All Over The Map

There are many places one never gets to see, overshadowed as these are by the flashy brilliance of the popular ones. Covering a span of 35 years, this travelogue essentially covers the roads less travelled.

The book charts a journey around the globe. While the first part covers the exciting destinations in India, the second part tries to cover a wider canvas. This coup de maitre reads like a backpacker's fantasy. From almost climbing the Mount Everest to encountering the indigenous people of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, from paying obeisance at various popular and lesser known temples and shrines in Himachal Pradesh and Garhwal to wandering in the deserts of Ladakh, the author endeavors to give a taste of everything Indian. His unquenchable thirst for adventure takes him further ahead-meeting and metaphorically thawing the ice sheet between the contemporary people and the Inuits in Greenland, facing inhospitable weather in the icy Patagonia, getting lost in the romanticism of the Wadi Rum and Petra, and watching in awe the mighty Iguassu Falls.