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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.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.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.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.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.By Robert Collins. 1980
The author recalls the joys and sorrows of his childhood in rural Saskatchewan in the 1920s and the 1930s. His…
vivid imagination helped him to survive the loneliness of homestead life and the dreariness of the barren prairies. Followed by "The long and the short and the tall". 1980.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.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)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.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.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.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.By Colin Thubron. 1987
By John E Miller. 1998
Biography of the woman who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Examines how the child who lived those…
experiences evolved into the mature author who wrote about them. Discusses the role of her daughter Rose in encouraging and editing her novels. 1998.By Paul E Young, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost. 1983
This affectionate, humorous look at range life during the early part of the century is written by an old cowhand…
from Utah. An authentic picture of life in the real west. c1983.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.By Jamaica Kincaid. 2007
Novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles her three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land where she and her companions…
seek to gather seeds for planting at home. She summons up a realm dominated by magnificent mountains and teeming with colourful life, spinning a tale that includes everything from edging by a herd of ungainly yaks on a perilous path to confronting unpredictable Maoist guerrillas who could erupt into violence at any time. 2007.By Andy Russell. 1998
By Jason Elliot. 1999
An exploration of Afghanistan - its physical beauty, hospitality, religious variations, and long history. Elliot recounts events from his first…
visit at nineteen in 1986 travelling with anti-Soviet mujahedin and another journey ten years later when the Taliban forces were building power. 2001, c1999.By Paul William Roberts. 2004
Journalist Roberts, who was in Baghdad when the U.S. first attacked, but escaped to Jordan and returned to Iraq two…
weeks later, details the ancient and recent history of the region, and provides on-the-ground reporting of the war. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 2004.