Lands of Lost Borders : A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
$35.00 NZD
Category: Asia
"Lands of Lost Borders is illuminating, heart-warming, and hopeful in its suggestion that we will explore not to conquer but to connect."--Booklist (starred review) "Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."--Pico Iyer ...Show more
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia
Rory Stewart's moving account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 was immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the ina ...Show more
Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand by Ella Christie; Caroline Eden (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: JM Journeys
INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand'Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.'In 1912, Ella R. Christie - a veteran Scottish traveller who had made expeditions to Kashmir, Tibet, Malaya, Borneo, China, Ko ...Show more
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
$26.00 NZD
Category: Asia
The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author of Lost JapanOne of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze ...Show more
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
$26.00 NZD
Category: Asia
A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back in the historical picture.Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now k ...Show more
The Passenger: India by Various
$33.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
"Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons."- The Bookseller
The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy. 'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' - Financial Times 'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' - William Dalrymple Precariously positioned be ...Show more
Southeast Asia - An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$33.00 NZD
Category: Asia
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.
Under the Dragon by Rory MacLean
$29.00 NZD
Category: Asia
The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives and all hopes for democracy, he seized the chance to return. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the ...Show more
Where Hornbills Fly: A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo by Erik Jensen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Asia
Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonised before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the world's most extraordinary indigenous tribes, possessing ancient traditions and a unique way of life. As a young man Erik Jensen settled in Sarawak where he ...Show more
A Savage Dreamland - Journeys in Burma by David Eimer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia
David Eimer journeys to the heart of Burma and out to its unexplored vistas, bringing to vivid life all its riches and complexities.For almost fifty years Burma was ruled by a paranoid military dictatorship and isolated from the outside world. At this time, Burma became Myanmar without local accord. Eim ...Show more
Playing With Water: Alone on a Philippine Island by James Hamilton-Paterson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Asia
This is a classic of travel writing. For many years award-winning writer James Hamilton-Paterson spent a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he did. Yet it also gives an account of life in that class-bound country ...Show more