Lush bamboo and sandalwood forests, majestic waterfalls, verdant hills dotted with vast tea estates, spectacular streams and magnificent temples - that is Coorg, the Scotland of India, the best kept secret of India.This book named Explore Coorg covers every nook and corner of Coorg in detail and provides a lot of vital information to travelers. This solo authored travel guide is a compilation of the notes and memories of the author's travels through this picturesque region in South...

Irreverent, laugh-out-loud tales of living and travelling in India.

As he stood stark naked in his massage seminar, Jim wondered just how he, an average guy from a cookie-cutter neighborhood in the suburbs, had come to find himself there. An improbable series of coincidences had shaken him out of his comfortable life and into a world of New Age healing, spirituality and ashrams. He was on a path, in spite of himself.Like so many men in Matawan, NJ, Jim Starr was essentially normal … doing his best, working for a living, paying bills, raising a fami...

Nearing midlife, Susan leaves her home, son, and family in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, embarking on a journey to find her younger brother, gone for twelve years on a spiritual quest. Upon arrival in southern India, she is joyously reunited with her brother and drawn into his home, the experimental international community of Auroville. Her life begins to unfold in undreamed-of ways as she becomes deeply immersed in the magic of India and drawn to the idealistic tropical lifestyle of ...

'At 52, I went to live and die there.' A life of retirement with her pet in what had seemed to her as the most beautiful country in the world turned out to be a life of adventure and personal challenges: getting used to living on a houseboat, enduring and enjoying Himalayan mountain and water treks, teaching all ages of Kashmiri students and running schools, exploring her own ideas and beliefs in wonderful exchanges with Kashmiris, both educated and uneducated, facing accusations of spying...

This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hubli-dharwad : (India) Travel Guide

'As enticing as a soft breeze through Galle, and equally delectable, Weligama is spice-scented, evocative and the perfect introduction to Sri Lankan Cooking.'- Tom Parker Bowles'Emily is one of the best cooks I know and Sri Lanka is one of my favourite countries - so this is a mind blowing combination.' - Meera Sodha, author of Made in India'This book has all the brightness and vibrancy of the author, with recipes for dishe...

Portrait and documentary photographer Jeremy Fokkens takes the reader on an international journey, sharing captivating stories and photographs of the people who call Nepal and Bangladesh home.Motivated simply by his excessive curiosity for the less travelled and remote environments, Fokkens began this project with one change of clothes, a bagful of photography equipment and a commitment to photograph eight consecutive months that started in 2011. Fokkens’s images capture intimate m...

The Indian Musalmans by Sir William Wilson HunterSir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900)[1] was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of India on which he started working in 1869, and which was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881 and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death.In response to Mayo's question on 30 May 1871 of whether...

The story of one Nepalese Christian whose life illustrates how the Nepali Church has grown so fast since 1945. Persecutions, natural disaster and miracles are set against the backdrop of a wonderful country and people.

Take a nine-month trip through India and see the country through the eyes of an inexperienced traveller. Discover some of the most exciting destinations in India and meet a whole host of colourful characters along the way.