India, Nov. 14 -- "Travel in some sense is complete only after the experience is recounted," writes Pradipta Borgohain, in his introduction to Wanderings in the Northeast, and Elsewhere. Edited and largely translated by Borgohain, the anthology spans more than a century of travels, across the hills and rivers of the North-East, through the Indian subcontinent, and into distant parts of the world. Some of these essays are meditative, others are humorous and sharply observant. As a collection, they capture how writers from the region have encountered the world, and how in travelling outward they have repeatedly returned to questions of home. The first major anthology to present the rich tradition of Assamese travel writing to a wider readership, Wanderings in the Northeast, and Elsewhere brings together 26 essays by some of Assam and the North-East's most distinguished literary voices....