Títulos en 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.

Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his Chinese Dream. With all the makings of a classic folk tale, his curiosity became an epic five-year adventure that would find him homeless, stateless, posing as a professor, imprisoned, deported, and caught in the middle of the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Though it has all the form of great fiction, An American Bum in China is a true story and all the crazier for it.

Das "Königreich am Dach der Welt" mit seinen magischen Berggipfeln, das seine Kultur und die bemerkenswerte antike Architektur bis heute bewahrt hat. Eine faszinierende Dokumentation über Nepal, das Land der schneebedeckten Berge, in denen die Götter zu Hause sind. Pokhara, Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur, Pashupatinath, Bodnath, Changu Narayan, Sankhu, Kirtipur, Chobhar, Panauti, Banepa, Dhulikhel. Im Schatten des mächtigen Hauptkammes des Himalajas liegt Pokhara. Sieben Süßwasserseen sog. Pokharis gaben der einst wichtigen Handelsstadt ihren Namen.

Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential...

Phoenix-native Skyler Doucet's plans with her BFF are ruined when her mom and Japanese stepfather move the entire family to Nagoya, Japan for the summer before her senior year. But when David Takamatsu, a biracial Japanese American boy, invades Skyler's space (and her heart), this fish out of water in Japan starts to wonder if it's the pond back home that might be too small.

Whether your taste runs to crocodiles, ancient relics, or flying saucers, you’re sure to find entertainment and illumination in this collection of 21 true travel stories.Join in the author’s adventures as she makes a pilgrimage to see a 2,500-year-old tooth, considers the fate of a three-legged elephant, learns the chilling secrets of the Jamaica Inn pirates, participates in a shamanic ayahuasca ritual, talks alien spaceship propulsion with a SETI scientist, and more.

Zurzeit gilt Thailand als eine der beliebtesten Reiseregionen überhaupt – nicht nur die atemberaubende Landschaft lockt die Touristen in die Gegend Südostasiens, sondern auch die wunderbare kulinarische Vielfalt und die Gastfreundschaft der Thais. Ich habe 2018 zum ersten Mal Europa verlassen und einen September lang dort verbracht und möchte diese Erfahrungen mit Ihnen teilen, denn es steckt weitaus mehr dahinter als ein tropischer Sandstrand und kostengünstige Standards.

Nicht jeder Reisende hat in Tokio sein Herz gelassen. Als seelenlose Großstadt verschrien, wo Arbeit mehr wiegt als Familie und Freizeit (Gesundheit gar), als Abbild einer Konsumgesellschaft abgestempelt, wo jeder Ablauf koordiniert ist und kein Raum für Individualität bleibt – die Stadt spaltet die Gemüter, vor allem bei Besuchern mit wenig Zeit, aber hohen Erwartungen.

Kampfjets über Taiwan, Kriegsschiffe in japanischen Gewässern, Militärbasen auf den Spratly-Inseln. China will sein Territorium im Ost- und Südchinesischen Meer ausweiten. Dabei ist besonders der Anspruch auf Taiwan explosiv, das China nicht als souveränen Staat anerkennt. Doch hinter...

Ever since Europeans started exploring the world’s highest mountains and trying to reach their summits in the early 20th century, Sherpas have been an integral part of mountaineering expeditions to the Himalayas. In this anthology curated from his popular Footsteps on the Mountain blog, Mark Horrell explores the evolution of Sherpa mountaineers, from the porters of early expeditions to the superstar climbers of the present day.

Stu Nugent was never a good candidate for a round-the-world cycling trip. He was, and remains, a coward. In a flash of uncharacteristic daring, he attempted to cycle the Northern Silk Road, from Shanghai to Europe. He failed. He failed dramatically. Against a backdrop of the world's most staggering, awe-inspiring landscapes, he was forced to smoke opium at gunpoint, attacked by a snake in a remote Kyrgyz river, robbed at gunpoint by the police, and eventually imprisoned in anonymous jail somewhere on the Kazakh steppe. How did it all go so wrong?

この本の目的は日本人が現在および今後数年間日本に訪れるであろう大量の外国人や観光客への対処を手助けすることです自らが外国人や観光客として日本人が外国人の行動に苦しんでいることに気づきまた外国人の苛立ちにも気づきました このような外国人による騒音や行動の問題を食い止めるためにこの本を書いたのですこの本では外国人を理解し彼らを幸せにし同時に日本人を幸せにするために必要な十の秘訣を教えます

It’s 1992 and magazine journalist Nigel Simmonds escapes corporate life to move to Bali, the Island of The Gods. His first port of call is Ubud, below sacred Mount Agung, where he sets up home among a collection of characters for whom life in the West–known as The Machine–has become untenable. 

Making It Big in Japan is your ultimate guide to living, working, and playing in Japan. The information you get about Japan from reading articles online in English only scratches the surface. Like an outdated textbook, the advice seems to be stuck in the 1980s without reflecting the real pace of change in Japan. There is a need for more clarity and explanations of information that is often only available in Japanese. To fill this gap, I have interviewed the people who influenced me, served as role models, or offered valuable perspectives along my seven-year journey in Japan.

Der Mount Everest ist zu einem Ort für einen pervertierten Massentourismus der Luxusklasse geworden. Mit fatalen Folgen für die dort lebenden Tibeter, die Bergsteiger und die Natur. Kenntnisreich und spannend beschreibt Oliver Schulz in seinem Buch, welche Kräfte und Interessen diese...

I have described 35 of my favorite colonial buildings in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and placed them in their historical context. Each one of them has a fascinating story to tell and is best understood and appreciated as a milestone in the history of Rangoon. The audiobook has two parts. Part one is the history of Rangoon, and part 2 is the buildings.

Per migliaia di anni, i piu grandi guaritori himalayani hanno affinato una potente scienza di guarigione dedicata alle malattie fisiche, ai disturbi psicologici e alle sfide spirituali. I metodi di guarigione naturale piu efficaci sono stati trascritti su antiche pergamene. Ora, in questo rivoluzionario resoconto di vita vissuta, molti di questi segreti di guarigione sono rivelati dagli incontri dell'autore con il leggendario maestro guaritore dottor Naram.

Japan is a land of complexity, contrast and contradictions. The world's third-largest economy, it is a powerhouse of innovation and a pioneer in technology, fashion and pop culture. But it also has a rich, ancient heritage and a deep reverence for custom, ritual and tradition. This illuminating two-part radio collection traverses the different aspects of this fascinating country, from its famous historical figures to its diverse cultural landscape.

In India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny caretaker with a French connection holds sway. Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours. Appu holds lessons for the living but Maya cares only for the dead. And a gastronome dog plays ball...

Herodotus, the fifth-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India—the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. His only companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus. In his journey across continents, Kapuscinski discovers his life's work: to understand and describe the non-Western world, in all its variety, through his still-virginal Western eyes.