Southeast category: 2400 books
by Marciano R. De Borja
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The Basques played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain’s colonial establishment in the Philippines. Their skills as shipbuilders and businessmen, their evangelical zeal, and their ethnic cohesion and work-oriented culture made them successful as explorers, colonial...
The End of the War
Singapore’s Liberation and the Aftermath of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The End of the War commemorates the end of the Second World War in Singapore and Malaya against the backdrop of the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945. This fascinating book unveils much of the mystery shrouding some of the lesser-known but crucial facts and events leading up to the final days of...
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History
In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam�s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam�s turbulent past,...
The Battle for Burma 1943-1945
From Kohima & Imphal Through to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma and North-East India between November 1943 and June 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard; the despatch on operations in Assam and Burma between June 1944 June and November 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard, Commander-in-Chief; the...
Muay Thai Fighter
A farang's journey to become a Thai boxer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Paul Garrigan is not a typical fighter. As a child he dreamt of imitating his hero Bruce Lee, he even practiced Kung Fu for a number of years, but he never got past his fear of being hit in the face. By the time he reached his twenties the only fighting he was doing involved a battle with alcoholism....
by Linda Robinson, Patrick B. Johnston, Gillian S. Oak
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This report examines the 14-year experience of U.S. special operations forces in the Philippines from 2001 through 2014 and the activities and effects of special operations capabilities employed to address terrorist threats in Operation Enduring Freedom—Philippines through training and equipping...
by W H Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
'Three years ago I'd never have given a thought to visiting the Philippines. It wouldn't have appeared in even my top hundred places to visit. Come to that, I'd never thought of re-marrying.'So begins his travelogue, A VIRGIN IN THE PHILIPPINES, more a diary than a...
In the Crossfire
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more-this time by the...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
Analysis, Representation, Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions.
Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts...
Back Over the Mountains
A Journey to the Buddha Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A narrative with a deep philosophical insights hidden in every nook and corner of every sentence… Back Over the Mountains is the true story of unexpected friendship between a Buddhist monk seeking to establish himself far from his homeland, and a writer clinging to the remnants of fading borderland...
by Robert Devereux McEliece
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
A moving and sometimes chilling story of the making of childhood bonds in the 1950s, where young men lived on a dare and were restricted only by their own imaginations. This is a gripping tale of what the Vietnam War did to these young boys and their families.THE FAITHFUL SEXTANT tells of Captain...
The Last Wild Men of Borneo
A True Story of Death and Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind?...
by Stephen Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Stephen Harris is hopelessly addicted to travel. With a strong fascination for all things foreign, including food, culture, and women Stephen recounts his adventures. Stephen goes to a sex show with his friend and to witness tricks that the human mind cannot normally imagine.
by Stephen Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Stephen Harris is hopelessly addicted to travel. With a strong fascination for all things foreign, including food, culture, and women Stephen recounts his adventures. Stephen spends some time in VanVieng and meets a girl with a motorbike who will not take no for an answer, and gives him a ride!