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A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
Dy, Khamboly
Book Number: 66048
ISBN: 9995060043
Publisher: Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh 2007.
4to. softcover. 75pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $35.00

Secret Histories - finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop.
Larkin, Emma
Book Number: 65491
ISBN: 0719556996
Publisher: John Murray, London, 2004.
8vo. softcover. 232pp. Good, foxing, mainly to endpapers, prelims and outer page edges.
Price: $10.00

The Director is the Commander : Come on a unique journey inside North Korea's propaganda machine
Broinowski, Anna
Book Number: 65457
ISBN: 9780670077830
Publisher: Viking 2015.
8vo. softcover. 324pp. colour illus Very good.
Price: $8.00

Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness
Jennings, Christian
Book Number: 28052
ISBN: 0575062525
Publisher: Gollancz 2000
8vo hardcover 350pp, b/w illus. good, wear to bottom edge / good d/w with wear to bottom edge. Christian Jennings is not a man to rest on his laurels. Not content with the rigours of the French Foreign Legion (documented in his first book, A Mouthful of Rocks, he flew to Rwanda in August 1994 with a rucksack of provisions, The Day of the Jackal, and a self-confessed ignorance of the country beyond the knowledge that 850,000 people had just been slaughtered in brutal acts of genocide. Also, he had a television producer on her way who wanted to find the people responsible within the five-day span of her trip. Apart from the miraculous completion of that programme, the other thing to emerge from this immersion into the landscape of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, was a fascination with Central Africa that saw Jennings return again and again. He was to report for Sunday Telegraph and Reuters in Rwanda, its sibling-in-horror Burundi, and the former Zaire with fearful bravery, but in the impressive Across the Red River he navigates the territory between reportage and memoir. Cleverly matching his learning curve to the reader's, he moves from his virtual ignorance of Rwanda and its mesh of tragedy to a deeper understanding of the weave and durability of that net, achieved with a flowing and refreshing candour. If there are two lines of war journalism, with writers such as Michael Ignatieff providing a more intellectual overview from the hills, Christian Jennings is on the frontline with souls such as Maggie O'Kane, Eve-Ann Prentice and Anthony Loyd. As with the latter's My War Gone By, I Miss It So, Jennings is able to unbridle his sense of self to stirring effect and show the mundane tedium as well as the brutal tension of reporting from, and surviving in, war. Occasionally angry, more often darkly funny, his book proves an unsettling yet riveting critique of the unimaginable effects of genocide, those who feed off its corpse and the few, like Jennings, who live to open our eyes. --David Vincent nn Book Descriptionn A devastating account of the Central African nightmare, in the tradition of Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English and We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Price: $12.00

The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945
Chandler, David
Book Number: 62403
ISBN: 9747047071
Publisher: Silkworm Books, Thailand, 1999.
8vo. softcover. 396pp. index. Very good.
Price: $10.00

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
Thwe, Pascal Khoo
Book Number: 62390
ISBN: 0007116829
Publisher: Flamingo March 3, 2003
8vo softcover 320pp very good. Illustrated with b&w photo's. Khoo Thwe, born in 1967, debuts with a remarkable portrait of his childhood in Phekhon,
Price: $12.00

A Survey of Tibet
The Compiling Committee of the Photo Collection of A Survey of Tibet
Book Number: 62344
ISBN: 7223000783
Publisher: Tibet People's Publishing House 1987
4to. Pictorial Laminated Boards in d/w. 192pp. Near fine. Illustrated throughout. Written in dual languages. A photographic history of Tibet. Hand made end pages, fly leaf is foxed.
Price: $25.00

