Wednesday, September 2 2009
Tropic of Capricorn by Simon Reeve
Reeve's explores the tension between indigenous cultures and the natural world on one hand, and modern-day demands for resources and tourism on the other.
Friday, July 10 2009
Near Death in the Desert, ed. Cecil Kuhne
The insights into desert nomad culture make the always present possibility of death almost pale in insignificance.
Tuesday, November 27 2007
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
In Paul Theroux’s brackish, world-weary new collection, India is inherently unknowable and inevitably dangerous, the result of such knowledge being disappointment at best and, at worst, rape, dissolution, or death.
Wednesday, September 19 2007
I Wouldn’t Start From Here by Andrew Mueller
A book exploring some of the world's most war-torn hellholes with a self-important endorsement from Bono on the back cover does not promise to be a barrel of laughs.
