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Travelers' Tales India [Paperback]

James O'Reilly (Editor), Larry Habegger (Editor)
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January 1, 1995
It's winter. The holidays are over. For those living in areas where it's still snowing, and even where it's just cold or rainy, it's the time of year when magazines, newspapers, radio, and television are tantalizing us with ads of warm beaches, sunshine, relaxation, water sports, and foo-foo drinks with little umbrellas sticking out of them.

Many of us would love to be able to travel to someplace warm, or to a far away place for a new adventure. However, we may not have the time or the resources to do so. Fortunately, Travelers' Tales has just the armchair adventure travel anyone can experience -- the beaches of Thailand, dining on the banks of the Seine, running with the bulls of Pamplona, purchasing a suit in Hong Kong, climbing the Himalayas -- all for only $17.95 (no shots or visa required).

O'Reilly and Travelers' Tales have created a national campaign to help you promote Travelers' Tales titles as the "great getaway -- for cheap". We'll provide you with marketing materials (signage, T-shirts, buttons, postcards, special discount for inventory order, ad slick, and book displays) to create a window or in-store display during the month of May 1997. The store with the best display wins an overstuffed armchair fully equipped with an airline style seat belt.

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Travelers' Tales is a new kind of travel anthology, marrying the best of the guidebook and travel literature. India is the third book in this series: a wonderful collection of place-specific tales previously scattered far and wide. Veteran travel writers James O'Reilly and Larry Habegger read hundreds of stories to select those that best capture the experience of India. India is among the most difficult -- and most rewarding -- of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I'll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. It has been said that there are 330 million gods in India, and there are at least that many varieties of experiences available, religious or otherwise. India -- monsoon and marigold, dung and dust, colors and corpses, smoke and ash, snow and endless myth -- is a cruel, unrelenting place of ineffable sweetness. Much like life itself. And, like life itself (if reincarnation be true) worth visiting repeatedly in this turn of the wheel and the next. Stories include: A Bath for Fifteen Million People The Boxer from Calcutta South India's Silicon Valley The Dharma of Heli-skiing Stairway to Heaven Dish-Wallahs

Product Details

  • Paperback: 462 pages
  • Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Inc.; First edition. edition (January 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1885211015
  • ISBN-13: 978-1885211019
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,906,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I grew up in Minnesota in a family of seven children, all boys until the last one. After graduating from Dartmouth College I began to travel (I wished I'd been doing it while in college!) and found that writing about my experiences helped me understand the places and cultures I was encountering. I also discovered that newspaper and magazine editors responded as well, and that's how I got started working as a freelance writer. Not long after that I hooked up with James O'Reilly to write a series of mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner, one of which ran for 104 episodes over five months. We then began writing travel stories together and in 1985 started a syndicated column, World Travel Watch, that has appeared in newspapers in five countries. In 1993 we founded Travelers' Tales with James's brother Tim O'Reilly, and since then we've published some 100 books. I teach workshops on the art and craft of the personal travel story on a regular basis: for information go to LarryHabegger.com.

 

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Many perspectives, one book, January 24, 1997
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A collection of many essays, book excerpts and stories from many different authors about travelling in India. Nearly every aspect of travel in India is covered: heliskiing in the Himalayas, staying at ashrams, being sick, travel in the women's compartment of trains, standing in a monsoon, bicycling from Leh to Pakistan, riding with a truck driver. Some essays cover unique aspects of the society, such as the enterprising dish-wallahs who set up a satellite dish and sell cable tv to an apartment building or two. Several of the source books are now out of print, making this collection particularly valuable
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A nice taste before you go., January 3, 1998
This review is from: Travelers' Tales India (Paperback)
This series offers a really nice way of getting insight into India's culture. The stories are well written and entertaining and it covers lots of different aspects of India -- from religion to customs and the way people think. We just returned from a trip to India and brought it along for reading on the flight over.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous collection of short travel stories, September 29, 2006
This review is from: Travelers' Tales India (Paperback)
The stories are from all far corners of the country and really
get to the soul of the region is it set in.

I would highly recommend this book to most people, Indians or
non-Indians, they would enjoy learning about the country and
possibly even making travel plans based on the stories and locations
listed in the book.

I've so far bought four copies of this book and gifted three of
them to my friends.
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