Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

!±8± Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

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Post Date : Mar 23, 2012 21:04:59 | N/A

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.

Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world’s most populous and intriguing nation. In Lost on Planet China, Troost escorts readers on a rollicking journey through the new beating heart of the modern world, from the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the Gobi Desert and the hinterlands of Tibet.

Lost on Planet China finds Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favorites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange); and hiking (with 80,000 other people) up Tai Shan, China’s most revered mountain. But in addition to his trademark gonzo adventures, the book also delivers a telling look at a vast and complex country on the brink of transformation that will soon shape the way we all work, live, and think. As Troost shows, while we may be familiar with Yao Ming or dim sum or the cheap, plastic products that line the shelves of every store, the real China remains a world—indeed, a planet--unto itself.

Maarten Troostbrings China to life as you’ve never seen it before, and his insightful, rip-roaringly funny narrative proves that once again he is one of the most entertaining and insightful armchair travel companions around.

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Culture Shock! Nepal: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette

!±8± Culture Shock! Nepal: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette

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Culture Shock! Nepal: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette

Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. "Culture Shock!" country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. "Culture Shock!" practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. "Culture Shock!" at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And "Culture Shock!" Success Secrets guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure.

Each "Culture Shock!" title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home.

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Life is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel

!±8± Life is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel

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Life is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel

A guide to show how cultural travel will change how you see the world.

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China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

!±8± China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

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China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.

In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the twenty-first century is supposed to belong?

Gifford is not alone on his journey. The largest migration in human history is taking place along highways such as Route 312, as tens of millions of people leave their homes in search of work. He sees signs of the booming urban economy everywhere, but he also uncovers many of the country’s frailties, and some of the deep-seated problems that could derail China’s rise.

The whole compelling adventure is told through the cast of colorful characters Gifford meets: garrulous talk-show hosts and ambitious yuppies, impoverished peasants and tragic prostitutes, cell-phone salesmen, AIDS patients, and Tibetan monks. He rides with members of a Shanghai jeep club, hitchhikes across the Gobi desert, and sings karaoke with migrant workers at truck stops along the way.

As he recounts his travels along Route 312, Rob Gifford gives a face to what has historically, for Westerners, been a faceless country and breathes life into a nation that is so often reduced to economic statistics. Finally, he sounds a warning that all is not well in the Chinese heartlands, that serious problems lie ahead, and that the future of the West has become inextricably linked with the fate of 1.3 billion Chinese people.

“Informative, delightful, and powerfully moving . . . Rob Gifford’s acute powers of observation, his sense of humor and adventure, and his determination to explore the wrenching dilemmas of China’s explosive development open readers’ eyes and reward their minds.”
–Robert A. Kapp, president, U.S.-China Business Council, 1994-2004

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A trip through the Dutch East Indies

!±8± A trip through the Dutch East Indies

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Publisher: Gouda : Doch and Knuttel Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

!±8± Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

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From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China.

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history.

Country Driving begins with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital's auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center.

Peter Hessler, whom The Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.

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Vietnam in the Absence of War: One Immoral War, Two Revealing Bicycle Trips

!±8± Vietnam in the Absence of War: One Immoral War, Two Revealing Bicycle Trips

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Do you contemplate a visit to Vietnam? This book shows you what to expect, whether by bicycle or other means. There are many observations about the country.

Did you protest the Vietnam War once? This book is partly about Vietnam as an unenthused draftee, but mostly about what has happened there since, plus a bit about Vietnam long ago.

This isn't a book of war stories, and there are no made-up tales such as bicycles crashing over cliffs. Rather, it's a factual and informative account of a fascinating country and its people, including 159 color photographs plus maps and drawings.

It's NOT the Vietnam that many thought they knew!

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Bombay Smiles: The Trip that Changed My Life

!±8± Bombay Smiles: The Trip that Changed My Life

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“[Jaume] Sanllorente’s story, reminiscent of Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, is remarkable and uplifting.”—Booklist

In 2003, Jaume Sanllorente was a young journalist leading an active and exciting life in Barcelona—no more idealistic than any other young professional. Then a travel agent convinced him to spend his vacation in India. Amazed by what he saw in the land of sacred cows and shocking poverty, Jaume was transformed.

