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  • 老派少女購物路線【暢銷紀念版】(電子書特別收錄:作者親題贈語)

    by 洪愛珠 ...
    Series Book 3109 - 生活館
    【出版五週年】全球實體書熱銷逾120,000冊,已授權日文、簡體中文、韓文、英文等多種語言。【獲多項肯定】台灣文學金典獎、Openbook年度中文創作、誠品閱讀職人大賞三冠王、博客來年度選書、金石堂年度十大影響力好書、讀墨年度華文大獎人氣作家等。【暢銷紀念版】全新書封、內文修訂、新版推薦序、新版後記、大事紀、珍藏手繪扉頁。【重量級序文】詹宏志新版序;舒國治、馬世芳專序;蔡珠兒推薦短文。這位善於捕捉人生一瞬的作者是深懂文章藝術的。——詹宏志〈新版序〉洪愛珠不只是寫吃寫得好,她是──寫得好。——舒國治〈專序〉▍沿路線,看見生活的來處與底氣 ▍《老派少女購物路線》是洪愛珠首部散文作品。... ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Marco Polo

    The Journey that Changed the World

    by John Man ...
    "I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." — John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original series Marco PoloGo behind the Netflix original series Marco Polo with the true story of the world’s most famous traveler.In 1271, a ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Uzbekistan

    Written by Central Asian expert and experienced travel writer Sophie Ibbotson, who is Uzbekistan’s Tourism Ambassador to the UK, this new, fully updated fourth edition of Bradt’s Uzbekistan remains the definitive practical travel guide to an increasingly liberal destination – Central Asia’s most populous country and the heart of the Silk Road – offering more detail for independent travellers than ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • El leopardo de las nieves

    Translated by José Luis López Muñoz ...
    Series Book 136 - El Ojo del Tiempo
    Un viaje espiritual inolvidable a través del Himalaya que ha trascendido los límites habituales del lenguaje.En otoño de 1973, el escritor Peter Matthiessen y el zoólogo George Schaller emprendieron una expedición a la Montaña de Cristal, en la meseta del Tíbet, para estudiar los hábitos de un animal no muy conocido: el bharal o cordero azul himalayo. Pero su auténtica esperanza era poder ver al ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Kathmandu

    by Thomas Bell ...
    One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention.Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Lonely Planet Central Asia

    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Central Asia.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from staying overnight in an authentic yurt in the high eastern Pamirs, to hiking through the wild and memorable Bartang Valley, and haggling for goods at the buzzing Jayma Bazaar in Kyrgyzstan.Build a trip to remember with Lonely ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • TIMELESS ON THE SILK ROAD

    An Odyssey From London To Hanoi

    by Heather Ellis ...
    Believing this is her last adventure, her one last search for meaning, Heather’s journey ultimately becomes one of destiny. Infused with a deep spiritual power, it is also a story that leaves the reader considering their own ‘time less’ journey called life.After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis is diagnosed with HIV in London. She is thirty years old and is given five years to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • In Siberia

    by Colin Thubron ...
    As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades; a terrain ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Shadow of the Silk Road

    by Colin Thubron ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Kyrgyzstan

    Deep within central Asia, Kyrgyzstan's beautiful mountainscapes, dreamlike rock formations and semi-nomadic culture are gloriously unspoiled. A trip here can be as adventurous as you please: admire 5,000-year-old petroglyphs at Saimaluu-Tash, gallop on horseback through the rugged Ala-Archa Canyon, visit Bishkek's Soviet-era statues or simply laze on the shores of the vast Lake Issyk-Kul.Now in ... Read more

    $19.19 USD

  • Opium Nation

    Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan

    by Fariba Nawa ...
    Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal exploration of Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides and beyond. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation “an insightful and informative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

    On the 8,000m peak circus in Pakistan

    by Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 她們的韓國夢:打工度假的美好與幻滅

    by Fion ...
    韓國打工度假熱潮下,她們追夢、圓夢或夢碎的冒險旅程在這個被韓國年輕人形容為「地獄」的國度,為什麼臺灣女孩們仍趨之若騖?似乎每個人都想聽聽別人的說法,來映照自己的動機並不孤單。「擺脫不負責任的代辦找的爛工作後,輾轉踏進東大門,白天在貨運行驗貨,半夜當追貨小幫手,月收近十萬,『不當臺勞』的初衷已經轉變……」--曼菱/東大門批市買手「用半工半讀辛苦存的錢來到韓國,徹底貫徹『打工度假』精神,打過三、四種工,比手畫腳和同事搏感情,薪水省吃儉用,努力玩遍韓國……」--絭璟/餐廳廚房助手「為實現開店夢想,帶著二級程度的韓文到韓國闖蕩。從明洞的百貨公司到韓國人為主的購物中心,漸漸對韓國產生歸屬感,原本的夢想不斷推遲……」--佳瑩/百貨公司櫃姐「做什麼都好,就是想留在韓國!用過語言簽、打工簽,正式工作簽太難拿,直到在『搭訕居酒屋』認識男友後,結婚似乎成為留在韓國的唯一解……」--小璐/自由工作者... ... Read more

