Over the last thirty years, Tahir Shah has roamed the furthest limits of the world, and produced a stupefying body of travel literature, embracing a cornucopia of quests.
The third book in Tahir Shahs series of Nasrudin stories, The Voyages and Vicissitudes of Nasrudin builds on the foundations laid down by The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin and The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin , completing the trilo...
The second book in Tahir Shahs trilogy of Nasrudin stories, The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin follows hot on the heels of The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin , and the highly acclaimed Travels With Nasrudin .
The first book in Tahir Shahs trilogy of Nasrudin stories, The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin builds on his highly acclaimed travelogue - Travels With Nasrudin .
Through a series of what he believes to be coincidences, Oliver discovers a portal in the basement of the shop - a portal to a magical world called Zonus.
For a thousand nights, ruthless King Shahriyar weds a new bride at dusk, only to have her executed the following dawn. Fearing for their lives, the kingdomâs young women are in hiding, or have already fled.
In a career that has embraced fiction and non-fiction, and bridged West with East, Tahir Shah has frequently commented on his own work - or on that of other authors - in a series of supplementary essays.
As a child living in the English countryside, a constant stream of people turned up at Tahir Shahâs family home, all in search of his father â the writer and thinker Idries Shah. Among them were literary giants, includi...
When his stage show goes spectacularly wrong, celebrated magician Harry Singh, a.k.a. The Great Maharaja Malipasse, becomes a laughing-stock and outcast. Having resorted to two-bit performances in the pouring rain on Blackpool Pier, the down-on-his-luck...
Celebrated as an author of travel and fiction, Tahir Shah has published more than forty books in a career thats spanned three decades. In that time hes turned his hand to many kinds of writing from journalism to novels, and from travelogues to cultural...
Appearing under different names and in all manner of guises, hes universally admired for his back-to-front brand of genius so much so that at least a dozen countries insist he was one of them.
Oddball and loner Oliver Quinn was raised by his uncle, the proprietor ofNew Yorkâs most bizarre emporium of Oriental rugs, Ozymandias & Son.Zoned out more than heâs zoned in, Oliver perceives patterns in everything...
Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders,...
On the morning of her fifth birthday, Miki Suzukiâs grandfather gave her an unusual gift - the fragment of a story. The tale told of a magical realm where all the women were beautiful, dressed in the finest gowns, and where the men had...
For more than a century Henry Rider Haggardâs novel King Solomonâs Mines has inspired generations of young men to set forth in search of adventure. But long before Rider Haggardâs classic, explorers,...
When the Spanish Conquistadors swept through Peru in the sixteenth century, they were searching for great golden treasure. In 1572 they stormed the Inca stronghold of Vilcabamba, only to find the city deserted, burned,a nd already stripped of its wealth....
Forty-five million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwanaland split apart. This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge landmass was named after the Gond people of India. Meeting a Gond storyteller on a visit to Bombay,...
Sorcererâs Apprentice is an extraordinary tale of Indian magic..India is a land of miracles, where godmen and mystics mesmerise audiences with wondrous feats of magic. In great cities and remote villages alike, these mortal incarnations...
Amadeus Kaine is the most famous eye surgeon alive.And heâs got a secret.. a deep, dark, disturbing secret..He likes eating human eyes.Green eyes are his favorite. But any color will do.Youâd better watch out because...