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“yves bourni”

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  • No Rohingya

    by Yves Bourny ...
    ‘No Rohingya’ interweaves the narrative of the family of Arun, a young Muslim Rohingya in Arakan, Burma, with the tales recounted to the children of the community by his elderly grandmother Tameema. As the family itself becomes increasingly ensnared in personal and political persecution, Tameema's stories, centering on a child raised by wild dogs surviving in a jungle of injustice, provide an ... Read more

    $3.87 USD

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    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    **WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • The bestselling author of the Mars trilogy boldly reimagines the past seven hundred years in this “exceptional and engrossing” (New York Post) saga, constructing a world vastly different from the one we know. . .“A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review**It is the fourteenth ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton

    The Gruesome True Story of a Man Who Survived Thailand's Deadliest Prisons

    by T. M. Hoy ...
    Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner (“farang”) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality. Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton is a collection of short stories chronicling T. M. Hoy’s descent into the harrowing world of Southeast Asian prison life. Through his eyes, readers will experience the bizarre events of daily life in a Thai maximum security prison: feel the weight of ... Read more

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  • Himalaya

    by Michael Palin ...
    Michael Palin tackles the full length of the Himalaya in this terrific number one bestseller.Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden ... Read more

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  • Jungle Tales - The author's thrilling account of his adventures on the trail of legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eaters he shot

    by JOEL LYALL ...
    The book presents an absorbing account of Jim Corbetts encounters with man-eaters and those brave people who helped Jim in his exploits, as recounted by hill folk. The book further highlights the authors own encounters, adventures and experiences in the jungles. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Cycling Home from Siberia

    30,000 miles, 3 years, 1 bicycle

    by Rob Lilwall ...
    “ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.”Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Fortune-Teller Told Me

    Earthbound Travels in the Far East

    by Tiziano Terzani ...
    Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.”Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, ... Read more

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  • Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains

    Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award

    by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD AWARD**A thrilling and dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's least explored places.'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley'With tremendous verve and determination Antonia plunges through an extraordinary world. Thank heavens she survived to tell this vivid and ... Read more

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  • The Ink Readers of Doi Saket

    A Tor.Com Original

    by Thomas Olde Heuvelt ...
    Series series A Tor.Com Original
    People send their dreams and wishes floating down the Mae Ping River with the hope that those dreams will be captured, read and come true. It is a surprise what some wish for and why. One can never know what's inside someone's heart - what they really truly want, and those dreams sometimes reveal our true selves.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management ... Read more

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  • Lonely Planet The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology

    True stories from the world's best writers

    by TC Boyle, Torre DeRoche, Karen Joy Fowler, Pico Iyer, Alexander McCall Smith, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose ...
    Series series Lonely Planet Travel Literature
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherA collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term Lonely Planet collaborator Don George.The 35 impassioned stories included in this collection - of fortune tellers, tribal baboon hunters, a friendly ... Read more

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  • Travelers' Tales Thailand

    True Stories

    by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger ...
    Series series Travelers' Tales Guides
    Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through ... Read more

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  • Harp of Burma

    by Michio Takeyama ...
    Translated by Howard Hibbett ...
    Harp of Burma is Japan's classic novel of pathos and compassion in the midst of senseless warfare.Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize and the basis for the critically acclaimed film The Burmese Harp by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma shares a powerful human story about Japanese soldiers on the front lines in WWII. Losing a desperate battle against British forces in the tropical ... Read more

    $9.89 USD