Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Asia - General

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...

"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253 55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan Mongke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. . . . William was interested in all that he saw. . . . His account is particularly vivid because he related to the individual people he met. This is the first annotated translation to be made from the definitive Latin text published by A. Van den Wyngaert in 1929, and Peter Jackson and David Morgan are to be congratulated on producing an exemplary edition. The historical...