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Armchair Travel August 2018
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North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State by John Sweeney"North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and big brother is always watching: it is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign journalists to have witnessed the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea, having entered the country undercover, posing as a university professor with a group of students from the London School of Economics. Huge factories with no staff or electricity, hospitals with no patients, uniformed child soldiers, and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ--the Demilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins--are all framed by a relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line, and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere, ready to punish disloyalty at the slightest sign of discontent. Drawing on his own experiences and his extensive interviews with defectors and other key witnesses, Sweeney's North Korea Undercover pulls back the curtain, providing a rare insight into life there today while examining the country's troubled history and addressing important questions about its uncertain future."--Book jacket
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Thought Provoking Deep Dive into the Collection
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The Art of Travel by Alain De BottonAn inquiry into the human desire to travel and the ways in which the travel experience is affected by anticipation and memory presents a series of thought-provoking and humorous essays on airports, museums, landscapes, holiday romances, hotel mini-bars, and master artists, offering suggestions on how to render travel more fulfilling. 50,000 first printing.
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1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die by Michael BrightA virtual circumnavigation of the globe offers tourists, nature lovers, and armchair travelers profiles of the world's most beautiful natural sites from every continent, from Angel Falls in Venezuela to the Rhine Valley in Germany
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What Every American Should Know About Europe : The Hot Spots, Hotshots, Political Muck-ups, Cross-border Sniping, and Culturalchaos of Our Transatlantic Cousins
by Melissa Rossi
A companion volume to What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World furnishes an entertaining and informative study of the continent of Europe, furnishing a host of straightforward, cross-referenced facts and figures about the European Union, the various nations, the political hotspots, cultural affairs, and more. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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| River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter HesslerWhat it's about: Peace Corps volunteer teacher Peter Hessler arrived in the remote town of Fuling in China's Sichuan province in 1996, where he was one of two foreigners.
Why you might like it: Hessler intelligently and evocatively describes his experiences with an unfamiliar people, culture, and landscape, as well as bigger events (Hong Kong reverting to China, construction of the Three Gorges Dam, and the death of Deng Xiaoping).
Try this next: For other young Americans' experiences in China, pick up Michael Meyer's The Road to Sleeping Dragon or John Pomfret's Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China. |
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