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  • Three Japanese Buddhist Monks

    by Saigyo, Kamo no Chomei, Yoshida Kenko ...
    Translated by Meredith McKinney ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky'These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead taste life in the moment.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Essays in Idleness

    by Yoshida Kenko ...
    Yoshida Kenko's Essays in Idleness is a collection of his thoughts on his inner world and the world of Japanese life in the fourteenth century. He touched on topics as diverse as the benefits of the simple life ("There is indeed none but the complete hermit who leads a desirable life"), solitude ("I am happiest when I have nothing to distract me and I am completely alone"), lust ("What a weakly ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essays in Idleness

    by Yoshida Kenkō ...
    Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō is one of the most treasured works of classical Japanese literature, a timeless collection of reflections that captures the beauty, simplicity, and fleeting nature of life. Written in the fourteenth century by the Buddhist monk and courtier Yoshida Kenkō, this remarkable work offers a series of short observations and meditations on human experience, nature, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

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    by Richard F. Burton ...
    Series series Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
    Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, ... Read more

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  • My Year in Oman

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    by Matthew Heines ...
    Series series American Experiences in Arabia During the War On Terror
    The American TeacherTwo months after 9/11, an American teacher arrives in Muscat with little more than a contract and a suitcase.What follows is a year that changes him forever. And changes everything he thinks he knows about Muslims, the Middle East and the world.DiscoveryThrown into an Arabian kingdom still half a step from the Middle Ages, he discovers a world most outsiders never see — modern ... Read more

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  • The Fabulous Road

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    The Cook. The Dervish. The Geographer. The Artist. The Jongleur. The Scholar.  The Historian.  A group of men are imprisoned by their Sultan and await death; they are to be executed for petty crimes.  They all have one regret—not to have done the pilgrimage to Mecca. Whereupon, a talking parrot, centuries old, flies into their cell and rebukes them, suggesting they undertake the overland ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of a Middle-Aged Hummingbird

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  • Iraq

    by Geoff Barker ...
    Series series Changing World
    Written in British English, In "Iraq", you will learn that Iraq, once called Mesopotamia, is known as the "cradle of civilization," the location of the world’s first cities and empires. From 1979, Iraq was ruled by the brutal dictator, Saddam Hussein. In 2003, Hussein’s regime was overthrown following an invasion by an American-led coalition. In the chaotic aftermath, the occupying forces ... Read more

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  • From Garden of Eden to North America

    by Dr. S. Gul Hunzai ...
    From Garden of Eden to North America is the autobiography of Dr. S. Gul Hunzai, who was born and bred in the central part of historic Hunza in northern Pakistan. Purportedly, civilized humankind first emerged from the Garden of Eden, located in Hunza; Emilio Spedicato, an internationally acclaimed research icon at the University of Bergamo, Italy, contends that locating the Garden of Eden to Hunza ... Read more

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  • Misadventure in the Middle East

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    by Henry Hemming ...
    When Henry Hemming set out in a pick-up truck called Yasmine to make a portrait of the Middle East, he had no idea what he would find or where he would be able to go - he wasn't even sure how he would earn enough money to stay on the road for a year. Henry Hemming's extraordinary journey takes him from the drug-fuelled ski-slopes of Iran via some of the region's secret beaches, palaces, army ... Read more

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