Full name: Travels With Myself: Collected Work

Author: Tahir Shah Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781447805823 1447805828

TRAVELS WITH MYSELF is a collection of selected writings by Tahir Shah, acclaimed Anglo-Afghan author and champion of the intrepid. Written over twenty years, the many pieces form an eclectic treasury of stories from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and beyond. Some consider the lives of women in society, both in East and West. The women-only police stations of Brazil, for instance, as well as the female inmates waiting to die on America's Death Row, or the young widows who clear landmines for a living in northern Cambodia. More still look at Morocco, where Shah and his family reside in a mansion set squarely in the middle of a sprawling Casablanca shantytown. And, yet more reflect on the oddities and contradictions of the modern world. Such as why, in India each summer, hundreds of thousands line up to swallow live fish; or how the Model T Ford sounded the death knell of lavish Edwardian ostrich-feather hats. Similar books: Trail of Feathers by Tahir Shah In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah Reckless Traveler by Walter Rhein The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton How to Live In a Car, Van, or RV by Bob Wells Weird California by Greg Bishop Running with the Moon by Jonny Bealby Trucking in English by Carolyn Steele One Man Caravan by Robert Edison Fulton, Jr. Walking the Americas by Levison Wood Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 by Paul Bowles Last Places by Lawrence Millman In the Shadow of the Volcano by Maureen Klovers Nowhere Like Home by Jamie Alexander Quiet Corners of Paris by Jean-Christophe Napias Touching Tibet by Niema Ash If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough by Kristine K. Stevens Honeymoon in Purdah by Alison Wearing The Greek for Love by James Chatto The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark