India - The Shimmering Dream

India - The Shimmering Dream
Author: Max Reisch, Alison Falls and Roger Bibbings
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-02-06
Genre:
ISBN: 1787117081

An extraordinary account of a remarkable motorcycle journey made in 1933, through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan) to India. Wonderful descriptions of the people and cultures, now nearly forgotten, yet still hugely relevant today, are brought evocatively to life by the stunning period photos.

India, the Shimmering Dream

India, the Shimmering Dream
Author: Max Reisch
Publisher: Panther Publications
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2010
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9780955659591

MOTORCYCLES: GENERAL INTEREST. This is a truly great travel adventure through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan to India in 1933. But what really sets this book apart are the wonderful descriptions of the people and cultures, now nearly forgotten, but still hugely relevant in today's age: all brought evocatively to life by the wonderful photos from 1933. At that time, the idea of traveling to India on a motorbike through the deserts was considered impossible; there were no roads and they were attempting to cross the burning deserts in the middle of August, on a tiny two-stroke motorcycle with barely enough power for the bike and rider, let alone a pillion passenger! Gripping stuff, yet perceptive and full of drama - definitely a must for all travel and motorcycle enthusiasts.

A Dream of India & Other Mystic Stories of Radiance and Darkness

A Dream of India & Other Mystic Stories of Radiance and Darkness
Author: Charles Frode
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2014-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312545372

14 STORIES EMERGED FROM MYSTICAL INTERSECTIONS of humanity, reality, and magic. Author CHARLES FRODE has ushered these worlds of radiance and darkness into life for those who have lost love or long to love; for those traumatized by broken family; for those warring between mind and feeling; and for those who relish a life that is a wonderfully harmonious feeling-flux of darkness and illumination- male and female, animate and inanimate.

Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities

Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities
Author: Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 022630809X

"Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world."—Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review "Dazzling analysis. . . . The book is firm and convincing once you appreciate its central point, which is that in traditional Hindu thought the dream isn't an accident or byway of experience, but rather the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of categories, its teasing readiness to blur the line between the imagined and the real, the dream actually embodies the whole problem of knowledge. . . . [O'Flaherty] wants to make your mental flesh creep, and she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice

An Incredible Journey

An Incredible Journey
Author: Alison Falls, Max Reisch and Peter H. Reisch
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2020-02-06
Genre:
ISBN: 1787117073

The compelling story of Max Reisch and Helmuth Hahmann's journey across Asia in 1935 in a Steyr 100. It is a story of adventure and discovery, revealing the countries, people and problems that they encountered along the way. With stunning period photographs, this book provides a historic and fascinating insight into a pre-WW2 world.

Rover Cars 1945 to 2005

Rover Cars 1945 to 2005
Author: James Taylor
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 1787117987

This comprehensive pictorial overview of Rover cars covers 1945-2005 models. It describes and illustrates all the great classic Rovers up to and including the SD1, British Leyland models with Rover badges, the models designed in conjunction with Honda, the later British-designed cars and, finally, the little-known City Rover.

The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star
Author: Shivya Nath
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-09-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9353052653

Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Better than Fiction 2

Better than Fiction 2
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1743609876

From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012's Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world's best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler. Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths, sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging, it reveals about ourselves. By turns comic, dramatic, and moving - from Francine Prose's confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre's search for Hemingway's muse in Italy - these 30 short tales reveal the joys, perils, and surprises of travel, and that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction. Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure, or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures, embark on this literary journey around the world and explore your passion for travel now! Authors: Lonely Planet, Don George, Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Karen Joy Fowler, Stefan Merrill Block, Francine Prose, DBC Pierre, Fiona Kidman, Alexander McCall Smith, Keija Parssinen, MJ Hyland, Catherine Lacey, Rebecca Dinerstein, Lloyd Jones, Porochista Khakpour, Jack Livings, Marina Lewycka, Lydia Millet, Suzanne Joinson, Sophie Cunningham, Christina Nichol, Mandy Sayer, Steven Amsterdam, Marie-Helene Bortino, Shirley Streshinsky, Steven Hall, David Shafer, Avi Duckor-Jones, Lily King, Aliya Whitely, and Natalie Baszile About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. Lonely Planet's award-winning list travel literature anthologies include An Innocent Abroad (Independent Publishers Award, Silver for Essays, 2015) and A Fork in the Road (Lowell Thomas Award, Bronze for Travel Book, 2014; James Bear Award, Nominated for Travel Fiction, 2014). 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -- Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Women on the Rope

Women on the Rope
Author: Cicely Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2024-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040008534

First published in 1973, Women on the Rope provides the first consecutive story of the ‘feminine share in mountain adventure’, a share which has grown from tiny beginnings in 1808 to a level at which women have won their place at Everest expeditions. Cicely Williams provides a book which combines exact and detailed knowledge of a little-known chapter of human enterprise with that zest for life and love of mountains that have brought her so many friends. This is a book for mountaineers, for social historians, and for the fireside connoisseur of good storytelling.