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A GODDESS IN THE STONES by Norman Lewis
Aug 07, 2017
Written by
Jules Stewart
Not for intrepid travel writer Norman Lewis the melancholy tea estates of Darjeeling or the placid beaches of Goa. Lewis’s writing career is always an adventure miles off the beaten track, in this case to the gangster-ridden badlands of Bihar.…
THE TIGER AND THE RUBY: A Journey to the Other Side of British India by Kief Hillsbery
Aug 07, 2017
Written by
Mick Herron
Twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck – Kief Hillsbery’s many-times removed uncle – arrived in India in 1842 as an agent of the East India Company, and that was the last England saw of him. He died in Nepal in 1878, the whereabouts…
NEAR ABROAD: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal
Aug 07, 2017
Written by
Vitali Vitaliev
In a small section on the first floor of Stanfords Travel Bookshop in London, one can see on display a handful of road and railway atlases, recently published in Moscow
THE DIVIDE: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
Aug 07, 2017
Written by
Jon Wright
Jason Hickel’s bold book is full of stark facts and assumption-busting pronouncements. Global poverty and hunger, he avers, are not in decline, and the gap between rich and poor is not narrowing
CHIEF ENGINEER: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Erica Wagner
Aug 07, 2017
Written by
Mick Herron
Bridges are more than just a means of connection, writes Wagner; as long as you’re suspended upon one, you’re in no place at all – ‘you belong, quite simply, to the bridge.’
This Is Our World
Aug 04, 2017
Written by
Chris Fitch
A wildlife exhibition in central London is displaying huge artworks of endangered species in their natural habitats
Tokaido by Antoine Bauza
Jul 26, 2017
Written by
Paul Presley
Exploring ancient Japan in a serene game of tactical beauty
Whales – Beneath the Surface at the Natural History Museum
Jul 13, 2017
Written by
Chris Fitch and Laura Cole
With a blue whale skeleton due to be unveiled in the Natural History Museum’s main Hintze Hall, this accompanying exhibition tells the dramatic story of the world’s whales
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