This Southeast Asia guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about Southeast Asia's people, history and culture and detailed coverage of the best places to see. This Southeast Asia travel book has the style of an illustrated magazine to inspire you and give a ......
Memoirs of a QA (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps)
In this heartfelt memoir, spanning the 1950s and '60s, Major Margaret Thomas ARRC rises through the ranks of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (the QAs), the nursing branch of the British Army, healing injured soldiers far from home as well as educating and recruiting sisters back in Britain.
A novel about eccentric 19th-century Englishman Alexander Hare: a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, but Hare's chief claim to fame is as the creator of a harem of women from throughout Asia.
This beautifully illustrated Thailand guidebook is perfect for travellers planning longer trips. Written by Insight Guides travel experts, it combines in-depth coverage of history, culture, and must-visit places with the visual appeal of an illustrated magazine. Stunning photos inspire excitement for those planning their journey.
Alex Marek's once idyllic life in southern Thailand is being shattered when the reclusive and sometimes violent offshore oil worker John Hunter tells him of his wild scheme to make money, lots of money, by looting an ancient temple hidden deep in the Thai jungle. And he needs a partner.
Southeast Asia, as covered in this guide, includes Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Sumatra, Borneo, Cambodia, & the Philippines. From incredible mountains to lush mangroves, a vast range of wildlife can be found throughout this area's diverse eco-regions. Southeast Asia Wildlife is the essential pocket-sized, reference guide to have ......
Southeast Asia, as covered in this guide, includes Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Sumatra, Borneo, Cambodia, & the Philippines. Filled with an impressive array of bird species, this region will be a delight to bird watchers and nature enthusiasts. Southeast Birds is the perfect pocket-sized, reference guide to bring along as you ......
An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War
In 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the famed African American "Buffalo Soldiers." Among them was David Fagen, a twenty-year-old private in the Twenty-Fourth Infantry, who deserted to join the ......
