So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places
10 best books like So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places (Elinor Burkett): Shadow of the Silk Road, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China, The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes, Tschiffely's Ride: Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story, Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart, The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local...
| Author | Aminta Arrington |
| ISBN | 1590208994 |
When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too. Aminta hopes to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy,...
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
| Author | Christopher Kremmer |
| ISBN | 0060097329 |
Apart from oil, rugs are the Muslim world's best-known commodity. While rugs are found in most Western homes, the story of religious, political, and tribal strife behind their creation is virtually unknown. In "The Carpet Wars, award-winning journalist Christopher Kremmer chronicles his fascinating...
From the southeast coast of South America through an expanse of Peruvian sands en route to the West Coast, then onward through Central American jungles and rainforest, and finally to New York, Tschiffely's journey was considered impossible and absurd by many newspaper writers in 1925. However, after...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| Author | Said Hyder Akbar |
| ISBN | 1582345201 |
The intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on This American Life, Hyder Akbar tells how his ordinary suburban California life was turned upside-down...
2007 is the "Year of Rumi," and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionate ambassador, to mark the milestone of this great poet's 800th birthday? Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his...
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
| Author | Christina Lamb |
| ISBN | 0060505273 |
Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin victory over the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in and out of their country in a variety of guises.
Returning...
Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler
| Author | Cash Peters |
| ISBN | 0307396355 |
Finally, after years as a struggling radio host, Cash Peters has been given his own TV adventure show on a big-time travel network. The idea is simple: “Let’s dump him in an unfamiliar culture in a faraway land with no money and no place to stay, and see what happens.”
Unfortunately, there...
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
| Author | John Gimlette |
| ISBN | 1400078520 |
Haven to Nazis, smugglers’ paradise, home to some of the earth’s oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer’s sang-froid, a historian’s erudition, and a sense of irony...
Garis Batas: Perjalanan di Negeri-Negeri Asia Tengah
Penduduk desa Afghan setiap hari memandang ke “luar negeri” yang hanya selebar sungai jauhnya. Memandangi mobil-mobil melintas, tanpa pernah menikmati rasanya duduk dalam mobil. Mereka memandangi rumah-rumah cantik bak vila, sementara tinggal di dalam ruangan kumuh remang-remang yang...
A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan
| Author | Christiane Bird |
| ISBN | 0345469399 |
Though the Kurds played a major military and tactical role in the United States’ recent war with Iraq, most of us know little about this fiercely independent, long-marginalized people. Now acclaimed journalist Christiane Bird, who riveted readers with her tour of Islamic Iran in Neither East Nor...
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 0156972158 |
“Winter Brothers” is Ivan Doig’s second published book, a work that Doig has trouble classifying. He has settled on calling it a journal of a journal. It’s a study of the prolific writings of a Pacific Northwest pioneer of the 1850s and of Doig’s present day effort at spending a winter retracing...
White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
| Author | Robert Twigger |
| ISBN | 1681775352 |
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus, shamans and animists, to name only a few, are a place of pilgrimage and dreams, revelation...
The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
| Author | Ian Bremmer |
| ISBN | 0743274717 |
What "Freakonomics" does for understanding the economy, "The J Curve" does for better understanding how nations behave. The J curve is a visual tool that allows us to see at a glance why some crucial countries are in crisis and unstable while others are prosperous and politically solid. In this imaginative,...
The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World: Love, Loss, and Other Catastrophes—through India, Italy, and Beyond
| Author | Torre DeRoche |
| ISBN | 1580056857 |
Torre DeRoche is grieving the loss of the two most important men in her life--the partner of nine years who she's just broken up with, and her father, who's just passed away--when she crosses paths with Masha, a woman who has put her marriage on hold to pursue a dream of walking the world in order to try and...
| Author | Tiziano Terzani |
| ISBN | 8850206151 |
Nell'agosto 1991 Tiziano Terzani si trova lungo il corso del fiume Amur, in Siberia, con una spedizione sovietico-cinese, quando apprende la notizia del golpe anti-Gorbačëv che ha appena avuto luogo a Mosca. Decide di intraprendere subito, questa volta da solo, il lungo viaggio che in due mesi...
The French Blue: A Novel of the 17th Century
| Author | Richard W. Wise |
| ISBN | 0972822364 |
NO SPOILERS!!!
I finished the book last night. This was for me a four star book. It is an adventure story about Jean-Baptiste Tavernier's life. It is historical fiction. I preferred the historical aspects of the story. Descriptions of people and places and customs were done magnificently....
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern...
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
| Author | V.S. Naipaul |
| ISBN | 0375706488 |
"Brilliant. . . . A powerfully observed, stylistically elegant exploration." --The New York Times
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"The book's strength lies in Naipaul's extraordinary ability as a storyteller to draw striking portraits of a cross section of individuals."--The...
The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Struggle for Freedom
| Author | Afshin Molavi |
| ISBN | 0393325970 |
Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democracy movement boldly challenges authority, and young Iranians are more interested in moving to America than in chanting "Death to America." Afshin Molavi,...
Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work
| Author | Mari Graña |
| ISBN | 0762736542 |
When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and their medical practice in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She was offered...
The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation
| Author | Arash Hejazi |
| ISBN | 1906497907 |
On June 20, 2009, during demonstrations to protest the contested and controversial Iranian presidential election, a young girl named Neda Agha-Soltan was shot to death in the streets of Tehran. Within hours, the video footage of her death, captured on a roving camera-phone, had circled the globe....
| Author | George J. Mitchell |
| ISBN | 1451691378 |
Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what he's learned about the art of negotiation during every stage of his life.
It's...
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
| Author | Kyoko Mori |
| ISBN | 0449004287 |
In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak...
