Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progress……続きを見る
Johann Ludwig (also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (November 24, 1784 – October 15, 1817) was a Swiss traveller and orientalist. He wrote his letters in French and signed as "Louis". He……続きを見る
著者:Gabriel Levin
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2012年11月30日
“How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragge……続きを見る
著者:Patrick W. Nee
出版社: The Internationalist
発売日: 2013年03月12日
Learn everything you need to know about the exciting United Arab Emirates! The Key Facts on the United Arab Emirates provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the Midd……続きを見る
He’s been expelled from Syria on suspicion of terrorism, been dragged from the Hungarian parliament in handcuffs and interviewed the editor-in-chief of al-Jazeera, all during a remarkable two-year ……続きを見る
**A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
“Highly readable biography . . . The woman who emerges from these pages is a complex figureーheroic, ……続きを見る
Thomas Stevens (born 24 December 1854, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England,died London, 24 January 1935, aged 80) was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordina……続きを見る
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionali……続きを見る
著者:Peter Riordan
出版社: David Bateman Ltd
発売日: 2012年04月27日
In the 1930s, English travel writer H V Morton undertook a series of journeys to the great religious and historical sites of the Middle East. In 2009, travel writer Peter Riordan set off in his foot……続きを見る
Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and ……続きを見る
著者:V. S. Naipaul
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年03月23日
The Nobel Prize-winning author gives us – on the basis of his own intensive seventeen month journey across the Asian continent – an unprecedented revelation of the Islamic world. • “A brilliant repo……続きを見る
著者:Tahir Shah
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月26日
Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House*,* describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. Now Shah takes ……続きを見る
Behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in Afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the Taliba……続きを見る
Originally published in 1849, this early work by traveller, archaeologist and collector Sir Austen Henry Layard is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the religion, art ……続きを見る
In December 1995 authors Karen and Ray Gilden found themselves on the receiving end of an offer they couldn't resistーa furnished apartment on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey for one year at just……続きを見る
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa ……続きを見る
‘This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.’ – Sunday Ti……続きを見る
著者:Amitav Ghosh
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年07月20日
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small villa……続きを見る
著者:Patrick W. Nee
出版社: The Internationalist
発売日: 2013年04月04日
Learn everything you need to about the Islamic Republic of Iraq! The Key Facts on Iraq provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the Middle Eastern country, including:
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Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip……続きを見る
An irreverent look at fifty things that make Dubai the city it is. From brunches and boot camps to Jumeirah Janes and cabin crew, we take a sideways look at the city we love. A must for anyone who l……続きを見る
著者:Patrick W. Nee
出版社: The Internationalist
発売日: 2013年04月01日
Learn everything you need to about the country of Syria! The Key Facts on Syria provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the Middle Eastern country, including:
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Amidst the Lebanese Civil War in 1977 the author was delivered to an indigenous, bomb-damaged hotel on the Green Line, the dividing line in war-torn Beirut, where he lodged for nearly two weeks. Dai……続きを見る
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure. It ……続きを見る
著者:Patrick W. Nee
出版社: The Internationalist
発売日: 2013年04月03日
Learn everything you need to about the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan! The Key Facts on Afghanistan provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the Middle Eastern count……続きを見る
As well as including Sherley's own account of his journey into Persia in 1600, this valuable edition includes the main works dealing with Anthony Sherley and his life. Original inaccessible texts ar……続きを見る
著者:Holiday FM
出版社: Create Digital Publishing
発売日: 2012年04月17日
This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Dubai. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the Ci……続きを見る
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as d……続きを見る
Marcello Di Cintio prepares for his “journey into the heart of Iran” with the utmost diligence. He takes lessons in Farsi, researches Persian poetry and sharpens his wrestling skills by returning to……続きを見る