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  • Introduction to the History of China: The Development from 1900 Until Today

    Introduction to the History of China: The Development from 1900 Until TodayThe Empire of the Middle: The History of China from the Decay of the Empire to the PresentAre you interested in the history of China?Would you like to know more about the peculiarities and characteristics of each Chinese era?Would you like to get a basic overview of China and its history?"... ... Read more

    R47,97

  • What Really Happened In Wuhan

    A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths

    Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia.The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring ... Read more

    R235,16

  • Lost on Planet China

    The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

    The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit ... Read more

    R148,80

  • River Town

    Two Years on the Yangtze

    by Peter Hessler ...
    When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes ... Read more

    R203,77

  • Behind The Wall

    A Journey Through China

    by Colin Thubron ...
    A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far ... Read more

    R202,39

  • A Short Stint in Tibet

    Captured by Chinese Horse Soldiers, a Couple Is Taken on a Wild Journey of Body and Mind

    by Ernst Aebi ...
    Seeking adventure, a couple, Ernst and Emilie, embark on a trek across the Himalayas, from Nepal into western Tibet. After a clandestine mountain crossing at the source of the Brahmaputra River, the two lost explorers find themselves destitute with no map and meager supplies. Suddenly, they are captured by a bedraggled patrol of outcasts from the Chinese Army. Their trip turns into a wild odyssey ... Read more

    R57,95

  • The Border - A Journey Around Russia

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly ... Read more

    R297,84

  • American Traitor

    by Brad Taylor ...
    Series Book 15 - Taskforce
    An enemy is dangerous. A traitor is lethal.They call them the Taskforce. Designed to operate outside the bounds of law, trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability, their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Recruited from top operators in the intelligence spheres and led by ex-Special Forces Operator Pike Logan, they're a formidable unit. Prepared for anything.And they need to ... Read more

    R122,69

  • The Travels of Marco Polo (Vol. 1&2)

    Complete Edition

    Translated by Henry Yule ...
    The Travels of Marco Polo is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The Travels is divided into four books. Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. ... Read more

    R39,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On A Chinese Screen

    Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the ... Read more

    R202,39

  • The Travels

    Translated by Nigel Cliff, Nigel Cliff ...
    A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition.Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of ... Read more

    R183,99

  • Country Driving

    A Chinese Road Trip

    by Peter Hessler ...
    After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening challenge, it enabled him to embark on an epic journey driving across this most enigmatic of countries. Over seven years, he travelled to places rarely explored by tourists, into the factories exporting their ... Read more

    R207,79

  • The Door Swings Both Ways

    A First Look at China, 1985

    by Pico Iyer ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts Travel SelectionWelcome to China in 1985, to a nation that has just begun to swing open for the West, and specifically for a young Time magazine journalist named Pico Iyer. From the beloved set of travel essays Video Night in Kathmandu, this is his dispatch.From Beijing to Chengdu to Guangzhou, Iyer crisscrosses the country, making friends, gathering impressions, and always ... Read more

    R23,06

  • Journal d'un inconnu en Chine

    Prenez part au voyage d'un homme à la recherche de son identité en plein cœur du coronavirus.Je vous emmène avec moi en Chine pour un périple auquel je ne m'attendais pas. Au départ, j'étais seul, je ne savais pas non plus qui j'étais réellement au fond de moi. Puis, les jours passèrent, j'étais entrain de me découvrir grâce à ce journal et aux expériences que je relatais à travers lui. Tout ... Read more

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  • 1001+ Základní fráze čeština - Hmong

    by Gilad Soffer ...
    "1001+ Základní fráze čeština - Hmong" Níže je seznam více než 1000 základních frází přeložených z České do Hmong. Věty rozděleny do sekcí, jako jsou čísla, barvy, čas, dny, tělo, pozdrav, počasí, nakupování, zdraví, nouzové, restaurace a další. ... Read more

    R50,21

  • 當今絲路人文風景

    by 張倩儀 ...
    隨着新絲路、一帶一路、印太戰略的提倡,沉寂多時的絲綢之路次踏上歷史舞台。面對歐美所代表的現代文明格局,擁有深厚文化底蘊的多個絲路古國何去何從?愛讀歷史、經常遊歷世界各地的資深出版人張倩儀,深入印度、中亞各國、伊朗、土耳其以至非洲等地,在本書中嘗試打破西方社會預設的刻板框架,從源頭開始,追溯海陸絲路涉及的國族、歷史、信仰、風俗、文化和美藝。作者把所識結合親身見聞、國際時局,提煉出獨特而貼地的視角,梳理絲路古國在世界的角色和影響,進而探討它們在世界新局下的人文面貌和不同出路,以至這片土地跟中國千絲萬縷的關係。中國自漢以來,為何離不開絲路?絲路文明如何積年累月地互為影響?東自中亞,西到阿拉伯、土耳其,在近代西方衝擊下,政治民生怎樣發?站在世界的十字路口,作者以生動的文字、近百張彩圖,配以地圖、大事表,引領讀者重新思考這片令人目眩神迷的古老大地,對我們當今的意義。 ... Read more

