Voyage / Asie

Down The Road in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam: A Bicycle Tour Through War, Genocide and Forgiveness

de Tim Travis & Cindie Travis

"Freedom is addictive" Bicycle touring, for the Travises, is the purest realization of a free life. Tim and Cindie travel farther outside their comfort zone than ever before. They encountered oppressive communism,...

Vietnam - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

de Geoffrey Murray

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive...

Beijing & Surroundings Travel Adventures

de Simon Foster

Arrive in Beijing and spend a few days soaking up the Imperial sights -the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palaces and the Great Wall. Spend your evenings enjoying Beijing duck, opera and maybe a trip...

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

de Peter Hessler

From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China.

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime...

Speed Tribes: Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation

de Karl Taro Greenfeld

This foray into the often violent subcultures of Japan dramatically debunks the Western perception of a seemingly controlled and orderly society.

Southeast Asia Travel Guide

de Lonely Planet

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other'. New York Times The ultimate, most comprehensive guide to travelling in Southeast Asia on Shoestring includes up-to-date reviews of the best places to...

Thailand Travel Guide

de Lonely Planet

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other'. New York Times Friendly and fun-loving, exotic and tropical, cultured and historic, Thailand beams with a lustrous hue from its gaudy temples and golden...

India Travel Guide

de Lonely Planet

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other'. New York Times The ultimate, most comprehensive guide to travelling in India includes up-to-date reviews of the best places to stay, eat, sights, cultural...

Singapore - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

de Angela Milligan

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive...

Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

de Graham Saunders

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive...

Bali Raw: An expose of the underbelly of Bali, Indonesia

de Malcolm Scott

Considered one of the world's most popular holiday destinations, the tropical island of Bali in Indonesia has long been the site for Western fantasies about paradise. Millions of tourists visit the Island of...

A Woman of Bangkok

de Jack Reynolds

Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set...

Beck and Call

de Eric Alagan

Edwin Tyler, fired unfairly during the recession, launches a chain of coffee shops with venture capitalist funds. However, his childhood nemesis, Roy, now a powerful businessman with connections to the underworld,...

Kibo ("Brimming with Hope"): Recipes and Stories from Japan's Tohoku

de Elizabeth Andoh

  This cookbook is a heartfelt and fascinating tribute to the food, traditions, and courage of the people of Japan’s Tohoku region before and after the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11,...

Bangkok Hard Time: The Surreal True Story of How a WesternTeenager Came of Age in 1960s Bangkok, Turned International Drug Smuggler and Walked the Pri

de Jon Cole

It is 1967 Bangkok and teenager Jon Cole, son of a US Green Beret colonel serving in Vietnam, is coming of age in Thailand. Drawn to the underbelly of Bangkok by GIs on R&R from Vietnam, the army brat soon discovers...

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey

de V.S. Naipaul

Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."

From the Trade Paperback...

Doing Business in India For Dummies

de Ranjini Manian

India is booming! This practical, easy-to-understand guide covers all the basics of setting up and growing your business in India, from choosing a location and selecting your Indian team to understanding the...

One Russia, Two Chinas

de George Fetherling

This is old-fashioned travel writing, with vivid prose and bizarre characters. But it also freezes some important world events for close inspection.

The Travels of an Alchemist - The Journey of the Taoist Ch'ang-Ch'un From China to the Hindukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan

de Li Chih-Ch'ang

Originally published in 1935, this a translation of the original Chinese text. The book follows Ch'ang-Ch'un through the crowded Chinese plains, through Mongolia, Samarkand and Afghanistan. It is a fascianting...

Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon

de John Berthold & H. E. Lyonpo Thinley Gyamtsho

In Bhutan, progress is measured in terms of “Gross National Happiness” and Thimphu, the capital city, has no traffic lights. This mesmerizing book captures the beauties of this remote kingdom, the only independent...