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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Lucy Bird
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-22 | Author:Isabella Lucy Bird

LETTER XXIII "A Plague of Immoderate Rain"—A Confidential Servant—Ito's Diary- -Ito's Excellences—Ito's Faults—Prophecy of the Future of Japan— Curious Queries—Superfine English—Economical Travelling—The Japanese Pack-horse again. KUBOTA, July 24. I am ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 30,2017 )
India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:V.S. Naipaul

5 After the Battle In India in 1962 I took much of the British architecture for granted. After what I had known in Trinidad and England, British building in India ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports From the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Pico Iyer

AT THE RALLY, as so often in Manila, it was the happiness of the Filipinos that left me saddest. Carefree and irrepressible to the end, they reminded me finally of ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 30,2017 )
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Alfred Russel Wallace

XVIII Natural History of Celebes The position of Celebes is the most central in the Archipelago. Immediately to the north are the Philippine islands; on the west is Borneo; on ...
( Category: Asia October 28,2017 )
Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Chaudhuri Amit
epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Chaudhuri, Amit [Chaudhuri, Amit]

Someone I know, also a well-to-do victim of polio and frequenter of the Bengal Club, but one who continues to walk with crutches with a staccato, oppositional ferocity, once told ...
( Category: Asia October 26,2017 )
Iran by Abbas Amanat
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:Abbas Amanat [Amanat, Abbas]

Figure 9.3. Marshal Voroshilov shows the Stalingrad sword to Franklin Roosevelt during the Tehran conference on November 28, 1943. Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin look on. No Iranian official attended ...
( Category: Middle East October 25,2017 )
The Religion of the Samurai by Kaiten Nukariya
epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:Kaiten Nukariya [Nukariya, Kaiten]

"Idle thoughts come and go over unenlightened minds six hundred and fifty times in a snap of one's fingers," writes an Indian teacher,[FN#260] "and thirteen hundred million times every twenty-four ...
( Category: Classics October 24,2017 )
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar Arundhati Roy S. Anand
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:B.R. Ambedkar,Arundhati Roy,S. Anand [Roy, Arundhati]

3.6 But what is worthy of note is that the plebeians permitted themselves to be thus cheated because they too, like the patricians, held firmly the belief that the approval ...
( Category: Sociology October 23,2017 )
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Yu-lan Fung
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-01 | Author:Yu-lan Fung [Fung, Yu-lan]

plished. At this point this "Appendix says: "But there can never be an end of things. Hence Chi—chi is followed by Wei—chi I the sixty-fourth hexagram, meaning something not yet ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2017 )
No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Nixon

HOW WE LOST THE PEACE We won the war in Vietnam, but we lost the peace. All that we had achieved in twelve years of fighting was thrown away in ...
( Category: Military October 22,2017 )
Being Indian by Pavan Varma
epub |eng | | Author:Pavan Varma

Chapter Five PAN-INDIANNESS Violence and the Power of Accommodation THE GREAT LINGARAJA temple in the east coast city of Bhubaneswar was built in the eleventh century and is among the ...
( Category: Anthropology October 22,2017 )
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Åsne Seierstad [Seierstad, Åsne]

( Category: Asia October 22,2017 )
The Dance of Shiva: Fourteen Essays by Ananda K Coomaraswamy
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Ananda K Coomaraswamy [Coomaraswamy, Ananda K]

For beauty they have sought in every age He who perceives it is from himself set free— aus sich entrückt. We are assured by the experience of aesthetic contemplation that ...
( Category: Asia October 22,2017 )
Being Hindu by Hindol Sengupta
epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Hindol Sengupta

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were ...
( Category: Asia October 22,2017 )
49 Myths about China by Marte Kjær Galtung
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Marte Kjær Galtung

( Category: Politics & Government October 22,2017 )

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