    R261,39

  • 大佛猶在:貫穿三千公里的壯遊行記

    by 王維寧 ...
    青年建築師王維寧的絲路探索貫穿三千公里的壯遊行記看見現代西域的險與樂、苦鹹與濃香自己的視野,不需要別人給出走、探索、冒險、壯遊數千年累積的文化,如今還在不在?民族之間,他們是怎麼生活的?我帶著建築人對文化應有的敏銳與態度從大城到大漠、大山到大水三千多公里的路程只為了探索彼此之間,別樣的人生風景──王維寧曾文祺、張國立、簡媜、顏崑陽──壯闊推薦為登華山,夾擠在四十度高溫的蒸氣室排隊忍住不吵架徒步翻越鳴沙山忘記帶水,乾渴得像是被妖風襲擊的唐僧在荒漠邊陲的網咖,竟遇見「英雄聯盟」同好,受邀上線開戰*◎ 打開心胸,證實老天最初給我們的是顆大心,非常大的心,千萬別把它變小。 ──張國立(作家)◎ 王維寧這一本絲路遊記的後勁是在閤上書之後才會發作,對年輕人而言,那是他們才聽得見的呼喚,那是「壯」這個字對他們下的戰帖。 而年輕人,... ... Read more

    R109,87

  • Mieux comprendre la Chine

    10 clés de communication pour appréhender l'Empire du Milieu

    Les données auraient-elles une valeur ? Celles qui sont désormais considérées comme lepétrole du XXIe siècle nous appartiennent, mais paradoxalement nous font désormais peur.En effet, pourquoi les grandes puissances mondiales légifèrent-elles sur la donnée, enallant crescendo, depuis plusieurs décennies ? D’aucuns évoquent, au titre du numérique,une quatrième révolution industrielle : quels en ... Read more

    R174,20

  • Du Voyage au royaume de la Chine

    Extrait :LEs commencemens des longs voyages & des choses difficiles, qui avec le cours du temps se sont eslevees, ont souvent restéentièrement inconnus à la posterité. Recherchant plusieurs fois la cause dont cecy pouvoit proceder, à peine en ay je peutrouver une autre, sinon que les commencemens de toutes choses (& mesme de celles qui croissent en apres à une grandeur demesurée)sont si foibles & ... Read more

    R34,66

  • Frasario Italiano-Cinese e vocabolario tematico da 3000 vocaboli

    Frasario italiano-cinese e vocabolario tematico da 3000 vocaboliLa raccolta di frasari da viaggio "Andrà tutto bene!" pubblicati da T&P Books è destinata a coloro che viaggiano all'estero per turismo e per motivi professionali. I frasari contengono ciò che conta di più - gli elementi essenziali per la comunicazione di base. Questa è un'indispensabile serie di frasi utili per "sopravvivere" ... Read more

    R102,68

  • 6000+ Vocabulary Spanish - Traditional_Chinese

    by Gilad Soffer ...
    "6000+ Vocabulary Spanish - Traditional_Chinese" is a list of more than 6000 words translated from Spanish to Traditional_Chinese, as well as translated from Traditional_Chinese to Spanish. Easy to use- great for tourists and Spanish speakers interested in learning Traditional_Chinese. As well as Traditional_Chinese speakers interested in learning Spanish. ... Read more

    R49,83

  • 平溪旅行地圖

    平溪線鐵道平溪老街懷舊之旅

    Series series 旅行地圖
    平溪位於基隆河上游。基隆河上游河谷寬狹不一 ,且地層起伏,水流湍急,多瀑布,而平溪一帶地勢較為平坦,水流平緩,而被稱為「平溪仔」。日治初期設石底區,大正九年(1920),石底區與十分寮區合併,設平溪庄,正式改稱為「平溪」。平溪拓墾於清乾隆時代,先民入山伐樟製腦及種植大青,為農業聚落,日治時代發現煤礦,並修築平溪線鐵路,以運輸煤礦,而形成繁榮的礦業聚落。採礦結束後,人口外流,聚落寂寥,近年來因平溪天燈、鐵道觀光、礦村懷舊及登山休閒風氣的普及,而逐漸恢復繁榮。 ... Read more

    R10,15

  • The Holiday FM Guide to Beijing

    by Holiday FM ...
    This is the Official Holiday FM Travel Guide to Beijing.Beijing is one place you'll never get bored of - whether you are after culture history people watching or just an escape from your monotonous life. It's a city geared up for the future but still stuck in way the past. It's a city with some of the best amenities but also the simplest charms. This Kindle book is designed to be read before you ... Read more

    R83,16

  • Let's Explore Southeast Asia (Most Famous Attractions in Southeast Asia)

    Southeast Asia Travel Guide

    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    There are lots of fun and religious places in Southeast Asia. Would you like to visit them? This picture book showcases all these places so you can explore them without actually leaving home. Picture books fuel your child's acceptance of learning. The use of pictures ensure universal understanding too. Your child does not need to master reading in order to appreciate this unique book. ... Read more

    R75,43