Southeast Asia category: 1948 books

Finding your way around Metro Manila has never been easier! This totally new street atlas from Periplus, Asia's leading book and map publisher, is designed to fit the needs of Metro Manila residents and visitors. This is the first Metro Manila street atlas produced to exacting world...

How to Get to Bangkok details the more than six months I spent in South East Asia. I traveled with several people, met dozens of locals in different countries and under different circumstances, and observed both fantastical behaviour and solemn rituals, indiscriminate malice and profound kindness.I...

Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden life: youngest ever partner in one of the most prestigious law firms in London, poised for success in every area. Then one of her clients, construction firm Jordan Cardale, bids for the...

Travel the World and Explore is the essential guide to traveling the world and exploring new destinations for less than $50 a day (GBP £36, Euro €43, AUD $69, NZD $72 or CAD $65). For the solo backpacker or with friends this up-to-date practical guide will save you time and money with ideas, and...

For those readers wanting to get the most out of life by visiting exotic destinations, this informative *Travel Guide for Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin (Thailand) *offers readers sound advice for making traveling to exotic destinations a reality. Thailand is a great travel destination for many reasons,...

Federation of Malaysia is located in South Asia. The country consists of two parts - the West - the Malacca peninsula and East - the island of Borneo. Western borders with Thailand and Singapore, and east - with Brunei and Indonesia. The area is 329,750 square kilometres. Malaysia is a constitutional...

It was madness from the moment I left. Every year thousands of people leave to travel the world. Not everyone has the same experience. I spent my student loan on a ticket around the world. I was out of the country straight after graduation. I left London for Bangkok with Rory and James, my...

Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta, Shanghai, Pattaya Crazy Horse returns to Asia with his follow up to A Year in the ‘Kok. “Every dissatisfied man in a western country should read this book.” “Funny and empowering. Reminds me why I moved to Thailand in the first place.” “Don’t visit Bangkok without reading this book first.” “Excellent.”

Singapore has established itself as one of Asia’s leading medical hubs, providing internationally accredited hospitals and specialty centers with highly qualified and well-respected doctors. With its global reputation as a medical convention and training center and its fast-growing basic...

Sprawling across several sun-drenched latitudes lies the 7,100 islands of the Philippines whose personality bursts at every natural seam. This most westernized nation in Asia owes much of its character to its turbulent, multicultural, and multilingual history and the Filipinos have maintained their...

In Volume 3 of the Max Krueger Adventure series, Max Krueger’s girlfriend has disappeared, and the tough ex-mercenary is angry. Very angry. What Max and Manaha’s crafty Chief of Police, Colonel ‘Diablo’ Fernandez, don’t know is that the beautiful woman has fallen into the hands of a fiendish...

The writing is evocative, lively, thought provoking and captivating. The reader is taken on a journey through time, place and imagination and it is a pleasure to follow Matschoss in his travels. The book is a feast of sensory detail which makes the reader feel that she or he is right there with the writer....

In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their colossal city and commiserates...

Located in the Indian Ocean, the Indonesian island of Bali is one of the most popular island destinations in the whole of Asia.  According to BBC Travel, Bali is one of the top five vacation islands in the world. The Island of the Gods is one of the 17,500 islands of Indonesia and draws nearly...