Ambling Through Life

Jay R. Crook has spent more than half of his adult life studying, working, and ambling throughout the Middle East and South Asia, with excursions into neighboring lands as well as Europe and elsewhere. The present volume is a kind of harvest of journeys shared with the reader. Attend a wedding in Sylhet and kite-flying in Dacca. Witness the bizarre fate of an eccentric artist in Manhattan and the tragedy of a Mughal princess in the Buriganga River. Follow an Iranian SAVAK agent seeking refuge in Mykonos and the trial of a man whose future may depend upon an ant. Join an expedition to the ruins of New York. Watch Indian, Pakistani, and American movies with the author and read his poetic musings scattered throughout this book. Peruse too his more recent writings, including an investigation into the death of John the Baptist. Let the ambling begin!