Travel Asia

Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O’Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain—embracing the people, their food, and especially their curiosities. His humor and infatuation with humanity’s diversity fuel each story. Teaching in Korea and Vietnam since 2015, Sam uses his time out of the classroom to explore the rest of Asia. His five-book series, Itchy Feet Travel Tales in Asia, covers his adventures (and misadventures) in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit the Maldives. Greater Than a Tourist - Maldives by author Aishath Nadheema offers firsthand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the local islands and resorts in the Maldives. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Da Nang. Greater Than a Tourist - Da Nang Vietnam by author Linh Nguyen offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit Da Nang.

明治時代、「仏教原典」を求めて、鎖国のチベットに数々の困難を乗り越えながら単独入国を果たした僧侶の旅行記。

住職を辞め、旅の資金を貯めた後、まわりに惜しまれ呆れられながらも仏教原典を求める姿や、巡礼乞食をしながらチベットを目指し、氷がある河を泳ぎ、ヒマラヤを超えるなど、クレイジーな河口慧海師の魅力と出会える作品です。

チベットの生活や習慣などが浮かび上がってくる活き活きとした朗読でお楽しみください。

After three years of dating, Anita Jain finally got fed up with the New York singles scene. As her Indian parents continued to pressure her to find a mate, Jain couldn't help asking herself the question: Is arranged marriage really any worse than Craigslist? Full of romantic chance encounters, nosy relatives, and dozens of potential husbands, Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at our own expectations and the modern search for the perfect mate.

To nie tyle zapiski z podrózy po Azji. To zywe swiadectwo przezyc Antoniego Ferdynanda Ossendowskiego - znanego globtrotera, naukowca, awanturnika, szpiega, dyplomaty i dziennikarza. Uciekajac przed bolszewikami przez syberyjska tajge i stepy w Mongolii az do Chin, doswiadcza rzeczy i zjawisk, o których nie snilo sie filozofom. Niesamowite okazy fauny i flory, azjatycka odmiennosc kulturowa, wspaniale budowle, magiczne rytualy tubylców... wszystko to opisane zostalo z najprawdziwsza pasja i swada. Dzieki sugestywnemu glosowi Michala Breitenwalda i my mozemy na chwile znalezc sie w tym "rozgorzalym od namietnosci politycznych azjatyckim kotle".

Проживая в Китае 12 лет и посещая множество мест, автор этой книги часто задавала себе вопрос: "Настоящий это Китай или все-таки туристическое место?" Для кого-то настоящий Китай — это серые одноэтажные здания, люди в синих костюмах и кепках со звездой и что-нибудь жуть какое экзотическое в ресторанах. Многие полагают, что истинный Китай нужно искать в деревне — чем глуше, тем лучше. Другие не представляют Китай без небоскребов и технологичных устройств. На самом деле настоящий Китай повсюду, нужно только открыть глаза и отказаться от собственных стереотипов.

Ein Grund fuer den Autor, dieses Buch zu schreiben, ist, dass er tagtaeglich, Saison fuer Saison, die Massen von Touristen auf den immer gleichen Pfaden wandeln sieht. Alle scheinen hier mehr oder weniger dasselbe Programm abzuspulen. Schuld daran sind nicht zuletzt die zahllosen Reisefuehrer, die sich inhaltlich alle gleichen wie ein Ei dem anderen. Wie soll man als Reisender da auch Neues entdecken, wenn man sich an einen Reisefuehrer klammert, in dem nichts Neues steht? Als ortskundiger Deutscher wundert man sich ja schliesslich auch darueber, dass alle Deutschlandreisenden die immer gleichen Orte und Regionen abklappern: Den Koelner Dom, den Schwarzwald, Schloss Neuschwanstein, das Hofbraeuhaus in Muenchen und eine Bootsfahrt auf dem Rhein entlang der Weinstrasse vielleicht noch. Als Einheimischer weiss; man, dass Deutschland soviel mehr zu bieten hat, eben abseits der ausgetretenen Touristenpfade. Genau dasselbe gilt fuer jede andere Region am anderen Ende der Welt, in Laendern, von denen man als Tourist so gut wie nichts weiss, ausser das, was in den Reisefuehrern steht, die anscheinend irgendwo geklont anstatt erweitert werden. Und deshalb moechte dieses Buch einen kleinen Einblick geben und einige wenige Regionen vorstellen, die auf jeden Fall einen Abstecher wert sind. Vor allem aber moechte es die Neugier wecken und Mut machen, damit Sie als Reisender die ausgetretenen Pfade auch mal verlassen. Und keine Sorge: Ihnen passiert dabei schon nichts. In kaum einer anderen Region auf der Welt ist es einfacher und sicherer zu reisen, als im wunderbaren Suedostasien, in Kambodscha, Laos und Myanmar - egal auf welchem Pfad Sie hier auch wandeln.

This unique book is the first to bring together a group of influential China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the People’s Republic. Filling an important gap, it allows scholars, journalists, and businesspeople to reflect on their personal memories of China.

Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history.

Greater Than a Tourist—Wadi Rum, Jordan by Um A'yube offers the inside scope on Wadi Rum. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series this book will give you tips and a bunch of ideas from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

Is India ready for superpower status or too far behind China to ever catch up? In his career as one of India's leading journalists and entrepreneurs, Raghav Bahl has often faced this question, and many others, from bewildered visitors.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Prayagraj. Greater Than a Tourist—Prayagraj: The City of Holy Sangam by Author Aditya Raj offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the Holy City Prayagraj. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s. Fleming spent seven months with the "object of investigating the Communist situation in South China" at a time when, as far as he knew, "no previous journey had been made to the anti-communist front by a foreigner", and on its publication in 1934, One's Company won widespread critical acclaim.

Greater Than a Tourist- Indonesia offers the inside scoop on Indonesia. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Nur wenige Monate nachdem in Afghanistan eine über 25-jährige Kriegsgeschichte zu Ende ging, begleitet Roger Willemsen 2006 eine afghanische Freundin auf ihrem Weg in die Heimat: von Kabul nach Kunduz und durch die Steppe zum legendenumwobenen Oxus, dem Grenzfluss zu Tadschikistan – die abenteuerliche Reise durch ein erwachendes Land. Am Ende ist Roger Willemsens Buch weit mehr als der persönliche Bericht von einer faszinierenden Reise, sondern eine literarische Betrachtung der Grundlagen allen Reisens.

In 1995, at the age of 23, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China's changes as he was.

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あなたは、日本のことをどのくらい知っていますか？
この国の文化や歴史、習慣について世界の人々に説明することができますか？

日本がもつ独特の文化や景観は、いまや世界中から愛され、年間3000万人もの外国人が日本を訪れる時代になりました。彼らの目に映る日本はどこまでも新鮮で、美の宝庫。

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you.

In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.