Escape From Kathmandu
8 best books like Escape From Kathmandu (Kim Stanley Robinson): Saint Joan, Carpentaria, The Enchantress of Florence, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Drowning Towers, The Travels, Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, Consider Her Ways and Others
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0140437916 |
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known...
| Author | Alexis Wright |
| ISBN | 1920882176 |
Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.
Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal...
The Enchantress of Florence
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0224061631 |
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess,...
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0156612062 |
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization
Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung....
Francis Conway is Swill—one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill...
| Author | Marco Polo |
| ISBN | 0140440577 |
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which...
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
| Author | Conor Grennan |
| ISBN | 0061930059 |
Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, and part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers...
Consider Her Ways and Others
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140022317 |
Consider Her Ways Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own.
Odd is a tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused,...
