Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Insider's Kuala Lumpur (3rd Edn)
Travel Guide. Historical anecdotes about KLs most significant buildings, districts, and people
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Kuala Lumpur, once a sleepy backwater, is today a sprawling metropolis and one of Asias most exciting destinations. Insiders Kuala Lumpur takes the reader on a tour of KLs various districts—the City Centre, Chinatown, Jalan Ampang, Lake Gardens, Bangsar, Bukit Bintang—and gives the inside scoop on...
by Frederick Lees
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
It is 1950 and the Federation of Malaya is in the throes of the Malayan Emergency. The British are struggling to defeat the communist terrorists and deal with rising nationalism in the colony. Ferdach O'Haney arrives in Malaya as a young Anglo-Irish man to serve the Federation government, and he is plunged...
CultureShock! Borneo
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
CultureShock! Borneo gives you a fun-filled and thorough crash course on how to live and work in this slice of the East. Packed with useful and insightful tips, this book will guide you on how to deal with cultural barriers, relate with the various racial groups and fit into the intricate society. Learn...
Indiscreet Memories
1901 through the eyes of a colonial Englishman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Indiscreet Memories is one Englishman's true account of life in Singapore from 1901 to 1904. We learn about balls at Government House, rickshaw strikes, and tigers causing havoc in Chinatown; and how historical events such as the death of Queen Victoria and the decision by Straits-born Chinese to discard their towchang (queues) affected the society of the day.
by Marc Cullison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A torrent of books about the Vietnam War has flooded the market, most of them documenting battles, strategy, and personal journals of life during the war. There are far fewer books about soldiers who have returned to that country of conflict four decades later. Most men and women who served during...
by Paul Greenway
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Whether readers are planning a trip to Bali or just fantasizing about one, Journey Through Bali & Lombok makes for an unforgettable Bali travel guide.
Containing more than 300 color photographs, this breathtaking volume brings you from the trendy beach of Seminyak to the Monkey Forest at...
You'll Die in Singapore
The True Account of One of the Most Amazing POW Escapes in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile escape from the island...
My Thai Girl and I: How I found a new life in Thailand
How I found a new life in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is about how Andrew Hicks met Cat, a ‘Thai girl’ half his age and how they set up home together in her village out in the rice fields of North Eastern Thailand. He'll tell you of toads in the toilet, of ants' eggs for breakfast, how they took up frog farming and how he got married without really...
Late Blossom
A true story of life, loss and love in war-torn Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The tragic irony of America's military adventure in Viet Nam lies in the fact that the two countires were fighting different wars. The Americans were fighting to sever the head of a communist monster they saw as intent on world domination and enslavement to the State. The Vietnamese, in contrast, were...
by Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Anthony J. Whitten
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Ecology of Java and Bali is a comprehensive ecological survey of two of the most ecologically diverse islands in the Pacific.
It also contains the results of original research, interviews and personal experience. It will be useful to resource managers, ecologists and government planners,...
Pai Naa
The true story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's survival in the Malayan jungle during WWII
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
By the time the British surrendered to the Japanese in February 1942 at the fall Singapore, nearly all white civilians had left Malaya. One remarkable exception to the white flight was Nona Baker, ‘a parson’s youngest daughter’ from Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Nona Baker and her brother, Vin, general...
Australia's Battlefields in Viet Nam
A traveller's guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Being there 30 years on, standing on the fields of conflict, it all came rushing back. The good bits and the bad bits. But it left me with a feeling of comradeship and pride. I was glad that I made the journey.
In 1971 Gary McKay was an Australian platoon commander in what was then South Vietnam...
Survival Tagalog
How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This practical Tagalog phrasebook puts all the most important Tagalog words and phrases in the palm of your hand.
It includes tips for handling situations you'll encounter on a daily basis in the Philippines, making it the most useful Tagalog language book you can buy when traveling! Romanized...
by Jeffrey Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Unexpected Danger
I was walking around at work and deliberating the day’s activities that were ahead of me, when my mobile phone rang. It was my wife calling who had dropped me off, not more than thirty minutes before. She was frantic and crying. “I’m in the car. Something bit me – I’m Pain...