Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Asia - General

Most Asian restaurants are really two restaurants: one where outsiders eat, and one where insiders dine. So how can you become an insider and take full advantage of Asian cuisines?

In this indispensable guide, dining expert Steven A. Shaw proves that you don't have to be Asian to enjoy a VIP experience--you just have to eat like you are. Through entertaining and richly told anecdotes and essays, Asian Dining Rules takes you on a tour of Asian restaurants in North America, explaining the cultural and historical background of each cuisine--Japanese, Chinese, Southeast Asian,...

A powerful and insightful narrative of a journey - once violently interrupted and here resumed - through one of the most compelling regions on earth.

From Aqaba to Jerusalem and on into Palestine, veteran commentator on the Middle East, Charles Glass writes a thoughtful, inquisitive and dispassionate book on the politics and peoples of the region. He has traversed the Jordanian desert to the Iraqi border with Bedouin guides, explored modern Israel and revisited the scene of his captivity, confronting the men who kidnapped him.

Written with elegance, flair and a wonderfully...

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Bajan Affair is Pauline Pearce's 2nd publication by Chipmunka.

It is written in diary format as an uplifting, humorous account of a holiday she spent on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

Pauline describes how her heart was captivated, not only by this idyllic location, but by the characters she met during her daily exploits.

It tells of a romance, not between two individuals but as an affair of the heart between herself, this small corner of paradise, and the beauty of spirit she discovered within those who inhabit these shores.

Feel the warmth of the sun on your...

George Nathaniel Curzon was a man of considerable intellect and ambition, combined with a degree of energy and application which were all the more remarkable given that he suffered throughout his life from a spinal deformity which gave him continuous pain and often incapacitated him. His correspondence was prodigious and his output of books, articles and speeches extensive, while the official documents that he produced reveal his close attention to even minor aspects of his responsibilities. Some of his speeches and articles were concerned with British political affairs, and other articles...