General
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 | | 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 )
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 |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

THE NEXT DAY, at the staff meeting, we were told we had to reimburse PUST for gas and for the meals for our minders and driver. It was a modest ...
( Category: North November 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Heho $119-154; 55min; Mon-Wed, Sat & Sun N/A N/A N/A Mandalay $129-158; 25min-1½hr; daily (direct or via Heho) N/A N/A N/A Mong La N/A N/A K5000; 4hr; frequent 7am-3pm K15,000-20,000; ...
( Category: Myanmar November 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Elizabeth Pisani [Pisani, Elizabeth]

* Drake, The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, p. 96. * It shared the deal with the Japanese firm Mitsubishi; a bone of 10 per cent of shares was ...
( Category: General November 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ferguson, Will [Ferguson, Will]

6 THEY DROVE BY twice to check me out. They were laughing each time, and I wasn’t in a good mood. Like so many pairs of friends, one was short ...
( Category: General November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

12 THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE END OF the summer semester were a jumble. There was much picture taking and sporting competition, as though the incessant activities would distract ...
( Category: North October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:W Somerset Maugham

XXVI I travelled leisurely down Siam. The country was pleasant, open and smiling, scattered with neat little villages, each surrounded with a fence, and fruit trees and areca palms growing ...
( Category: Travel October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Insurance Make sure your medical insurance policy covers emergency evacuation: limited medical facilities mean that you may have to be airlifted to Bangkok for problems such as a traffic accident ...
( Category: General September 30,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

PUBLIC TRANSPORT At the time of research, foreigners were not allowed to travel on public transport in Tibet. Basic information is included here in case the situation changes. Markham སྨར་ཁམས་ ...
( Category: General September 30,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

( Category: General September 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

( Category: Southeast September 30,2014 )