Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
10 best books like Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya (Britta Das): Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos, The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan, China: Portrait of a People, Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan, Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared, A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road, I Have Seen the World Begin: Travels through China, Cambodia, and Vietnam, The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La, Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi
Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
| Author | Natacha Du Pont de Bie |
| ISBN | 0340825685 |
Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a good lunch. Ant Egg Soup is the result of her adventures in Laos, the stories of the people she met, the places she visited and, of course, the amazing food she tasted. Drinking raw turkey blood with herbs in a tribal...
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
| Author | Edward Gargan |
| ISBN | 0375705597 |
Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself,...
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan
| Author | Alan Booth |
| ISBN | 1568361483 |
Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing the encroachments of suburban sprawl, he unerringly finds the telling detail, the unexpected transformation,...
China: Portrait of a People
| Author | Tom Carter |
| ISBN | 9889979942 |
From the subtropical jungles of Yunnan to the frozen wastes of Heilongjiang; across the scalding deserts of Xinjiang and beneath Hong Kong's neon blur. Tramping through China by train, bus, boat, motorcycle, mule or hitching on the back of anything that moved. On a budget so scant that he drew sympathetic...
At age 24 Jamie Zeppa, a Canadian who had never been outside of North America, said goodbye to her fiancé and her plans for graduate school and moved to Bhutan, a remote Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.
Beyond the Sky and the Earth is an autobiographical work that details her experiences and...
| Author | Christopher Robbins |
| ISBN | 0977743381 |
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly...
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
| Author | Christopher Aslan Alexander |
| ISBN | 1848311257 |
"Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is the author's decision to stay put that lifts his book out of the ordinary."--"Lonely Planet Magazine"Accompanied by a large parrot, a ginger cat, and his adoptive Uzbek family, Christopher Aslan Alexander recounts the sheer magic of Uzbek culture...
I Have Seen the World Begin: Travels through China, Cambodia, and Vietnam
| Author | Carsten Jensen |
| ISBN | 0151007683 |
When Carsten Jensen set out by train from Denmark on a journey to the East, he expected to find lands of rich history and culture, and people undergoing radical change at the end of the twentieth century. In this illuminating narrative of his travels, there is this and much, much more.
Fusing...
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La
| Author | Alec Le Sueur |
| ISBN | 1571431012 |
On a par with the best of Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer, Alec Le Sueur's bestselling insider account of life at the world-famous Holiday Inn, Lhasa, Tibet (altitude 14,000 feet) pits Communist owners against capitalist manager to create a chain hotel in Shangri-La. Against all odds, heroic Tibetan workers...
Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi
| Author | Jennifer Barclay |
| ISBN | 1840246766 |
The world knows more about secret North Korea than the free society of the South. As a peace summit heralded a new era for a country divided for 50 years, Jennifer Barclay searched for the spirit of South Korea, discovering a land full of passion, tradition and spirituality, good humor, and great food....
| Author | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0767912802 |
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.
Exploration is...
| Author | Linda Leaming |
| ISBN | 1401928463 |
Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan—a tiny, landlocked country bordering China and India. Impossibly remote and nearly inaccessible, Bhutan is rich in natural beauty, exotic plants and animals, and crazy wisdom. It is a place where people are genuinely content...
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel...
| Author | Stanley Stewart |
| ISBN | 1592281060 |
Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols...
| Author | Dave Prager |
| ISBN | 9350291312 |
Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: in Delhi, all things are true at once.
When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of sixteen million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once. Delirious Delhi depicts India s capital as the two experienced...
Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal
| Author | Jeff Greenwald |
| ISBN | 1609520947 |
Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue takes the reader on a journey across the Himalayan peaks and through the rustic lanes of Kathmandu in search of the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters—from a passionate palmist to a flying lama...
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
It's easy to see why Graham Greene was lured to Vietnam by Lewis's account. The sense of a country -- indeed, an entire region -- on the verge of revolution, beleaguered colonial officials gamely assisting the author in procuring transport from one crumbling outpost to the next, the documentary feel...
Smoke and Mirrors : An Experience of China
| Author | Pallavi Aiyar |
| ISBN | 8172237464 |
As a Malaysian living in China whose first (and most fluent) language is English, it is somewhat frustrating when most of the modern China expat memoirs available to me come from a Western perspective. While Peter Hessler (River Town), John Pomfret (Chinese Lessons), Michael Levy (Kosher Chinese),...
Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals
| Author | Fanny Parkes |
| ISBN | 0907871887 |
Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile,...
Delhi By Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller
| Author | Raza Rumi |
| ISBN | 9350294184 |
A sensitively written account of a Pakistani writer's discovery of Delhi
Why, asks Raza Rumi, does the capital of another country feel like home? How is it that a man from Pakistan can cross the border into 'hostile' territory and yet not feel 'foreign'? Is it the geography, the architecture,...
North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots
In North of Ithaka, Eleni Gage returns to the remote Greek village of Lia, where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, to rebuild the ruins of her namesake's home and come to terms with her family's tragic history. In doing so, she leaves behind a sparkling social life and successful career...
Minu Hispaania. Läbi maailma iseendani
Mis on see raamat? See pole reisipäevik - ta ei räägi reisist, ta räägib elust. See pole maa kirjeldus - Hispaaniast ja sealsetest kommetest ja elust seal on vähem, kui Wikipeedia lehel. Temast pole kasu turistile, temast pole kasu Hispaanisse kolimisest mõtlevale inimesele.
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| Author | Josie Dew |
| ISBN | 0751502499 |
As a young girl, Josie Dew developed an overpowering urge to travel. She also fell out of a fast-moving vehicle and, rather inconveniently, developed a lifelong aversion to cars. Along came her first bicycle, and she has never looked back. Four continents, thirty-six countries and eighty thousand...
I Accuse-: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984
| Author | Jarnail Singh |
| ISBN | 0670083941 |
The unanswered questions, the justice delayed, the unbearable memories?the three days of 1984 when over 3000 Sikhs were slaughtered, have indelibly marked the lives of thousands more who continue to exist in a twilight of bitterness and despair. It was outrage at this state of affairs that led Jarnail...
| Author | Peter Moore |
| ISBN | 0553817000 |
When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music, they had the best drugs, they had the best sex. But most of all, they had...
