The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.A Tetw reading list
A collection of the very best travel writing: amazing adventures on every continent along with reflections on what it means to travel.
by Pico Iyer
Dharamsala is not really a community, but an experiment. A new incarnation of Tibet—a Tibet 2.0—that aims to be modern, open to the world and, for the moment, outside of what is traditionally, physically, Tibet.
by Scott Carney (via Stuart Waterman)
Every year thousands of westerners flock to India to meditate, practice yoga, and seek spiritual transcendence. Some find what they’re looking for. Others give up and go home. A few become so consumed by their quest for godliness that it kills them.
by Tim Cahill
It had been said that no outsider would ever see the legendary salt mines of Mali and live to describe them; ever slip into the Caravan of White Gold, evade the slaughtering bandits, suffer the killing storms, and lay eyes upon the nightmarish landscape of 1,000 pits gouged by hand from the Saharan plain…
by Tim Cahill
The country that gave us Genghis Khan, the Attilla the Hun Show, and possibly the first Americans is rolling out the welcome mat.
by Frank Bures
You’re sitting at a bar in the middle of Nigeria when you feel a rumble below your ribcage: the ominous tremors before the eruption. It’s the distant roar of a train coming down the intestinal tract. Ain’t nothing gonna stop it…
by Tim Cahill
A great wash of humanity carried us onto the corrugated metal deck of the barge, and eventually, engines thrumming, the Flueve Congo moved majestically out into the current and began floating down the Ubangi…
by Gene Weingarten
In Savoonga, Alaska, a tough people have made a tough place their home for generations. They’ve survived one of the world’s most inhospitable climates and the barren isolation of their Arctic island. But can they survive booze, bingo and satellite TV?
