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  • Crimson Dawn

    In the summer of 1974, I travelled through India and Nepal with a backpack and a low budget. As a member of an underground yoga sect, I encountered the third world up close and personal. It was a journey in search of my soul which nearly cost me my life. From late night police raids to spear toting natives, I experience the underbelly of life in the third world. Join me on the adventure of a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia

    A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China

    by Akiko Yosano ...
    Translated by Joshua Fogel ...
    Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Anthropology of Tourism:A Case Study of Chitwan Sauraha

    The world is getting smaller inside every day due to the rapid advancement of transport and communication and mans life is getting busier in a closed, stereotyped and monotonous society. Man by nature cannot live in confinement. He seeks change to invigorate himself from time to time. He is always tempted to experience a new taste of life in the exotic society. Consequently tourism has developed ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Tourism in Nepal a Profile

    This book is an attempt to provide a complete and straightforward analysis of international tourism in relation to tourism in Nepal, explaining all the elements that contribute to a complete understanding of the techniques of tourism.Tourism, as we all know, is an international phenomenon and its activity is more or less related to international trends. Moreover, tourism is an ever expanding ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Places In Between

    by Rory Stewart ...
    A New York Times BestsellerThis acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…an instant travel classic” (Entertainment Weekly).In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mountain Madness:

    Scott Fischer, Mount Everest, and a Life Lived on High

    by Robert Birkby ...
    “An extraordinary life.”—The New York Times Book Review“A fitting homage to one of the great outdoor extremists.”—Kirkus ReviewsLegendary climber Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world’s highest peak tested his skills, his courage, and his endurance. His legendary final expedition—and its tragic outcome—are portrayed in Everest, the 3-D ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Shadow of the Silk Road

    by Colin Thubron ...
    Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Among the Russians

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all." — Jan MorrisThe first book in Thubron's Russian trilogy AMONG THE RUSSIANS, called "superb" by the New York Times Book Review, recounts Thurbon's 10,000 mile journey throughout half of Russia's cities and countryside.Here is a fresh ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Siberia

    by Colin Thubron ...
    As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades; a terrain ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • When Things Get Dark

    A Mongolian Winter's Tale

    by Matthew Davis ...
    At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.What he found when he arrived was a town—and a country—undergoing wholesale change from a traditional, countryside existence to a more urban, modern identity. When Things Get Dark documents these changes through the Mongolians Matt meets, but also focuses on the author's downward spiral into alcohol abuse and violence--a scenario ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Under the Holy Lake

    A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

    by Ken Haigh ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom as telephones or toilet paper. Under the Holy Lake describes a two-year sojourn in the valley of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Trekking Tibet

    A Traveler's Guide, 3rd Edition

    by Gary McCue ...
    * Thoroughly revised and updated new edition* Features one of the most detailed histories of Tibetan culture and geography available for travelers* Includes a new trekking route over a glaciated 19,300-foot pass used by H einrich H arrer, author of Seven Years in TibetIn the new edition of this indispensible trekking guide to Tibet, travelers will learn the necessities of pre-trip planning and how ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mission to Tibet

    The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.

    Translated by Michael J Sweet ...
    Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks - and from a profound study of its primary texts. while there, Desideri was an eyewitness to some of the most tumultuous events ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Trekking Nepal

    A Traveler's Guide

    "Any Nepal travel guidebook will give you details, details, details. But read Stephen Bezruchka's Trekking Nepal, the best for background and thorough trekking advice." -- Christian Science Monitor, on the 7th edition* Co-written by veteran Nepal trekkers with more than 60 combined years of experience in the region* New 8th edition reflects the most current political information and includes both ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Lost Heart of Asia

    by Colin Thubron ...
    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—never more so than since the collapse of the Soviet Union—it encompasses terrain as diverse as the Kazakh steppes, the Karakum desert, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hold the Dog!: 16 Days in Mongolia

    by Jack Fisher ...
    In the beginning, Mongolia existed only as an afterthought.Actually, in the very beginning, Mongolia didn't exist at all. Back then, it was all about China, Russia and the Trans-Siberian railway. Mongolia just happened to get in the way: a necessary stamp in the passport. But from the moment Jack Fisher pitched up in Beijing three weeks ahead of schedule, that's not how it was going to be. And ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Person From England

    First published in 1958, A Person From England tells of how the legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western travellers. During the last century, men of many nationalities have played what they and their contemporaries have called "The Great Game" - travelling throughout Central Asia. The author revives memories of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Grand Centaur Station

    Unruly Living With the New Nomads of Central Asia

    by Larry Frolick ...
    With the grim determination of an unrepentant rocker, Larry Frolick sets off on a 12,000-mile trek across Central Asia, brooding over the fate of its lost civilizations. From Kiev, Crimean Tartary, and Moscow, through the nomadic homelands of Uzbekistan, Kyrgizstan, Tien-Shan, and finally into distant Mongolia and Siberia, he explores a continent on the brink of a meltdown, a strange world lit ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Opium Nation

    Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan

    by Fariba Nawa ...
    Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation “an insightful andinformative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

    On the 8,000m peak circus in Pakistan

    by Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia

    At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective intelligence agents of his time. Making two dangerous journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, he reported back via the East India Company to Downing Street on the geography and politics of the kingdoms that lay to the northwest as far as fabled Bokhara. He travelled simply, disguised as a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fino in Mongolia! 25.000 km in moto attraverso la Via della Seta e la Siberia

    Si può attraversare il continente più grande, l’Asia, per 25.000 km e 40 giorni, percorrendo strade spesso in condizioni disastrose con una moto prettamente stradale di undici anni e con 600.000 km sotto le ruote? Da soli, senza assistenza al seguito, con un solo treno di gomme, arrivando fino in Mongolia e rientrando poi in Italia?Marcello Anglana ci racconta il suo viaggio dagli infuocati ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Pavement Ends

    One Women's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam

    "In the middle of the night I crawled out of my tent into a silvery vastness truly unchanged since Genghis Khan and his hordes loped west more than half a millennium ago. There was no glow of city lights on the horizon, no ranger station at the edge of the next valley, no quaint general store, no paved road. There was nothing but space, unbounded and untamed. A brilliant moon lit the blackness ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Central and South Asia

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 349 - Mammoth Books
    Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander BurnesOf all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first British Indian expedition, that of William Moorcroft in 1819-26, had never returned. Moorcroft's disappearance, like that of Livingstone or Franklin, posed a challenge in itself and preyed on the minds of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD