Rats, 16th century poets, and India on 3 bucks a day...Golden Goa recounts Grant Buday's travels in India by paralleling them with those of sixteenth - century Portuguese soldier and poet Luis de Camoens. Camoens, author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiads, spent fourteen years in India in the 1500s. Between 1979 and 1999 Buday visited India five times in pursuit of the story of the Portuguese. A magical, exquisite narrative, reminiscent both of the travel writing of Paul Bowles and Mich...
Saudi Arabien Reisetagebuch
by Erkunden Urlaub & Auswandern Publishing
Trekking in Pakistan and India (Teach Yourself) (Sierra Club adventuretravel guides)
by Hugh Swift
The Land and People of Iran, (Sports Illustrated Library)
by Helen Hinckley Jones
An introduction to the history, people, customs, geography, industries, religion, and modern progress of a country whose history goes back more than 2500 years.
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects, a museum of one man's broken heart, that chronicles Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions.
Introduces visitors to the attractions of this rapidly changing part of the world. The Gulf area offers camel racing in Qatar; Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Bahrain have stunning beaches and great nightlife; and Oman has breathtaking desert scenery.