Neatly inscribed, as if in a handwriting-imitative font in its precision, at the back of a secondhand copy of Richard Seaver’s  I Can...

Chuir cuairt Léna agus mé go gcathair na dTailte Deargaí aríst ar feadh deireadh tseachtaine seo caite. Tá bheirt againn ag smaoinigh a ch...

This Himalayan explorer's renowned for his four decades in Greater Tibet. In 2002, this serves as a fitting survey of his twenty-six e...

Nearly half a century of Himalayan and Tibetan exploration and nearly thirty expeditions on, this handsome edition offers nearly a hundred...

Herodotus popularized what many sought in vain: "gold-digging ants" somewhere near the Himalayas in the northern Indian or weste...

This lively book sums up primary accounts by those in the Great Game rather than expanding their substance. Hopkirk here aims for a popula...

This preceded Ian Baker's 2004 first-person account (see my Oct. 2005 review)  "The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Sec...

As an armchair traveler, I've visited Asia often. But never in person. The noise, heat, crowds, poverty, distances, languages, food, s...

As a contributor to the Huffington Post as well as a court interpreter and market researcher, Nataly Kelly and her co-author, the techni...

Chuaigh Léna agus mé go mBaile tSín le déanaí. Ach, ní raibh muid ag tiomáint ansin. Bhí an tráthnóna fionnuar ann. Mar sin, shiúl muid ...

After reading Mark Schorer's 800-page 1961 biography , this 2002 one at two-thirds the length flew by. Following Lingeman's study ...

I used to see a used copy of this at the UCLA Library's secondhand sale room. Once, I picked it up, leafed idly through, and wondered ...

I recommend this deft audiobook rendering by Christopher Hurt of Sinclair Lewis' last true success, "It Can't Happen Here...

After finishing this, I learned it won a 2009 audiobook award. Certainly, Anthony Heald's masterful performance swings and swirls you...

I've been on a Sinclair Lewis kick the past year. I reviewed the audiobooks of "It Can't Happen Here," and "Main St...