cruise of southeast asia: from hong kong to saigon

READING GUIDE
CRUISE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: FROM HONG KONG TO SAIGON
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ESSENTIAL
Item EXSEA406. Buy these 5 items as a set for $80
including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free
shipping on anything else you order.
Nelles
Southeast Asia Map
2011, MAP, PAGES, $13.95
A clear, double-sided map of all of Southeast
Asia at a scale of 1:4,500,000. (Item SEA12)
Andrew X. Pham
The Eaves of Heaven, A Life in Three
Wars
2009, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $16.00
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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. (Item VNM120)
Geoffrey Murray
Jan Morris
Nguyen Xuanthu
1997, PAPER, 384 PAGES, $17.00
2013, PAPER, 284 PAGES, $8.99
Hong Kong
A wonderful portrait of Hong Kong by one of
our favorite travel writers. Morris enumerates
the many personal pleasures of the city, deftly
interweaving reportage, history and culture.
(Item HKG02)
Eyewitness Guides
Eyewitness Guide Vietnam and Angkor
Wat
2014, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $25.00
Featuring innovative site diagrams, local maps
and hundreds of color photographs, this handy
companion introduces the culture, history and
attractions of Vietnam. (Item VNM102)
Eyewitness Guides
DK Eyewitness Top Ten Hong Kong
2013, PAPER, 128 PAGES, $14.00
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular
series, featuring favorite attractions. With
handy pullout map. (Item HKG45)
Culture Smart! Vietnam
2016, PAPER, 168 PAGES, $11.99
Take along this concise, well-illustrated and
practical guide to local customs, etiquette and
culture. (Item VNM87)
Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook
A handy palm-sized guide to pronunciation,
grammar and essential vocabulary for the
traveler. (Item VNM20)
Graham Holliday, Anthony Bourdain (Foreword)
Eating Viet Nam
2015, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $15.99
While living in Vietnam, native Englishman
Holliday penned this gastronomic tour that
takes him from fancy dining tables to streetside
vendors and everywhere in between. (Item
VNM177)
Robert D. Kaplan
Asia’s Cauldron, The South China Sea
and the End of a Stable Pacific
2015, PAPER, 256 PAGES, $17.00
Vividly analyzing the nations where the
Western Pacific meets the Indian Ocean,
Robert Kaplan explains why this area of the
world is an important and turbulent region that
we should all be watching. (Item ASA94)
Frances FitzGerald
Fire in the Lake
2002, PAPER, 496 PAGES, $19.00
A classic historical, political and cultural
portrait of the Vietnam War, seen through
the eyes of the Vietnamese. Winner of 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 and a clear-sighted case
for why the U.S offensive was doomed from
the start. (Item VNM12)
John Bryan Starr
Understanding China
2010, PAPER, 400 PAGES, $17.95
A Yale professor’s essential primer on the
history, politics and economy of China. A
succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling
guide, this third edition discusses the issues
at stake in China’s present and future. (Item
CHN196)
David Lamb
Vietnam Now, A Reporter Returns
2003, PAPER, 288 PAGES, $17.00
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.
(Item VNM47)
Duong Van Mai Elliott
The Sacred Willow, Four Generations
in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
2000, PAPER, 506 PAGES, $24.99
This vivid family saga, beginning with the
author’s great-grandfather, captures the
momentous history of Vietnam over the last
100 years. (Item VNM39)
Janice Y. K. Lee
The Piano Teacher
2009, PAPER, 328 PAGES, $16.00
This gripping tale of love and betrayal evokes
the life and culture of Hong Kong from 1942,
on the eve of the Japanese invasion, through
the 1950s. (Item CHN606)
Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried
2009, PAPER, 246 PAGES, $15.95
National Book Award-winner O’Brien captures
the daily life of a soldier in Vietnam in this
loosely structured, powerful collection of
stories. (Item VNM32)
John Balaban, Nguyen Qui Duc
Vietnam, A Traveler’s Literary
Companion
1996, PAPER, 239 PAGES, $14.95
From rainforest to city, these 17 stories from
Vietnam’s finest writers explore its landscapes,
myths and changing traditions. (Item VNM04)
Andrew X. Pham
Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled
Voyage Through the Landscape and
Memory of Vietnam
TO ORDER
2000, PAPER, 344 PAGES, $18.00
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. (Item VNM50)
Michael Herr
Dispatches
2009, HARD COVER, 296 PAGES, $24.00
Robert Stone introduces this Everyman’s
Library edition of Herr’s impressionistic,
troubling 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. (Item VNM03)
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