An edition of Tropical classical
(1997)
Tropical classical
essays from several directions
1st ed.
by Pico Iyer
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American essays, Travel, Anecdotes, Tropics, Voyages and travelsShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
June 30, 1998, Vintage
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Tropical classical: essays from several directions
1997, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Tropical classical: essays from several directions
1997, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Tropical Classical
April 1, 1997, Random House Value Publishing
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Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
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Table of Contents
Ethiopia : prayers in the wilderness
Nepal : movie days in Kathmandu
Tibet : the life and times of the Potala Palace
The East India Company : Oxbridge-on-the-Hooghly
Bombay : Hobson-Jobson on the streets
The new world's new world : making itself up and over
New York : a city in black and white
A hermitage in California : a life outside time
Norman Lewis : a curious collector of curiosities
Tenzin Gyatso : Tibet's guiding star
Peter Matthiessen : in search of the crane
Peter Brook : autumn of the rebel patriarch
Welcome to the age of tropical classical
A junglified Victoria : reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Jane Austen in Calcutta : A suitable boy by Vikram Seth
The mailman from Malgudi: Malgudi days by R.K. Narayan
Prosaic justice all around : Salman Rushdie vs. the Ayatollah
Pop goes the culture: East, West by Salman Rushdie
In praise of folly : Three continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; The web by Andrew Harvey
The spiritual import-export market : Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai
Waiting upon history : The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Martian in Mittel Europe : The unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
A small, bewildered foreigner : Paddington's storybook by Michael Bond
Tourists at home : The Misalliance by Anita Brookner ; Persian nights by Diane Johnson
The meek inherit no earth : Grace abounding by Maureen Howard ; No fond return of love by Barbara Pym.
(Cont'd) Richard Burton in the Peace Corps : The happy isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux
An Englishman in Paradise : Spring street summer by Christopher Hudson
Private eye, public conscience : the works of Raymond Chandler
An American song of enthusiasm : Henry Miller at 100
Searching for America : Sundog by Jim Harrison
A connoisseur of fear : White noise by Don DeLillo
Black-magic realism : The crossing by Cormac McCarthy
In the shadow of the '60s : The burning house by Ann Beattie
A waiting room for death : A match to the heart by Gretel Ehrlich
In praise of the humble comma
Excuse-moi! Speakez-vous Franglais?
For Japan, see Oscar Wilde
Through the Cuban looking glass
The rise of minority terrorism
History? Education? Zap! Pow! Cut!
Authors' photos and the tyranny of the image
Perhaps the best article on blurbs I've written today
The contagion of innocence
A midsummer night's dream : The sequel
The ultimate near-life experience
Of weirdos and eccentrics
9/9/1991
Sleeping with the enemy
The competitive advantage of seasons
Confessions of a frequent flier
The new enemies of promise
The Lears : an American tragedy
A game of instants
Silence.
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