El antropólogo inocente es un texto ciertamente insólito del que se dijo: «Probablemente el libro más divertido que se ha publicado este año. Nigel Barley hace con la antropología lo que Gerald Durrell hizo con la zoología» (David Halloway). El autor, doctorado en antropología por Oxford, se dedi...
Rogue Raider is a humorous fictionalized history set in Southeast Asia during the First World War, which centers on a lovable rogue in the form of Captain Julius Lauterbach of the German Imperial Navy and the ship that catapulted the "Flashmanesque" Lauterbach to accidental fame (and infamy), His...
Thick, heavy flakes drifted, scything and twirling through the icy night air. They settled on the bare branches of trees and sopped up the pools on the ground. As they touched your face, they feathered gently at your eyelashes, melted and slid down your cheeks and nose. Caught in your mouth, they...
The native suburbs boiled in tropical heat and disease and steeped in foul water, but Weltevreden spoke of the optimism of pre-war years with bright new trams gliding along the tree-lined avenues and sparkling canals built by the Dutch to bring coolness and soothing motion to their crisp, white, ...
It was the sort of rich, deep-dust-carpeted silence you get after a bomb, part real, part derived from the fact that your eardrums have been stunned by what went before. Mural techniques were relatively new to me but this was no Michelangelo fresco – just painting on a wall as I might have painte...
