Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Asia - General

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.

In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the...

..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Simon Gikandi

Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time and culture. This original and significant book will interest armchair...

Discover how one family learns important life lessons and the necessary coping skills to deal with the constantly changing circumstances that accompany their desire to travel the world.

For over thirty years, Juanito Hayburg has traveled the world. In 2004, he and his family went on a two month odyssey to such far-away locations as Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Xi'an, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Flam, Bergen, Edinburgh, John O' Groats, and Dublin, and a multitude of other interesting places. Through their well-documented experiences that include applicable Web...