A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, Hardcover - Hua Hsu

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A thrilling account of this epic feat of endurance, Dawson faced intense hunger, equipment failure, fatigue and storms on his 7, 000 mile journey a...

An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.The islands of...

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This is the story of the amphibious march across the Pacific from theAleutians to Okinawa from the experiences of shipmates aboard the USS J. Frank...

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The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adve...

The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adve...

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This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and fo...

Tracing the global circulation and consumption of Hello Kitty, Christine R. Yano analyzes the spread of Japanese "cute-cool" culture, which she see...

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Reducere. At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...

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The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of L...

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Introduces FAO's work on biodiversity mainstreaming in Asia and the Pacific, focusing particularly on biodiversity-friendly practices that could be...

Ziua a saptea - Yu Hua

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Reducere. In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City's Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial,...