13. Pico Iyer, Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East

[wordsofastory]

13. Pico Iyer, Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far EastI love travel books, and this is a fantastic one. Iyer visits several Asian countries (including India, China, Tibet, Burma, the Philippines, Bali, Thailand, Hong Kong, and probably a few more I'm forgetting) with the goal of seeing how they've been affected by

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[saharazara]

I, too, love travel writing and this is one of my all time favorites. It has moved with me across states and towns. I went through a spate of travel book reading in the late 90s/early 00s - so most of my books are from an era before travel became so complicated to and from (and now within) the States. Another one from Iyer that I really liked is Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World. My favorite travel writer won't fit in with the goals of this group, but I love him - Bill Bryson. Of course, I am a bit of an anglophile, so his writings (and life) are right up my alley (he being an American married to an English woman), but YMMV. Ooh- thank you for writing this review! It has reminded me of a whole genre that I haven't been keeping up with, lately. And now I must go hunt up more of Iyer's writing. :)

[jamescuck]

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