Asia Through the Back Door
Author | : Rick Steves |
Publisher | : Avalon Travel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9780945465485 |
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Author | : Rick Steves |
Publisher | : Avalon Travel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9780945465485 |
Author | : Rick Steves |
Publisher | : John Muir Publications |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781562611095 |
Gives practical advice on planning a trip to Asia and covers accommodations, dining, shopping, money, Asian culture, and health concerns
Author | : Rick Steves |
Publisher | : John Muir Publications |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781562611095 |
Gives practical advice on planning a trip to Asia and covers accommodations, dining, shopping, money, Asian culture, and health concerns
Author | : Rick Steves |
Publisher | : Avalon Travel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9780912528588 |
Author | : Janice C. Newberry |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781551116891 |
"An important contribution to studies of gender and the state in Southeast Asia, this eminently readable book is at once engaging and profound." - Mary Steedly, Harvard University
Author | : Hans Kemp |
Publisher | : Visionary World Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architectural photography |
ISBN | : 9789628563777 |
A wonderfully illuminating journey through the doors of Asia.
Author | : Bijan Omrani |
Publisher | : Odyssey Books & Maps |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9789622178113 |
The story of travel through the centuries along Eurasia's great land routes, told through the observations and accounts of many of the world s great travelers, and enhanced by wonderful illustrations both old and new."
Author | : Lale Surmen Aran |
Publisher | : Rick Steves |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1631213067 |
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Istanbul. Following Rick's self-guided tours, you'll experience the wonders of East and West in this fascinating city—the capital of two great empires. Explore one of the world's largest domed churches, haggle with merchants in the exotic Grand Bazaar, and discover the secrets of the sultan's harem in Topkapi Palace. Wander through monumental mosques, shop along sophisticated avenues, and watch whirling dervishes in action. Cruise the Bosphorus for a quick trip to Asia, and end the day relaxing in a Turkish bath. Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants in delightful neighborhoods. You'll learn how to get around on the city's trams and ferries, and which sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.
Author | : Rick Steves |
Publisher | : Rick Steves |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1641710470 |
Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's never been a more important time to travel. Rick believes the risks of travel are widely exaggerated, and that fear is for people who don't get out much. After years of living out of a suitcase, he still marvels at how different cultures find different truths to be self-evident. By sharing his experiences from Europe, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East, Rick shows how we can learn more about own country by viewing it from afar. With gripping stories from Rick's decades of exploration, this fully revised edition of Travel as a Political Act is an antidote to the current climate of xenophobia. When we travel thoughtfully, we bring back the most beautiful souvenir of all: a broader perspective on the world that we all call home. All royalties from the sale of Travel as a Political Act are donated to support the work of Bread for the World, a non-partisan organization working to end hunger at home and abroad.
Author | : Karl Taro Greenfeld |
Publisher | : Villard |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-05-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 158836206X |
“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and developing continent and looted billions, like a titanic parlor trick converting all that wealth into abandoned office complexes and half-completed shopping malls. . . . I wanted it all—the money, the sex, the drugs. And to this day I believe that if I am honest with myself, despite all I have learned the hard way over the past decade, I would still want it all again, the fucking and the getting loaded and the scheming to get enough money to pay for that life.” In the late 1980s, not long out of college, Karl Taro Greenfeld found himself stranded in New York, a failed writer before his career had even begun. His Jewish-American father angrily cut off support; his Japanese mother suggested he go to Japan to teach English. He did, accepting a job with no more promise than he’d had before. But he stayed in Asia for the next several years, working his way through a series of journalistic posts, watching a culture erupt before his eyes and facing his own demons. Through a series of vividly imagistic stories that range from the rigidly journalistic to the deeply intimate, Standard Deviations recounts Greenfeld’s experiences—both professional and personal—during Asia’s wild ride at the end of the twentieth century. Whether drinking Japanese cough syrup to get high with other Western expatriates, visiting a free-sex ashram in Bombay, or watching a former high school pal self-destruct as an equity analyst in Jakarta, Greenfeld evokes the spirit of a continent in flux at an explosive “bubble” economy’s end—and a man confronting his own identity and aspirations. Raunchy, insightful, eloquent and moving, Standard Deviations is an uncompromising work of cultural observation and self-exploration.