Asien

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes-including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, …

Some say that Northeast Thailand, or Isaan, is the real Thailand; and it might be! It is definitely, however, a last frontier; a frontier with a traditional or old fashioned way …

Byron Holley spent the longest year of his young life in Vietnam as surgeon of the 4th Battalion 39th Regiment 9th Infantry Division. He lived like a swamp rat in the boonies of …

When author Robyn Ramsay, a middle-class western woman, interacted with a family living on a dirt ledge in India, her life changed. The meager assistance she was able to provide …

Surrounded with peace and serenity, a cool breeze gently caresses your face. As you sip your kadak chai amongst the floating clouds, the day’s first rays through the snow-capped …

The first book to present the amazing swords and armor belonging to the most famous Samurai in Japanese history!Paul Martin, a world-renowned scholar of Japanese swords, takes us …

In my madness I bought the ticket. I took the ride. I needed to live. I needed to suffer. I had to go. Rob BinkleyRob Binkley is a young Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has it all …

A timeless travel-writing classic that inspired the film, with photography by Yoichi Midorikawa.In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the …

"e;Temples of Tamilnad"e; takes us to the Tamil-speaking countryside of South India, to a collection of temples each remarkable for its veneration of the major gods of the …

The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and …