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The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief

10 best books like The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief (Mick Brown): Like Water for Chocolate, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Nice Work, Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, The Art of Travel, O Teu Rosto Será o Último, The Intelligent Universe: A New View of Creation and Evolution, The Anatomist, Fous de l'Inde: délires d'Occidentaux et sentiment océanique

Like Water for Chocolate
AuthorLaura Esquivel
ISBN0552995878
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.

The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
AuthorTom Wolfe
ISBN0553381342
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...
Nice Work
AuthorDavid Lodge
ISBN0140133968
In this witty novel, Lodge engineers a confrontation between Robyn, a young, left-wing female literary theorist, and Vic, an older, conservative, senior manager type. There's a government initiative where Robyn is supposed to "shadow" Vic one day a week, an arrangement that initially neither of...
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
AuthorW. Chan Kim
ISBN1591396190
The global phenomenon, embraced by business worldwide and now published in more than 40 languages.

This international bestseller challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success.

Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged...
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
AuthorMarcus Luttrell
ISBN0316067598
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then...
The Art of Travel
AuthorAlain de Botton
ISBN0375725342
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything...
O Teu Rosto Será o Último
AuthorJoão Ricardo Pedro
Prémio LeYa 2011
Tudo começa com um homem saindo de casa, armado, numa madrugada fria. Mas do que o move só saberemos quase no fim, por uma carta escrita de outro continente. Ou talvez nem aí. Parece, afinal, mais importante a história do doutor Augusto Mendes, o médico que o tratou quarenta...
The Intelligent Universe: A New View of Creation and Evolution
AuthorFred Hoyle
ISBN0718122984
In this book the authors attack the Earth-centric view that life originated in some virus-like form and simply evolved by natural selection. Arguing from the evidence of virology and epidemiology, they show that it is overwhelmingly likely that life originated outside the solar system, and propose...
The Anatomist
AuthorFederico Andahazi
ISBN0385491328
A lyrically written, sensual, and extraordinarily enjoyable novel in which a Renaissance anatomist's astonishing discovery forever changes the female erotic universe. In sixteenth-centruy Venice, celebrated physician Mateo Colombo finds himself behind bars at the behest of the Church authorities....
Fous de l'Inde: délires d'Occidentaux et sentiment océanique
AuthorRégis Airault
Un essai dense et troublant sur les étranges effets de l'Inde sur les Occidentaux, la plupart des adolescents et des jeunes adultes. Rendus en Inde, ces jeunes voyageurs-pèlerins perdent contact avec la réalité et deviennent littéralement fous. Au-delà du choc culturel, l'auteur, psychiatre...
Mi Buenos Aires Querido
AuthorErnesto Schoo
Frente al desafío de escribir sobre la compleja ciudad de hoy, y la imposibilidad de abarcar a Buenos Aires en su tupida trama urbana –en realidad, hay varias ciudades distintas dentro de ella, cada una con sus rasgos propios, inconfundibles con los del barrio vecino–, avizoré una sola elección...
O Homem de Constantinopla
AuthorJosé Rodrigues dos Santos
O Império Otomano desmorona-se e a minoria arménia é perseguida. Apanhada na voragem dos acontecimentos, a família Sarkisian refugia-se em Constantinopla. Apesar da tragédia que o rodeia, o pequeno Kaloust deixa-se encantar pela grande capital imperial e é ao atravessar o Bósforo que pela...
Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save their Animals—And an Ancient Way of Life
AuthorMichael Benanav
ISBN1681776227
Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India. Welcomed into a family of nomadic water buffalo herders, he joins them on their annual spring migration...
Anywhere That Is Wild: John Muir's First Walk to Yosemite
AuthorPeter Thomas
ISBN1930238835
John Muir wrote many wonderful books about his travels, but one story—about his long walk from San Francisco to Yosemite—is one book he did not author himself. In April 1868, a very young John Muir stepped off a boat in San Francisco and inquired about the quickest way out of town. “But where do you...
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