Books, Travel, Asia

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Viking Adult (Hardcover)

description: ìutterly consumed with dread.î) I was trying to convince myself that my feelings were customary, despite all evidence to the contraryósuch as the acquaintance Iíd run into last week whoíd just discovered that she was pregnant for the first time, after spending two years and a kingís ransom in fertility treatments. She was ecstatic. She had wanted to be a mother forever, she told me. She admitted sheíd been secretly buying baby clothes for years and hiding them under the bed, where her husband wouldnít find them. I saw the joy in her face and I recognized it. This was the exact joy my own face had radiated last spring, the day I discovered that the magazine I worked for was going to send me on assignment to New Zealand, to write an article about the search for giant squid. And I thought, ìUntil I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for a giant squid, I cannot have a baby.î I donít want to be married ...

Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition)
by Villard (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-11-17)

Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Houghton Mifflin (Hardcover)

Rory Stewart
The Places In Between
by Harvest Books (Paperback)

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night he slept on villagers' floors, shared their meals, and listened to their stories of the recent and ancient past. Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He was also adopted by an unexpected companion-a retired fighting mastiff he named Babur in honor of Afghanistan's first Mughal emperor, in whose footsteps the pair was following.Through these encounters-by turns touching, con-founding, surprising, and funny-Stewart makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance that shape life in the map's countless places in between.

Slavomir Rawicz
The long walk (Ulverscroft large print series)
by Ulverscroft (Unknown Binding)

China Williams
Lonely Planet Thailand
by Lonely Planet Publications (Paperback)

Discover ThailandUncover Bangkok's best street stalls or enjoy a skyscraping gourmet dinner.Climb aboard a long-tail boat and island hop to your own isolated beach paradise.Get soaked at Songkran, the Thai celebration that becomes the world's biggest water fight.Trek off the beaten path in remote Isan to watch a rare solar alignment at an ancient Angkor temple.In This GuideTen authors, 259 days of in-country research and 150 maps.Trek, dive or monkey-watch with our detailed coverage of national parks and natural wonders.Visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler suggestions.

China Williams, Aaron Anderson, Brett Atkinson, Tim Bewer, ...
Thailand (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

Discover ThailandUncover Bangkok's best street stalls or enjoy a skyscraping gourmet dinner.Climb aboard a long-tail boat and island hop to your own isolated beach paradise.Get soaked at Songkran, the Thai celebration that becomes the world's biggest water fight.Trek off the beaten path in remote Isan to watch a rare solar alignment at an ancient Angkor temple.In This GuideTen authors, 259 days of in-country research and 150 maps.Trek, dive or monkey-watch with our detailed coverage of national parks and natural wonders.Visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler suggestions.

Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
by Vintage (Paperback)

Sarina Singh, Joe Bindloss, Rafael Wlodarski, Amy Karafin, ...
India (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

Colin Thubron
Shadow of the Silk Road
by HarperCollins (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-07-03)

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch—in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; ...

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