Asia category: 8064 books
From Chicken Feet to Crystal Baths
An Englishman’S Travels Throughout China
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
I have been to every province in China, and the book is made up of travel stories about the places I have been and the experiences I have had. For instance, I have been hosted in first-class establishments in Shanghai, been drunk with miners in Inner Mongolia, wandered out in the Gobi desert, and...
Bangladesh - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Bangladesh is a lush, green country situated on the fertile Ganges delta, adjacent to the Indian state of West Bengal. Although there are hilly areas in the northeast, this densely populated country is mostly flat, and criss-crossed by many rivers. Much of its coastline forms part of the world's largest...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing territory,...
India and Pakistan
Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots...
by Amber Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
This is a personal story of my 28 days spent in Myanmar in 2013. It is a story of troubled bus rides, dusty journeys, long boat tours, preschools on stilts, ancient pagodas, tea houses, fresh noodles, and the people I met along the way. It is a story of my travels with my husband of 11 years. It is...
Three Men in SeA
Wonders of Human Endeavour, Historical Mysteries and Nature's Bounty
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Three men, in an attempt to shatter the run-of-the-mill experiences of travel, embark on a quest for an adventure of a kind that made them crazy with delight. “Three Men in SeA” is a delectable record of an enjoyable journey that reveals the joie de vivre of the three comrades on an...
by John Hoskins
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Thailand is one of the world’s most popular travel destinations for many very good reasons: friendly people, warm climate, sandy beaches, clear sea, stunning landscape, fascinating culture, spicy food, colorful nightlife. The list goes on.
Alone amongst Southeast Asian nations, Thailand escaped...
Tales From A Broad
An Unreliable Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone … Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused...
Moon Angkor Wat
With Siem Reap & Phnom Penh
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The ancient temples at Angkor Wat are unlike anything else on earth. Step back in time and take the trip of a lifetime with Moon Angkor Wat. Inside you'll find:
Strategic itineraries ranging from one to three days in Angkor to a week exploring the Khmer Empire, with suggestions on the most beautiful...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The Myanmar Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. This map, created using durable coated paper, is made to open and fold multiple times, whether it's the entire map that you want to view or one panel at a time.
Following highways and byways,...
by Christopher Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Here is a guide to the most amazing city in Thailand, perhaps in all of the Far East - Bangkok - and to all the surrounding sites. This is based on sections extracted from the more comprehensive Hunter guide to the number-one tourist destination in Southeast Asia. The finest hotels, with impeccable...
by Andrew Forbes, David Henley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The antique Silk Road that connected the Chinese and Mediterranean Worlds for more than a millennium, facilitating the exchange of both goods and cultures, is widely known and celebrated. Less familiar is its more southerly equivalent, the ‘Ancient Tea-Horse Road’ that once linked the lush gardens...
Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai,...
The Origins of the Chinese Nation
Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions...