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Where the bias is more to travel writing than to history
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.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.
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).
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.
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.
Findhorn, Scotland
P. Hawken, The Magic of Findhorn. New York, Bantam, 1976.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Pam Scott, Life in Hanoi. New Holland, 2007, 240pp.
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.
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.
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.
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".)
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.
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?)
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.
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.
Tibet
Patrick French, Tibet Tibet. HarperCollins, 2003, 324pp.
Travel
Robyn Davidson, (Ed.), The Picador Book of Journeys. Picador, 2001, 467pp.
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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