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  • 台灣百年市場:從北到南,和魚夫一起探看25個流轉百年的菜市風華

    by 魚夫 ...
    Series Book 5043 - 台灣圖典
    台灣有哪些百年市場?從市場建築、歷史到大店小吃,遍訪美食,踏查文史,描繪你我或許熟悉的老派市井生活,體驗各地特色的最佳引路導覽。走遍吃遍台灣,魚夫這次將眼光關注到歷時百年的老市場。從北到南25個歷久不衰的市民買辦重心,究竟如何緊緊抓住在地人的心?透過作家之眼,探看這些日治時代即有的市場建築、人文風情與飲食特色,認識百年市場的前世今生和興衰起落,隨著文字體驗在地台灣味及美食風格。這趟老菜市之旅,不只是吃美食、買買菜,更是一趟熟悉歷史底蘊與在地飲食的文化饗宴。★ 25個台灣百年菜市,全台走透透一次認識從北到南到東,魚夫踏訪全台,精選從日治時期開市至今仍存在的25個市場,說明歷史、建築或沿革,親訪市場內外攤商店家,帶你認識百年市場的過往與現在!★ 魚夫說古道今,講歷史,聊建築,圖繪各地特色飲食... ... Read more

    $12.56 USD

  • Afghanistan, Forteresse du Cannabis

    Plongez dans les salons à chillum enfumés du nord de l’Afghanistan, à travers les champs de cannabis, la récolte et la confection de haschich. Voici l’histoire du cannabis traditionnel afghan et de ses influences sur le marché moderne de cette plante psychoactive. Un sujet peu exploré, contrastant avec la plupart des productions photographiques et journalistiques actuelles sur ce pays : l’image ... Read more

    $6.25 USD

  • Lonely Planet Central Asia

    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Central Asia.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from staying overnight in an authentic yurt in the high eastern Pamirs, to hiking through the wild and memorable Bartang Valley, and haggling for goods at the buzzing Jayma Bazaar in Kyrgyzstan.Build a trip to remember with Lonely ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Kyrgyzstan

    Bradt's Kyrgyzstan remains the only English-language guide dedicated solely to this astounding country, described as 'the Switzerland of central Asia' and regarded by many as the most beautiful country in the world. This new, thoroughly updated fourth edition further extends its comprehensive coverage of all the country has to offer, including trekking, mountaineering, horse riding, historical ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Silk and Song

    by Dana Stabenow ...
    A young woman seeks her heritage in this thrilling, continents-spanning medieval historical adventure from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow.Beijing, 1322. Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the den of intrigue that is the Great Khan's court. Johanna's future – if she ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Kazakhstan

    This new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt's Kazakhstan remains the only guide available dedicated solely to the world's ninth largest country. This new edition covers all the most recent developments, including an updated history section, additional cultural coverage, more practical information to make independent travel easier, and the most up-to-date and relevant maps. Kazakhstan is ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Heart of Asia

    Nicholas Roerich was fond of saying, "Blessed be the obstacles--through them we grow." He was well qualified to know, for obstacles were a constant in his life. A superficial glance at his life would reveal only creativity and adventure, far more than is generally allotted to any one person in a lifetime. But beneath that surface lay ever-present difficulty.It is hard to know why certain people ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Travels into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia

    At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective intelligence agents of his time. Making two dangerous journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, he reported back via the East India Company to Downing Street on the geography and politics of the kingdoms that lay to the northwest as far as fabled Bokhara. He travelled simply, disguised as a ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • To a Mountain in Tibet

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." —Bob Shacochis, Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Moğolistan

    Asya’nın Sessiz Coğrafyasında Tarihimize SeyahatGezip görmek, insanın görüşlerini genişletir.Çok yer dolaşan kişiler, çok coğrafya ve çok insan tanırlar. Böylece insanlarla toplumlar arasındaki farkları görürler.İbni Batuta gezilerinde Anadolu'yu dolaşırken Ahi tekkelerinden bahseder. Ahiler hakkında en güvenli bilgiyi onun eserinde bulmaktayız.Eski gezginlerin gördüklerini anlatmaları çok ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Afghanistan

    by Nicola Barber ...
    Series series Changing World
    Written in British English, Written in British English, In "Afghanistan", you will learn that Afghanistan is one of the least economically developed countries in the world. The economy is based on agriculture, but much of the land suitable for farming has been damaged by drought, deforestation, and war. ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Where the Pavement Ends

    One Women's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam

    "In the middle of the night I crawled out of my tent into a silvery vastness truly unchanged since Genghis Khan and his hordes loped west more than half a millennium ago. There was no glow of city lights on the horizon, no ranger station at the edge of the next valley, no quaint general store, no paved road. There was nothing but space, unbounded and untamed. A brilliant moon lit the blackness ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Uzbekistan

    Written and updated by expert authors who have extensive experience of living and working in Central Asia, this new, fully updated third edition of Bradt's Uzbekistan remains the definitive and only standalone practical travel guide to this increasingly liberal destination - central Asia's most populous country and the heart of the Silk Road. Offering more detail for independent travellers than ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures

