From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

7 best books like From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (Vikram Seth): The Shadow Lines, The Undying, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, To a Mountain in Tibet, Spares, 西の魔女が死んだ [Nishi no majo ga shinda]

The Shadow Lines

Author

Amitav Ghosh

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families—one English, one Bengali—as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the...

The Undying

Author

Anne Boyer

Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...

The Great Railway Bazaar

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0618658947

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,...

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0140249796

Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.

A witty sharply observed journey...

To a Mountain in Tibet

Author

Colin Thubron

The mountain path is the road of the dead,� writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that transcends the mere physical journey. In the wake of his mother's death, Thubron sets off to Mount Kailas in Tibet, a peak sacred to one-fifth of the world's population...

Spares

Author	Michael Marshall Smith
ISBN	0006512674

Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye, but some people are doing all the taking.

Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and with a zero credit rating at the luck bank. After five years lying low on a Spares farm, looking after inmates that can't...

西の魔女が死んだ [Nishi no majo ga shinda]

Author	Kaho Nashiki
ISBN	4101253323

I saw this book advertised with the line, "You'll cry! 200,000 people cried!"

FINE. YOU WIN. I teared up, and I was in an office.

...really weird selling point though.


It wouldn't have been the same without the afterword from the illustrator. I did exactly as she suggested,...