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The Philippines, an archipelago of over 7,000 islands in southeast Asia, offer an extraordinary fusion of cultures and rich biodiversity. National Geographic's Philippines Adventure Map provides global travelers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective in a highly functional travel tool. Each of the three principal geographic divisions of the country - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao - are detailed. The front side of the print map shows Luzon and includes an inset of the Batanes province. The Visayan Islands, Mindanao, and an inset of the province of Tawi-Tawi are shown on the reverse side. Cities and towns are easy to find with the map's helpful index. Highways and major roads as well as minor and secondary roads are clearly designated and include distance in kilometers so travelers can easily plan their best route. National parks and reserves, World Heritage sites, hot springs, beaches, points of interest, and areas for surfing and diving are indicated so travelers can take advantage of the Philippines' many natural attractions and activities. The locations of airports, airfields, railroads, and ferry routes take the guesswork out of travel around the islands. Every Adventure Map is printed on durable synthetic paper, making them waterproof, tear-resistant and tough — capable of withstanding the rigors of international travel..

• Målestokk: 1:1,3M
• År: 2022
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Denne boka er unik ved at den på en praktisk måte sammenlikner hvordan de statskontrollerte fjernsynskanalene og det som fortsatt er igjen av mer uavhengige russiske medier rapporterter om Krim, Ukraina, Norge, Baltikum, Tsjetsjenia, Georgia, historie, politikk og en rekke andre temaer. Boka er en hyllest til de tøffe og uavhengige journalistene i Russland som med stor integritet fortsetter å jobbe profesjonelt til tross for hyppige drap, overfall, trusler og statlig press.

Boka er med på å forklare hvordan flertallet av russere ofte tenker annerledes en andre europeere, og er en påminnelse om hva som skjer når man ikke lenger makter å tenke kritisk.

• Forfatter: Richard Bærug
• Publisert: 2018
  
• Antall sider: 496
  
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• ISBN: 9788283301847

This mini pocket Singapore travel guidebook is perfect for travellers seeking basic information about Singapore. It covers key places, main attractions and a short hotel and restaurant recommendations list. This book is printed on paper from responsible sources, verified to meet FSC's strict environmental and social standards.

• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 144
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 978183529000

New from Bradt is the first-ever, standalone English-language guide to Hokkaido, Japan's second-largest island and northernmost prefecture. Home to under 5% of the country's population, this is a land of vast, wild expanses which demands exploration at any time of year - and feels a world away from Tokyo. Penned by an outdoors-loving travel writer resident in Japan, Bradt's Hokkaido delves far deeper into this frontier land than country-wide guidebooks can possibly do.

Author Tom Fay provides detailed coverage of the island's history, unique wildlife, local food, the Ainu (indigenous people), outdoor activities, skiing logistics, hiking courses and the practicalities of visiting in winter, when deep snow carpets the ground and the sea turns to ice. Hokkaido's varied landscapes include remote mountain ranges, fertile lowland plains, sweeping forests and enormous wetlands home to rare birds and other wildlife. Even for the Japanese, Hokkaido has a somewhat wild and exotic aura - place names have distinct Ainu origins and the capital Sapporo is closer to Russia's Vladivostok than to Tokyo; while the Siberia-influenced climate and wide open spaces are unlike anything found in the rest of Japan.

Hokkaido's mild summers are ideal for sightseeing, cycling, camping and hiking. Why not climb the island's highest mountain in Daisetsuzan National Park - an untouched wilderness of simmering volcanoes and stunning nature - or marvel at colourful fields of flowers around Furano and Biei? In winter, you can go to snow festivals, walk on sea ice (or board an icebreaker) to explore the Sea of Okhotsk, watch flocks of sea eagles or track brown bears in Shiretoko National Park, or head to popular ski resorts such as Niseko where the huge dumps of perfect powder snow attract skiers and snowboarders from around the world. Throw in hot springs (and thus ryokan hot-spring inns), active volcanoes, speciality seafood and quirky foodstuffs such as chocolate-covered crisps, excellent transport links and renowned Japanese hospitality, and Hokkaido is a thrilling and varied off-the-beaten-path travel destination, to which Bradt's Hokkaido guidebook is instantly the essential companion.

• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 312
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781804690994

Publisert år: 2023
Innbinding: falset
Material: papir
Målestokk: 1:1250000

Sherpaene fra Nepal har vært avgjørende for klatreekspedisjoner til de høyeste fjellene i verden. Opprinnelig var det ren nød som tvang dem over snøgrensen og opp i gudenes rike, der de ifølge sin tro kan risikere å miste både dette og det neste livet. I dag er motivene flere.
Tidligere tiders koloniale forhold mellom herre og tjener er også jevnet ut, men vi rike betaler fortsatt for å utsette både sherpaene og oss selv for livsfare. Kan det som driver oss være vår egen indre frykt -ikke for gudenes vrede, og heller ikke for å miste livet, men meningen med det? Og like viktig: Hva er det som driver sherpaene?
Dette er blant spørsmålene Jon Gangdal forsøker å besvare. Gjennom et rikt historisk materiale og sine egne dyrekjøpte erfaringer med liv og død i høyden, løfter han fram sherpafolket fra Himalaya-klatringens skygge og kommer tett på deres spesielle livsvilkår og hverdag.

 

• Publisert: okt 2023
• Forfatter: Jon Gangdal
• Utgave 1. utgave
• Utgiver: Fri flyt
• Språk: Bokmål
• Format: Innbundet
• Antall: sider 596

Bordering the coastlines of eight countries, the Red Sea is a melting pot of civilizations, faiths and hopes. With unique coral reefs and diverse underwater life, the untouched nature and unmatched biodiversity thrive in the aquatic environment and have led to the creation of several preservation initiatives. As the setting of many epic journeys in literature, the Red Sea is imbued with a spirit of adventure. Photography by Aline Coquelle, Ameen Qaisaran and Afnan Alkhayat, Mohammed Al Sharif, and Yarob Bashrahil.

From serene desert expanses to coastal regions teeming with flora and fauna, the many wonders of Saudi Arabia are explored in our latest collection. This six-book series features original works by premier photographers and artists. Each volume uncovers a unique treasure of the Kingdom, whether an ancient city or historic tribe.

• Vekt 2,45 kg
• Mål 25 × 3,6 × 33 cm
• Innbundet
  
• 248 sider
• Språk: Engelsk

Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook & CD is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Mandarin phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order dishes with ease, ask directions and chat to locals - all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now! 

(Available languages: German, Latin Spanish, European Spanish, French, and Italian.)

• Publisert: Juni 2020
• Utgave: 4. utgave
• Antall sider: 256 + CD
• ISBN: 9781786571731

«Baghdad» avslutter beretningen om Wolfgang fra Godesberg. I denne romanen opptrer han som Den stumme, som omgir seg med en liten gruppe gatebarn. Året er 1258 og Baghdad er omringet av mongolene. Fortelleren er denne gangen Rodrigo som etter hvert knytt er seg til den stumme tiggeren og barneflokken som omgir ham. Mens byens innbyggere venter på mongolenes angrep, forteller Rodrigo om sitt liv.

• Forfatter: Tor Åge Bringsværd
• Publisert: 2018
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• Antall sider: 191
• ISBN: 9788202561260

Djevelens skinn og ben er tredje bok i Tor Åge Bringsværds mektige epos fra middelalderen. Munken Eusebius er falt i unåde hos sin unge venn, den mektige Chu, rådgiver hos mongolenes khan. For å redde livet må han fortelle en historie på et unikt og mesterlig vis. Mens karavanen beveger seg gjennom Gobiørkenen mot Karakorum, fortelles en bestialitetens historie av et menneske på desperat flukt fra sine onde gjerninger og et uhyggelig Europa. Det er de store mennekselig sprøsmål forfatteren tumler med: meningen med livet, kjærlighetens mysterium, ondskapens problem.

