Sunday, December 4, 2016

TRAVELLERS, OR CAN YOU GET THERE FROM HERE?

Jean-Paul Clebert, Paris Vagabond, Photographs by Patrice Molinard, Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Foreword by Luc Sante (New York: Classics/New York Review Books, 2016).

Jason Elliot, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (New York: Picador USA, 1999).

Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones: A Journey Though Time in China (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007).

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportag, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (London & New York: Seagull Booksm 2016).

Joseph Roth, The Hotel Years, translated from the German by Michael Hoffmann (New York: New Directions, 2015) (See George Prochnik, "Days of Observance," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 9/6/2015.).

Teffi, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, & Irina Steinberg, introduction by Edythe Haber (New York: New York Review Books, 2016).

Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zone Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).

Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China (New York:  G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988).