Shop Categories
- Watches
- Home and Garden
- UK Electronics
- UK Books
- Health and Personal Care
- UK Sporting Goods
- Clothing, Shoes and Accessories
- Electronics, Gadgets and Computers
- CDs and Music Downloads
- UK Software and Video Games
- UK Toys and Games
- UK Home and Garden
- UK Video Games
- UK Baby Clothes and Accessories
- Books On
- German Electronics
Books : Travel : Asia : General
-
-
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history. New edition with a new preface by the author.
-
Have you ever visited Chiang Mai in the far north of Thailand? Located in “The Golden Triangle,” where Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet? Chiang Mai is world’s apart from big sister, Bangkok. This area in the Himalayan foothills is known for its mountainous beauty, jungle trekking (try elephant riding), ruins, hill tribes, and “Wats,” (the Thai name for temples). Chiang Mai, a former capital of the Lanna Kingdom, is the place to enjoy the many options.
Spend hours walking through Chiang Mai's historical center inside the walled city; this less than one square mile is filled with 30 Wats - all unique, laden with gold - until you are Wat’d out! Spend more hours in Chiang Mai’s famous Night Market, bargaining and looking for something “different.” Head down a street with foot massage chairs lined up on sidewalks, filled with blissful patrons. Let little Garra Rufa fish nibble dead skin off feet. Eat wonderful food. ATV, motorbike, zip line. With so much to do, your time in Chiang Mai will fly by!
You, too, can take an Exotic Vacation. Such a trip can be had for less than taking the family to DisneyWorld.
Let Travels With Sheila teach you how to Travel the World on a Budget, share exotic locations with you known only to locals, and most importantly, ease your fears about languages, currencies, personal safety and staying healthy. Follow her advice to avoid making mistakes she learned the hard way.
HERE’S SOME OF THE INFORMATION YOU’LL FIND INSIDE...
- Important Tips for Traveling in Thailand.
- The Dos and Don’ts of Planning A Trip to Chiang Mai.
- Moneysaving Tips for Chiang Mai.
- See the Best of Chiang Mai.
Now, Travels With Sheila tells it like it is with personalized, up-to-date information and photographs. What you need to make the most of your trip in Chiang Mai whether it is: aromatherapy -- a sex change -- plastic surgery -- or really inexpensive dental surgery; Chiang Mai’s got it all!
-
-
![Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China[ ORACLE BONES: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME IN CHINA ] by Hessler, Peter (Author) May-08-07[ Paperback ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G-doWTqtL._SL160_.jpg)
-
DK Eyewitness Top 10: Istanbul travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Istanbul has to offer. Whether you wish to experience the Ottoman opulence of Topkapi Palace, find the liveliest nightlife, visit the captivating art galleries, or shop in Istanbul's amazing market, the Grand Bazaar, this pocket-size travel guide is packed with essential information for every corner of the city, whatever your budget.
There are dozens of Top 10 lists including the Top 10 Turkish restaurants, Top 10 liveliest bars and clubs, the Top 10 places to stay in Istanbul, and even a Top 10 list of Things to Avoid! The Top 10 Istanbul travel guide is packed with beautiful illustrations and detailed cutaways of the greatest attractions of Istanbul, with comprehensive reviews and recommendations of Istanbul's best hotels, markets, festivals, shopping, and nightlife.
Each Top 10 guide now contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day.
Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Istanbul.
-
- definitive guide to the Bali experience, plus a bonus chapter on Lombok
- savvy special sections on arts, temples, dance & Balinese indulgences
- Lonely Planet's favorite spots for diving, snorkeling, sun-tanning & volcano treks
- tips on Bali's most mouth-watering restaurants & vibrant party scene
-
-
In this classic of travel writing, the first woman Pulitzer Prize winner Edith Wharton, renowned as a keen observer and chronicler of society, recounts her fascinating journey through a strangely medieval land that at the time (1917) still carried the fragrance of its romantic past.
-
First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. * An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871). * The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
-
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Brig Olga, At Sea, 200 Miles From Kamtchatka. August 1jtA, 1869. Our voyage is at last drawing to a close, and after seven long weeks of cold, rainy, rough weather our eyes are soon to be gladdened again by the sight of land, and never was it more welcome to weary mariner than it will be to us. Even as I write, the sound of scraping and scrubbing is heard on deck, and proclaims our nearness to land. They are dressing the vessel to go once more into society. We were only 255 miles from the Kamtchatkan seaport of Petropavlovski last night, and if this favorable breeze holds we expect to reach there to-morrow noon. It has fallen almost to a dead calm, however, this morning, so that we may be delayed until Saturday. At Sea, Off The Coast Of Kamtchatka. Friday, August 1SiA, 1865. We have a fine breeze this morning; and the brig, under every stitch of canvas that will draw, is staggering through the seas enveloped in a dense fog, through which even her top-gallant sails show mistily. Should the wind continue and the fog be dissipated we may hope to see land to night. II A.M. I have just come down from the top-gallant yard, where for the last three hours I have been clinging un
-
Maybe it’s wandering through the flashing forest of neon in Shibuya and Shinjuku. Sushi for breakfast at Tsukiji Fish Market. A shopping trip in Harajuku to check out the independent designers. Or maybe it’s as simple as a bowl of whisked green tea in a centuries-old garden. Wherever you find your Tokyo moment, one thing’s for sure: this smart and streetwise guidebook has the city covered.
