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  • Antipodes

    Stories

    by Ignacio Padilla ...
    Translated by Alastair Reid ...
    From the author of the award-winning novel Shadow Without a Name, comes Antipodes, the first collection of his short fiction to be translated into English. This lively, eclectic, and highly imaginative volume spans time, place, and culture as the narratives move from the scorching heat of the Gobi desert to the glacial heights of Mount Everest.Here, among others, are the stories of a great ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

    by Simon Winchester ...
    In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare travel memoir that actually defines a nation and its ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Tibetan Foothold

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, ... Read more

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  • House of Snow

    An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

    Edited by Ellen Parnavelas ...
    A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Sun After Dark

    Flights Into the Foreign

    by Pico Iyer ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

    Essential Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Brian Karetnyk ...
    Series Book 7 - Essential Stories
    A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writerThe stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, to the Emperor's court, they offer glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. Vividly translated by Bryan ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Smile in the Mind's Eye

    An Adventure into Zen Philosophy

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
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  • Daughter of Empire

    My Life as a Mountbatten

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    “Lady Pamela Hicks’s joyously entertaining new memoir, arguably the poshest book that ever has or will be written” (Newsweek), is a privileged glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentieth century’s leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born in Madrid at the very end of the roaring twenties. Daughter of the glamorous heiress Edwina Ashley and Lord ... Read more

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  • 100 Beauties: Suzuki Harunobu

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    Suzuki Harunobu was a celebrated 18th century Japanese ukiyo-e artist who produced thousands of exquisite woodblock prints illustrating aspects of life and society in old Edo - today's Tokyo.His subjects extended from Kabuki actors and courtesans to landscapes, explicit eroticism and street scenes. Yet the subject at which he most excelled was bijin-ga or paintings of beautiful women.This book ... Read more

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  • The World, the World

    Memoirs of a Legendary Traveler

    by Norman Lewis ...
    The acclaimed travel writer recounts six decades of adventures around the globe, from conversations with Hemingway to his war service in North Africa.The consummate gentleman adventurer, writer Norman Lewis spent more than half a century exploring the globe and chronicling the amazing things he found. In The World, the World, with his usual literary deftness and narrative skill,Lewis recounts a ... Read more

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  • Monsoon Country

    by Pira Sudham ...
    Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon CountryNEW 2022 EDITIONIt is hard to overstate the impact that Pira's Monsoon Country had on the outside world when it was first published in 1988. Regarded as a classic by many, yet is was classic in a genre of just one novel.Pira Sudham and Monsoon Country are close to unique in so many ways. He wrote in the English and never published novels or short stories ... Read more

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  • The Night Of The New Moon

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    This book is the remarkable story of his experiences in the prison camp, but it is also a meditation on the morality of the Bomb, a compassionate and moving contemplation of human violence. ... Read more

    $10.19 USD