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To the frontier
By Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1984
The author travelled up through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, finally coming to…
the high Hindu Kush Mountains in the North. He crossed the Baluchistan desert, lingered in Lahore and was one of the few foreigners to penetrate the Khyber Pass as far as the border of Afghanistan. 1984.To get rich is glorious: China in the eighties
By Orville Schell. 1984
Tibet, otage de la Chine
By Claude B Levenson. 2002
Three Pagodas Pass: a roundabout journey to Burma
By George Fetherling. 2002
George Fetherling visited Burma to get a first-hand look at the dictatorship-ruled land. Before arriving, he traveled to such diverse…
places as Greece, Casablanca, the Falkland Islands, Antarctica, and Easter Island. When he finally reached Burma, he considered its geography as well as politics. 2002.Three cups of tea: one man's extraordinary journey to promote peace - one school at a time
By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin. 2007
An American mountaineer returns to an impoverished Pakistan village to repay the help he received after a disastrous attempt to…
climb K2. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools in remote villages across Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. 2007, c2006.The walls of India
By George Woodcock. 1985
The traveler's key to Northern India: a guide to the sacred places of Northern India
By Alistair Shearer. 1983
The travels
By Marco Polo. 1958
The 'Tigris' expedition: in search of our beginnings
By Thor Heyerdahl. 1980
The true story of an epic voyage in a boat made of reeds from the Gulf into the Indian Ocean.…
It tells of terrifying encounters with supertankers and bandits, and of the political dispute which led to the ceremonial burning of the boat. At the heart of the expedition is an anthropological theory which gives an added edge to this real life adventure. 1980.The stars my blanket
By Beryl Smeeton. 1995
The author relates the stories of her two remarkable solo journeys before World War Two - a thousand mile horseback…
trek in the Andes, and a hike of several hundred miles through Burma and Siam (now Thailand). 1998.The snow leopard
By Peter Matthiessen. 2003
1973. Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan…
blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty. 2003.The silenced cry: one woman's diary of a journey to Afghanistan
By Anna Tortajada, Ezra E Fitz. 2004
Spanish writer Tortajada hears an Afghan refugee speak at a conference and decides to see the camps herself. In August…
2000, she and two companions journey first to a refugee camp in Pakistan, where they visit clandestine women's literacy classes, embroidery shops, and a brick factory, and then to Kabul, where they view underground schools and women's health and literacy classes, soccer fields where executions still take place, and the ongoing search for land mines, often travelling after dark to avoid discovery by the Taliban. Some descriptions of violence. 2004. Uniform title: Grito silenciado.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.The sewing circles of Herat: my Afghan years
By Christina Lamb. 2002
The author returns to Afghanistan to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her…
life as a young graduate. Her journey brought her in touch with the people no one else has written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Among them are the brave women writers of Herat. 2002.The Russians
By Hedrick Smith. 1976
Former Moscow bureau chief for the "New York Times" offers a portrait of the country today. Smith conveys the texture…
and fabric of the personal lives of the soviet people and what Russia means to them. c1976.The Random House Book of 1001 questions and answers
By Neil Ardley, Bridget Ardley. 1989
Will the sun ever stop shining? What happened to the Ugly Duckling? If you need the answers to these and…
999 other important questions, this is the book for you. You'll find fun information on the universe, the Earth, plants and animals, the human body, science and invention, art and history, and sports. Great for children who enjoy trivia, and even better for testing teachers' or parents' knowledge of these 1001 facts! Grades 3-6.In a Siberian village, Turk met a female Koryak shaman who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend…
Turk's fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where the shaman was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives. 2009.The places in between
By Rory Stewart. 2005
This is an account of Rory Stewart's walk through Afghanistan in January 2002. Travelling entirely on foot and following the…
inaccessible, mountainous route, Stewart was nearly defeated by the hostile conditions. With the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way, he survived to report back on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war. 2005.Reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple…
media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. 2015.