{"id":3217,"date":"2014-03-07T03:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:02:32","slug":"five-best-india-travel-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/five-best-india-travel-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books that Inspire to Travel &#038; Visit India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u201cA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> (George R.R. Martin). <strong>Today is the <span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">World Book Day<\/span><\/strong>; the day of celebrating the joy of reading. Books distribute the world knowledge, teach ideals, inspire creativity, spark innovation, illumine the mind, and lead to revolution. Books give rise to our desire for travel as well. If you are seeking motivation and blessing for traveling, some of the travel books on India can play the Muse for you. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Indian Eagle<\/span><\/strong><\/span> handpicked the five best titles from a huge selection of travel books whose protagonist is India. The titles are\u2026.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Travelers\u2019 Tales India<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/travelers_-tales-india-e28093-james-o_reilly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3232\" title=\"Travelers\u2019 Tales India \u2013 James O\u2019Reilly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/travelers_-tales-india-e28093-james-o_reilly.jpg?w=192\" alt=\"Travelers\u2019 Tales India \u2013 James O\u2019Reilly, best India travel books\" width=\"210\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a>A compilation of 50 travelogues, this travel book on India inspires you to step into the shoes of a true wandering traveler. Edited by <strong>James O\u2019Reilly, <\/strong>it\u00a0enriches you with a m\u00e9lange of real-life travel experiences and makes you visualize the remote locales through lively descriptions penned by the travel writers. <strong>It portrays India as a multi-layered character with several dimensions<\/strong> just like a typical Indian bazar in suburbs. It pictures the holy bath of 15 million pilgrims during the Kumbh Mela, the confluence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/india\/\">India<\/a> and Pacific Oceans, the life of one-horned rhinoceros in the jungles of Assam, and likes. The book \u201cTravelers\u2019 Tales India\u201d gives new perspectives of India beyond monsoon and marigold, snow and sand, dung and dust.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Around India in 80 Trains\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/around-india-in-80-trains-best-india-travel-books.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3221\" title=\"Around India in 80 Trains, best india travel books\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/around-india-in-80-trains-best-india-travel-books.jpg\" alt=\"Monisha Rajesh book, best travel books india, India travel, best travel writers \" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the title suggests, the book is a tale of adventure travel in trains crisscrossing India by <strong>Monisha Rajesh,<\/strong> a British journalist at The Week UK. While reading an article on India\u2019s flourishing domestic aviation, she reminisces her childhood days in India and feels nostalgic. Further inspired by Jules Verne\u2019s \u201cAround the World in 80 Days\u201d, Monisha embarks upon <strong>a journey of adventure and discovery across 40,000 km by trains in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/india\/\">India<\/a><\/strong>. While traveling in local trains, express trains, superfast trains, toy trains and luxury trains, she comes across a wide range of characters; some are funny while some are weird. She experiences many odd and offbeat things from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Infused with overtones of wit and humor, &#8220;Around India in 80 Trains\u201d is a patchwork of her kaleidoscopic train journeys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/a-tale-of-most-popular-wonderful-mountain-rail-journeys-in-india\/\" class=\"ss-button default size-m\"><strong>Best Mountain Train Journeys in India<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/city-of-djinns-a-year-in-delhi-five-best-books-of-travel-on-india.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3223\" title=\"City of Djinns A Year in Delhi, five best books of travel on India\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/city-of-djinns-a-year-in-delhi-five-best-books-of-travel-on-india.jpg\" alt=\"William Dalrymple books, popular India travel books, India travel guides\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An interface between a travelogue and a novel, the book by <strong>William Dalrymple<\/strong> is a historical as well as mythological journey from the 1984 riots to the times of Mahabharata. As the name suggests, the book is all about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/delhi\/\"><strong>Delhi<\/strong><\/a> to its deepest core. The lively depiction of the author and his wife\u2019s interactions with the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/delhi\/\">Delhi<\/a> \u2013 taxi drivers, street sweepers, gardeners, traffic police, the Sikh landlady, custom officials, hawkers, and others from various walks of life breathes life into the story of the book. The author has dug up some interesting facts from Delhi\u2019s mystic being and mysterious past that many are unaware of. The book \u201cCity of Djinns: A Year in Delhi\u201d is like the Time Machine which takes you on <strong>a ride from the present to the past through centuries of Delhi\u2019s evolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chai-chai-travels-in-places-where-you-stop-but-never-get-off-bestselling-india-travel-guides.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3225\" title=\"Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/chai-chai-travels-in-places-where-you-stop-but-never-get-off-bestselling-india-travel-guides.jpg\" alt=\"Biswanath Ghosh travel books, best India travel books\" width=\"480\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first person narrative of travels from Kanpur to<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/chennai\/\">Chennai<\/a><\/strong> by <strong>Biswanath Ghosh<\/strong>, an Indian journalist and writer, this travel book is a beautiful blend of his experiences, feelings, observations, encounters and insights during the journey. The way he has expressed and penned his stories turns railway stations and platforms into eventful destinations. <strong>The book is a collage of the moments<\/strong> including the joy of drinking tea on a platform that he lived during the journey. Trains, stations and platforms are the buildings blocks of the book \u201cChai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off\u201d, steeped in with and humor. This travelogue puts you on a ride to those areas of India which commercial tourism has outshined.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>All Roads Lead to Ganga\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/all-roads-lead-to-ganga-by-ruskin-bond-best-indian-travel-books.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3228\" title=\"All Roads Lead to Ganga by Ruskin Bond, best Indian travel books\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/all-roads-lead-to-ganga-by-ruskin-bond-best-indian-travel-books.jpg?w=193\" alt=\"India travel books by Ruskin Bond, most popular India travel books\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Since the dawn of history, the Ganga River has been the heart and soul of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/india\/\">India<\/a>. Flowing through the misty valleys, lofty mountains, icy glaciers, and dense forests in the Himalayan region, the Ganga is the soul of India. The river streams through the heartland sprawling across miles till it merges with the Bay of Bengal. The book, <strong>a marvelous piece of travel memoir<\/strong> by <strong>Ruskin Bond<\/strong>, is an eloquent narrative of the places where he took stopover and the people who he encountered during a period of 40 years. He has captured the beauty, opulence, dynamism and diversity of the Himalayan landscape and its wildlife, through the web of words in the book <strong>\u201cAll Roads Lead to Ganga\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In keeping with the essence of the beginning quote, we at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Indian Eagle<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> would like to say, <strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u201cA traveler lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never travels lives only one<\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We wish you, <em><strong>Happy Reading! Happy Traveling!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one,\u201d (George R.R. Martin). Today is the World Book Day; the day of celebrating the joy of reading. Books distribute the world knowledge, teach ideals, inspire creativity, spark innovation, illumine the mind, and lead to revolution. 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