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“nicolas bouvier”

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  • The Scorpion-Fish

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    On an unamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, abandoned by his lover, poor and feverish. A book on Indian insects deepens his morbid fascination with the crawling inhabitants of the room-'a pretty world of killers'- barely distinguishable from the insect like habitues of the local cafe, the charlatans and fake exorcists, the indolent landowners, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way of the World

    Two men in a car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    The Way of the World, a cult classic, is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in the '50s. When Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, they had money for four months and a sturdy Fiat Topolino. They broke their journey when money ran low, to teach and sell paintings and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and eventually in Quetta. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Japanese Chronicles

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    Translated by Anne Dickerson ...
    In The Japanese Chronicles, Swiss travel writer and photographer Nicolas Bouvier shares his intimate experience of Japan. Based on three decades of travel throughout the islands, his reports, recollections, and reflections take the reader beyond the commonplace and into an unexpected landscape. Whether describing village festivals or the suburbs of Kyoto, retelling Japanese myth and history, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So It Goes

    Travels in the Aran Isles, Xian and places in between

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    Translated by Robyn Marsack ...
    Translated here for the first time into English, this collection of shorter travel writings from the golden pen of Nicolas Bouvier covers journeys undertaken in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. In the Aran Isles in mid-winter, he glories in the extremities of the wind outside while inside, feverish, he is enchanted by local tales which hum like a kettle on the fire. In Xian, he pays homage to the ... Read more

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    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
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  • The Rings of Saturn

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