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The Travels of Marco Polo  •  Marco Polo  •  Colin Thubron EXPLORATION •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 421 PAGES The classic Marsden and Wright translation of The Travels has been revised by Peter Harris for this handsome Everyman's Library Edition -- with notes, bibliography and an introduction Colin Thubron. (ASA72, $26.00)
Waugh Abroad, Collected Travel Writing  •  Evelyn Waugh  •  Nicholas Shakespeare TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 1064 PAGES The collected travel writing of the peripatetic Waugh, including a memorable voyage to Zanzibar, a visit to the Guyanas and other excursions to out-of-the-way and often uncomfortable locales. Waugh's trademark satire and self-deprecating humor are on full display in this diverse collection spanning a 30-year career. This Everyman's Library edition includes the full texts of: Labels, A Mediterranean Journal (1930); Remote People (1931); Ninety-two Days, The Account of a Tropical Journey Through British Guiana and Part of Brazil (1934); Waugh in Abyssinia (1936); Robbery Under Law, The Mexican Object-Lesson (1939); The Holy Places (1952); and A Tourist in Africa (1960). Nicholas Shakespeare (biographer of Chatwin) provides an introduction to the man and books. (TVL22, $25.00)
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street  •  Naguib Mahfouz  •  William Maynard Hutchins  •  Olive Kenney  •  Lorne Kenney  •  Angele Botras Samaan  •  Edward W. Said LITERATURE •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 1313 PAGES The Nobel Prize-winner's epic trilogy of colonial Egypt in the 20th century, presented in a handsomely bound Everyman's Library edition. It includes Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. (EGY84, $35.00)
Midnight's Children  •  Salman Rushdie LITERATURE •  1995 •  HARD COVER  • 533 PAGES • FAVORITE Salman Rushdie's greatest book is a madcap, comic, unrestrained novel that takes as its subject the birth of modern India. The narrator, born at the stroke of India's independence on August 15, 1947, is a proxy for the nation itself, and the history of his family is also the history of India. (IDA589, $25.00)
Dispatches  •  Michael Herr BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 296 PAGES Robert Stone introduces this Everyman's Library edition of Herr's impressionistic, affecting memoir of his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam, called by the New York Times the best book yet to be written about the war. From its opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war. (VNM03, $24.00)
The Skeptical Romancer, Selected Travel Writing  •  W. Somerset Maugham ANTHOLOGY •  2012 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Pico Iyer introduces this Everyman's edition of Somerset Maugham's razor-sharp travel writing, set in Spain, China, Burma and Southeast Asia, including a long excerpt from Gentleman in the Parlour, a vivid account of travels from Rangoon to Haiphong. by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and pony. Other works included are The Land of the Blessed Vrigin (Spain), On a Chinese Screen and The Partial View, brief sketches diverse places from Benares and the Taj Mahal to Capri, Japan, Italy and Texas. (TVL484, $15.00)
Mr Sampath -- The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma  •  R. K. Narayan LITERATURE •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 616 PAGES An Everyman's Library edition. The three novels brought together in this volume, all written after India's independence, are masterpieces of social comedy, rich in local color and abounding in affectionate humor and generosity of spirit. Mr. Sampath -- The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen -- an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi -- and commits himself to Gandhi's Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions. (IDA336, $25.00)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides  •  James Boswell  •  Samuel Johnson TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  HARD COVER In 1773, the great Samuel Johnson -- then 63 -- and his young friend and future biographer, James Boswell, traveled together around the coast of Scotland, each writing his own account of the 83-day journey. Published in one volume, the very different travelogues of this unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of the Scottish Highlands but also of the relationship between two men whose fame would be forever entwined. (SCT134, $23.00)
Kim  •  Rudyard Kipling LITERATURE •  1995 •  HARD COVER  • 304 PAGES • FAMILY For the sheer pleasure of its prose, insight into the British in India and its extraordinary sense of place, you can't do better than this classic novel. It's one of the great adventure stories -- the enduring tale of an orphan boy who, through happenstance, travels the Grand Trunk Road with the Tibetan Teshoo Lama. Magical. (IDA52, $21.00)

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