5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American-British author who wrote A Short History of Nearly Everything — the most widely read popular science book of the 21st century — as well as beloved travel books about America, Australia, Europe, and walking the Appalachian Trail.
Dalrymple's account of a year living in Delhi — layering the city's successive civilizations (sultanates, Mughals, British, modern India) through encounters with its surviving inhabitants.
William Dalrymple's debut travel book — an account of his journey from Jerusalem to Xanadu (Marco Polo's route) taken at age 22, while still a student at Cambridge.
American independent journalist — who covered the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus as an independent blogger-journalist — one of the pioneer independent online war correspondents — author of The Road to Fatima Gate and Where the West Ends.
V. S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and whose fiction — 'A House for Mr Biswas', 'A Bend in the River' — and non-fiction explored the psychological consequences of colonialism with pitiless clarity.