BY THUMB, HOOF AND WHEEL

Prabhu Ghate

Prabhu Ghate takes the reader on selected journeys across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Antarctica. He describes wandering into Somaliland, running into a civil war in Cyprus, getting arrested in Argentina while trying to track down a group of Sikh settlers, and riding a paddle steamer up the Nile for ten days in South Sudan. His book shows that trips in our extended neighbourhood, and outside the first world in general, are affordable and interesting in countless ways.

Bloomsbury, 156 pages, Rs 299