China

Alexandra David-Neel was the first European woman to meet the Dalai Lama and in 1924 became the first to enter the forbidden Tibetan capital, Lhasa. She had already spent a decade travelling through China, living in a cave on the Tibetan border, where...

When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of...

Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken language. This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838047832Author G CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independent GuidebooksPublisher Independent GuidebooksWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

China's breathtaking diversity of natural habitats--from mountains and deserts to grasslands and lush tropical forests--is home to more than 10 percent of the world's mammal species. This one-of-a-kind pocket guide describes the characteristics,...

The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning. Learn how to write 250 of the commonest Chinese characters, with stroke by stroke guidance on every page. With thousands of characters to learn, beginning to...

#1 best-selling guide to Beijing* Lonely Planet Beijing is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Scale the Great Wall, sip a cocktail in an historic alleyway, or go ice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881613912Author Ira ChaplainFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 918g

I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353024789Author Kavitha Yaga BugganaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IndiaPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769513Author William HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558760Author MonocleFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening challenge, it enabled him to embark on an epic journey driving...

'It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' New Statesman The Way of the White Clouds is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732120419Author Leeanne HendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Go West MediaPublisher Go West MediaWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978606350Author Summer HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Priced Nostalgia PressPublisher Priced Nostalgia PressWeight(grams) 451gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312423377Author Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PL

New 10th edition - all routes have been retravelled and fully updated. This 10th edition features extra colour sections and even more maps. A trip across Siberia on the longest continuous railway track in the world is undoubtedly the journey of a...

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a...

The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning. An easy-reference Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary. The easiest way to learn Mandarin Chinese for students with the clearest layout and entry...

A handy Chinese phrasebook and guide to the Chinese language, Survival Chinese contains basic vocabulary necessary for getting around.This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Chinese in any setting. Perfect for students,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705595Author Edward GarganFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor...

A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, "Peking Story" is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared. As the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789871500Author Alexandra David-NeelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience what ultimately makes China so unique--its people. Learn about Chinese customs, proper etiquette for all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838047849Author G CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Independent GuidebooksPublisher Independent GuidebooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning some Mandarin-whether you're 5 or 100!This picture dictionary covers the 1,500 most useful Mandarin Chinese words and phrases. Each word and sentence is given in Mandarin characters-with a...

This is an introductory book about the history and contemporary usage of the Chinese language.Chinese is generally considered a difficult language. It is also a fascinating and important language that cannot be ignored. A growing number of English...

The arrival of an unpublished memoir offering up a scandalous version of the hitherto blameless public life of the revered oriental scholar, Sir Edmund Backhouse, sets Hugh Trevor-Roper on the trail of an outrageous confidence trickster. One of the great...

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774640265Author Reginald Fleming JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)...

This workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It...

Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457133Author Malcolm JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great...

This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Tibet encompasses the wider region of ethnic Tibet with more detailed coverage of the Amdo and Kham regions than is found in other guides. It also includes essential information on new border openings and...

From the author of the acclaimed 'Mr. China' comes another rollicking adventure story - part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio - that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China. In the twenty-first century, the world...