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John Gimlette
Filled with bizarre incident, fascinating anecdote, and richly evocative detail, 2The Inflatable Pig2 is a description of a country of eccentricity and contradiction, of beguilingly individualistic men and women, and…
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A portrait of Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled…
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By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. The future of our world had been contested here, in the hinterlands of France and across…
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Beautifully blending contemporary travel writing and military history, John Gimlette travels across Europe in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944-45…
John Gimlette travels to Guyana, to the Wild Coast in South America, and discovers his ancestral colonial history - one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths.
Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new travel book, is among the most beautiful and…
A Spectator Book of the Year 2015. From Ceylon to the Tamil Tigers, the first in-depth account of Sri Lanka by an award-winning travel writer.
Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books … London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf … in 2011 –T.p. verso.
John Desmond Gimlette
First published almost a century ago, Malay Poisons and Charm Cures remains a classic and still definitive reference on the pharmacopoeia and practices of Malay healers, shamans (bomoh) and sorcerers…
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