Travel Asia

Un curioso y atractivo repaso por la cultura tradicional y contemporánea japonesa en forma de diccionario, que nos presenta un recorrido pormenorizado por el Japón de la antigüedad y por la rabiosa actualidad de una de las culturas más influyentes del presente. En este viaje descubriremos desde el origen los kimonos hasta los pasos de la ceremonia del té o los pormenores de la arquitectura japonesa. Imprescindible para quienes siempre han sentido fascinación por Japón y para quienes deseen un buen punto de partida para empezar a entender su cultura.

Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, 20-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve in the colonial administration for eight years before abruptly leaving the company under a cloud and disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again.

Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world's great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different cultural backgrounds that make up this rainbow nation, helping you to better understand the values that underpin its diverse society. It reveals how modern Indonesians view themselves and go about their daily lives, and gives advice on how to navigate unfamiliar situations.

The world is full of exciting destinations, but Turkey is full of amazing sights that will take your breath away. Turkey is a prime vacation destination and appeals to a wide range of people. This travel guide will help you to get the most from your stay in my beautiful country.

Fresh out of the Israeli Army, 20-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow in the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: She is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants.

Peaks and Lamas is one of the classic early 20th-century accounts of travelling in the Himalayas on the borders of Tibet. It describes two journeys in the 1930s, one physically active and one more of spiritual investigation. It starts as the title suggests, as a mountaineering adventure, when a group of English climbers set out to climb unconquered peaks in the Himalayas. The audiobook ends with a warning of the deleterious effect of Western culture on traditional art and values and an idealistic polemic on education.

"Tokyo sembra sempre in costruzione. Da bruco a farfalla, da farfalla a rondine, da rondine a sasso, da sasso a palazzo, da palazzo a bosco, da bosco a... È in uno stato di infanzia perenne, come una bambina che a guardarla non pare diversa, ma poi confrontandola con le fotografie - l'album aperto una domenica sulle ginocchia - emerge strabiliante nella differenza". "La forma di una città cambia più veloce di un cuore" diceva Baudelaire. E forse, tra tutte le città, Tokyo è quella che cambia più velocemente se è vero, come scrive Laura Imai Messina, che l'antica Edo "è in uno stato di infanzia perenne".

全国初の市版＆九州版として誕生し話題となった『地球の歩き方 北九州市』。歴史あり、美食あり、自然ありの知られざる魅力がつまったガイドブックが、今度はオーディオブックになって登場！

Martha Franks’ Books Without Borders: Homer, Aeschylus, Galileo, Melville and Madison Go to China is an account, a vivid narrative, of education actually taking place in the classroom day by day, month by month. Ms. Franks steadfastly and unpretentiously brings to her students a form of education directed not at passing standardized tests but at considering timeless questions such as, "What is the best life?" "Does human suffering have any meaning?" "What is justice and how can it be realized?"

«Un romanzo dovrei venire a scrivere e nient’altro. Non resta che sublimare tutta questa roba in qualcosa che non sia l’articoletto. Non troverò il tempo?» annotava Terzani. E quasi come una favola, sanguinaria eppure ricca di poesia e fragranze tropicali, Fantasmi inizia tra pipistrelli, palazzi reali ed elefanti semisacri.

En este audiolibro Jorge nos relata siete pequeños viajes a islas de difícil acceso de los siete continentes.

The follow up to Thailand: The Ten Cardinal Sins, this book deals with additional mistakes that many people make in Thailand.

It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt Japans mit diesem umfassenden Reiseführer, der Sie auf eine unvergessliche Reise durch die Geschichte, Kultur und Moderne dieses einzigartigen Landes mitnimmt.

Sumo, Sony und Sashimi: So viel Japan kennt jeder. Mangas, Karaoke und andere Importe gehören längst auch bei uns dazu - und doch ist uns ihre Heimat fremd. Andreas Neuenkirchen entschlüsselt aufs Unterhaltsamste Land und Leute. Er verrät, wie Sie in Restaurants und Privathaushalten, in buddhistischen Tempeln, beim Small Talk oder in Geschäftsverhandlungen glänzen. Welche Speisen schmecken - und vor allem, wie man sie isst. Sie erfahren, was Sie mit Stäbchen zu tun und zu lassen haben und was es mit dem Mythos vom Schlürfen auf sich hat.

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

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あなたは、日本のことをどのくらい知っていますか？
この国の文化や歴史、習慣について世界の人々に説明することができますか？

日本がもつ独特の文化や景観は、いまや世界中から愛され、年間3000万人もの外国人が日本を訪れる時代になりました。彼らの目に映る日本はどこまでも新鮮で、美の宝庫。

Какой ингредиент надо добавить в рис, чтобы он стал розовым? Почему бифштекс — не такое простое блюдо, как кажется? И как с помощью стружки тунца сотворить магию? В этой книге собраны атмосферные истории о посетителях ресторанчика и поисках того самого рецепта. В каждом рассказе есть немного о жизни японцев и невероятно много интересного об уникальных блюдах японской кухни.

Als Westeuropäer im Westen Chinas unterwegs zu sein ist ein Abenteuer, das nur wenige wagen. Zu aufwendig erscheint es, die nötigen Dokumente zu beschaffen, und zu groß sind oft die Entfernungen. Hinzu kommen die Sprachbarrieren. Der Autor reiste während seines Arbeitsaufenthalts in China in die entlegenen westlichen Provinzen. Auf eigene Faust oder mit einheimischen Reiseveranstaltern erkundete er weithin unbekannte Regionen, er kämpfte mit praktischen Hürden und lernte viel über das Alltagsleben im heutigen Reich der Mitte.

明治時代、「仏教原典」を求めて、鎖国のチベットに数々の困難を乗り越えながら単独入国を果たした僧侶の旅行記。

住職を辞め、旅の資金を貯めた後、まわりに惜しまれ呆れられながらも仏教原典を求める姿や、巡礼乞食をしながらチベットを目指し、氷がある河を泳ぎ、ヒマラヤを超えるなど、クレイジーな河口慧海師の魅力と出会える作品です。

チベットの生活や習慣などが浮かび上がってくる活き活きとした朗読でお楽しみください。