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A gripping account of an under-reported island' Spectator, Book of the Year '[A] brilliant new book about an island that has a geography from heaven and a history from hell' …

By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. And is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich (or the 12 million that …

Focuses on the pharmacopoeia and practices of Malay healers, shamans (bomoh) and sorcerers (pawing). This title not only deals with the traditional pharmacology and toxicology, …

A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring …

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both …

"Brilliant." --The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six …

Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are …

A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across ParaguaySouth America's darkly fabled, little-known island surrounded by land.Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched …

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 …

Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are …