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Beyond the House of the False Lama: Travels with Monks, Nomads, and Outlaws
by George Crane  Publisher Comments Beyond the House of the Lama, now in paperback, traces Crane's adventures as a writer, wanderer, and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It begins in 1996 at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, where he and his teacher and friend, Zen...
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Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas
by Sienna Craig Publisher Comments A tender account – by turns cultural exploration and memoir – of a young woman’s first hand experience of change and continuity in one of the world’s most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and ‘horse culture...
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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
by Gita Mehta Publisher Comments Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived...
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News from Tartary (Marlboro Travel)
by Peter Fleming Publisher Comments Originally published in 1936, News from Tartary is the story of a 3,500-mile trip across China: from Peking, through the mysterious province of Sinkiang, to India. One of the most difficult trips that could have been made in the 1930s, or even today, the...
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Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
by Gary Geddes Publisher Comments From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernizing China and on to the Central American jungles: it seems an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly...
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Travels in the East
by Donald Richie Publisher Comments Donald Richie's newest collection of travel essays explores all the corners of Asia and slightly beyond as it sweeps through Egypt, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Thailand, Yap, and Japan. Richie is an observer and...
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Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
by Rosanne Klass Publisher Comments A memoir of lost Afghanistan. When the going was good, a young American woman traveled to the then-remote country of Afghanistan. A classic memoir in the tradition of Rebecca West, Rosanne Klass's Land of the High Flags is an insightful account of the...
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Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure Into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
by Polly Evans Publisher Comments As a former editor at Hong Kong's largest weekly newspaper, Evans thought she knew China well. When she learned the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator 16 times, she decided to take a fresh look at this vast nation....
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Singapore Girl: A Memoir
by James Eckardt Publisher Comments This is the true story of a long-vanished Singapore and the dangerous carnival known as Bugis Street. James Eckardt arrived in 1970s Singapore only to fall in love with a Singaporean nymph named Milly. Thirty years later an email arrived that would lead...
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The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
by Dana Sachs 
Publisher Comments It wasnIt until the early 90Is that the war-torn country etched into the historical memory of every American finally opened its doors to the world. Journalist Dana Sachs had been haunted by her limited understanding of Vietnam culled from bits and pieces...
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Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated Edition
by Gary Snyder Publisher Comments In 1962 Gary Snyder, with his wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India and surrounding countries. As always, Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case...
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Atomic Sushi: Notes from the Heart of Japan
by Simon May Synopsis As the first British Professor of Philosophy since 1882 to be invited to teach at the prestigious and enigmatic University of Tokyo-- the Oxbridge of Japan--Simon May enjoyed a degree of access denied to other commentators. Each chapter of the book...
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The Big Open: On Foot Across Tibet's Chang Tang
by Rick Ridgeway Publisher Comments On foot across Tibet's Chang Tang....
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In North Korea: An American Travels Through an Imprisoned Nation
by Nanchu Publisher Comments This is an account of an American woman's recent travels through North Korea. Throughout her journey, she continually witnessed rundown villages, starving children with hollow eyes, haggard women crawling in the fields for single grains of rice and...
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Search for Shangri La a Journey Into Tib
by Charles Allen Publisher Comments Explores the myth behind the story of Shangri-La, a phrase coined by writer James Hilton in 1932. Allen took four trips to the Himalayas and Tibet where he discovered much about the pre-Buddhist religion of Bon. 16pp of colour illus....
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Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist (Concord Library)
by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments Gretel Ehrlich's path leads her to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. For Ehrlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter...
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The Rivers of the Mandala: Journey Into the Heart of Buddhism
by Simon Allix Publisher Comments Today's young travelers are in many ways similar to those who in previous generations also set out to explore the world, both literally and in the imagination. But there are vital differences. Travelers now, as enthused as ever by cultures other than...
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Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
by Gary Geddes Publisher Comments From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernizing China and on to the Central American jungles: it is an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly...
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To the Frontier
by Geoffrey Moorehouse Synopsis For three months, Geoffrey Moorhouse travelled through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North West Frontier. The first foreigner for some years to ascend the Khyber Pass as far as the border with Afghanistan, he then climbed in the Hindu...
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To the Frontier: A Journey to the Khyber Pass
by Geoffrey Moorhouse Book News Annotation Reprint of the HR&W edition originally published in 1985. An armchair adventurer favorite. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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