This Must Be My Brother
Thieman, Leann
Book Number: 31536
ISBN: 1564763838
Publisher: Chariot Victor Books 1995
8vo hardcover 173pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Two housewives who had never been out of Iowa, Thieman and Dey were officers in the Iowa chapter of Friends of Children of Vietnam (an organization that, during the Vietnam War, raised money and supplies for Vietnamese orphans and also processed adoptions). In early April 1975, they were asked to fly into Vietnam and bring back six babies for adoption. As the fall of Saigon became imminent, however, President Ford approved a massive baby lift, and the six babies became two hundred.
Price: $20.00

The Other 100 Years War Japan's bid for supremacy 1941-2041
Russell Braddon
Book Number: 4447
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins first 1983
8vo. hardcover. very good. / very good d/w. 245pp, index.
Price: $15.00

Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
Appadurai, Arjun
Book Number: 48946
ISBN: 0812213378
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press July 1, 1991
8vo softcover 464pp very good. The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
Price: $30.00

Indonesian Gold
Collison, Kerry B.
Book Number: 56995
ISBN: 0957870930
Publisher: Sid Harta 2002
8vo. softcover. 626pp. Very good.
Price: $12.00

Thai jinks : madcap misadventures on land and sea in Thailand
Eckardt, James
Book Number: 47067
ISBN: 9748303926
Publisher: Asia Books 2006
8vo softcover 272pp near fine. Signed with inscription on half-title by Author. Legendary expat writer and beer connoisseur James Eckardt proves that just because you're middle-aged doesn't mean you can't be immature. Here, among other high jinks, he mounts elephants with polo mallet in hand, skitters about slippery yacht decks, presides over songfests at the Peachy Flophouse School of Journalism, stars in a Thai movie and soap opera, and is adopted as a guitar-playing mascot by a tribe of masseuses in Phuket. Covering nearly thirty years of calamitous carousals in Thailand, Thai Jinks is a fun-packed lesson in what you shouldn't do if you want to be a responsible adult.
Price: $16.00

The Regent: A Window on Thailand
Warren, William
Book Number: 21802
ISBN:
Publisher: Singapore: Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd, 1993
Square 4to. hardcover. 96pp. colour illus. very good. / no d/w.
Price: $15.00

Face of North Vietnam
Riboud, Marc
Book Number: 29158
ISBN: 0030853265
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, n.d.
4to softcover 121 b/w photos. fair, water damage to bottom edge, mainly on text pages at rear. most plates very good. Scarce.
Price: $15.00

Cultural Heritage of Sarawak
Chin, Lucas
Book Number: 43948
ISBN:
Publisher: Kuching, Sarawak Museum, 1980
Square 4to. softcover. 105pp.colour & b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $25.00

TOBOLAND: The shreds of tradition
Barbier, Jean Paul
Book Number: 3995
ISBN:
Publisher:
Monographies published by the Barbier-Muller Museum, Geneva 1983 Wrpps, 4to. 237pp. 207 plates and illustrations, (30 in colour), 3 maps, fold out genealogical chart. biblio., index. Very Good condition, light crease on front cover, crease on fold out chart. Light foxing to endpapers. Small crease on rear cover, light edgewear.
Price: $25.00

From the Place of the Dead - Bishop Belo and the Struggle for East Timor
Kohen, Arnold K. - Intrduction by The Dali Lama
Book Number: 53857
ISBN: 0745950108
Publisher: Lion 1999
8vo. Softcover. 398pp. Very good. Index. Illustrations. In 1975, Indonesia illegally invaded East Timor, until then a Portuguese colony. Since then, an estimated 200,000 persons, nearly one-third of the territory's original population, have perished from war, famine, and killings. Now, after the fall of Indonesia's longtime strongman, General Suharto, East Timor is in the public eye, and seems on the verge of winning independence. No one has been more crucial to this development than Bishop Belo. His inspiring story recalls the struggle of Mahatma Gandhi, whose non-violent philosophy greatly influenced the Timorese bishop. In the face of assassination threats as well as excruciating pressure from enemies and friends alike, Bishop Belo has been a moral beacon and an unflinching defender of his martyred people in their fight against injustice.
Price: $12.00

