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With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Shanghai. Greater Than a Tourist - Shanghai, China by author Liyang Zhang/Lily offers the inside scoop on Shanghai. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist.

Hanoi: a maze of alleys, lakes, pagodas, jazz clubs, cafes, and Soviet statues. Even for us Vietnamese people, Hanoi is infamously inscrutable. It’s Vietnam’s enigma wrapped in a mystery, with egg cream on top. You can take the easy, well-trodden path: the tourist market, the tourist pho restaurant, the tourist beer street, and a dude in a glass case. Or you can go local: eat the pho that Vietnamese foodies eat, drink the coffee VIetnamese hipsters drink, and hang out on the other beer street, the one that’s not in any guidebooks, the one for locals. I'll even show you a super-creepy ...

Award-winning novelist Michael Pronko examines Tokyo as a place, a culture, and a series of intense experiences, with humor, delicacy, and enchantment. More than just a setting for novels and films, Tokyo is a lively, interactive space that constantly pops up questions: How do you sweat politely, in Tokyo’s sweltering summers? How do you glance sideways, on crowded trains? How do homeowners transform a sliver of space into an impeccable garden? The answers are not what one might expect.

Greater Than a Tourist - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Niel Del Rosario offers the inside scoop on Kuala Lumpur. Most travel books tell you how to sightsee. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. You'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your trip.

If you are planning to go to Tokyo for vacation or business, you only have two or three days, and you want to make the best of your short stay, then you have come to the right place. The focus of this audiobook is to make your short stay one of the most memorable experiences of your life.

The third book in the series about travel "The Blonde around the world, or I did it my way".

Tired of US drama? Dreaming of escaping to a land of fragrant pho, bustling markets, and breathtaking landscapes? This is your brutally honest, hilariously real survival manual for ditching everything and diving headfirst into Vietnamese life. Forget tourist brochure fluff! This isn't Eat, Pray, Love with a side of fish sauce. We're talking: The Raw Truth: From visa nightmares and street scams to navigating the wild traffic and glorious bureaucracy, get the unfiltered, unvarnished reality of living in Vietnam. City Showdowns: Saigon, Hanoi, Da Nang, and beyond – find YOUR perfect escape ...

Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown.

In the tradition of bestselling Cuban author Isabel Allende’s, “The House of The Spirits” and the investigative writing of Budd Hopkins, bestselling author of “Intruders”, comes a book about ghosts, entities, and cryptids in the most remote and unexpected places around the globe. The first half follows an Asian family beset by hauntings and nonhuman entities in the small town of San Juan in the post-colonial Spanish country of the Philippines. Little has been written about paranormal phenomena, extraterrestrial visitations, and other anomalies in the Philippines, so this...

Greater Than a Tourist - Bangkok Thailand, by Dana Konotop, offers the inside scope on Bangkok.

My Pimp Wife is the raw, lasciviously juicy international tale of how my loving Japanese wife evolved into a cold, heartless pimp and the core primary reason that I chose to write this book is that, as A Grand Inquisitor Level Pimpnological Decryptologist, in the public interest, I wanted to write about one of the more common, yet rarely recognized, ominous aspects of earnestly aspiring to be a true master pimp. https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Eric_Culpepper_My_Pimp_Wife?id=AQAAAEDivi_-3M

After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast to Jerusalem, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, Iyer roams from crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea, from a holy mountain in Japan to the sometimes spooky emptiness of the Australian outback.

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author/adventurer Vincent Zandri recently made his way from Kathmandu to New Delhi by boat, train, tuck-tuck, bus, bicycle, rickshaw, 4X4, and on foot. He also spent some time exploring the Upper Ganges where he decided that taking a swim in the holiest river in the world would be one heck of a bucket-list item to check off. What he didn't realize at the time is that the little swim would nearly cost him his life. PRAISE FOR VINCENT ZANDRI NOVELS: "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." --...

Greater Than a Tourist: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates by Ranim Nourallah offers the inside scoop on Abu Dhabi. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. You’ll discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other travel audiobooks.

Culture Smart! Cambodia is for all those who want to do more than just scratch the surface of this fascinating country. Thoroughly updated, this new edition will enrich your understanding of the land and its people. It explains the key values, attitudes, customs, and traditions that you need to be aware of and provides practical tips and vital information on how to make the most of your time in Cambodia.

You Need This Guide to Tokyo. You've already got a phone full of screenshots and TikToks. You know the ones. The ones that tell you where to get a selfie with a geisha, or act like Tokyo begins and ends with Shibuya Crossing. Bless their Crocs. Those generic guides barely scratch the surface. They miss the textures, the quirks, and the sheer, delightful weirdness that make Tokyo, well, Tokyo. This isn't just a list of places. It's a vibe. It's the stuff your slightly unhinged (in a fun way, I promise), but ultimately very clued-in Tokyoite friend would tell you. Inside Sara's Totally ...

An audio documentary that seems like a journey through past and present. The seven sheikdoms on the Arabian Peninsula await you with oriental splendor, long history and the alluring beauty of the desert landscape.

Sylvain Tesson ist Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Reisender. Gemeinsam mit dem Fotografen Vincent Munier reist er nach Tibet, um sich auf die Suche nach einem der seltensten Tiere dieser Erde zu begeben - dem Schneeleoparden. Werden sie ihn finden? Ungewiss! Auf über 5.000 Metern Höhe, fernab vom Lärm der Zivilisation, hinterfragt Tesson eine Welt, in der kaum noch Raum bleibt für die Unterschiede zwischen den Kulturen, für das Ungebändigte und die Schönheit der Natur. Eine meditative Reise in die weiße Stille des Himalaya, eine Lektüre gegen die Hektik unseres Alltags.

After a long job search, Sophie clicks on an online job and gets it. She is so excited to tell her family she found a job teaching and they are as well until they find out it is in Seoul, South Korea which is literally half a world away. Sophie hilariously navigates culture shock, learning a new job, making new friendships, romance, and finding herself along the way. Follow along on an adventure in Seoul through K- pop and kimchi.

Interested in learning Japanese, but find the language difficult to study? You're not alone. Learning Japanese is notoriously difficult, but it doesn't have to be. Imagine being able to learn Japanese by reading 25 short, interesting and concise stories that teach you practical vocabulary. As you continue to read, you will be able to master the intricacies of Japanese grammar and successfully turn Japanese into a manageable, everyday language that you can use to communicate with others. That's the goal of this book. And that's why it's so different from other books on the market. FEATURES: ...