Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Ghost Train To The Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates ...
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In Xanadu: A Quest
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco ...
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Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in t...
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia Over the yea...
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Walking The Himalayas
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foot...
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Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /“From the beginning, it was a silly idea. This, of course, I liked.” So begins Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens’s irreverent, irresistibl...
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Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This i...
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review. Rising i...
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Ships In The Desert
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in ...
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Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hess...
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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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The Road to Oxiana
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Te...
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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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To the Elephant Graveyard
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /On India's northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam's paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry...
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The Places In Between
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times BestsellerThis acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…a...
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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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Tokyo Geek's Guide: Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More - The Ultimate Guide to Japan's Otaku Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's famous "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe. This is the most comprehensive ...
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The Passenger: Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOL...
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Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel WritersFinalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food WritingNamed one of the Fina...
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Gürcistan
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /G√ºrcistan: D√ºnya √ßapında en iyi fiyat-performans oranına sahip g√∂√ß destinasyonu! "G√∂√ß" konusu, b√ºy√ºk bir grup insan i√ßin "yapılacaklar li...
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To Venture Further: An Incredible Boat Journey Across the Waterways of Thailand
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this memorable exploit from a master storyteller, legendary sailor Tristan Jones makes an exceedingly difficult passage through the infamous Kra...
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A Maze in Thailand: The Fortunes and Fiascoes of a Free Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Despite my self-knowledge of an overtaxed imagination and a weakening grip on reality resulting from a lack of quality sleep, I was still confident...
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Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York Times In Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and...
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