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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand is your passport to the most relev...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Nick Heil recounts the harrowing story of the deadly and controversial 2006 climbing season on Everest.I...

in The Years Following The Publication Of into Thin Air, Much Has Changed On Mount Everest. Among All The Books Documenting The Glorious Adventures In Mou...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times B...

Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In ma...

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled near...

Preface -- Part 1-traditional Japan-1.1-land And People-1.2-the Adoptions Of The Chinese Pattern-1.3-the Development Of A Native Culture-1.4-the Birth Of A ...

Examines Japanese thought through the traditions of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism from earliest times to the presen...

Vol. I. The Earliest Records Of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku And His Constitution -- Chinese Thought And Institutions In Early Japan -- Nara Bud...

This book is part of a series for students and tourists who feel they need more background information on Turkey. This concise account covers everything fro...

'IF EAT PRAY, LOVE HAS BECOME A BIBLE FOR WOMEN WANTING TO INITIATE CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES, THEN GILBERT IS THEIR PATRON SAINT' (SUNDAY TIMES)Categories: Tra...

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journ...

London. 20 cm. XII, 446 p. : ill., ports. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Originally published: London: HarperCollins...

An eyewitness account by an acclaimed New Yorker reporter Wedged between India and Afghanistan, Pakistan is the second-largest nation in the Islamic world...

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back in this explosive new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Categories: Teen & Young A...

Himalaya, The Abode of Snow. This is the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1,800 miles from the borders of Afgh...

The Sequel To The International Best-selling Novel The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats.-- Almost Ten Years Have Passed Since Julia Win Came Back From Burma, Her F...

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

Have you ever thought about how your seemingly insignificant life events have formed who you are? How intriguing it is to look back and discover how your cu...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistanwas greeted on publication by universal critical acclaim and is now widely acknowledged as the most influential ...

"[A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . Giridharadas’s narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh."—The Wall Street Journal Anand Giri...

What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side...

The updated and expanded DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Beijing & Shanghai will lead you straight to the best attractions these great cities have to offer...

This classic study offers a compact and comprehensive account of the much-neglected history of south india--treated here as a single geographical entity--up...

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of TravelCategories: Travel Specialty TravelBusiness Travel

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“Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto… his fictional account of Blair’s life there [Burma] is a valid a...

Book by Liu, GretchenCategories: History AsiaSoutheast Asia

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. In...

Burmese Lessons is a love story. Unlike conventional love stories, this one takes the reader into a world as dangerous and heartbreaking as it is enchantin...

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of educati...

The author describes his year spent in Delhi, India, reflecting on the city's history and culture, including religious practices, industry, the arts, festiv...

What Would You Do with a Yellow Envelope? After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope c...

Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary Travel Amazon Best Book of November (2016...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique illustrated cuta...

Whether You're Seeking Diverse Architecture And Cultural Relics, Cutting-edge Galleries Or Beautiful Beaches, Your Dk Eyewitness Travel Guide Makes Sure You...

DJ in mylar. Some mold on back inside fixed title page and DJ. Signed with inscription by author on title page.Categories: Travel Asia IndiaGeneral

THE POPULAR TRAVELOGUE NOW IN PAPERBACK From the author of Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China comes Burma Chronicles...

A Collection Of Stories Of Transformative Journeys Inspired By Elizabeth Gilbert's Memoir Eat Pray Love. Introduction / Elizabeth Gilbert -- Take A Breath /...

Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Although you can get by in Thailand without speaking the language, knowing just a few phrases...

It's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires...

A powerful novel of enduring friendship set amid the terror and chaos of present-day Afghanistan. Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their go...

the Celebrated Author Of the Last American Man Creates An Irresistible, Candid, And Eloquent Account Of Her Pursuit Of Worldly Pleasure And Spiritual Devo...

professor William Waterman Sherman Just Wants To Be Alone. So He Decides To Take A Year Off And Spend It Crossing The Pacific Ocean In A Hot-air Balloon T...

From the beaches of the south to the mountains of the north, Thailand is a beautiful and diverse land. Thailand: The Golden Kingdom encapsulates Thai histor...