    A Book Of Travel

    by Gertrude Bell ...
    Example Story in this ebook AN EASTERN CITY The modern capital of Persia lies in a plain ringed half-way round by mountains, which on the northern side touch with frozen summits the regions of eternal snow, and on the east sink into low ranges of hills, stretching their naked arms into the desert. It is the chief city of a land of dust and stones—waste and desolate, Persia unfolds her monotonous ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Prisoner of Zion

    Muslims, Mormons and Other Misadventures

    by Scott Carrier ...
    An NPR journalist’s riveting exploration of religious fanaticism, terrorism, persecution, and confronting one’s own beliefs in a post 9/11 world.Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell on September 11 2001, it became clear that the United States would invade Afghanistan. Writer and This American Life producer Scott Carrier decided to go there, too.“In a series of remarkable essays, Carrier, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Person From England

    First published in 1958, A Person From England tells of how the legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western travellers. During the last century, men of many nationalities have played what they and their contemporaries have called "The Great Game" - travelling throughout Central Asia. The author revives memories of the ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Marco Polo

    The Journey that Changed the World

    by John Man ...
    "I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." — John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original series Marco PoloGo behind the Netflix original series Marco Polo with the true story of the world’s most famous traveler.In 1271, a ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Transiberiana. Una Via verso Est. Da Mosca a Pechino

    by Marco Morra ...
    Il viaggio in treno lungo la storica linea ferroviaria, da Mosca a Pechino, attraverso al Siberia, la Mongolia e la Cina, per oltre novemila chilometri.Da un caffè di piazza Barberini, dove nasce l’Idea del Viaggio, alla stazione Yaroslavskij di Mosca, l’autore descrive minuziosamente la quotidianità, i piccoli gesti dei casuali compagni di viaggio, viaggiatori provenienti da ogni parte dell’Asia, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Opium Nation

    Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan

    by Fariba Nawa ...
    Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal exploration of Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides and beyond. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation “an insightful and informative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

    On the 8,000m peak circus in Pakistan

    by Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Shadow of the Silk Road

    by Colin Thubron ...

    $12.79 USD

  • Xinjiang | A Traveler's Guide to Far West China

    by Josh Summers ...
    Xinjiang | A Traveler's Guide to Far West China 2017 edition is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available for travel in the Xinjiang region. Whether you're a backpacker looking for information on hiking the Tianshan Mountains or a luxury traveler trying to discover a bed and breakfast in a comfortable grape orchard, this book covers everything you think you need to know...and more.Inside ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 她們的韓國夢:打工度假的美好與幻滅

    by Fion ...
    韓國打工度假熱潮下,她們追夢、圓夢或夢碎的冒險旅程在這個被韓國年輕人形容為「地獄」的國度,為什麼臺灣女孩們仍趨之若騖?似乎每個人都想聽聽別人的說法,來映照自己的動機並不孤單。「擺脫不負責任的代辦找的爛工作後,輾轉踏進東大門,白天在貨運行驗貨,半夜當追貨小幫手,月收近十萬,『不當臺勞』的初衷已經轉變……」--曼菱/東大門批市買手「用半工半讀辛苦存的錢來到韓國,徹底貫徹『打工度假』精神,打過三、四種工,比手畫腳和同事搏感情,薪水省吃儉用,努力玩遍韓國……」--絭璟/餐廳廚房助手「為實現開店夢想,帶著二級程度的韓文到韓國闖蕩。從明洞的百貨公司到韓國人為主的購物中心,漸漸對韓國產生歸屬感,原本的夢想不斷推遲……」--佳瑩/百貨公司櫃姐「做什麼都好,就是想留在韓國!用過語言簽、打工簽,正式工作簽太難拿,直到在『搭訕居酒屋』認識男友後,結婚似乎成為留在韓國的唯一解……」--小璐/自由工作者... ... Read more

    $7.36 USD

  • 韓國人和你想的不一樣/人妻太咪的韓國有趣文化×特殊習慣×超妙生活觀察

    by 太咪 ...
    瘋韓劇、追偶像、學韓文,也要了解韓國人的一切;對韓國有成見?也許你對他們有些誤會!太咪帶你深入日常生活,從此對他們瞭若指掌,就算第一次走跳韓國也能立刻上手!打破種種迷思!.韓劇好浪漫~你該不會以為韓國人都這樣談戀愛吧?.什麼都是韓國的?韓國人表示:冤枉啊!.演藝圈光鮮亮麗,背後辛酸誰人知。發現特殊習慣!.吃飯就是要一起用泡菜湯「洗湯匙」!.餐具各司其職,筷子只能夾菜,湯匙只能吃飯?.湯麵、炸雞、生魚片,說得出的食物都能外送到你家!感受有趣文化!.「相親」是韓國男女的家常便飯?.用地址找路永遠回不了家,必須認地標!.親兄弟明算帳,在這裡行不通啊!臺灣人看韓國,情緒實在很複雜:熱愛偶像明星、流行時尚的粉絲迷戀她,被國... ... Read more

    $6.25 USD