Southern India

Author: George Michell
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited
ISBN: 9780393317480
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description
A new titles in the BLUE GUIDE series covers the increasingly popular tourist destination of Southern India, starting with Bombay. Divided into chapters that focus on the main towns and sites, with ideas for additional excursions off the beaten track, this is one of the most comprehensive guidebooks available to the area. 90 maps and plans. 30 drawings.

Morocco

Author: Jane Holliday
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited
ISBN: 9780393324150
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Packed with practical and historical information for every kind of traveler.

Blue Guide Sicily

Author: Ellen Grady
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1905131747
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fully updated new edition of a key Blue Guide, the guide of choice for experts and independent travelers. Revised and extensively updated, Blue Guide Sicily offers an in-depth history of this historically rich destination. Ellen Grady gives a comprehensive overview of the island—from detailed analyses of cities, sights and works of art to carefully chosen suggestions of where and what to eat and where to stay. The guide is strong on history, art, archaeology, architecture, landscape, conservation and wildlife. Full-color maps, two-tone plans and black-and-white photographs.

Delhi: Adventures In A Megacity (PB)

Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143415530
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
‘A book that is . . . as eccentric and anarchic as its subject’—William Dalrymple In this extraordinary portrait of one of the world’s largest cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being ‘India’s dreamtown— and its purgatory’. He treads the city’s streets, including its less celebrated destinations—Nehru Place, Pitampura and Gurgaon—places most writers ignore. His encounters with Delhi’s people, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass Band, create a richly entertaining portrait of what the city is and what it is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the world’s fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for life’s diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate people’s lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar.

Arrow of the Blue-skinned God

Author: Jonah Blank
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802137333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0395069629
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

Jammu and Kashmir - Blue Guide Chapter

Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Blue Guides
ISBN: 9781909079724
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
"A gold standard for accuracy and depth." Daily Telegraph

India Calling

Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458763099
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Reversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...

Blue Guide Lombardy, Milan & the Italian Lakes

Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher: Blue Guides
ISBN: 9781905131839
Category : Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
First edition in-depth coverage of this exceptional area of Italy.

Blue Guide - Paris

Author: Delia Gray-Durant
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
ISBN: 9780393330090
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A fully updated guide to the City of Light, with not-to-be-missed information and guidance on Paris's incredible variety of art and architecture, history and culture, all of which are brilliantly described in this fully updated edition. Color photographs, floor plans, maps, diagrams.