Africa Overland
Author | : Siân Pritchard-Jones |
Publisher | : Bradt Travel Guides |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1841624942 |
The definitive guide for adventurers crossing the continent since its first edition in 1991.
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Author | : Siân Pritchard-Jones |
Publisher | : Bradt Travel Guides |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1841624942 |
The definitive guide for adventurers crossing the continent since its first edition in 1991.
Author | : Bijan Omrani |
Publisher | : Odyssey Books & Maps |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9789622178113 |
The story of travel through the centuries along Eurasia's great land routes, told through the observations and accounts of many of the world s great travelers, and enhanced by wonderful illustrations both old and new."
Author | : Tim Slessor |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1908493208 |
Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys – half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were ‘just too many rivers and too few roads'. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a cool audacity, which was to become characteristic, they set to work – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come up with some film for a possible TV series. They then gently persuaded the manufacturers to lend them two factory-fresh Land Rovers. A publisher was even sweet-talked into giving them an advance on a book. By the time they were ready to go, their sponsors (more than 80 of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In late 1955, they set off. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers, escorted by police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their book, ‘First Overland', is republished – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.
Author | : Sophie Ibbotson |
Publisher | : Bradt Travel Guides |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1784770175 |
Uzbekistan Travel Guide - Expert advice and holiday tips including Tashkent architecture and hotels, Silk Road history, Islamic art and textiles, museums and culture. Also included are detailed maps, trekking and hiking routes, touring by bike, public transport, archaeological sites like Samarkand and Bukara, Fergana Valley and Kyzylkum Desert.
Author | : Patricia A. Dawson |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502606844 |
Traverse through Asia in this fascinating book covering China, India, Japan, and more. Learn about the religions, philosophies, and leaders of Asia from the dawn of time to Imperialism.
Author | : Eric Tagliacozzo |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674286340 |
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports and oasis towns, imperial capitals and postmodern cities. It challenges the conventional idea that defines geopolitical regions as land-based, state-centered, and possessing linear histories. Exploring themes of maritime connections, mobile landscapes, and spatial movements, the authors examine significant sites of linkage and disjuncture from the early modern period to the present. Readers discover how eighteenth-century pirates shaped the interregional networks of Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf, how Kashmiri merchants provided intelligence of remote Himalayan territories to competing empires, and how for centuries a vibrant trade in horses and elephants fueled the Indian Ocean economy. Other topics investigated include cultural formations in the Pearl River delta, global trade in Chittagong’s transformation, gendered homemaking among mobile Samurai families, border zones in Qing China and contemporary Burma, colonial spaces linking India and Mesopotamia, transnational marriages in Oman’s immigrant populations, new cultural spaces in Korean pop, and the unexpected adoption of the Latin script by ethnically Chinese Muslims in Central Asia. Connected Places shows the constant fluctuations over many centuries in the making of Asian territories and illustrates the confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and space.
Author | : Joe Simmons |
Publisher | : Publishamerica Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781451220575 |
Author | : Deepak Nayyar |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0192583492 |
Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in Asia. The fifty years since then have witnessed a remarkable social and economic transformation in Asia - even if it has been uneven across countries and unequal between people - that would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict at the time. Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations analyses the fascinating story of economic development in Asia spanning half a century. Asian Transformations sets the stage by discussing the contribution of Gunnar Myrdal to the debate on development then and now and providing a long-term historical perspective on Asia in the world. It then uses cross-country thematic studies on governments, economic openness, agricultural transformation, industrialization, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, education and health, employment and unemployment, institutions, and nationalisms to analyse processes of change while recognizing the diversity in paths and outcomes. Specific country studies on China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, and sub-region studies on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, further highlight turning points in economic performance and demonstrate factors underlying success or failure. Including in-depth studies by eminent economists and social scientists, Asian Transformations comprehensively examines the phenomenal changes that are transforming economies in Asia and shifting the balance of economic power in the world and reflects on the future prospects for this continent over the next twenty-five years. It is a cohesive and multi-disciplinary study of a rapidly changing economic landscape, and makes an important contribution to understanding the complexities and processes of development from different perspectives.