Dena was a busy midwife trapped on the hamster wheel of working motherhood. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together, they shouldered backpacks, walked away from their California life of all-night births, carpool schedules, and Cal Skate, and criss-crossed India and Nepal for eight months--a journey that led them...

An illustrated study of five thousand years in the history of India covers its regions and cultures, architectural and artistic wonders, its place in world history, and insights into some of the historical figures who played a key role in its development.

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government...

Updated facts and statistics highlight this new revised edition of India the Land. Spectacular photographs feature India's varied geography from snow-covered mountaintops to tropical rainforests. Learn about India's major cities, its disputed borders, foreign influences, and current challenges.

Andrew Daddo visits northern India traveling from the holy river Ganges in Varanasi to the lost city of Leh. Traveler Holly Morris then moves east to Darjeeling and Calcutta before heading for the peaceful Andaman Islands. Moving south, Justine Shapiro visits vibrant Madras before exploring the lakes and waterways of Kerala's coast. Finally, in west India, Megan McCormick travels through Goa, Bombay and Mumbai.