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  • Indonesia

    The Seam

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series series The Far Countries
    Look at a map of Indonesia and you see a scatter. Look again.Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores: not a scatter but a chain, bending in one long arc for three thousand miles, parallel to a trench in the sea floor where one piece of the earth is sliding beneath another. The islands are the volcanoes. The country is the shape of a plate boundary.From that single fact comes the rest of it - ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Japan

    The Far Countries, #1

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series Book 1 - The Far Countries
    Discover Japan beyond the guidebook.Japan is a land of striking contrasts, where ancient temples stand beside futuristic skylines, centuries-old traditions thrive in modern cities, and breathtaking landscapes have shaped one of the world's most remarkable civilizations.The Far Countries: Japan is not a conventional travel guide. You won't find hotel recommendations, restaurant listings, or ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Have You Eaten?

    What the World's Greetings Know About Being Well

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Most of the world does not ask "how are you?"The Chinese ask whether you have eaten. The Zulu say I see you. Persians wish you not to be tired. The Maasai are said to ask after the children. Each is a question about something a person actually needs, and each comes with a next step.A trauma surgeon who grew up being asked the first of these by his mother in Ismailia takes twelve of the world's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Far Countries

    One Book for Every Nation on Earth, Written to Be Read, Not Carried

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Peru is not a country you simply cross-it is one you climb.Stretching from one of the driest deserts on Earth to the frozen summits of the Andes before descending into the vast Amazon rainforest, Peru is a nation shaped by altitude. In Peru, Atlas Greaves journeys beyond famous landmarks to uncover the geography, history, cultures, and people forged across this extraordinary vertical landscape ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Far Countries

    A Traveller's Book of History, Land and Life

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series series The Far Countries
    Discover Japan beyond the guidebook.Japan is a land of striking contrasts, where ancient temples stand beside futuristic skylines, centuries-old traditions thrive in modern cities, and breathtaking landscapes have shaped one of the world's most remarkable civilizations.The Far Countries: Japan is not a conventional travel guide. You won't find hotel recommendations, restaurant listings, or ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Egypt

    The Far Countries

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series series The Far Countries
    You come to Egypt expecting a country. You find a river.From the air, the Nile is a single stroke of green through a wasteland of sand-and along that stroke are the pyramids, the call to prayer, crowded cities, fertile fields, and the longest continuous story any country has to tell.In the fourth book of The Far Countries, correspondent Atlas Greaves follows the Nile from Aswan to the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Far countries

    A Traveller's Book of History, Land and Life, things you did not know about Egypt

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    You come to Egypt expecting a country. You find a river.From the air, the Nile is a single stroke of green through a wasteland of sand-and along that stroke are the pyramids, the call to prayer, crowded cities, fertile fields, and the longest continuous story any country has to tell.In the fourth book of The Far Countries, correspondent Atlas Greaves follows the Nile from Aswan to the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Netherlands

    The Far Countries, Volume 6

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series Book 6 - The Far Countries
    The Netherlands is a country that had to build its own floor.A quarter of the Netherlands lies below the level of the sea, and almost all of it is below sea level because it was drained. Pump the water off a peat bog and the peat burns away into the air, and the ground sinks, and every generation's solution hands the next one a deeper problem. There is no original Dutch landscape underneath. There ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Morocco

    The Far Countries, #2

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series Book 2 - The Far Countries
    Fly in over Morocco and the first thing the country gives you is not a coast but a wall.The Atlas, white even in June, is thrown across the whole of the land's back like a closed door. Atlas Greaves follows that spine of rock from the Atlantic surf to the edge of the Sahara, and finds in it the key to everything: why the rain falls on one side and the desert waits on the other, why the mountain ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia

    The Far Countries, Volume 8

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series Book 8 - The Far Countries
    The ground gives little, and gives it on no schedule.Australia is the oldest, flattest and most weathered large landmass on earth. It sits in the middle of its tectonic plate: no collision zone, no young mountains, no glaciation, no volcanic renewal. Nothing has resurfaced it, so the soil is not soil in the sense a European means the word, but the residue left after a hundred million years of rain ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Italy

    The Far Countries, Volume 5

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series Book 5 - The Far Countries
    Everyone knows Italy. Almost nobody knows what it is.It is a pier: seven hundred and fifty miles of land thrust into the middle of the most travelled sea on earth, with an island at its foot close enough to Africa to see the light on it. That position guaranteed that everyone would come: Greeks to Syracuse, Arabs to Palermo, Normans, Spaniards, Austrians, and the boats still arriving at Lampedusa ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Mongolia

    by Atlas Greaves ...
    Series Book 12 - The Far Countries
    The dry side of every mountain in Asia.Mongolia sits on the dry side of every mountain in Asia. The Himalaya, the Altai and the Sayan wring the rain out of every wind before it arrives, and what is left will grow exactly one thing: grass.Grass cannot be gathered. It can only be followed - walked across by an animal that turns it into milk, meat, felt, fire, and the horse that finds the next ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD