Our pick of the best from Pico Iyer’s oeuvre
Video Night in Kathmandu (1988)
This is Iyer’s first travel book. It chronicles an exuberant trip through a great sweep of Asian countries, and is often found on lists of travel classics.
Falling off the Map (1993)
Essays on journeys to places that are isolated not so much geographically as culturally, such as North Korea, Cuba and Australia.
The Global Soul (2000)
The title of this book sounds like the central theme of Iyer’s work, and among the many delightful things in it are essays on the unromantic aspects of travel, such as, jet lag and shopping malls.
Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign (2004)
A miscellany of travel essays, profiles and book reviews, including meditations on the writer W.G. Sebald and the musician Leonard Cohen.
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