Travel : Asia

Passport Japan contains detailed information about Japanese business practices, negotiating styles, customs and business etiquette. more...

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Whether you're on a flying visit or round-the-world trip, this guide has all you need to get the most from your trip to this vibrant city. Full-colour throughout, Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Singapore highlights all the top attractions, from the temples of Little India to Chinatown’s bustling markets, you’ll never be stuck for things to do. Everything from airport arrival to city transport is covered in the handy ‘Basics’ section and the comprehensive accommodation section details the best places to stay whatever your budget. The essential ‘Places’ section will help you to explore the city district by district, with every sight, bar, restaurant and designer shop located on easy-to-use maps. Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Singapore is like having a local friend plan your trip! more...

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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; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment. more...

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New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a comprehensive, readable history of the land of the Rising Sun, from its ancient origins to its fascinating present. more...

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A lively and easy to read guide to Southeast Asia written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. more...

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