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Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo (Vintage Departures)
by Tracy Johnston  Publisher Comments A thrilling, touching, and densely instructive book, Shooting the Boh is also a frank self-portrait of a woman facing her most corrosive fears--and triumphing over them--with fortitude and unflagging wit. "A captivating and truly offbeat rite of passage"....
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Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood
by Orville Schell 
From Powells.com In 1953, a young Orville Schell happened upon a copy of Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer's classic account of living in Tibet during the second world war. He was hooked: "Harrer's book offered a fabulous escapist tale of an isolated, ancient...
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The Wandering Peacemaker
by Roger Plunk Publisher Comments Plunk's on-the-road memoir of peacemaking as he advised the Dalai Lama and served as a mediator for conflicts in Burma, Kashmir, and Afghanistan....
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Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet Nepal China India and Pakistan
by Jeremy Schmidt Publisher Comments Two young couples' adventures around the Himalaya by bike, truck, and foot....
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The Men in My Country (Sightline Books)
by Marilyn Abildskov Publisher Comments In the early 1990s, at the watershed age of thirty, Marilyn Abildskov decided she needed to start over. She accepted an offer to move from Utah to Matsumoto, Japan, to teach English to junior high school students. "All I knew is that I had to get away...
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
by Tiziano Terzani Publisher Comments “An utterly charming and engaging travel book that offers vivid portraits of unusual corners of Asia, told by a skilled raconteur whose eyes were open wide.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to...
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Arrow of the Blue-skinned God :retracing the Ramayana through India
by Jonah Blank Publisher Comments For 3,000 years, India has told the epic tale of the blue-skinned man-god Rama's journey across its timeless land; this unique travel book retraces his steps and retells his story in a vivid portrait of India today....
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On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
by Luree Miller Publisher Comments The amazing accomplishments of five early women explorers....
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #230: Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895
by Emma Teng Publisher Comments the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region....
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Holy Cow : Indian Adventure (04 Edition)
by Sarah Macdonald
Publisher Comments In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India?and for love — she screamed...
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Tibetan Rescue: The Extraordinary Quest to Save the Sacred Art Treasures of Tibet
by Pamela Logan Book News Annotation Logan, who founded the nonprofit Kham Aid Foundation to support conservation of the murals of Tibet's Pewar Monastery, provides a firsthand look at Tibetan culture and the fate of their Buddhist monasteries under Chinese Communist rule. Maps, color...
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Samurai William
by Giles Milton Publisher Comments Paperback edition of this account of the adventures of the Englishman who opened the gateway to the mysterious kingdom of Japan in the early seventeenth century. Having sailed to the east in 1598, William Adams was taken with the barbaric splendour of...
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Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood (Traveler)
by John Krich Publisher Comments John Krich’s Music in Every Room depicts the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel. “This quirky, querulous and oddly appealing travelogue” (The Boston Globe) charts Krich’s journey across Asia with his irascible...
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The Battersea Park Road To Enlightenment
by Isabel Losada Publisher Comments A self-confessed exercise-allergic and new age sceptic embarks on a search for enlightenment through nude goddess workshops, tantric sex, reincarnation sessions and colonic irrigation (?) - with highly entertaining results. An irreverent and illuminating...
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Rude Awakenings: Two Englishmen on Foot in Buddhism's Holy Land
by Ajahn Sucitto Publisher Comments Half down-and-dirty adventure and half inspirational memoir, this title documents an unusual pilgrimage taken by earthy scientist Nick Scott and fastidious Buddhist monk Ajahn Sucitto, who together retraced the Buddha's footsteps through India....
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All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo
by Sam Jr Lightner Publisher Comments “Sam Lightner, Jr., combines two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner . . . With its rich sense of place and history, All Elevations Unknown offers a surprisingly fresh twist to an adventure-climbing tale...
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Even a Daughter Is Better Than Nothing
by Mykel Board Publisher Comments This is the story of how Maximum Rock'n'Roll Columnist Mykel Board spent a year teaching English at the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar. From getting lost in the Gobi Desert to stirring fights in a Mongolian disco, Board teeters through the...
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In the Naga's Wake: The First Man to Navigate the Mekong, from Tibet to the South China Sea
by Mick O'shea Publisher Comments Upon first seeing its unforgiving rapids, 20-year-old traveler Mick O'Shea began dreaming of a solo expedition down the Mekong River, from its source in Tibet to the South China Sea. This exhilarating travel novel captures O'Shea's extremely dangerous...
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review....
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A Woman's Asia: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Marybeth Bond Publisher Comments Asia has an exotic appeal for many Westerners--from its rich and ancient civilization, spirituality, and mysticism, to its high mountain peaks, tropical backwaters, and beautiful Taj Mahal. This collection of inspiring and entertaining stories by women...
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