Tahir Shah, Author . Arcade $25.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-55970-580-6
The child of Afghan parents living in England, Shah (Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland) first witnessed magic at age 11, when an Indian Pashtun named Hafiz Jan visited. Twenty years later, he travels to India to learn the...
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Tahir Shah, Author . Arcade $25.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-55970-613-1
Being the type of guy who hangs about at shrunken head auctions, sleeps in hotel rooms washed in human blood and traverses the U.S. for a month without ever leaving an airport, Shah (Sorcerer's Apprentice) is comfortable in strange company. So...
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Tahir Shah, Author . Arcade $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55970-641-4
Travel writer Shah (Sorcerer's Apprentice; Trail of Feathers) paid 600 shekels in a Jerusalem souk for a dubious map of the route to King Solomon's mines; he admits, "I have an insatiable appetite for questionable souvenirs." The...
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Tahir Shah, Author . Bantam $22 (349p) ISBN 978-0-553-80399-0
When Shah, his pregnant wife and their small daughter move from England to Morocco, where he'd vacationed as a child, he enters a realm of "invisible spirits and their parallel world." Shah buys the Caliph's House, once a palatial...
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Tahir Shah, Author Bantam Books $24 (388p) ISBN 978-0-553-80523-9
Shah continues the story he began in his acclaimed memoir The Caliph's House, the tale of his family's move to Morocco, this time focusing on the traditional wisdom stories of Arabia, best known in the West through A Thousand and One Nights....
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