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Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, by Michel Peissel

This was the perfect book to accompany me on the Poon Hill trek in the Annapurna region that I did a couple of weeks ago.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo

It was Ramachandra Guha’s endorsement on the front of the Indian version of this book that drew my attention to it: “The best book about

Road to Katmandu, by Patrick Marnham

I had seen this book for sale in Canberra’s Academic Remainders Bookshop while I was waiting to hear whether I’d got the job I wanted

Hidden Bhutan: Entering the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon, by Martin Uitz

Bhutan is a country unknown to most of the world, but if there is one thing most people do know about the small Himalayan mountain

Stupid Guy Goes to India, by Yukichi Yamamatsu

As I’m fairly intimate with both Japan (having lived there for nineteen months some years ago) and India (numerous research trips and travels), the clashing

Mustang Bhot in Fragments, by Manjushree Thapa

Any book nerd who has spent enough time in Canberra knows that the most exciting (twice-) annual event (yes, even more exciting than Floriade) is

Secret Places: New Writing from Nepal, ed. Frank Stewart, Samrat Upadhyay, and Manjushree Thapa

Another gem courtesy of the Canberra Lifeline Book Sale. This special edition of Manoa, a literary journal produced by the University of Hawai’i, is one of the

The Carpet Wars, by Christopher Kremmer

I have a particular liking for travel reportage, and Christopher Kremmer’s The Carpet Wars is very enjoyable, though unsatisfying in several important ways. The subtitle on the

Dreaming in Hindi, by Katherine Russel Rich

I picked up this book after a rather long hiatus from my own Hindi learning, feeling the need to get back into it and wanting

Karma Cola, Gita Mehta

Karma Cola is a hilarious, if troubling, set of vignettes of the backpacker-ashram-hippy-trail India of the 1970s. But, unlike much writing about westerners, “spiritual tourists”,

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