    $7.32 USD

  • To a Mountain in Tibet

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." —Bob Shacochis, Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • 主観満載で語る世界の日常~アジア編~

    by 川潟努 ...
    非日常が日常化した旅人にとっては当たり前の風景も、多くの人には珍しいもの。たいした観光もせず現地の人と同じテンポで過ごす旅を好む著者が、日記のように取りためた写真を見たまま感じたまま主観満載の説明付きでまとめました。・未知に興味がある方・土産話が聞きたい方・旅のイメージを膨らませたい方におすすめします。観光客と現地人の中間のような旅をすることで見えてくる本質、生まれてくる価値観を今まで口伝えしてきましたが、書籍化することでより多くの人の心に届くことを願っています。掲載写真の撮影地1.ネパール2.バングラディッシュ3.ミャンマー4.カンボジア5.ベトナム6.マレーシア~著者略歴~川潟努札幌出身。大学卒業後上京し、専門職に就くも路線変更。常に複数の仕事を持ちながら、行動範囲とコミュニティーを広げていく。その後... ... Read more

    $0.82 USD

  • Bodrum, Turkey Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Bodrum, Turkey.Bodrum is a town on the southern Aegean coast of Turkey, popular with tourists from all over the world and is the site of the ancient city of Halikarnassus, the location of the famous Mausoleum of Halikarnassus (built after 353 BCE) and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Unfortunately, the ancient monument was damaged by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Among the Russians

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all." — Jan MorrisThe first book in Thubron's Russian trilogy AMONG THE RUSSIANS, called "superb" by the New York Times Book Review, recounts Thurbon's 10,000 mile journey throughout half of Russia's cities and countryside.Here is a fresh ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Marmaris, Turkey Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Marmaris, Turkey. Marmaris is a tourist town on the Mediterranean coast in the province of Mu?la. It has around 28 000 inhabitants, however the population can grow to 250,000 during the height of the tourist-season. Little is left of the sleepy fishing village that Marmaris was just a few decades ago after a construction boom in the 1980s. Marmaris ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Nepal One Day at a Time

    One woman's quest to teach, trek and build a school in the remote Himalaya

    by Patti Lefkos ...
    A Himalayan adventure travel memoir with a humanitarian twist. About to turn sixty-eight, Patti's life was disintegrating. Leaving behind her injured husband she packs her bags and heads to Nepal. Solo travel forces her to surmount daunting hurdles-both physical and emotional. While trekking in the forbidden kingdom of Upper Mustang she realizes her strength and determination when she suffers a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dispatches from the Kabul Café

    Where can you buy 913 Kalashnikovs?How do you tell a friend her expat love is never coming back?What’s it like to date a mercenary?In 2007, Canadian journalist Heidi Kingstone arrived in Kabul, eager to uncover the mysteries and shadows of one turbulent corner of the world. Over the next four years, she encountered idealists and chancers, gunrunners and warlords. She interviewed generals and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 走進中亞三國:尋找絲路的故事

    by 馮珍今 ...
    置身烏茲別克,帖木兒的精魂好像無處不在,蒙古鐵騎的征塵已絕,高聳的宣禮塔尚在,穆斯林的禱告聲有若穿越時空而來……來到吉爾吉斯,伊塞克湖已無靈怪,但玄奘的行腳,仍有跡可尋;在碎葉遺址,李白的誕生地,倒惹來不少爭議……跑到哈薩克的塔拉茲,找不到煙塵莽莽的古戰場,卻想起了造紙術的西傳;在阿拉木圖,竟找到了冼星海大街,耳畔彷彿響起了《黃河大合唱》……自古而來,中亞與中國有着千絲萬縷的關係,西域的多元文明,注入中土後,帶來文化糅合的新氣象。作者遊走於中亞三國,以細膩的文字,生動的筆觸,述說當地的文化、歷史和傳說故事,讓你彷彿走進浩瀚古城,在絲路上尋覓璀璨的遺跡與今日的風貌。 ... Read more

    $8.68 USD

  • Uzbekistan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    Series series Culture Smart!
    Culture Smart! Uzbekistan will take you beyond the standard descriptions of minarets, kebabs with vodka, embroidered skullcaps, and Soviet-style bureaucracy. It will make you aware of the value systems, attitudes, and behaviors of the different cultural groups in the country, and offer an insider's view of Uzbekistan's fascinating history, national traditions, various cuisines, and cultural scene. ... Read more

    Was $12.79 USD Now $11.49 USD

  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 3 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman’s account of the climb, has been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly o... ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Let's Explore Japan (Most Famous Attractions in Japan)

    Japan Travel Guide

    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Sakura and sushi are only two things about Japan that the world knows about. There are so many more to love about the country, and this book will give you a glimpse of what those other reasons are. Picture books not only make learning fun but also encourages self-awareness. They provide the opportunity for children to associate with the world. Order your copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD