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If you’ve ever considered going on a cruise, read this and rethink. If you’ve never considered going on a cruise, read this and feel smug.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
The book that launched a million backpackers - but don’t let it stop you.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
Of all the works inspired by Heart of Darkness, this one offers the most absorbing and astonishing chronicle of “the horror” of Congo after Conrad, under the grotesque dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
Geoff Dyer; Maggie O'Farrell Indulge the procrastinator in you by putting off whatever you should be doing in favor of reading this book about not writing a book.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
Joseph Conrad; Allan Simmons; J. H.... Adventure, suspense, piracy, seduction and scandal in the tropics-with pathbreaking storytelling too: my favorite Conrad doubles as a fine summer read for the discerning beach-goer.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
Byatt brings mid-century Britain to life as startlingly as the Mediterranean tastes and colors that she describes transforming a washed-out, austerity-starved society.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
From the title onward, this novel seems every bit as fresh and relevant now as it would have when published in 1875.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
Erudite, exuberant, eclectic, excessive, often, and endearing: Schama at his best.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
Somewhere in the rich if rarely explored space betweenfiction, history, and travel-writing sits Naipaul’s consistently surprising account of Trinidad’s past.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |
It’s hard to find a better account of difference and belonging than Hessler’s description of getting to know China, one character at a time.
Maya Jasanoff - 29/05/2012 |