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Daren - India, China, Nepal & Pakistan
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Daren
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Oct 23, 2014 09:15PM
So my Around the World challenges in 2013 & 2014 severely curtailed my reading of books set in India and China, and I am missing reading them, so I thought I would give states (etc) of India and provinces (etc) of China a crack. I am not working to a time limit on these, and didn't want to mess up any of the other topics people are using so will stick to this one for recording progress.
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Progress PostIndia: 30 of 36
China: 31 of 34
Nepal: 5 of 5
Pakistan: 8 of 8
Japan: 6 of 8
Total: 80 of 91
Updated 05/04/2024
IndiaState (Capital)
Haryana (Chandigarh)
Jharkhand (Ranchi)
Mizoram (Aizawl)
Indian Union Territory (Capital)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Silvassa)
Daman and Diu (Daman)
Lakshadweep (Kavaratti)
ChinaProvince (capital)
Fujian (Fuzhou)
Hainan (Haikou)
Henan (Zhengzhou)
I'm doing the same but only for India: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... I will surely follow your thread to see which books you will read and like in order to take inspiration for my future readings.
dely wrote: "I'm doing the same but only for India: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"Hi dely
Yes, I saw your progress, which inspired this I didn't want to limit myself to just India though. I am considering expanding to include Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, but I need to do some research to see if it is achievable... I reckon I can only cover about 50% of India & China with unread books I have in my shelves at present.
Daren wrote: "dely wrote: "I'm doing the same but only for India: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"Hi dely
Yes, I saw your progress, which inspired this I didn't want to lim..."
Yes, it is difficult to find books set in some Indian states. Other times the books aren't shipped to Italy or it is very expensive and I also can't buy ebooks on amazon if it isn't the Italian one. How I would like to have the posssibilty to buy from amazon India!
Wish you good luck with your challenge ;-)
I have used the Development Regions of Nepal, as there are 14 zones and 5 districts!.
Japan Regions
Tōhoku
Shikoku
I have used the administrative 'units' of Pakistan, which include four provinces, one federal capital territory, two autonomous and disputed territories and a group of federally administered tribal areas!
2. China - Xinjiang Uighur: Night Train to Turkistan: Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, by Stuart Stevens.Review HERE
3. China - Guangxi Zhuang: A-Fa: Or, the Story of a Slave-Girl in China, by Roderick MacDonald.Review HERE
7. India - Karnataka: Three Quarters Of A Footprint: Travels In South India, by Joe Roberts.Review Here
8. Pakistan - Gilgit–Baltistan: Frontiers Of Heaven: A Journey Beyond The Great Wall, by Stanley Stewart.So I read this book intending to use it for Hubei, in China, as his route map passed through there. However it featured for less than quarter of a page, and I have plans for the other provinces... so no other solution than to add Pakistan to the mix - its just another 8 provinces.
review HERE
I like this challenge! India -- Animal's People
Pakistan -- Thinner Than Skin (very relevant to this post, as it's set in Gilgit-Baltistan, Hunza, China, and other parts of Central Asia)
Nepal -- Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy
China -- From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
12. Pakistan - Federally Administered Tribal Areas: Warrior Poets: Guns, Movie-Making and the Wild West of Pakistan, by Benjamin Gilmour.Review HERE
13. India - Telangana: Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast, by Samanth Subramanian.Review HERE
17. Pakistan - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai.
19. India - Himachal Pradesh: Strangers In My Sleeper: Rail Trips And Encounters On The Indian Subcontinent, by Peter Riordan.This books covers a whole lot of India and Pakistan - I chose Himachal Pradesh.
Review HERE
21. China - Ningxia Hui :Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, by Paul Theroux.Agin, this one covers a lot of ground. I chose Ningxia Hui.
Review HERE
22. Pakistan - Balochistan: The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad, by Sheila Paine.Review HERE
25. China - Shanxi: Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: Around China by Any Means Possible, by Polly Evans.Review HERE
28. India - Madhya Pradesh: The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah, by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.Review HERE
29. China - Shandong: Water Margin, Volume 1 and Water Margin, Volume 2, by Shi Nai'an.Review HERE and HERE
30. Nepal - Madhya Pashchimanchal (Mid-Western): The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen.Review HERE
34. India - West Bengal: Simon Winchester's Calcutta, by Simon Winchester (although it is a book of excerpts from many authors).Review HERE
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