John Gimlette, Author . Knopf $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4176-3
Over the past 500 years, Paraguay has been invaded by successive waves of conquistadors, missionaries, Mennonites, Australian socialists, fugitive Nazis and, perhaps most improbably, Islamic extremists. "An island surrounded by land,"...
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John Gimlette, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4322-4
Gimlette's account of his journey through Newfoundland and Labrador is more personal than his last travelogue (At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, set in Paraguay); he's tracing his own history as he follows the trail of his great-grandfather, a...
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John Gimlette, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-26542-5
Overlong and slyly self-important, travel writer Gimlette's third book takes the recollections of WWII veteran Putnam Flint and combines them with Gimlette's own European tour for a then-and-now travelogue that doesn't ever quite connect. Flint, an...
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John Gimlette. Knopf, $27.95 (368p) ISBN 9780307272539
Travel writer Gimlette offers a rare glimpse of a forgotten region: the formerly European colonies of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, commonly known as the Guianas. As he describes his travels from coast to forest, through what he depicts as a...
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John Gimlette. Knopf, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-35127-0
Sri Lanka, the seemingly paradisiacal island at the tip of the Indian subcontinent, has a troubling, obscured past that’s slowly revealed in this vivid travelogue. Gimlette (Wild Coast) takes in the colorful polyglot metropolis of Colombo, lunching...
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