Nomad's Hotel

This is a jewel of a travel book, free of pretension, full of easy adventure, fresh with childlike wonder for the world. * Travel Extra *
Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism -- Rebecca Abrahams * Guardian *
Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling -- Ben Rogers * Independent on Sunday *
A cause for gentle celebration * Time Out *
Observant and meditative * The Times *
Some inimitable observations on life as she is lived * Irish Times *
A traveller on a grand scale...beautifully crafted -- Mark Cocker * Guardian *
As with all exceptional writers who itch to travel, his writing attains an almost imperceptible stream of consciousness, one that takes it far beyond the usual serendipitous wanderings * Scotsman *
As he makes his guileful, sharp, provoking, seductive progress across the globe, he's prepared to free-fall into dreamlike appreciation of sensation, prepared to be frightened, prepared , too, to scrutinise, question, challenge, admit to ignorance.... The writing scintillates... His book is a compass of sorts, quite useless for aiding escape on a desert island, but, in augmenting the bible and Shakespeare in that locale, quite indispensable nonetheless -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday *