Asia
epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:Insight Guides

Gaze at stunning prints of geisha and Mount Fuji at the Ota ukiyo-e museum Public domain No one image has done as much to represent Japan worldwide as ukiyo-e print ...
( Category: Asia December 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-11-06 | Author:Edith T. Mirante

I spent most of the afternoon seated at a picnic table in the warm sun, using K. Sam’s typewriter. The Shan education official had given me handwritten lists of villages ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 16,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:DK Travel [Travel, DK]

5.Changing of the Guard Gate No. 2 Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rajpath • 15 Mar–14 Aug: 8am Sat (except in bad weather); 15 Aug–14 Nov: 9am Sat; 15 Nov–14 Mar: 10am Sat ...
( Category: Specialty Travel December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Graham Ratcliffe [Ratcliffe, Graham]

An Escape into History No sooner had I arrived home than I was out on location filming a BBC documentary called Mountain High: Twice To the Summit of Everest. Keith ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Neville

19 Whistling happily to himself, LAC Peter Saunders reached the sergeants’ mess kitchen at eleven o’clock in the morning on 1 April 1953 only to be confronted at the office ...
( Category: Asia December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Rob Binkley

6 Cambodian Zen WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO BURNT-OUT backpackers barely on speaking terms parachute into so-called enemy territory with no clue of what’s awaiting them below? What happens when we ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-06 | Author:Bunty Avieson [Avieson, Bunty]

In many ways the Bhutanese are thoroughly modern, and sexism doesn’t work quite the same way as it does elsewhere. Though women may be in charge of the domestic duties ...
( Category: Asia December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Bunty Avieson

14 A Victory for the Media Bhutan Observer’s four rural reporters come to Thimphu for a week of writing workshops. I’ve been looking forward to meeting them, particularly Gyembo Namgyal, ...
( Category: Historical December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sir Ranulph Fiennes Ed Douglas [Douglas, Sir Ranulph Fiennes Ed]

HIMALAYA Michael Palin Michael Palin is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter. In addition to his numerous film and television credits, he has also written several bestselling travel ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rutherford Scott

何 処 Doko? Where? Getting Around WHERE? Your taxi driver looks disturbingly lost, despite your having given him an address written in Japanese. He’s checked a detailed map, queried several ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference December 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Joe Tasker

Brian had some criticisms about the route up to the West Shoulder. He felt that there had been a tendency by the twins and John to take the most obvious ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Simon Foster

Wuxi (无锡), Tai Hu (太湖) & Yixing (宜兴) Jiangsu Province, 128km (79 miles) NW of Shanghai Located in the southern part of Jiangsu Province, Wuxi, literally “without tin,” was once ...
( Category: Asia December 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Pailin Chongchitnant [Chongchitnant, Pailin]

WHAT HAPPENED TO MASSAMAN PORK? In Thailand, you’ll find massaman chicken, beef, lamb, and even goat. But you’ll be hard pressed to find massaman pork despite the fact that Thai ...
( Category: Asia December 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Christensen, Matthew B. [Christensen, Matthew B.]

SHOPPING AS A SPORT Shopping in China has been likened to a sport. The younger generation, in particular, are crazy about clothes, shoes and accessories. Nearly every large city has ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Goss

Like so many traditional Japanese gardens, Kiyosumi transforms with each season. In autumn, the garden is given a richness as its trees take on reds and yellows that eventually fall ...
( Category: Asia December 4,2017 )