Golden Earth. Travels in Burma, Paperback - Norman Lewis

All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of ...

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.

Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his tra...

A new edition of the political travelogue, which was previously published as }Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell In A Burmese Teashop{. With a...

An exploration of Burma, which reveals a country where temples take priority over infrastructure, fortune tellers thrive and golf courses are carve...

Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentali...

Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy ...

Explores the events of the two main Chindit missions - Operation Longcloth and Operation Thursday.

Superbly, graphically and sensitively written.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Mooney, BrianIllustration(s): 8pp of B & W platesNumber of...

The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government-even in the face of...

Reducere. After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Ol...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Norman LewisNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 18Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibra...

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Reducere. Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times bestseller and People "Book of the Week" This hilarious, charming road trip through canine-loving America is "essential...

An engaging new collection of archive photography, offering readers new insights into the conflict that played out in the skies over Burma during t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Your number one travel companion to the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Discover the secret places and hidden stories. This is an absolute gem of a...

A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): L...

Reducere. Calabria is not a guide to Calabria but rather a book about Calabria. Since 1777, when Henry Swinburne, first travelled in Calabria in search of Ma...

The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived fr...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Norman R RoseIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 174Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 18...

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus...

Reducere. Description'To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.'First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is...

Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in an...

DescriptionUpdated and expanded 2nd edition of this popular and accessible explorer's handbook to a fascinating corner of Europe. Blue Guide Travel...

Reducere. In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the ...

Reducere. From the author of The Ice Soldier, comes a real-life adventure among the fjords and icy mountains of Norway.Certain geographies speak to people. W...

Reducere. DescriptionIbn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that ...

Reducere. Travels with the Earth Oracle - Book One is a condensation of twenty-five years of soul-body integration training with the focus on specific trips ...

Reducere. Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown...

Reducere. The Pacific Northwest has always been home to unusual folktales, bizarre legends, and strange goings ons. From the countless UFO sightings and the ...

Start reading Easy Burmese on the way to the airport and begin communicating as soon as you land Specially designed for beginning learners who have...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide i...

Reducere. DescriptionMiddle English is the name commonly given to the forms of English current from about 1100 to roughly 1500, between pre-Conquest Old Engl...

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Reducere. At the time when southern Italy was an isolated and underdeveloped region, Douglas wrote this 1915 travel guide to bring the beauty that he found i...

Reducere. The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taois...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet...

Reducere. **Sunday Times Bestseller** Origins by Lewis Dartnell stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens...A thrilling piece of Big History. - Sund...

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Reducere. Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.

DescriptionTwo Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and liv...