"Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books ... London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... in 2011"--T.p. verso.

John Gimlette has won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award, and he contributes regularly to The Times (London), The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Condé Nast Traveller. When not traveling, he practices law in London.