Asia
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

PRICE (₩) DURATION (HR) FREQUENCY Busan 16,100 4 every 40min Daegu 13,000 3 every 40min Daejeon 10,700 2½ every 30min
( Category: General December 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Michael Levy [Levy, Michael]

The Taiwan Problem Our first game was scheduled for a Saturday night against the Guizhou Military Academy. We donned our yellow jerseys and boarded the team bus at 3:30 p.m. ...
( Category: General December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Nishi-Shinjuku (west Shinjuku) is the rare grid in a city where right angles are few and far between. Come to gawk at skyscrapers, such as the webbed Mode Cocoon Tower. ...
( Category: General December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Tarquin Hall

Had the sacrifice been worth it, I asked. “Oh, don’t know about sacrifice,” he replied, trying to make light of it. “Did what we had to do, really. But of ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Rana Mitter

A modern politics? A popular characterization of China’s leaders of the 20th century, particularly Mao, is that they have sought to become new emperors in their own right. Although it ...
( Category: Asian December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

10 Let’s Go Fly a Kite Near the Osho Commune, in the small parade of shops, was a bookseller specialising in ‘Mystical and the Spiritual Books’. Owned, somewhat surprisingly, in ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Thom Wheeler

8 Heartlands “Space, in the end, may be all you remember of Novosibirsk.” COLIN THUBRON The morning after our arrival in Novosibirsk we headed for breakfast in an institutional Soviet-style ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Ratchford

Dreams of Rain Barren, brown, dry: an inhospitable landscape of the sort that appears in science-fiction films rose before us, its jagged mountains uninviting and hinting at danger. Only the ...
( Category: Travel December 3,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-04-22 | Author:Ann Brashares

On Saturday, Bridget went for a run in the morning before the soccer game. She’d gotten up to four miles. Slow ones, but still. When she arrived at the field, ...
( Category: Friendship November 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-09-24 | Author:Ann Brashares

“Barbara, you know my daughter, Krista,” Lydia said to the dressmaker on Tuesday afternoon. Krista smiled delightfully. Lydia gestured toward Carmen. “And this is my . . .” She paused. ...
( Category: Friendship, Social Skills & School Life November 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Amit Chaudhuri [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: India & South Asia November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-23 | Author:Chris Hatherly

Riding the Taiga Bratsk – Ulan Ude Mid-Summer 2000 ——— Tim We drifted into the city of Bratsk amid haphazard traffic of Landcruisers, Ladas and trucks; they swerved about trying ...
( Category: Siberia November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

3 JULY Yesterday I returned from a hectic four-day visit to Kathmandu; it’s difficult to decide which was the more exhausting part of it – the refugee business that took ...
( Category: General November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Take heed – how the political leadership of the Palestinians views this envoy counts for nothing. * * * The British glanced at a one-state solution, binationalism, before Partition in ...
( Category: Asian November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-28 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

There was then an instantly and maximally drunken lunch in the Officers’ Club, and I moved through it, after the first half-hour (by which point Doll was laid out flat ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 23,2014 )