John Gimlette: 4 books

Book cover of Panther Soup

Panther Soup

Travels Through Europe in War and Peace

by John Gimlette
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

Beautifully blending contemporary travel writing and military history, John Gimlette travels across Europe in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944-45. In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe with his guide Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-old...
Book cover of Elephant Complex

Elephant Complex

Travels in Sri Lanka

by John Gimlette
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling...
Book cover of Wild Coast
by John Gimlette
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...
Book cover of At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

Travels Through Paraguay

by John Gimlette
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011

A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.” Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your...
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