• Forfatter: Tor Åge Bringsværd
• Publisert: 2018
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• Antall sider: 375
• ISBN: 9788202561246

Under den legendariske Djengis Khan skapte mongolene det største imperium verden noen gang har sett. Et rike som strakte seg fra Stillehavet og langt inn i Europa.

Lonely Planet Burmese Phrasebook & Dictionary is your passport to the most relevant Burmese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Find out-of-the-way temples, learn the etiquette of visiting someone's home and bargain for fruit at a market -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now! 

• Publisert: Juli 2023
• Utgave: 6. utgave
• Antall sider: 222
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781786570925

Lonely Planet's Sinhala Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Sinhalese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for recommendations of tucked-away beaches, bargain at a vegetable market, and mingle at local cricket match; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!

• Publisert: Mai 2024
• Utgave: 5. utgave
  
• Antall sider: 230
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781786570840

Lonely Planet's Hebrew Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Hebrew phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask directions in Hebrew, visit the Holy Land and chat with locals; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!

• Publisert: Desember 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Antall sider: 208
• ISBN: 9781788688314

Leave no Hill Tribe subgroup or culture unimpressed by a dash of your multi-lingual bon mots. Whether you're trekking Vietnam, China, Laos, Thailand or beyond, let this handy phrasebook do some talking. Covers Lahu, Akha, Lisu, Mong, Mien and more Individual guides to pronunciation, sounds and grammar Detailed language maps Practicalities - how to ask for directions or find a doctor Lonely Planet gets you to the heart of a place.

Our job is to make amazing travel experiences happen. We visit the places we write about each and every edition. We never take freebies for positive coverage, so you can always rely on us to tell it like it is.

• Publisert: Juli 2019
• Utgave: 7. utgave
• Antall sider: 258
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781786575616

 Snart 40 år er gått siden formann Maos død. Siden den gang har vi fått et klarere bilde av hva som skjedde under hans styre. Modige kinesere har stått fram med sine beretninger, og forskere har fått adgang til arkiver som lenge har vært lukket. Bildet som avtegner seg, er skremmende. Millioner av mennesker sultet i hjel. Størst var sulten under Maos såkalte Store sprang fra 1958 til 1961. Nyere forskning tyder på at hans hårreisende forsøk på massemobilisering endte med minst 45 millioner menneskers død.

Noen år senere ga Mao støtet til Kulturrevolusjonen, som kom til å vare i ti år. Igjen ble et uhyggelig stort antall mennesker ofret på revolusjonens alter.



I Maos rike - En lidelseshistorie forteller den kritikerroste forfatteren Torbjørn Færøvik om hva som skjedde under Mao. Hans baserer sin veldokumenterte fremstilling på nyere forskning og enkeltmenneskers skildringer. Mesterlig og intenst redegjør Færøvik for konsekvensene av den brutale politikken , samtidig som han forklarer hvorfor det kunne skje. Nettopp derfor er Maos rike - En lidelseshistorie en særdeles viktig bok.

• Forfattere: Torbjørn Færøvik
• Publisert: 2014
• Antall sider: 628
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Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues to absorb what it prefers not to call Tibet. Hunters have decimated its wildlife and mountaineers have bagged its peaks.

Today, machinery gouges minerals out of its rock. Roughly the size of Europe, the region is one of the most seismically active on the planet. Summers bring avalanches, rainfall triggers landslides and winters obliterate trails.

Glaciers retreat, rivers change course and whole lakes quietly evaporate. To some, Himalaya is an otherworldly realm, profoundly life-changing, yet forbidding and forbidden. It has mesmerised scholars and mystics, sportsmen and spies, pilgrims and mapmakers who have mingled with the farmers and traders on the Roof of the World.

Himalaya is the story of one of the last great wildernesses and, in particular, of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers. Ranging from botany to trade, from the Great Game to todays geopolitics, John Keay draws on a lifetime of exploration and study to enlighten and delight with this lively biography of a region in crisis.

