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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster from Anchor Price: $10.46 Customer Review:  Into Thin Air, is a captivating and truly mesmerizing, first-hand account of the deadliest season in the history of climbing Mount Everest. On assignment from Outside magazine, Jon Krakauer, is to report about the commercialization of the world's highest mountain. He would attempt the daunting... |
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The Heart Of The World: A Journey To The Last Secret Place from Penguin Press Price: $16.77 |
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India (Eyewitness Travel Guides) from Dorling Kindersley Publishing Price: $19.80 Customer Review: "Greetings from New Delhi. The city is fascinating, troubling and exhausting all at the same time." ~postcard with a picture of the Taj Mahal from a friend who seems to travel a lot lately and was very sweet to send me a postcard I was just about to review "Eyewitness Travel Guides: India" when a... |
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Lonely Planet China (Lonely Planet China) from Lonely Planet Publications Price: $19.79 Customer Review: Last summer I had the incredible oppurtunity to travel throughout China, from China's wild wild west Xinjian Province to Beijing, when I was only sixteen. Although, from reading others' review of the Lonely Planet Guide, it seems as if it is a horrible way to get around, it sincerely is not. I found... |
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Fruits from Phaidon Press Price: $18.87 Customer Review: I often buy the Newsstand "Fruits" magazine at the Japanese bookstore. Most of us don't know that perhaps the greatest youth fashion is concentrated in Harajuku, Japan. Compared to America's casual, preppy and khaki "standard of style"...it's everything but dull. While America may have had it's... |
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Inside Asia from TASCHEN America Llc Price: $78.75 |
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Lonely Planet India (Lonely Planet India) from Lonely Planet Publications Price: $18.47 Customer Review:  This is the second time to visit India.Both time I took the same Lonely Planet. Always I choose hotel from it and felt not bad. In some small city, hight rank hotel means good servie and the price was not so high as you image it. First all the price listed in the book is as same as in the hotel, so... |
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Great Escapes Asia (Jumbo) from Taschen Price: $39.99 Customer Review: This is not just a book, it's a piece to have in your living room, to read, to look and dream about. The photos are fantastic and the descriptions tell all you need to know about the place, includinding the prices and exactly locations. A book for you, your friends and family. |
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To Asia with Love: A Connoisseurs' Guide to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. from Global Directions Inc/Things Asian Press Price: $16.20 |
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Chinese in 10 Minutes a Day from Bilingual Books (WA) Price: $17.95 Customer Review: Before buying (or reviewing) a language instruction book, you should consider the purpose of the book. This book intends to give you some basic speaking ability in Chinese in a relatively short amount of time, to help you express yourself while traveling, shopping, eating, and doing other typical... |
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National Geographic Traveler China (National Geographic Traveler) from National Geographic Price: $18.45 Customer Review: I ordered five different guidebooks on China to plan an upcoming trip. This one was defintitely the best at giving an overview of the various cities and attractions -- the descriptions are just the right length to give you a good overview, the book doesn't shy from giving recommendations and... |
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The Hidden Gardens of Kyoto from Kodansha America Price: $29.70 |
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Lonely Planet Japan (Lonely Planet Japan) from Lonely Planet Publications Price: $18.47 Customer Review: This Lonely Planet book is a big help when travelling in Japan. The book provides a lot of useful information (such as bus/hotel/tourist center info and general history of each tourist attraction). The best of all is that the authors put Japanese characters next to all the locations. Many Japanese... |
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Japan (Eyewitness Travel Guides) from DK Publishing Inc Price: $16.50 Customer Review:  Until recently, I was a devoted fan of the Eyewitness Guide series. (My bookshelf holds their travel guides to France, Bali, South Africa, and even some US cities among others.) However, my recent trip to Kyoto and Tokyo proved too much for the series and I thought other travelers deserved a... |
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Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found from Knopf Price: $18.45 |
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom from The Lyons Press Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I read this book eagerly, given the fact that the book jacket described Rawicz's journey as "Homeric." Though he may have travelled as far as Odysseus, he certainly doesn't possess the literary skills of a Homer, even with the help of a ghost writer. The Long Walk was a plainly told tale of... |
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Lonely Planet Vietnam (Lonely Planet Vietnam) from Lonely Planet Publications Price: $17.59 Customer Review: LP Vietnam is an O.K. book if you just want to know how to get around, basic accomodations, etc. There are some good information in the book, but not enough. If you are interested in knowing about modern Vietnam, you are much much better off reading Catfish and Mandala by Andrew Pham and Shadows and... |
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Himalaya from Harry N Abrams Price: $31.50 |
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Angkor: Celestial Temples of the Khmer from Abbeville Press Price: $62.70 Customer Review: Through his magical photographic eye, Jon Ortner has created a wondrous collection of striking images and scholarly prose. His perfectly lit photographs and well-documented historic descriptions allow one to easily understand this complicated ancient subject. Each temple is clearly organized into... |
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Fodor's Japan, 16th Edition : The Guide for All Budgets, Completely Updated, with Color Photos and Many Maps (Fodor's Japan) from Fodor's Price: $15.64 Customer Review: Fodor's was the fourth guide that I bought for Japan. It did not disappoint, but competition is tough and others do a better job in some areas. My biggest complaint would be a poor map of Tokyo subway (black and white, coding of lines difficult to follow even for someone who is not a complete... |
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Philippines (Culture Shock!) from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Alfredo and Grace Roces have compiled a great deal of material on the Psycho-social development of and application of "The Pilopino Culture". Rationales are given for certain behaviors, and comparisons with American Culture are made. As an American I find the information contained in this study of... |
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The Rough Guide to Vietnam (Rough Guide Vietnam) from Rough Guides Limited Price: $14.25 Customer Review: I had the Lonely Planet and my friend had the Rough guide and the difference was quite great. The section on the Mekong Delta for example was vastly more in depth in the LP and I would have been totally lost if I had used the Rough Guide. |
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Lonely Planet Cambodia (Lonely Planet Cambodia) from Lonely Planet Publications Price: $12.23 Customer Review: Lonely Planet Guides are always the best sources of info for pre-trip planning and to take along, but the Cambodia LPG has an added feature that really impressed me, and that is the maps and diagrams of the temples and temple complexes, and the great details in the descriptions that go with them.... |
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Lonely Planet Thailand (Lonely Planet Thailand) from Lonely Planet Publications Price: $17.15 Customer Review: Re: other reviewers' comments on Pattaya: Thanks, Joe, for NOT dwelling on that tourist trap. ANY OTHER brochure, website, or travel agent offers equal information. Lonely Planet's info given is more than plenty to fully enjoy R&R in Pattaya. If you want to venture to the true beauty of... |
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Sightseeing from Grove Press Price: $15.40 |
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