Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia “An imme...
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winnin...
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To a Mountain in Tibet
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books...
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze ...
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Oracle Bones: A Journey through Time in China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. ...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York...
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of t...
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Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The definitive history of the Samurai, by acclaimed author of Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior"One could ask for no better storyteller or a...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribu...
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