The Wind in the Bamboo: A Journey in Search of Asia’s “Negrito” Indigenous People

Traditionally outlined as “Negrito” simply because they bodily resemble small Africans, those wooded area peoples can have the main old ancestry in Asia. Captured for slavery, exhibited on the 1904 St. Louis World’s reasonable, approximately exterminated through ailment and a cataclysmic volcano, they continue to exist in a number of locations: Malaysia, the Philippines and India’s distant Andaman Islands.

Geek in Korea: Discovering Asia's New Kingdom of Cool

For each fan of K-Pop song, Korean Wave dramas and Kimchi—or a person intrigued by way of Korea and Korean culture—A Geek in Korea is a hip, new consultant to the land of the Samsung telephone and Gangnam type. writer Dan Tudor first arrived in Korea at the eve of the 2002 international Cup while South Korea performed Italy within the finals.

The Rough Guide to Vietnam (Rough Guide to...)

The tough advisor to Vietnam is the main exact and in-depth source on hand for a person wishing to discover Southeast Asia's fastest-growing vacation spot. Plan a trip to the lately opened Hanoi fort to benefit approximately this 1000-year-old urban, or to the Saigon Skydeck to work out how swiftly Ho Chi Minh urban is altering.

Reportage Burma/Myanmar: Die Zukunft hat begonnen (Picus Lesereisen) (German Edition)

Christoph Hein und Udo Schmidt haben viele Wochen in Myanmar, dem »Goldenen Land« im politischen Umbruch verbracht und mit allen Handelnden gesprochen: von Aung San Suu Kyi, der Friedensnobelpreisträgerin und Hoffnungsträgerin des neuen Myanmar, über Mönche und Flüchtlinge bis hin zu Wirtschaftsführern und Drogendealern.