#TnlBookClub:T+L A List Member & Author Siddharth Shaghvi Recommends T

#TnlBookClub: T+L A List Member & Author Siddharth Shanghvi Recommends These Travel Books: Your Window To The World

In times of self-isolation, these books are sure to help you retreat to your #DreamEscapes. Besides, it’s also a great way to kill time while we wait to #LetItPass, isn’t it? T+L A-List member and author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi recommends these travel books for some armchair escapism.

1. Robert MacFarlane – The Wild Places

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MacFarlane is wise and compassionate. All his books discharge a powerful love for nature: you hear crickets and otters in the stream and the abundance of life itself.

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2. Bruce Chatwin – What Am I Doing Here?

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Funny and as acutely observed as someone conducting an autopsy, this book has stories emergent from travel, whimsical and elusive. Add to cart: In Patagonia.

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3. Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller – The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples

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Summons the charm and hysteria of Italy through the lens of Napoli, a town at once cunning, boisterous and artful.

Kindle edition available here.

4. Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky

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The Sheltering Sky remains a classic ode to a lost time, written with invaluable delicacy. When Paul Theroux – a writer one must read in entirety – asked Bowles for a message to readers he said: “Everything gets worse.” (To me, this means ‘it is just fine at the moment’).

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5. Pico Iyer – Tropical Classical

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The deepest kind of traveller, and an observer of the Buddhist tradition — which is to say he forgives every foible knowing he may be guilty of it himself — he voyages into the human spirit. His literary awareness of space and form arrives in a kind of a rarified light.

Available to buy here.

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Bayar Jain

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Equipped with a degree in Sociology (Honours) from the University of Delhi and a postgraduate diploma in English Journalism and Mass Communication from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, Bayar enjoys sharing stories of people, places, and different cultures. When not typing her travel tales, you can catch the hobbyist photographer capturing ..Read More