• Forfatter: John Keay
• Publisert: Okt. 2023
• Antall sider: 432
• ISBN: 9781408891162

Seiobo er en japansk gudinne. Ferskentrærne hennes blomstrer bare en gang hvert 3000. år, men den som ser blomstringen, forblir udødelig. Folk har sluttet å tro på slike historier, men ikke å lengte etter dem. I Seiobo der nede undersøker László Krasznahorkai vår lengsel etter det vakre. Han skildrer hvordan det i hver epoke, til enhver tid har eksistert fullkomne gjenstander: En egretthegre som jakter urørlig i en elv, grimasene til en No-maske, den absolutte nakenheten i ikonets ansikt.

Seiobo der nede kom opprinnelig ut i 2008, og regnes som et av Krasznahorkais viktigste verk. Boken består av 17 løst sammenhengende fortellinger der forfatteren tar med leseren på en reise gjennom tid og rom, fra Kyoto til Venezia, fra Paris til Athen via Grenada og Geneve. Det er en melankolsk, språklig briljant prosatekst om oppfordrer oss til å ta vare på evnen til å gi vår fulle konsentrasjon til det sublime i kunsten.

• Forfatter: László Krasznahorkai
• Publisert: 2019
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• ISBN: 9788202606848

From the Iran-Iraq War through the Occupation, this collection of fictional short stories presents an uncompromising view of the relationship between the West and Iraq, as well as a haunting critique of the postwar refugee experience. Blending allegory with historical realism and subverting expectations in an unflinching comedy of the macabre, these tales manage to be both phantasmagoric and shockingly real. For all the despair and darkness portrayed in these gripping stories, from spotlighting hostage-video makers in Baghdad to following human trafficking in Serbia's forests, what lingers more than the haunting images of war is the spirit of defiance and of indefatigable courage.

• Forfatter: Hassan Blasim
• Publisert: September 2009
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781905583256

A sexually charged satire of the Cultural Revolution and a huge underground hit in China, where it is banned. 'Slanders Mao Zedong, the army, and is overflowing with sex & Do not distribute, pass around, comment on, excerpt from it or report on it.' Chinese Central Propaganda Bureau This political satire by one of China's most distinguished authors has been banned in its native land for its depiction of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution.

Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, when 'Serve the People' was one of the great man's most famous slogans, it tells the story of the bored wife of a military commander who artfully seduces a peasant soldier. When the lovers discover that the sacrilegious act of breaking a statue of Mao deliciously increases their desire, they compete to see who can destroy the most sacred icons of their Great Leader - smashing the commander's beloved Mao icons, ripping up the "Little Red Book" or defacing the Great Helmsman's epigrams. Defacing an image of Mao was punishable by death during the Cultural Revolution. Yan Lianke tramples on the most sacred taboos of the army, the revolution, sexuality and political etiquette. As a subversive critique of official corruption, leadership hypocrisy and the insanity of the Cultural Revolution, his book has a huge cult following in China.

• Forfatter: Yan Lianke
• Publisert: 2007
  
• Antall sider: 144
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781845295042

Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and being cheeky to her parents. When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Loung's family fled their home and were eventually forced to disperse to survive. Loung was trained as a child soldier while her brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps. The surviving siblings were only finally reunited after the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia and started to destroy the Khmer Rouge. Bolstered by the bravery of one brother, the vision of the others and the gentle kindness of her sister, Loung forged on to create for herself a courageous new life.

First They Killed My Father is an unforgettable book told through the voice of the young and fearless Loung. It is a shocking and tragic tale of a girl who was determined to survive despite the odds.

• Forfatter: Loung Ung
• Publisert: 2007
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781840185195

• Forfatter: Vikas Swarup
• Publisert: 2006
• Antall sider: 382
• ISBN: 9780552772501

Forfattere: Eileen chang
Publisert måned: Jan
Publisert år: 2007
Utgave: 1utg
Sider nr:170

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning 'The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past.

Adam sets out on a quest to find Karl, but all he has to guide him are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colourful, dangerous capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother. 'Map of the Invisible World' is a masterful novel, and confirms Tash Aw as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.

• Forfatter: Tash Aw
• Publisert: April 2010
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9780007349982

Forfattere: Cohn-sherbok m
Publisert år: 2002
Sider nr:212