Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
**WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**'The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people.'Mail Online'You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.' Economist'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.' Times Literary Supplement'A future classic of disas ...Show more
Koh-i-Noor by Anita Anand William Dalrymple
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public cer ...Show more
The Missing Man - From the Outback to Tarakan, the Remarkable Story of Len Waters, the RAAF's Only WWII Aboriginal Fighter Pilot by Peter Rees
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'You were the master of the machine...you were an airman.' Flying Officer Bob CrawfordLen Waters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at thirteen and by twenty was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in World War II. It wa ...Show more
Street of Eternal Happiness - Big City dreams along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace's Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the c ...Show more
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Named Best Book of the Year by theFinancial Times, theEconomistand theAtlantic In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated an ...Show more
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.' Economist 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.' Times Literary Supplement 'A future classic of disaster journalism.' Observer On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast o ...Show more
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Silk Roads: 2: The Age of the Silk Roads by Christoph Baumer
$89.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interlinking trade routes, collectively known as the Silk Road, led to an explosion of cultural and commercial transactions across Central Asia that had a profound ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red S ...Show more
North Korea: The Country We Love to Hate by Loretta Napoleoni
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In her characteristically direct approach, political analyst Loretta Napoleoni takes on the vexing story and threat of North Korea for those in the West who remain blinded by its myths and bigotry. Like China's Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung-North Korea's leader from its founding in 1948 until his death in 199 ...Show more
Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri (University of East Anglia)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Vintage Departures
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway ar ...Show more