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About me

'The ancient travel accounts will some day
be as precious as the greatest works of art;
for the earth was holy when unknown,
and it will never be that again.'
Elias Canetti, The Human Province.
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Waiting on wings (in theory):
†CROSSING THE SIERRA DE GREDOS by Peter Handke
*THE FILE ON H by Ismail Kadare
†SINGULAR REBELLION by Saiichi Maruya

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Current reads:


*THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
†UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND SELECTED ARTICLES by David McCutchion
†PETER KNOWS WHAT DICK LIKES by Jonathan Meades
*IN THE COMPANY OF CROWS AND RAVENS by John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell
*MYSTERY TRAIN by Greil Marcus
*THE BOOK OF CHAMELEONS by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
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Dipping into:

†THE PICADOR BOOK OF JOURNEYS edited by Robyn Davidson
†THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION, FORTY ESSAYS by Guy Davenport
†THE DECAMERON by Giovanni Boccaccio

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Read Recently:
2009>
†BABURNAMA by Babur (Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad)
*WHAT'S BECOME OF WARING? by Anthony Powell
*THE DEATH OF GRASS by John Christopher
†VIS AND RAMIN by Fakhraddin Gorgani
*THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT by James Curtis
*A TIME TO KEEP SILENCE by Patrick Leigh Fermor
*THE JUNIOR OFFICERS' READING CLUB: KILLING TIME AND FIGHTING WARS by Patrick Hennessey
†IN PURSUIT OF LIFE by Erik Hazelhoff
†LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA by Kumiko Kakehashi
*THE LAST CIGARETTE by Simon Gray
†SHANE O'NEILL by Ciaran Brady
*OUT OF ASIA: THE FILMS OF AKIRA KURASAWA, SATYAJIT RAY, ABBAS KIRAOSTAMI, AND ZHANG YIMOU; ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS by Bert Cardullo
†THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE MULLA NASRUDIN by Idries Shah
*POCKET FULL OF RAIN, AND OTHER STORIES by Jason
†DAVID MCCUTCHION SHRADDHANJALI edited by P. Lal
†GODARD: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AT 70 by Colin MacCabe
†THE YEAR OF THE JOUNCER by Simon Gray
†OUR FILMS THEIR FILMS by Satyajit Ray
*SATYAJIT RAY: THE INNER EYE by Andrew Robinson
†O BRUADAIR: SELECTED POEMS OF DAIBHI O BRUADAIR translated by Michael Hartnett
*THE LAST LEOPARD: A LIFE OF GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA by David Gilmour
†THE GARDEN OF THE EIGHT PARADISES: BABUR AND THE CULTURE OF EMPIRE IN CENTRAL ASIA, AFGHANISTAN AND INDIA, by Stephen F. Dale
*THE UNCOMFORTABLE DEAD by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos
†THE MUMMIES OF ÜRÜMCHI by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
†GRASS FOR MY PILLOW by Saiichi Maruya
†FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: PARIS IN THE SIXTIES by Peter Lennon
†IN LIMPID DREAM: NOSTALGIA AND ZHANG DAI'S REMINISCENCES OF THE MING by Philip A. Kafalas
*I NEVER LIKED YOU, A COMIC STRIP NARRATIVE by Chester Brown
2008>
†THE BOOK OF CONTEMPLATION by Osama ibn Munqidh
†THE CITY OF FLORENCE: HISTORICAL VISTAS AND PERSONAL SIGHTINGS by R.W.B. Lewis
*WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE? A REFUGEE'S STORY by Kate Clanchy
†THE LIGHT GARDEN OF THE ANGEL KING, TRAVELS IN AFGHANISTAN WITH BRUCE CHATWIN by Peter Levi
*GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES: THE SECRET LIFE OF A FOOD CRITIC IN DISGUISE by Ruth Reichl
*ZEN IN THE ART OF ARCHERY by Eugen Herrigel
*DAVID BORING by Daniel Clowes
†GRAND CANAL, GREAT RIVER: THE TRAVEL DIARY OF A TWELFTH-CENTURY POET by Lu You (Philip Watson, trans.)
*THE BLOODY WHITE BARON by James Palmer
†THE HUNGARIAN WHO WALKED TO HEAVEN by Edward Fox
*BOY by Kitano Takeshi
†RETURN TO DRAGON MOUNTAIN by Jonathan D. Spence
†THE KING OF KARELIA, COL P.J. WOODS AND THE BRITISH INTERVENTION IN NORTH RUSSIA 1918-1919, A HISTORY AND MEMOIR by Nick Baron [& Philip J. Woods]
†CLANDESTINES by Ramor Ryan
*TRAVELS WITH HERODOTUS by Ryszard Kapuściński
†MIRACLES OF LIFE by J.G. Ballard
*HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
†SAFE AREA GORAZDE: THE WAR IN EASTERN BOSNIA 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco
*BLACK RIVER OF TIBET by John Hanbury-Tracy
*ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE by Ryszard Kapuściński
†THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW by Mark Oliver Everett aka 'e'
†WATERLOG: A SWIMMER’S JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAIN by Roger Deakin
*THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN [VOL.1 & 2] by Alan Moore ...
†BEYOND THE OXUS: THE CENTRAL ASIANS by Monica Whitlock
*PRISONER IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND by Gustav Krist
†I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov
*LONG WAY GONE, MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER by Ishmeal Beah
†NOVELS IN THREE LINES by Felix Feneon
†THE BUTCHER'S WIFE by Ang Li
†ACTUAL AIR by David Berman
*ECHOES OF VIOLENCE, LETTERS FROM A WAR REPORTER by Carolin Emcke
*FROM “THE MEADOWS OF GOLD” by Al-Masudi
†THE ESSENTIAL RUMI
†HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR, THE SWIMMER AS HERO by Charles Sprawson
†PYONGYANG, A JOURNEY IN NORTH KOREA by Guy Deisle
†CROW COUNTRY: A MEDITATION ON BIRDS, LANDSCAPE AND NATURE by Mark Cocker
†INJURY TIME by D.J. Enright
†THE BOYS OF MY YOUTH by Jo Ann Beard
†A WINTER BOOK by Tove Jansson
†SOMBRERO FALLOUT by Richard Brautigan
†ATLANTIC BRITAIN by Adam Nicolson
†YEMEN by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
†OF CLASSICS AND FARMING by David Grene






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