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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (Vintage Departures)
by Vikram Seth  Publisher Comments After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials,...
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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures)
by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher....
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Journey in Ladakh
by Andrew Harvey Publisher Comments Far in the north of India are the mountains of Ladakh. Cut off by snow for six months of the year, Ladakh is where the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is practiced, with meditations that date back to 300 years before the birth of Christ. Harvey traveled...
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The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Notes from Nepal
by Barbara J Scot Publisher Comments The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes details Barbara Scot's experiences teaching English in Nepal. Her insights on her midwestern background, on cultural difference, on the struggles of Nepali Women, and on her role as a global citizen illuminate Scot's...
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Into the Heart of Borneo
by Redmond O'hanlon Publisher Comments The story of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo, which no expedition had attempted since 1926. O'Hanlon, accompanied by friend and poet James Fenton and three native guides brings wit and humor to a dangerous journey....
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Simon Winchester's Calcutta
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Calcutta is a city in a state of permanent surprise, where amazement is around every crumbling corner, and astonishment lurks over every rickshow-puller's shoulder. It is a city that never ceases to shock those who pass through, and it is also a city...
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's...
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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far-East (Vintage Departures)
by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East....
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Shopping for Buddhas (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Jeff Greenwald Publisher Comments There was a need for non-attachment, to be sure; but also a prerequisite of knife-like resolve. Here in this exotic land, we were compelled to raise the art of shopping to an experience that was, on the other hand, tinged with desperation, like shopping...
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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
by Karin Muller Publisher Comments During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller...
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The Lost Heart of Asia (P.S.)
by Colin Thubron Synopsis A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition...
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Walking the Gobi: 1600 Mile-Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
by Helen Thayer Publisher Comments At the age of 63, Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her 74-year-old husband Bill and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles in 126-degree temperatures, battling fierce sandstorms...
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Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road (Traveler)
by Stuart Stevens Publisher Comments The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones....
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My Journey to Lhasa
by Alexandra David-Neel Book News Annotation Reprint of the Harper & Bros. original of 1927. The memoirs of a stout 55-year-old Frenchwoman who trekked in disguise for four months to become the first Western woman to reach Lhasa. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Bangkok Confidential: The Inside Scoop about Living in Asia's Most Exotic and Surprising City
by Jerry Hopkins Publisher Comments The bestselling co-author of "No One Here Gets Old Alive tells gripping stories from the bars and backstreets of Bangkok. In the intriguing pages of "Bangkok Confidential, meet a piano teacher who ended up on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list; an insurance...
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Hong Kong
by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Combining firsthand reportage with exemplary research, Morris takes readers from Hong Kong's clamorous back alleys to the luxurious Happy Valley racecourse, where taipans place their bets between sips of champagne and bird's nest soup. Morris chronicles...
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Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
by Ruth Padel Publisher Comments Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India — and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most...
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In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey
by James D Houston Publisher Comments Sample Poems Dictionary As a small south american squirrel inhabiting mostly mountainous regions would feed on lizards half-way between poles of the tropics, I too would fall heartbreaked in the settlement of feuds of the fields of kentucky. When the...
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Narrative of the Expedition To the China Seas and Japan, 1852-1854
by Matthew Calbraith Perry Publisher Comments Enhanced with over 200 rare illustrations, this thrilling firsthand account relates the tension and triumph attendant upon Perry's mission to establish Japanese-American diplomatic relations. Drawn from the journals of the commodore and his officers, the...
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Bones of the Master : a Journey To Secret Mongolia (00 Edition)
by George Crane Publisher Comments Hailed as "magical", this "Los Angeles Times" bestseller is a fascinating book tracing a mystical journey with an unlikely pair, a young monk and his American poet friend, into the soul of an ancient religion and inside the mind of a Buddhist master....
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