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  • The Search for a Vanishing Beijing

    A Guide to China's Capital Through the Ages

    by M.A. Aldrich ...
    The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs. The text touches on everything under the sun as the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Heart of a Continent.

    A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894.

    by Francis Younghusband ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London.
 Elibron Classics. Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and journalist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Taking the Long Way Home: An Unexpected Adventure from Shanghai to Hangzhou

    by Tracy Zhang ...
    On a self-planned or guided tour of the People's Republic of China, one will run up against the need to visit Hangzhou. Read any guidebook. Ask any Chinese person. Undisputedly, Hangzhou, known for its extravagant natural beauty and thousands of years of tea and silk culture, is simply the most traditionally elegant city in China. Its scenery and natural delights have been praised by the greatest ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basic Spoken Chinese

    An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners (Companion Materials & Online Media Included)

    by Cornelius C. Kubler ...
    This is a beginning-level course in spoken Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly speaking and comprehending Chinese.Along with its sister book Basic Written Chinese and their accompanying workbooks, Basic Spoken Chinese offers a complete introductory course to the Chinese language. As a native English speaker, working hard to learn Chinese is not enough; you ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Chinese Expressions for Emotions and Feelings

    by Hongyang（Canada）/ 红洋（加拿大） ...
    Have you ever been in a situation where you feel frustrated because you are unable to express your emotions and feelings in Chinese? This book can help you overcome the challenges of learning Chinese by providing you with necessary words, phrases, and sentences that can be applied to various real-life situations.This ebook covers twelve situations: Happy, Anger, Anxiety, Disappointed, Excited, ... Read more

    $1.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Journey to the Tea Countries of China.

    by Robert Fortune. ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1852 edition by John Murray, London.This is an illustrated edition.Robert Fortune (1812 – 1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing tea plants from China to India. The books narrates about his expedition to the tea counties in China. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials

    An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners (Companion Materials & Online Media Included)

    by Cornelius C. Kubler, Yang Wang ...
    Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking and listening skills.No matter what book or course you're using to learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective practice activities—including more than 16 hours of audio material!—to help polish your spoken Mandarin Chinese. This book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • South of the Clouds

    Travels in Southwest China

    by Bill Porter ...
    While flipping through the atlas of Chang Ch'i–yun, one of China's most famous geographers, distinguished translator Bill Porter (Red Pine) developed a curiosity about the southwestern province of China. Dubbed Yun–nan, "South of the Clouds," this was the last area modern China to come under Chinese control. Originally conquered by the Mongols and eventually introduced to foreigners as a vibrant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An American in Shanghai

    Reflections on Living in New China

    by Russell R. Miller ...
    For almost three tumultuous decades, insurance and investment fund executive Russell R. Miller, plied his trade in China and Southeast Asia. Buying and selling companies, setting up new ones and moving into public service by creating cultural and educational organizations — all the while witnessing far reaching societal transformation in China and her neighbors. In An American in Shanghai, Russell ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beijing

    by Linda Jaivin ...
    Series series Cityscopes
    Beijing is an intimate and informed portrait of a city at the centre of one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the capital of one of its newest superpowers. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans and their ancestors – Peking Man among them – have lived here. Over three and a half millennia, cities have risen and fallen in this place, five of them the capitals of dynastic empires. For ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Birds of the Himalayas

    by Bikram Grewal, Otto Pfister ...
    Series series Pocket Photo Guides
    An authoritative pocket guide to the birds of the Himalayas.The Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, are a birdwatcher's paradise. Many of its species are high altitude specialists, including Tibetan and Himalayan Snowcocks, Snow Partridge, Ibisbill, Tibetan Sandgrouse, Hume's Groundpecker, Tibetan Snowfinch and Great Rosefinch. The area comprises a mosaic of different habitats which ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • English-Chinese phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionary

    by Andrey Taranov ...
    English-Chinese phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionaryThe collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic communication. This is an indispensable set of phrases to "survive" while abroad.Some of the topics included in the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD