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Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and empire in South-East Asia by John Keay
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is the story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From i ...Show more
Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day by John Keay
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The first modern history of all South Asia's peoples. If British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the world's largest. At c1.5 billion, Midnight's Descendants (the offspring of those affected by 'the midnight hour' Partition) already outnumber Europeans and Chinese; ...Show more
The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner by John Keay
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2017, The bestselling author of India: A History takes readers on a quest from the American West to the Asian East to unravel the greatest enigma in the history of travel. Book jacket.
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