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The Anthologies: Hinterland Paperback – February 26, 2020
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During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.
Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to follow certain threads that are of profound interest to Shah.
Spanning a number of distinct genres – in both fiction and non-fiction work – the collections incorporate a wealth of unpublished material. Prefaced by an original introduction, each Anthology provides a lens into a realm that has shaped Shah’s own outlook as a best-selling author.
Regarded as one of the most prolific and original writers working today, Tahir Shah has a world-wide following. Published in hundreds of editions, and in more than thirty languages, his books turn the world back to front and inside out. Seeking to make sense of the hidden underbelly, he illuminates facets of life most writers hardly even realize exist.
- Print length184 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 26, 2020
- Dimensions4.72 x 0.46 x 7.48 inches
- ISBN-101912383446
- ISBN-13978-1912383443
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- Publisher : Secretum Mundi (February 26, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 184 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1912383446
- ISBN-13 : 978-1912383443
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.72 x 0.46 x 7.48 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #24,235 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies
- #125,354 in Memoirs (Books)
- #185,601 in Travel (Books)
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About the author

Tahir Shah was born in London, and raised primarily at the family’s home, Langton House, in the English countryside – where founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Baden Powell, was also brought up.
Along with his twin and elder sisters, Tahir was continually coaxed to regard the world around him through Oriental eyes. This included being exposed from early childhood to Eastern stories, and to the back-to-front humour of the wise fool, Nasrudin.
Having studied at a leading public school, Bryanston, Tahir took a degree in International Relations, his particular interest being in African dictatorships of the mid-1980s. His research in this area led him to travel alone through a wide number of failing African states, including Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Zaire.
After university, Tahir embarked on a plethora of widespread travels through the Indian subcontinent, Latin America, and Africa, drawing them together in his first travelogue, BEYOND THE DEVIL'S TEETH. In the years that followed, he published more than a dozen works of travel. These quests – for lost cities, treasure, Indian magic, and for the secrets of the so-called Birdmen of Peru – led to what is surely one of the most extraordinary bodies of travel work ever published.
In the early 2000s, with two small children, Tahir moved his young family from an apartment in London’s East End to a supposedly haunted mansion in the middle of a Casablanca shantytown. The tale of the adventure was published in his bestselling book, THE CALIPH'S HOUSE.
In recent years, Tahir Shah has released a cornucopia of work, embracing travel, fiction, and literary criticism. He has also made documentaries for National Geographic TV and the History Channel, and published hundreds of articles in leading magazines, newspapers, and journals. His oeuvre is regarded as exceptionally original and, as an author, he is considered as a champion of the new face of publishing.
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- ItaReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Reality.
'One only knows a place by going far from it.'
The 'far' in Hinterland includes deserts, jungles, remote villages, where extreme hardship is the norm.
How does Tahir Shah see the 'developed world' when he returns from these outposts?
'We live in an illusion of comfort and invented luxury. We dwell on aspects of life that are framed in absolute insignificance. Such hollowness consumes us all, and we forget HOW to live.'
- Peter DaviesReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Travelling far and wide
I have read many of the books from which the extracts in this anthology were drawn, but rereading them here they appear bright and fresh like this spring morning when the rising sun casts golden light on a familiar landscape. What a pleasure, particularly in this current covid-19 lockdown when to adventure relies on imagination..