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This book was written in 1937. It's an account of several weeks that the author spent in one of the most stunningly beautiful places in the world. Frank Smythe was a British mountaineer who, in 1931, was a member of the group that successfully scaled Mount Kamet (25,447 feet) in the Gharwal Himalaya. As the …
In Xanadu is William Dalrymple's first book. It’s an account of a journey in which he retraced, as near as possible, the path that was taken by Marco Polo from Jerusalem to Shangdu in China, the legendary summer home of Kubla Khan which, thanks to Coleridge, we all know as Xanadu. This journey took him …
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This is a lovely book about life and the best way to live it. It is philosophy in the original, and in my opinion, best sense of the word. Eric Weiner is not a philosopher, he's a journalist. He, like the rest of us, is trying to make sense of life, trying to find meaning, …
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