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On the Facebook page, nosotros asked YOU about the i majority that inspired you lot to pack your bags in addition to striking the road. Behold, x titles that should survive on every traveller's majority shelf!
Recommended past times Shobha Raghavan
Recommended past times Ritika Ojha
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On the Facebook page, nosotros asked YOU about the i majority that inspired you lot to pack your bags in addition to striking the road. Behold, x titles that should survive on every traveller's majority shelf!
1) THE STRANGE CASE OF BILLY BISWAS
by Arun Joshi
The storey of a young, rich, American-educated Indian who ends upward inwards the wilderness of key India, living every bit a semi-naked "tribal" seeking a important to things inwards a higher identify in addition to beyond than everyday culture tin provide.
Recommended past times Shobha Raghavan
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2) THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
by Che Guevara
Full of high drama in addition to comedy, The Motorcycle Diaries is the storey of a remarkable route journeying inwards the words of a 23-year-old medical pupil known every bit "Che".
Recommended past times Supreet Singh, Shobha Raghavan, Nandini Chatterjee
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3) AROUND INDIA IN 80 TRAINS
by Monisha Rajesh
Taking a page from Jules Verne's classic tale, Monisha Rajesh embarked on an direct a opportunity around Bharat inwards 80 trains. Indian trains bear over 20 1000000 passengers daily, plowing through cities, crawling past times villages, climbing upward mountains, in addition to skimming along coasts. Monisha hopes that her journeys across Bharat volition elevator the veil on a province that had run a stranger to her.
Recommended past times Smile Pabby
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4) SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
by Heinrich Harrer
Originally published inwards 1953, this direct a opportunity classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment army camp inwards India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, in addition to his happy sojourn inwards Tibet, then, every bit now, a remote dry reason footling visited past times foreigners.
Recommended past times Ritika Ojha
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5) WILD
by Cheryl Strayed.
by Cheryl Strayed.
At historic menstruum 26, next the expiry of her mother, divorce, in addition to a run of reckless behavior, Cheryl Strayed establish herself lone nigh the human foot of the Pacific Crest Trail - inexperienced, over-equipped, in addition to desperate to reclaim her life. Wild tracks Strayed's personal journeying through California in addition to Oregon, every bit she comes to damage amongst devastating loss in addition to her unpredictable reactions to it.
Recommended past times Piyush Patni
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6) INTO THE WILD
by Jon Krakauer
In Apr 1992 a immature human from a well-to-do identify unit of measurement hitchhiked to Alaska in addition to walked lone into the wilderness northward of Mt. McKinley. His advert was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 inwards savings to charity, abandoned his car in addition to most of his possessions, burned all the cash inwards his wallet, in addition to invented a novel life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed trunk was establish past times a moose hunter. How McCandless came to boot the bucket is the unforgettable storey of Into the Wild.
Recommended past times Supreet Singh
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7) FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
by William Dalrymple
In 587AD, ii monks fix off on an extraordinary journeying that would stimulate got them inwards an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. More than a thou years later, using Moschos's writings every bit his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps.
Recommended past times Sameer Desai
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8) INVISIBLE CITIES
10) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 STEP AWAY FROM PARADISE
by Italo Calvino
Imaginary conversations betwixt Marco Polo in addition to his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure upward cities of magical times.
Recommended past times Amit Garg
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9) NORTH TO THE NIGHT
by Alvah Simon
In June 1994, Alvah Simon in addition to his wife, Diana, fix off inwards their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful basis of icebergs, tundra, in addition to fjords lying high inwards a higher identify the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon lone on his boat, frozen inwards H2O ice 100 miles from the nearest settlement, amongst the long polar nighttime stretching into darkness for months to come.
Recommended past times LiDeb Hlondoli
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10) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 STEP AWAY FROM PARADISE
by Thomas Shor
In the early on 1960S, a Tibetan lama, a charismatic in addition to learned visionary mystic named Tulshuk Lingpa, led over 300 followers into the high glaciers of the Himalayas inwards gild to ‘open the way’ to a hidden dry reason of immortality fabled inwards Tibetan tradition dating dorsum at to the lowest degree to the twelfth century. Fifty years later, Thomas K. Shor tracks downwardly the surviving members of this visionary expedition in addition to entwines their remarkable stories of faith in addition to direct a opportunity amongst his ain bespeak to reveal the reality of this dry reason known every bit Beyul.
Recommended past times Ro Han
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