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Books - Cities - Places - Regions

Where the bias is more to travel writing than to history

AAA

Afghanistan

"Sulima" and "Hala" as told to Batya Swift Yasgur, Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom. Wiley, 2002, 277pp. (Two Afghan women tell their revealing stories)

Alexandria, Egypt

Michael Haag, Alexandria: City of Memory. Yale University Press, 2005, 368pp.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City. Harvill, 2000. 338pp.

Antarctica

Stephen Martin, A History of Antarctica. State Library of New South Wales Press, 1997, 272pp.

Adrian Caesar, The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson, 1911-1913. Picador, 1999?

Arnhem Land, Australia

Anthropologist Les Hiatt with Frank Ngurrabangurraba of Maningrida Area, Arnhem Land, People of the Rivermouth. (Book and CD-ROM, the CD-ROM highly-praised). National Museum of Australia and Aboriginal Studies Press, 2002.

Australia, non-urban

Allan Fox and Steve Parish (photographer), Wild Habitats. ABC Books, 2008, 352pp.

Australia, Tasmania

Dave Watts and Cathie Plowman, Where To See Wildlife in Tasmania. Jacana Books, 2008, 200pp.

Athens, Greece

Robin Waterfield, Athens: A History. Macmillan, 2004, 410pp.

Auschwitz, Poland

Sybille Steinbacher, Auschwitz: A History. Penguin, 2005, 160pp.

BBB

Bali

Cameron Forbes, Under The Volcano: The Story of Bali. Black Inc., 2007, 286pp. 

Berlin

Anonymous, A Woman In Berlin. Virago, 2005, 320pp. (A now-classic but still anonymous account of the degradation of the women of Berlin at the end of World War Two)

Bhutan

Robert Dompnier, Bhutan: Kingdom of the Dragon. New Delhi, Timeless Books, 1999.

Bombay, India

Suketa Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. Review Books, 2005, 497pp.

Britain

Norman Davies, The Isles: A History. Macmillan, 2000. 1222pp. (History of Britain).

CCC

Calcutta, India

Geoffrey Moorhouse, Calcutta. 1971. (A ¨cityography book¨. In Calcutta, ¨everything in nature is against itself, including the weather¨)

J. P. Losty, Calcutta: City of Palaces. nd? British Libraries, Arnold Publishers with compilations by S. Mukherjee.

Geoffrey Moorehouse, Calcutta. 1971. Pub? (Thought to be a definitive work).

Simon and Rupert Winchester, Calcutta. Lonely Planet, 2004.

China

Julia Lovell, The Great Wall. Picador, 2007, 412pp. (On The Great Wall of China)

Continent, The

Brian Dolan, Ladies of the Grand Tour. HarperCollins, 2001, 330pp. (Well-born women taking tours of The Continent in 18th Century and later)

Cuba

Luis M. Garcia, Child of the Revolution: Growing up in Castro's Cuba. Allen and Unwin, 2006.

Cyprus

Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus. Vol. 1. Cambridge at the University Press, 1949.

DDD

Darwin, Australia

Gary McKay, Tracy: The Storm That Wiped Out Darwin on Christmas Day, 1974. Allen and Unwin, 2001.

Danube River, Germany

Claudio Magris, Danube. nd, before 2001.

EEE

FFF

Findhorn, Scotland

P. Hawken, The Magic of Findhorn. New York, Bantam, 1976.

GGG

HHH

Hanoi, Vietnam

Pam Scott, Life in Hanoi. New Holland, 2007, 240pp.

III

Italy, Tuscany

Martin Calder, A Summer in Tuscany. Nicholas Brealey/Allen and Unwin, 2008.

India

Mira Kamdar, Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World. Scribner, 2007, 320pp.

JJJ

Japan

Richard McGregor, Japan Swings: Politics, Culture and Sex in the New Japan. Allen and Unwin, 1996.

Jerusalem, Israel

Fosco Maraini, text, Alfred Bernheim, photos, Jerusalem: Rock of Ages. New York, Harcourt/Brace and World. 1969.

KKK

Kabul, Afghanistan

Asne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul. 2002-2003. (On life recently in Afghanistan, an international bestseller)

Iris Makler, Our Woman in Kabul. Transworld, 2003. (How women fared under the rule of the Taliban)

Korea, North

Kongdan Oh et al, North Korea Through the Looking Glass. The Brookings Institution, 2003. (On leadership cults in North Korea)

Bradley K. Martin, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Kora and the Kim Dynasty. Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, 704pp.

Jasper Becker, Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea. Oxford University Press, 2005, 274pp.

LLL

Laos

Christopher Kremmer, Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos. Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2003, 258pp.

London
Peter Ackroyd, Thames: The Sacred River. Chatto and Windus, 2007, 490pp.

Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography. Chatto and Windus, 2000.

MMM

Italy - Ernesto De Martino, The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism. (Trans. by Dorothy Louise Zinn), Free Association Books, 332pp, 2006. ("An ancient southern Italian possession cult is suddenly fashionable".)

NNN

New York

Joel Rose, New York Sawed in Half. Bloomsbury, 2001-2002, 150pp. (Famous hoax about part of Manhattan Island splitting off and then sinking).

Philippe Petit, To Reach The Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between The Twin Towers. Faber, 2003, 227pp.

Angus Kress Gillespie, Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center. Rutgers, 2001.

Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall, Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. 2001.

OOO

PPP

Papua - New Guinea

Stuart Inder, (Ed.), Tales of Papua New Guinea: Insights, Experiences, Reminiscences. Published by Retired Officers Association of PNG, 2001, 200pp.

Peru

Tahir Shah, Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. (Did Incas really fly over the jungles of Peru?)

RRR

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ruy Castro, Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire. nd? Or 2004.

Carmen Michael (who happens to be an Australian), Chasing Bohemia. Scribe, 2008, 256pp.

SSS

Saudi Arabia

Sandra Mackey, The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom. WW Norton, 2003, 446pp.

Santiago, Spain, as a place of Christian pilgrimage

Mary E. Wilkie, Walking to Santiago: Diary of a Pilgrimage. Armidale, NSW Australia, Cranleigh House, 2001. (See website from Confraternity of St James, http://www.csj.org.uk)

Sarawak

Sylvia Brooke, Queen of the Headhunters: An Autobiography of HH the Hon. Sylvia Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970.

Shanghai, China

Stella Dong, Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City. HarperCollins, 2001, 318pp.

Spain

Raymond Carr, (Ed.), Spain: A History. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Sydney, Australia

Lucy Hughes Turnbull, Sydney: Biography of a City. Sydney, Random House, 1999.

Geoffrey Moorehouse, Sydney. Allen and Unwin, 1999.

Shirley Fitzgerald, Sydney: A Story of a City. Sydney, HarperCollins, 1999.

TTT

Tibet

Patrick French, Tibet Tibet. HarperCollins, 2003, 324pp.

Travel

Robyn Davidson, (Ed.), The Picador Book of Journeys. Picador, 2001, 467pp.

UUU

VVV

Venice
Jan Morris,  A Venetian Bestiary. Faber, 2008, 100pp.

Suketa Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. Review Books, 2005, 497pp.

Michael Haag, Alexandria: City of Memory. Yale University Press, 2005, 368pp.

Patrice Higonnet, Paris: Capital of the World. Harvard University Press, 2005, 493pp.

Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming: Finding a Foothold in an Enchanted City. Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster, 2004 (?)

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