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"Cultural Encounters offers a rich, varied and yet impressively coherent collection of essays on the meanings and practices of travel writing in 1930s Europe. Carefully building on theoretical interest in travel writing of recent years, the essays follow written journeys to Graham Greene's Liberia and Lorca's Cuba, to Fascist...

..".this is a highly recommended book for those wishing to expand their knowledge of the cultural and political roles of travel writing, as well as the perceptions, ambitions,...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but now he is heading out of his comfort zone. Way out. Assigned to the highest-profile case in all Thailand, he is tasked with ending international human-organ trafficking. His hunt will lead him across five countries and will draw in a host of unwitting players, including an aging rock star wearing out his second liver, and his quarry, twin Chinese queenpins of the international body-parts trade known as the Vultures. Meanwhile, there are rumors at home that Sonchai's wife is having an affair. Although he has...

John Burdett's famed Royal Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheepis put to the testboth as a Buddhist and as a cop as he confronts the most shocking crime of his career.
A rich American film director has been murdered. It is an intriguing case, and solving it could lead to a promotion for Sonchai, but, as always, he is far more concerned with the state of his karma than he is with his status in the earthly realm. To complicate matters his boss, Colonel Vikorn, has decided to make Sonchai his consigliere in a heroin smuggling operation. Sonchai travels to Kathmandu to meet Vikorn's...

Als Polizist im berüchtigten achten Bezirk von Bangkok hat Sonchai Jitpleecheep schon viel gesehen. Kein Verbrechen aber hat ihn je an der menschlichen Spezies zweifeln lassen. Doch Sonchai spürt, dass er in diesem Augenblick ein solches Verbrechen mit ansehen muss: Im abgedunkelten Raum der Polizeistation läuft ein Snuff-Movie. Und die junge Frau, die in diesem mörderischen Film vor seinen Augen getötet wird, ist niemand anderes als Damrong, die begehrteste Prostituierte Bangkoks - und Sonchais ehemalige Geliebte. Auf der Suche nach ihren Mördern muss er sich Gegnern stellen, die...