6 Best asia books like A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer

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A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

By: David Eimer

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

David Eimer journeys to the heart of Burma and out to its unexplored vistas, bringing to vivid life…

If you liked the asia plot in A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Damien Lewis, Zoya Phan

1. Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

By: Damien Lewis , Zoya Phan

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma to the Karen tribe, which for decades has been re… read more

Similar categories in Damien Lewis's Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. Burmese Days

By: George Orwell

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more

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3. Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up

By: Xiaolu Guo

3.64

Format: 288 pages, ebook

'Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!' Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, 'This is y… read more

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4. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel , Alfred Birnbaum

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition . In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only… read more

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5. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By: Richard Flanagan

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more

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6. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Cover of Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

8. Weasels in the Attic

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more

Similar categories in Hiroko Oyamada's Weasels in the Attic book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • asia
"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic

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9. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

Similar categories in Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

By: Rick Perlstein

4.34

Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover

A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more

Similar categories in Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul   Kenyon

12. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

By: Paul Kenyon

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kenyon's Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kenyon's Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U

14. The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

By: Thant Myint-U

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natu… read more

Similar categories in Thant Myint-U's The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • travel
  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson

15. The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disa… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond

16. On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

By: Clare Hammond

4.58

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent pr… read more

Similar categories in Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • travel
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung

17. In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

By: Bernice Yeung

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“When they know they can have some type of security, some kind of protection, then they’ll come for… read more

Similar categories in Bernice Yeung's In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • nonfiction
Cover of Until the World Shatters: Truth, Lies, and the Looting of Myanmar by Daniel Combs

18. Until the World Shatters: Truth, Lies, and the Looting of Myanmar

By: Daniel Combs

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This first in-depth piece of reportage about the largest natural resource heist in Asia reveals Mya… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Combs's Until the World Shatters: Truth, Lies, and the Looting of Myanmar book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

19. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

Similar categories in Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Cover of A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer

20. A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

By: David Eimer

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

David Eimer journeys to the heart of Burma and out to its unexplored vistas, bringing to vivid life… read more

Similar categories in David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • travel
  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China by Edward Wong

21. At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

By: Edward Wong

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A dual narrative that tells the story of modern China by braiding an intergenerational family memoi… read more

Similar categories in Edward Wong's At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China book and David Eimer's A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction

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2.33

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Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

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4.50

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4.29

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4.37

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4.34

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4.49

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