Sleep In Style – informative reviews of the best luxury hotels, traditional ryokan and top-value budget options make the decisions easy.
Navigate With Ease – clear and detailed maps with Japanese script take you where you want to go.
Treat Yourself – our authors have hand-picked the best designer wares, specialist music stores, tucked-away shopping streets and more.
Feast Like A Local – discerning reviews deliver the gems, from decadent kaiseki to mouth-watering sashimi.
Escape For A Day – head for the traditional temples of Nikko and Kamakura, or soak your bones in an onsen; our Excursions chapter has all the best tips.
-
Discover Cambodia
Sunrise or sunset? Discover the perfect light to greet the 216 faces of Angkor's Bayon temple
Pound, whisk and sizzle your way through a cooking course in Siem Reap (and don't skimp on the fermented fish paste)
Detour off the temple trail for snorkelling and sunset cocktails on Serendipity Beach
Feel the buzz in Phnom Penh: from bustling backstreets to relaxed riverside bars
In This Guide:
Unmatched off-the-beaten-track coverage: from jungles in the southwest to remote mountains in the north
Includes information on the best ecotourism and community-run projects in the country
Visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveller insights
-
With a Lonely Planet guidebook you'll get the best out of your Indonesian trip. Our 9th edition of "Indonesia" will take you to the best beaches and bars in Bali, through lush paddy fields in Sumatra, diving with turtles off the Gilis in Lombok and to a traditional dance in Ubud.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Discover natural Indonesia with our special color chapter
Detailed Itineraries for planning the perfect trip
Green Index helps you step lightly on your travels
-
Rick Steves’ Istanbul is a “tour guide in your pocket” to one of the world’s grandest cities. Walking in the footsteps of Byzantine emperors and Ottoman sultans, you’ll explore the city where Europe meets Asia. With this up-to-date advice, you’ll make the most out of your time and money, and have your pick of good-value hotels and restaurants. Self-guided walking tours lead you through historic mosques, ancient mosaic-speckled churches, bustling bazaars, and artifact-packed museums. You’ll find out where the locals go for sea-food and for the tastiest Turkish delight candies. In this guide, Lale Surmen Aran and Tankut Aran team up with Rick Steves to bring you the best of Istanbul.
-
America’s #1 bestselling travel seriesWritten by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.
- More annually updated guides than any other series
- 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides
- Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries
- Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design
Tourism to Japan increased by 12% over the first half of 2007. Half a million tourists were North Americans, of which approximately 100,000 were traveling on business.
-
Have you ever woken up in the sultry heat of the morning, your hair and beard teeming with maggots, and then had potatoes picked out of your ears?
Have you ever felt the cold barrel of a semi automatic gun against your forehead?
When Danny Bent cycled 15,000 kilometres from the UK to India to raise money for ActionAid, it was a decision that took twenty years and one minute. For twenty years he had wanted to do something to raise money for charity. The one minute was when as their teacher he was put on the spot by his pupils and declared that the means was by bike, and he was going to India.
What he had signed up for was slogging along roads with trucks bearing down on him, unable to see and choking in the smog; shooting down treacherous descents with 100 foot drops, shaking with cold and too numb to brake; muscle burn and saddle sores; delirium and food poisoning; thirst and malnutrition; foul and insanitary conditions; life-threatening crises; obstructive border guards, crazed dogs and inquisitive passers-by.
'You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir!' is a real and compelling blow-by-blow account of Danny's trip across Europe, the former Soviet Republics, Russia, China, Pakistan and India.
And what people he met! They are the true delight of this book, mostly charming, sometimes reckless, occasionally threatening, always unpredictable,
-
National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's twenty years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes the reader on this journey, he will also take us through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.
-
From the green hills and sun-drenched coast of Galilee to the sacred sites of Jerusalem's Old City; from the dramatic desert of Wadi Rum to the vibrant reefs of Dahab, there is much for pilgrims and holidaymakers alike.
This relaunched edition has new features and three brand new walks, as well as clear maps and extended hotel and restaurant listings.
-
This book is about my visit to Lahore. I wanted to write something different to the average travel book. My intention is to make it a narrative of my travels around the city, just as if I am talking to you in person. Not a dry text book. I know text books have their uses but they are impersonal and generally only show the monuments and museums. I have several thousand photographs and it was very hard making the decision which ones to use.
I want you to see Pakistan as just like anywhere else, where you would go to a café or restaurant, buy ice cream as you walk in the park or go on the rides in the funfair. The people only want to live their lives and enjoy themselves in their leisure time like anyone in any country of the world. There is a lot of bad press about Pakistan and we are always being warned to stay away. But the Pakistanis themselves don’t want us to stay away. They welcome us. Wherever you go, people want to speak to you or have their photograph taken with you.
I never felt so at home anywhere else on holiday as I did when I was in Pakistan. I hope you like my book and it inspires you to make a visit there yourself. You will be happy you did.
This is the first in a series of books I am writing about Pakistan.