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	National Geographic Vietnam  •  Jim Sullivan GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES This guide to Vietnam, published in National Geographic's attractive visual style, features hundreds of photographs, full color maps, and good information on history, nature, culture and travel in Vietnam. (VNM93, $22.95)
	Hitchhiking Vietnam, A Woman's Solo Journey in an Exclusive Land  •  Karin Muller TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1998 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES With honesty and humor, Muller explores Vietnam during a 7-month journey -- sometimes by motorbike, often by foot-- across 6,400 miles from the Mekong Delta to the Chinese border. Along the way she survives 52 motorbike breakdowns, 14 arrests, and one awful bout with scurvy. She plants rice with farmers, saves a few leopard cubs from the black market, learns to drive a passenger train, and gets to know a lot of people on her Ho Chi Minh Trail trek. (VNM125, $24.95)
	Understanding Vietnam  •  Neil Jamieson CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1995 •  PAPER  • 428 PAGES Ambitious in scope, Jamieson's book is an essential and unique primer on Vietnamese culture and society, as seen through the lens of its literature. Providing insight into politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, and of course fiction and poetry, it does just what the title promises -- it illuminates the Vietnamese and their worldview. (VNM01, $25.95)
	Ancient Angkor  •  Claude Jacques  •  Michael Freeman GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 2139 PAGES An expert overview of the monuments, architecture, culture, religion and history of Angkor, written by the leading authority on the temple complex and featuring 350 color photographs by Michael Freeman. Organized geographically, each temple description includes photographs, site plan, highlights, and visitor suggestions. Temples are ranked according to interest. With maps and suggested itineraries. (CBD15, $25.00)
	Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Map  •   Nelles 2006 •  MAP A convenient, double-sided map of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at a scale of 1:1,500,000, with city maps of Hanoi, Vientane, Ho Chi Minh City, Luang Prabang, and Phnom Penh. Two Sides. 20x31 inches. (SEA16, $10.95)

	Angkor Map  •  Dawn Rooney  •  Paisarn Piemmettawat   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A site plan and pocket guide to the city of Angkor Wat at a scale of 1:40,000. (CBD16, $12.95)
	Culture Smart! Vietnam  •  Geoffrey Murray   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (VNM87, $9.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Vietnam and Angkor Wat  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated guide to the culture, history and attractions of Vietnam and Angkor, featuring site diagrams, maps and photographs. (VNM102, $25.00)
	Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook  •  Nguyen Xuanthu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (VNM20, $8.99)
	A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia  •  J.M. Barwise  •  Nicholas J. White   • HISTORY  •  A compact history of the region, including the Khmer and the ancient kingdoms that produced Borobudur, Angkor and other architectural marvels. (SEA36, $14.95)
	Fire in the Lake  •  Frances FitzGerald   • HISTORY  •  A classic historical, political and cultural portrait of a nation at war, this powerful book won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. FitzGerald, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a reporter in Vietnam, presents a vivid image of a revolution. (VNM12, $17.99)
	The Civilization of Angkor  •  Charles Higham   • HISTORY  •  A concise history of the origins, development and rise of the kingdom of Angkor by a leading archaeologist. It's an up-to-date, accessible overview of the civilization from prehistory through the fall of Angkor in 1431. (CBD26, $21.95)
	Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit  •  Nguyen Van Huy  •  Laurel Kendall   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A marvelously illustrated portrait of culture and society in contemporary Vietnam, featuring informed essays by diverse contributors and accompanying color photographs. (VNM66, $45.00)
	Angkor Cities and Temples  •  Claude Jacques  •  Michael Freeman   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  One of the nicest books of its kind, this is a gorgeous, oversized portrait of the monuments, temples and exquisite sculptures of Angkor. Claude Jacques, who directed much of the site excavation, writes with authority about individual temples, inscriptions and Khmer culture. (CBD18, $80.00)
	A Dragon Apparent, Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A classic account of travels and adventure during the last years of French Indochina, strong on atmosphere and including wonderfully detailed descriptions of local cultures and archaeological treasures. First published in 1951. (SEA40, $33.95)
	Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam  •  Andrew X. Pham   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Much more than a road trip, this book combines the author's family history with his many and often-gritty adventures by bicycle through foreign lands (including Mexico, Japan and, notably, Vietnam). (VNM50, $15.00)
	Descending the Dragon, My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam  •  Jon Bowermaster  •  Rob Howard   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Bowermaster and a team, including his long suffering foreign press monitor and photographers, set forth from Hanoi by kayak to explore the long coast of Vietnam on a two-month-long journey of discovery. With dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. (VNM121, $21.95)
	Japanland, A Year in Search of Wa  •  Karin Muller   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Looking to gain a competitive edge in her judo practice and a fresh perspective in life, Muller, who ended up also making a film about her experience, heads to Japan for a year. She discovers in sometimes awkward, often comical interactions just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. (JPN366, $15.95)
	The Eaves of Heaven, A Life in Three Wars  •  Andrew X. Pham   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW  •  Pham recounts the story of his father's life during the French occupation, Japanese invasion and the American War, weaving such momentous events with anecdotes from his childhood and details of family, friends, food and daily life. (VNM120, $16.00)
	The Gods Drink Whiskey, Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha  •  Stephen T. Asma   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Asma writes with verve and wit in this eye-opening account of his yearlong stint teaching at the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Phen. His account is both an overview of Theravada Buddhism and a down-to-earth portrait of contemporary Cambodia. (CBD46, $14.95)
	The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong  •  Edward Gargan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A personal, probing chronicle of a 3,000 mile journey on the river from its source in China through Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia to the Mekong delta in Vietnam. (SEA33, $15.95)
	The Sacred Willow, Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family  •  Duong Van Mai Elliott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid family saga, beginning with the author's great-grandfather, that captures the life and momentous history of Vietnam over the last 100 years. (VNM39, $24.99)
	Vietnam, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  John Balaban  •  Nguyen Qui Duc   • ANTHOLOGY  •  These 17 stories from Vietnam's finest modern writers explore the country's landscapes, mythology and changing traditions. (VNM04, $14.95)
	The Quiet American  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  A classic, this is the most famous western work of fiction on Vietnam. Greene writes of a love triangle between a war correspondent, his Vietnamese consort and an optimistic young American during the last days of French rule. (VNM08, $15.00)
	Birds of Southeast Asia  •  Craig Robson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact, authoritative field guide features 140 stunning color plates covering 1,270 species. (SEA49, $35.00)

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