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The Diggers From China: The Story Of The Chinese On The Goldfields
$30.00 AUD
Author: Jean GittinsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Quartet Books., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Some tears to cover, tanning and...
The Life Of Milarepa
$12.00 AUD
Author: Lobsang P. LhalungpaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Granada Publishing Limited., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis profound spiritual biography chronicles the extraordinary...
Officers Of The Bengal Army (Six-Volume Set)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Major V.C.P. HodsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Naval & Military PressCondition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOfficers of the Bengal Army presents a monumental...
The Art Of India
$50.00 AUD
Author: Calambur SivaramamurtiBinding: HardbackPublished: Harry N. Abrams inc, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor sun-fading to spine, yellowed pages.The Art Of India presents a comprehensive survey...
Hong Kong: Heritage, Art & Dreams
$150.00 AUD
Author: Sonia Cheng (intro); Robyn Lea (photography); Catherine Shaw (text)Binding: HardbackPublished: ASSOULINE, 2018Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsHong Kong: Heritage, Art, & Dreams presents a visually arresting tribute...
Out Of The Blue: A Pilot With The Chindits
$20.00 AUD
Author: Terence O'BrienBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins London, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling military memoir, Out Of The Blue: A Pilot With The Chindits, chronicles the extraordinary experiences of...
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years Of Chinese Poetry
$15.00 AUD
Author: Wu-Chi Liu And Irving Yucheng LoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Anchor Press/Doubleday., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown in...
Lion Of The China Sea: A History Of The E & A Line
$20.00 AUD
Author: William OlsonBinding: HardbackPublished: P & O Australia Ltd, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the rise and operations of the influential E & A...
Coming Alive: China After Mao
$15.00 AUD
Author: Roger GarsideBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill, 1981Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book chronicles the dramatic societal and political shifts that reshaped...
A China Passage
$15.00 AUD
Author: John Kenneth GalbraithBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA seminal work in economic history, A Journey...
Light In The Far East: Archbishop Harold Henry's Forty-Two Years In Korea
$15.00 AUD
Author: Edward FischerBinding: HardbackPublished: Seabury Press, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the remarkable life and enduring legacy of...
A Book Of Five Rings
$25.00 AUD
Author: Miyamoto MusashiBinding: HardbackPublished: The Overlook Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA foundational text in strategic thought, A Book Of Five Rings presents the timeless principles of legendary...
Chinese Paintings Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties: 14Th-20Th Centuries
$25.00 AUD
Author: Edmund Capon, Mae Anna PangBinding: HardbackPublished: Art Exhibitions Australia, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJames Cahill's Chinese Paintings Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties: 14Th-20Th Centuries presents a comprehensive...
Philby Of Arabia
$40.00 AUD
Author: Elizabeth MonroeBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER LIMITED, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Philby Of Arabia, chronicles the extraordinary life of H. St. John Philby, a...
Tales From The South China Seas: Images Of The Nation In Southeast Asia In The Twentieth Century
$20.00 AUD
Author: Charles A. CoppelBinding: HardbackPublished: Singapore University Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical account, Tales From The South China Seas: Images Of The British In South-East Asia...
The China Navigation Company Limited: A Pictorial History, 1872-1992
$75.00 AUD
Author: Miles SmeetonBinding: HardbackPublished: Butterfield & Swire Hong Kong, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The China Navigation Company Limited: A Pictorial History, 1872-1992, chronicles the...
The Golden Age Of Indian Art: Vth-Xiiith Century
$30.00 AUD
Author: P. Rambach V. De GolishBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames And Hudson, 1955Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThe academic work The Golden Age Of Indian...
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940
$65.00 AUD
Author: Dipesh ChakrabartyBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Good, clean copy. Tight spine.This scholarly work re-evaluates the foundational narratives of labor history...
The Positive Sciences Of The Ancient Hindus
$50.00 AUD
Author: Brajendranath SealBinding: HardbackPublished: Motilal Banarsidass, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Reading copy with markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the profound scientific achievements of ancient Indian...
In Pursuit Of Lakshmi: The Political Economy Of The Indian State
$30.00 AUD
Author: Lloyd L. Rudolph And Susanne Hoeber RudolphBinding: PaperbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn In Pursuit Of Lakshmi: The Political Economy Of The Indian...
The Long Revolution
$15.00 AUD
Author: Edgar SnowBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Half-title page & Title page missing. This seminal work of non-fiction...
Caste, Feudalism And Peasantry: The Social Formation Of Shekhawati
$25.00 AUD
Author: K.L. SharmaBinding: HardbackPublished: Manohar Publishers & Distributors., 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to DJ.This scholarly work meticulously chronicles the intricate social structures of a...
Asia-Pacific Between Conflict and Reconciliation
$40.00 AUD
This third volume in the RIPAR series seeks to translate the Western concept of reconciliation into a universal and thus non-Western idiom. It unmasks some of the long-held and unresolved...
Kitchen Classics: Asian Flavours
"Enjoy the flavours of Asia with the wide range of traditional and modern recipes offered in Kitchen Classics: Asian Flavours. From small bites, such stuffed prawns in crispy won ton...
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal
A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and
Hello, Shadowlands is the story of Southeast Asia's anarchic enclaves and their hidden connections to the West. There is no better place to observe the clash between old codes and...
The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has...
Great Chinese Revolution (1800-1985)
$12.00 AUD
Examines the transformation of Imperial China to Communist China, discusses the social and cultural changes that have occurred, and looks at modern economic development in China.
Megatrends Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends That are Changing the
Drawing on more than three decades of first-hand observations and interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, Naisbitt identifies eight principal trends that are shaping Asia into a new network...
The Importance of Living: The Noble Art of Leaving Things Undone
A tremendous bestseller when it was first published in 1937, The Importance of Living has been a classic for over sixty years. Intended as an antidote to the dizzying pace...
Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services
The knowledge that people in other places share the same experiences physically, emotionally, and socially is liberating and offers the opportunity to share practical information. This holds especially true for...
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the...
The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as...
South Asia
This collection of readings provides an interpretation of the development of contemporary South Asia and covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The approach taken is concerned particularly with ways...
The Concept of Race in South Asia
$120.00 AUD
South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation. Nor, recently, have...
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on...
India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947
This is a study of India's independence movement, from an abortive revolt against the British in 1857 through the times which eventually lead to Indian Independence in 1947 seen from...
Tiger Territory: The Untold Story of the Royal Australian Navy from
$40.00 AUD
Between 1948 and 1971 ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore. In this...
Our Woman In Kabul
Irris Makler set out alone to cover a war in Afghanistan and found a much bigger story about the women behind enemy lines. This is as much their story as...
Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
$100.00 AUD
Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults,...
YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, IN EUROPE, ASIA AND AUSTRALIA. In A Series of Letters from Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, The Holy Land, The Crimea and Its Battle-Grounds, England, Melbourne, Sydney, etc., etc.
$150.00 AUD
Author: George Francis TrainBinding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1857Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Damaged green...
Foreign Devil: Thirty Years Of Reporting In The Far East
$50.00 AUD
Author: Richard HughesBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, London, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Name on fep. Light foxing on book block....
Sold East: Traders, Tramps And Tugs Of Chinese Waters
$95.00 AUD
Author: H.W. Dick, S.A. KentwellBinding: HardbackPublished: The Nautical Association of Australia, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine and some light wear...
The Heroes
$80.00 AUD
Author: Ronald MckieBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Top of page edges has some foxingThe story of two security-masked attacks by...
The Actors: An Image Of The New Japan
$15.00 AUD
Author: Hal PorterBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and tear along edges and cornersThis insightful non-fiction work,...