That experience lead him to reconsider the world he lived in and caused him to think that he might do something to make it a little better. He devoted himself to helping a small orphanage in Bombay, one that was about to close its doors and send its forty children back to the streets (and the brothels) from which they had been rescued. Jaume seized the moment, determined not to let that happen. As a consequence, he changed his life, and much more as well.

In Bombay Smiles, Jaume Sanllorente gives us an insightful and loving vision of a country of great contrasts. He reveals that the secret of his own happiness is in seeking happiness for others.

Bombay Smiles is a story of loneliness, ransoms, dangers, injustices, threats of death, and acts of courage, which give an example to follow in spite of the adversities one might meet. It is a lesson of wise love, surrender, sacrifice, and hope, which invites us to start on the path toward a better world.

Jaume Sanllorente was born in 1976 in Barcelona, Spain. His nonprofit organization, Bombay Smiles, provides schools, homes, and health care to thousands of children in India.

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Canal Du Midi - The Boat Trip of a Lifetime

!±8± Canal Du Midi - The Boat Trip of a Lifetime

The Canal du Midi, a Unesco World heritage spot, offers any traveler the boat trip of a lifetime.

Constructed in the 17th century, the canal's main purpose was to serve as a shortcut between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, enabling sea voyagers to not only cut short their days at sea but also to avoid the risky waters of Spain and risk being the victim of Barbary pirates.

The Canal du Midi, made up of 175 miles of traversable waterways, starts at the Port de l'Embouchure in Toulouse and ends at the Thau lagoon by Sete. The canal itself traverses right straight through the center of the Languedoc-Roussillon, giving travelers an perfect view of the region's remarkable vineyards, landscape and reservoirs. And as if the geographic views are not enough, you will also be able to see more than 350 structures such as discrete bridges, hidden passageways, aqueducts, and more.

The Canal du Midi truly offers any traveler a great occasion to sample all the best things the region has to offer. Consider the following:

o See Carcassonne and its favorite antique walled city.
o Visit Trebes and Castelnaudary, which is the home of the cassoulet.
o Go wine-tasting Homps, Fanjeaux and Montreal.
o Visit the spectacular city of Narbonne and the ever favorite series of nine locks (les neuf ecluses de Fontserannes) at Beziers.
o Gape at the antique city of Agde and enjoy the simply life of its fishing villages.

The Best Ways to Enjoy Your Canal du Midi Vacation

Since the region has much to offer, it's best to tour by car along settlement roads near the Canal rather than to take the designated motorways. But if you honestly want to take your time and truly see things up close, then why not go for a biking holiday?

Sheltered towpaths are available to cyclists and walking enthusiasts and are accomplished off to vehicles. Taking this option, you'll cover the Canal du Midi in 5-7 days. There are plenty of tour guides you can purchase to help you on this route. Do you feel that a week of traveling is too long? Well, if you think about it, what's the rush? Enjoy the best that the region has to offer!

But of course, the best way to tour the Canal du Midi is by boat.

For day trips, there many operators along the canal that offer such an excursion. Such a trip takes 1-2 hours and the boat will be commandeered by the operator. Rates are 6-10 Euros per person, with a minuscule allowance for kids.

If you'd rather go alone, this option is available too and you only need present an 'A' class (tourist automobile) license. You'll get a quick training on how to use the boat and you can be off before you know it!

Lastly, if you want to cruise along the Canal du Midi longer without a care in the world, then you'll be glad to note that there are boat and barge hotels also available.

Since the Languedoc-Roussillon's climate is pretty mild all year round, you can take your trip anytime you wish. However, do note that boat locks are accomplished November to mid-December. Peak season is from July to September so do book in expand if you want to take your trip while this time.

Canal Du Midi - The Boat Trip of a Lifetime

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Chupke Chupke

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As and when Dharmendra playing role of a Professor of impersonates a Chowkidar and then a chauffleur be is bound an create some hilarious chaos and a few sensational confusions...As and when Dharmendra playing role of a Professor of impersonates a Chowkidar and then a chauffleur be is bound an create some hilarious chaos and a few sensational confusions. The chowkidar of course was not able to hoodwink. Sharmila for long falls in love in adoration of her smartness and marries her. But Dharmendra the Professorm was confronted with the immunes of Sharmilas genius Jijaji Om Prakash. A vertiable store house of talent and intelligence this Jijaji was so overwhelming for Sharmilas thoughts and dreams that Dharmendra feels an urge to challenge the unseen foe and win for himself a respectable status in her.

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