Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

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Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron covers seven thousand miles along the historic Silk Road, trekking across western China, the mountains of Central Asia, northern Afghanistan, and Iran by local bus, horse, and camel.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

In 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor walked from Holland across Germany, Austria, and Hungary toward Constantinople, capturing a magical, vanished central European landscape on the brink of disaster.

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Graham Harvey and Charles D. Thompson, Jr

"Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indigenous cultures and religions and to understandings of identity and alterity in late- or post-modernity. This book promises to enrich understanding of indigenity and of the globalized world in which indigenous people play diverse roles."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bill Bryson

The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America. Bill Bryson, accompanied by his idiosyncratic friend Stephen Katz, sets out to hike this magnificent footpath. Bryson faces raging rivers, bears, and eccentric fellow hikers with razor-sharp humor.