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Pico Iyer

This Could Be Home : Raffles Hotel and the City of Tomorrow

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No hotel is as inseparably linked to its city than Raffles Hotel, writes Pico Iyer, arguably the world's greatest travel writer alive.Drawing upon numerous stays in Raffles over 35 years and the fast-ascending city all around it, Iyer-a lifelong global soul-reflects on the Grand Old Lady's literary legacy and its mark on writers everywhere. In the process, he finds new ways of considering not just yesterday, but tomorrow. How have Singapore and its white-stucco monument evolved to meet the needs of a shifting world?In this compact volume, Iyer pulls back the curtains on a personal, thoughtful and surprising look at places we too often take fo… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-981-48454-1-0
  • EAN: 9789814845410
  • Produktnummer: 32395301
  • Verlag: Epigram Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 124 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 497 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages, including such long- running readers' favourites as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. For more than a quarter-century, he has been a frequent contributor to Time, The New York Times, Financial Times and more than two hundred other periodicals worldwide. In recent years, he has also given four talks for TED, which have received more than eight million views so far. Born in Oxford, England, he graduated from Eton, Oxford and Harvard, and in 2019 was Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton. He lives in Japan and the United States.

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