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INDOCHINA (VIETNAM, LAOS & CAMBODIA)
Vietnam
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXVNM36) |
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The Eaves of Heaven, A Life in Three Wars
• Andrew X. Pham
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2009 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
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) |
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Vietnam, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• John Balaban
• Nguyen Qui Duc
ANTHOLOGY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 239 PAGES
• COMING IN FEBRUARY
From rain forest and rural countryside to the cities, these 17 stories from Vietnam's finest writers explore Vietnam's landscapes, myths and changing traditions.
(VNM04, $14.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Vietnam and Angkor Wat
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 312 PAGES
Featuring innovative site diagrams, local maps and hundreds of color photographs, this handy companion introduces the culture, history and attractions of Vietnam. With a chapter on Angkor.
(VNM102, $25.00) |
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Vietnam Map
• ITMB
2005 •
MAP
A sturdy, double-sided map of Vietnam, at a good scale (1:1,000,000), including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and the Hue region. With index. Two Sides. 39x25 inches.
(VNM05, $12.95) |
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Also Recommended
Culture Smart! Vietnam
• Geoffrey Murray
• GUIDEBOOK
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Take along this concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(VNM87, $9.95)
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Insight Guide Vietnam
• Insight Guides
• Scott Rutherford
• GUIDEBOOK
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A highly recommended guide to history, culture and popular destinations, featuring essays, informative maps and photographs.
(VNM02, $24.99)
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Lonely Planet Vietnam
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive practical guide includes local and regional color maps, a section of photographs and chapters on history, culture and attractions.
(VNM126, $24.99)
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Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook
• Nguyen Xuanthu
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy palm-sized guide to pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(VNM20, $8.99)
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Vietnamese, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(VNM82, $7.95)
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Communion, A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam
• Kim Fay
• FOOD
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Fay recounts in savory detail a five-week journey with two friends from Hanoi to Saigon in search of the traditions, rituals and pleasures of food from local markets and street foods to haute cuisine.
(VNM147, $19.95)
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Fire in the Lake
• Frances FitzGerald
• HISTORY
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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, $18.99)
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Shadows and Wind
• Robert Templer
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A British journalist based in Vietnam, Templer cuts through myth and legend to offer a lively, opinionated portrait of contemporary Vietnam.
(VNM43, $17.00)
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The Fog of War
• Robert S. McNamara
• Errol Morris
• HISTORY
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Morris keeps a tight focus on the haunted and candid Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in this riveting examination of the U.S. in Vietnam. The 95-minute film won an Oscar in 2003 for best documentary.
(VNM83, $14.94)
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Understanding Vietnam
• Neil Jamieson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Jamieson's ambitious primer addresses politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, literature and the arts, illuminating the Vietnamese worldview with insight and depth. It's a terrific introduction to Vietnam.
(VNM01, $27.95)
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Vietnam Now, A Reporter Returns
• David Lamb
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An insightful portrait of contemporary Vietnam by a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and National Geographic writer. Lamb interweaves stories of Vietnam today with his own experiences and memories as a young reporter for UPI during the war.
(VNM47, $17.00)
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Vietnam, Rising Dragon
• Bill Hayton
• HISTORY
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The veteran BBC newsman covers the tangled politics, rapidly changing economy, culture, history and people of Vietnam with great insight in this timely portrait of a nation in transition.
(VNM134, $22.00)
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Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
• Nguyen Van Huy
• Laurel Kendall
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A marvelously illustrated portrait of culture and society in contemporary Vietnam, featuring informed essays by diverse contributors with accompanying color photographs.
(VNM66, $50.00)
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Vietnam Journeys
• Charles Fields
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Photographer and traveler Charles Fields portrays the cultures and landscapes of Vietnam from the World Heritage Site of Hue and the Phung Hiep floating market to its forests and coastline in stunning color photographs.
(VNM138, $50.00)
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Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
• Andrew X. Pham
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Much more than the story of 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, $16.00)
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Dispatches
• Michael Herr
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Robert Stone introduces this Everyman's Library edition of Herr's impressionistic, affecting memoir of his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam, called by the New York Times the best book yet to be written about the war.
(VNM03, $24.00)
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The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong
• Edward Gargan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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The Sacred Willow, Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
• Duong Van Mai Elliott
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This vivid family saga, beginning with the author's great-grandfather, captures the life and momentous history of Vietnam over the last 100 years.
(VNM39, $24.99)
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
• Robert Olen Butler
• ANTHOLOGY
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Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, this collection of 15 short stories captures the spirit of Vietnam through a juxtaposition of American and Vietnamese perspectives and settings.
(VNM21, $14.00)
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Paradise of the Blind
• Duong Thu Huong
• LITERATURE
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Duong Thu Huong's popular novel captures the live of three women in an extended family -- and the struggle for economic well being in the throes of failed land reform in the 1980s.
(VNM30, $13.99)
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The Quiet American
• Graham Greene
• LITERATURE
• FAVORITE
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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, $16.00)
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The Sorrow of War, A Novel of North Vietnam
• Bao Ninh
• LITERATURE
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A powerful novel by a former North Vietnamese soldier, this short book captures the appalling conditions of war, alternating vivid scenes from the front lines with flashbacks from the protagonist's rural youth.
(VNM07, $15.00)
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The Things They Carried
• Tim O'Brien
• LITERATURE
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National Book Award-winner O'Brien captures the daily life of a soldier in Vietnam in this loosely structured, powerful collection of stories.
(VNM32, $14.95)
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Birds of Southeast Asia
• Craig Robson
• FIELD GUIDE
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This authoritative, masterfully illustrated guide, featuring 140 color plates covering 1,270 species throughout the region, also includes Malaysia, Burma, Borneo and Indonesia.
(SEA49, $35.00)
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