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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette
Category: Travel Literature
Paraguay- the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid. It doesn't even have its own guidebook. But Paraguay, as revealed in th ...Show more
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette
Category: Travel Literature
Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. There are more hellish jungles, more dictators and their flamboyant mistresses, more surviving Nazis, more missionaries, more wild battles and lurid coups than perhaps anywhere. For the timid it may be a country to a ...Show more
Elephant Complex by John Gimlette
Category: Travel
Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent and enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its regions - some haunted by war, many rarely seen by our eyes - award-winning travel writer ...Show more
Elephant Complex by John Gimlette
Category: Travel
Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, savage and enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty and majesty have endured, indifferent to the pain of its people. Journeying for a year through its many regions - some loved by tourists, some haunted by war ...Show more
Elephant Complex Travels in Sri Lanka by GIMLETTE JOHN
Category: REM Travel Writing
"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 years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones ...Show more
Elephant Complex - Travels in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
"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 years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones wh ...Show more
The Gardens Of Mars by John Gimlette
Category: History
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 and troubled history. A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling ...Show more
The Gardens of Mars - Madagascar, an Island Story (PB) by John Gimlette
Category: History
A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar. 'A beautifully written depiction of the history of this beguiling island' Lite ...Show more
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette
Category: Travel Literature
Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Beautiful and occasionally brutal, it is one of the great forgotten corners of the Earth: the Wild Coast. The author sets off ...Show more
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette
Category: Travel
In this compelling and elegant travel memoir, John Gimlette returns to Guyana, the Wild Coast in South America, to discover his ancestral colonial history - one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths. Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimle ...Show more
Wild Coast - Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Ri ...Show more
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