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Grand Centaur Station: unruly living with the new nomads of Central Asia
By Larry Frolick. 2004
Larry Frolick treks across Central Asia in search of an answer to the big question: who - or what -…
gives birth to history? From Kiev and Uzbekistan through to Siberia and Mongolia, he finds Chinese secret agents, the last three Romanov princesses, cranky archeologists and lusty exorcists, as he broods over the region's lost civilizations. 2004.From the Japanese: a journalist's encounters
By Catherine Bergman. 2002
Bergman records her observations of life in Japan through interviews with intellectual leaders, rebels, politicians, artists, and adolescents. She covers…
a wide range of subjects, from the lives of the geishas to the national soccer league, the Shinto religion, the politics of arranged marriages, the collective memory of the Second World War, and more. Translation of: "L'empire désorienté." 2002.Holy Cow: an Indian adventure
By Sarah MacDonald. 2003
Australian Sarah MacDonald didn't like India her first time there, so when her boyfriend Jonathan, a reporter for ABC, is…
sent there for work, she reluctantly follows. At first, life in India is as bad as she remembered it - overcrowded, smoggy, and disturbing - but she slowly begins to make friends and to understand the culture, including attending lavish weddings and taking a trip to war-torn Kashmir. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2003.Hitching rides with Buddha: a journey across Japan
By Will Ferguson. 2005
With the same fervour they have for outlandish game shows and tiny gadgets, the Japanese go nuts each spring when…
the cherry blossoms sweep from island to island towards the country's northerly tip. Ferguson, after way too much sake, announced he would be the first person to follow the blossom's progress end to end. To make it a challenge worth doing, he'd hitchhike, resulting in a journey full of misadventures and revelations. 2005.Himalaya
By Michael Palin. 2004
In his most challenging journey, Michael Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall…
of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to southwest China. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna and Everest, the bleak and barren plateau of Tibet, the gorges of the Yangtze, the tribal lands of the Indo-Burmese border and the vast Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. This book, compiled from his diaries, records the pleasure and pain of an extraordinary journey. 2004.Hearing birds fly: a nomadic year in Mongolia
By Louisa Waugh. 2003
This book is about the year the author spent living and working in a remote village called Tsengel, which lies…
in the extreme west of Mongolia. She describes how she slowly learns to fend for herself in a world where life is dominated by the seasons. From the long hard winter, through a drought-stricken spring, into a lush summer spent in the mountains beyond Tsengel with a family of nomads, and the return to the village for the 'short golden season', Mongolia's autumn. Includes strong language. 2003.From the holy mountain: a journey in the shadow of Byzantium
By William Dalrymple. 1998
In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an…
arc across the entire Byzantine world. More than a thousand years later, the author set off to retrace their footsteps. 1998.Fried eggs with chopsticks
By Polly Evans. 2005
When she learnt that the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator 16 times, Polly Evans decided…
to go and witness for herself the way this vast nation was hurtling into the technological age. But on arriving in China she found the building work wasn't quite finished. And as she travelled, she attempted to solve the ultimate gastronomic conundrum: just how does one eat a soft-fried egg with chopsticks? 2005.Empire of the soul: some journeys in India
By Paul William Roberts. 1994
Roberts tells of his journeys through India, which have spanned twenty years. He takes us to the crumbling palaces of…
maharajas, to ashrams, temples, and caves of holy men, and on tortuous journeys to remote villages. Along the way, he reveals the richness of India through its history, religions, and landscape. 1994.Enemy in the promised land: an Egyptian woman's journey into Israel
By Sana Hassan. 1987
The daughter of Egypt's former ambassador to the United States provides a bold view of Israel through Arab eyes. Based…
on her three-years-long stay in that country, Hasan describes forays into the halls of the Knesset, the back alleys of the Tel Aviv underworld, the radical Kibbutzim, and the right-wing settlements. 1987.Desert places: A Woman's Odyssey With The Wanderers Of The Indian Desert
By Robyn Davidson. 1996
An Australian woman recounts her travel experiences with a nomadic population in the desert of western India. She endures hardship…
and discomfort to record a disappearing way of life. Despite being a foreigner, a woman, and ignorant of the local language, she forges enduring friendships. 1996.Caves in the desert: travels in China
By George Woodcock. 1988
In 1987, the author toured through northern China visiting traditional Buddhist centres rarely visited by the non-Chinese. As he recounts…
his journey, Woodcock also details Chinese geography, history, art, religion and society. 1988.Chinese brushstrokes: stories of China
By Sandra Lynn Hutchison. 1996
Nine months before the Tiananmen Uprising, Sandra Hutchison travelled to Anhui Province in China to teach English literature. In "Chinese…
brushstrokes," she tells of her journeys within China, her encounters with its people, and the Democracy Movement of 1989. 1996.China, the people (Lands, peoples, and cultures series.)
By Bobbie Kalman. 1989
A description of life in modern China, and of how conditions have changed there. Grades 3-6. Taped with: China, the…
land by Bobbie Kalman. Covers the events and people that have shaped China's history. Grades 3-6. Taped with China, the culture by Bobbie Kalman. Records the achievements of China's 4,000 year old civilization. Includes the history of various festivities, recipes and activities. Grades 3-6. (The lands, peoples and cultures series)Canada's first nations: a history of founding peoples
By Olive Patricia Dickason. 1992
Dickason traces the history of Canada's first nations, from the earliest habitation of North America through European settlement and to…
the present. She discusses current issues and controversies, including Meech Lake, the Oka crisis, and the debate over self-government. 1992.China homecoming
By Jean Fritz. 1985
The author lived in China until she was 13 years old. In this book, she tells of her return to…
Hankou, her home town, four decades later. Companion volume to "Homesick : my own story" (DC06014). For junior and senior high readers. c1985.Burmese lessons: a love story
By Karen Connelly. 2009
Myanmar, 1996. Canadian poet, memoirist, and novelist Connelly describes a country in the throes of a military dictatorship, as she…
travels to Burma for PEN Canada. Trying to gather information on political prisoners, Connelly gets caught up in violent street demonstrations and even interviews opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Then she meets and falls for Maung, a Burmese revolutionary leader, who shares his not uncommon story of becoming politicized after the unrest of 1988. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West
By Dee Alexander Brown. 1970
The author sets out to tell of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their…
own words whenever possible; of the greedy invaders, murdering and destroying Indians who had set out to live in peace with their white neighbours. 1970.Behind the wall: a journey through China
By Colin Thubron. 1987
Arabian sands
By Wilfred Thesiger. 1984
Thesiger, the son of a British diplomat, was born in a mud hut in Addis Ababa in 1910. This is…
the account of his travels from 1945 to 1950 during which he lived among the Bedouins and traversed the "Empty Quarter", a vast, arid desert. 1984.