Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By: John Keay
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
"Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."-- The Washington Post A groundb…
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1. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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2. Annapurna: A Woman's Place
By: Maurice Herzog , Arlene Blum
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the fir… read more
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- travel
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3. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
4. Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual
By: Philip Matyszak
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Your emperor needs you for the Roman army! The year is AD 100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquer… read more
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5. The Road to Oxiana
By: Robert Byron
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Be… read more
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6. Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
By: Ian Shaw
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Paperback
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and ritua… read more
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8. Annapurna
By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
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9. Curfewed Night
By: Basharat Peer
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. read more
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10. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
By: Wade Davis
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure. If the quest for Mount Everest began as a g… read more
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11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
12. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
3.95
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more
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13. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
14. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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15. A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
By: Pico Iyer
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel w… read more
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"If they can’t get to Europe, they’ll find their way to a local theme-park Eiffel Tower. Even a place that we write off as “inauthentic,"-Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
16. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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17. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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18. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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19. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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20. Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By: John Keay
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
"Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."-- The Washington Post A groundb… read more
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21. The Doors of Eden
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.87
Format: 609 pages, ebook
Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of … read more
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22. Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
By: Erika Fatland
4.34
Format: 634 pages, Hardcover
Bestselgende forfatter Erika Fatland med ny, storslått reiseskildring: fra Himalaya. Erika Fatl… read more
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23. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
By: Erika Fatland
4.40
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more
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24. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
By: Tony Joseph
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South … read more
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25. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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26. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
By: David Van Reybrouck
4.54
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more
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27. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
28. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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29. Samurai: A Concise History
By: Michael Wert
3.42
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly mar… read more
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30. Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life
By: Ruskin Bond
4.14
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which to test themselves. Others find refuge and tranq… read more
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