Miniaturised Travel Stories: Souvenirs Across Countries by INDRANI GHOSEMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A unique travel book which deals with the cultures of various places via the popular souvenirs sold and bought.
Indrani has detailed different souvenirs of different countries and their history.
Each chapter is dedicated to a souvenir from a particular country like the cow bell from Switzerland. She has cleverly interlinked the different souvenirs to similar Indian objects too.
The book, like normal travelogues does not deal with travel, food and monuments but what the souvenir of that particular country represents.
This is definitely not a book to be completed in a sitting but to enjoy and relish each and every chapter.
If you like to travel and collect souvenirs this book is a must buy as a handybook to refer to, to help you decide which souvenir would be the best and why.
I bought the Kindle edition and have no regrets!
The language and narration is also wonderful and entertainingly educative.
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