe)
* Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
* A Journey To Ladakh (Andrew Harvey)
* The Inheritance Of Loss (Kiran Desai)
* Maps for Lost Lovers (Nadeem Aslam)
South-East Asia
Myanmar
* The Glass Palace - Amitav Gosh
* Letters From Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi
* Culture Shock: Burma - Saw Myat Yin
* The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
* From The Land of Green Ghosts - Pascal Khoo Thwe
Thailand
* Out of the Loop – Morgan McFinn
* The Beach – Alex Garland
* Backpack – Emily Barr
* The Backpacker – John Harris
* The Judgement - Chart Korbjiti
Laos
* Another Quiet American – Brett Dakin
* Tragedy in Paradise - Charles Weldon
Vietnam
* Catfish And Mandala - Andrew X. Pham
* River of Time - Jon Swain
* The Tapestries - Kien Nguyen
* When Heaven And Earth Changed Places - Le Ly Hayslip
Cambodia
* River of Time - Jon Swain
* First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung
* Le Portail - Francois Bizot
Indonesia
* This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
* A Little Bit One O'Clock - William Ingram
* Child of All Nations - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
* Footsteps - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
* The Sweat of Pearls - Putu Oka Sukanta
* The Rainmaker's Daughter - Richard Oh
* House of Glass - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
China
* Wild Swans - Chang Jung
* Red Dust - Ma Jian
* Adrift in China - Simon Myers
* To The Edge of the Sky - Anhua Gao (I did not like it)
* Culture Shock: China
* Frontiers Of Heaven - Stanley Stewar
Tibet
* Heartlands: Travels in the Tibetan World - Michael Buckley
* Die Tibeterin - Federica De Cesco
Australia
* Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
* Dirt Music - Tim Winton
* The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
* He Died With a Felafel in His Hand - John Birmingham
* The Wrong Way Home - Peter Moore
* Down Under - Bill Bryson
* Praise - Andrew Mc Gahan
* Locky Leonard Human Torpedo - Tim Winton
* The Shark Net - Robert Drewe
* Death of a River Guide - Richard Flanagan
* The English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
* Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
New Zealand
* The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
* Ngaio Marsh - Died in Wool
* Alan Duff - Once Were Warriors
Cuba
* Waiting for Snow in Havana - Carlos Eire
* Mi Moto Fidel - Christopher P.Baker (did not like it)
Morocco
* Une Enquête au Pays - Driss Chraibi
* L’Enfant de Sable - Tahar Ben Jelloun
* The Caliph’s House - Tahir Shah
* Méfiez-vous des Parachutistes - Fouad Larou
* The Road To Fez - Ruth Kanfo Setton
Madagascar
* Muddling Through in Madagascar - Dervla Murphy
* Lords And Lemurs - Alison Jolly
* The Aye-Aye And I - Gerald Durrell
