Articles tagged "travel writing"

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Tropic of Capricorn by Simon Reeve

by Carolyn W. Fanelli

[2.Sep.09] :. 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.

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Near Death in the Desert, ed. Cecil Kuhne

by Chris Barsanti

[10.Jul.09] :. The insights into desert nomad culture make the always present possibility of death almost pale in insignificance.

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The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux

by Michael Antman

[27.Nov.07] :. 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.

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I Wouldn’t Start From Here by Andrew Mueller

by David Pullar

[19.Sep.07] :. 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.

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