Australia's Pacific Neighbours
Brooks, Michael & Codrington, Stephen
Book Number: 4312
ISBN:
Publisher: Action for World Development & The Geography Teacher's Assoc. of NSW. 1989
small 4to. Softcover. 193pp. Good condition, informative text with b/w maps, photos, tables and diag.
Price: $35.00

A Nation in Waiting - Indonesia in the 1990's
Schwarz, Adam
Book Number: 44960
ISBN: 1863736352
Publisher: Allen & Unwin September 1, 1994
8vo softcover 384pp very good.
Price: $10.00

Hunting the Gugu; in search of the lost ape-men of Sumatra.
Allen, Benedict
Book Number: 21126
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Macmillan, 1989.
8vo. hardcover,191pp. + colour plates. very good=. / very good d/w with one small tear.
Price: $10.00

In Borneo jungles: Among the Dyak headhunters (Oxford in Asia paperbacks)
Krohn, William O
Book Number: 33579
ISBN: 0195889959
Publisher: Singapore ; New York Oxford University Press 1991
8vo softcover 327pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $28.00

The Smiling General: President Soeharto of Indonesia
Roeder, O. G.
Book Number: 28577
ISBN:
Publisher: Djakarta: Gunung Agung 1970
8vo. hardcover, laminated boards. 290pp. b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $12.00

Thailand: Land Of The Free
Basche, James
Book Number: 21822
ISBN:
Publisher: Robert Hale London 1971,
8vo. hardcover. 273pp. index. + b/w plates. good. / good, chipped d/w.
Price: $15.00

Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin
Cucullu, Gordon
Book Number: 46523
ISBN: 1592285910
Publisher: The Lyons Press 2004
8vo hardcover 307pp index, endpaper maps. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Reviewn"Written with solid research from a soldier-scholar's perspective and sensitive feel for history, this book is very readable and replete with insights on Korean and Japanese culture, particularly as they pertain to current challenges on the Korean Peninsula. It is a 'must read' for all military, diplomatic, and commercial people posted to the Far East." --General John Wickham, USA (retired) Former Chief of Staff US Army and CINC in Korea.nn"In the rogue's gallery of terrorist states, North Korea occupies a darkly prominent place. Its membership in the "axis of evil" is richly and dangerously deserved---and did not develop overnight. This book is indispensable to understanding how North Korea became one of the world's worst human rights violators and weapons proliferators---and how we should deal with this rogue, before it's too late."--Monica Crowley, Ph.D., Fox News Channel, WABC Radio
Price: $15.00

Poverty Reduction in Mongolia
Griffin, Keith (Editor)
Book Number: 46588
ISBN: 0731536959
Publisher: Asia Pacific Press 2003
8vo softcover 161pp very good. This book forms a basis of a strategy to counter the economic decline, the growth of poverty and the increasing reliance on foreign aid in Mongolia.
Price: $15.00

Good Morning Hanoi: A Year on the Airwaves in the New Vietnam
Finlay, Iain & Clark, Trish
Book Number: 47440
ISBN: 0731812727
Publisher: Simon & Schuster., Sydney, 2006.
Large 8vo. softcover. 392pp. index, colour illus. Very good. Iain and Trish, two of the founders and producers of the international television program Beyond 2000, retuen to a country from which they had reported during the Vietnam War. They find an extraordinary friendly people whose resilience and irrepressible good nature enable them to put the past behind them and move into the future with confidence.
Price: $12.00

A Short History of Modern Korea
Rees, David
Book Number: 34645
ISBN: 0870521543
Publisher: Hippocrene Books 1991
8vo softcover 196pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $8.00

Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom
Shearer, Alistair
Book Number: 30815
ISBN: 0719545722
Publisher: John Murray, 1989.
8vo. hardcover. 278pp. index. b/w illus. very good. po. inscriptions on fep / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00