BOOKPATHS

Jamaica

Ian Thomson, author of The Dead Yard, "which investigates Jamaica's gritty underbelly," describes "a strangely moving visit to a sugar plantation and its elderly owner."

The world have been reduced to this:  an old man in an abandoned house on a hill.  Cooke was born here almost a century earlier, the last of his kind in Jamaica.  And Chester Castle, like Cooke, was at the end of its existence.  I left him in the home of his slave-owning forebears, oddly moved by the encounter, and returned to the forest path as the sun sank over Jamaica. -- from "My Travels:  Ian Thomson in Jamaica," The Guardian

Pakistan Book List

Abbasi, Talat. Bitter gourd and other stories (2001)

Abidi, Azhar. The house of Bilqis (2009)

Abraham, Pearl.  American Taliban: a novel (2010)

Ahmad, Razia F. Breaking links (2006)

Ali, Tariq.  Can Pakistan survive?: the death of a state (1983)

Alter, Stephen.  Amritsar to Lahore: a journey across the India-Pakistan border (2001)

Amin, Mohamed and Duncan Willets. Journey through Pakistan (1982)

Aslam, Nadeem.  Maps for lost lovers (2004)

Aslam, Nadeem. Season of the rainbirds (1993)

Benard, Cheryl. Moghul buffet (2003)

Bennett Jones, Owen.  Pakistan: eye of the storm (2002)

Bhutto, Benazir. Daughter of destiny: an autobiography (1989)

Bhutto, Benazir. Reconciliation: Islam, democracy, and the West (2008)

Child, Greg. Thin air: encounters in the Himalayas (1990) (in part)

Cohen, Stephen P. The idea of Pakistan (2004)

The colour of nothingness: modern Urdu short stories (1998)

Danziger, Nick. Danziger’s travels (in part)

Davidson, Robyn. Desert places (1996) (in part)

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.  Black candle: poems about women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (2000)

Duncan, Emma. Breaking the curfew: a political journey through Pakistan (1989)

Easwaran, Eknath. A man to match his mountains: Bahshah Khan, nonviolent soldier of Islam (1984)

Eteraz, Ali.  Children of dust: a memoir of Pakistan (2009)

Farooqi, Musharraf Ali.  The story of a widow: a novel (2008)

Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman in the great game (1975)

Hamid, Mohsin. Moth smoke: a novel (2000)

Hamid, Mohsin.  The reluctant fundamentalist (2007)

Hanif, Mohammed.  A case of exploding mangoes (2008)

Haq, Hina. Sadika’s way: a novel of Pakistan and America (2004)

Hopkirk, Peter. Quest for Kim: in search of Kipling’s great game (1996)

Hussein, Aamer, editor. Hoops of fire: fifty years of fiction by Pakistani women (1999)

Hussein, Aamer.  Kahani: short stories by Pakistani women (2005)

Jaffrelot, Christophe, editor.  A history of Pakistan and its origins (2002)

Jamie, Kathleen. The golden peak: travels in northern Pakistan (1992)

Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan: eye of the storm (2002)

Kahani: short stories by Pakistani women (2005)

Keay, John. When men and mountains meet: the explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875 (1978)

Khan, Uzma Aslam. Trespassing: a novel (2003)

Khan, Yasmin.  The great partition: the making of India and Pakistan (2007)

Khuhro, Hamida and Anwar Mooraj. Karachi, magacity of our times (1998)

Kureshi, Hanif.  The Buddha of suburbia (1990)

Manto, Saadat Hasan. Kingdom’s end and other stories (1987)

Mastras, George.  Fidali’s way: a novel (2009) (in part)

Mastur, Khadija.  Cool, sweet water: selected stories (1999)

Matheson, Sylvia A. The tigers of Baluchistan (1999)

Mazari, Sherbaz Khan. A journey to disillusionment (1999)

Mehmood, Tariq. While there is light (2003)

Memon, Muhammad Umar.  The colour of nothingness: modern Urdu short stories (1998) (in part)

Mohammed, Javed.  Walk to freedom (2006)

Mojtabai, A. G. A stopping place (1979)

Moorhouse, Geoffrey. To the frontier (1985)

Mortenson, Greg.  Stones into schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009)

Mortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea: one man’s mission to promote peace…one school at a time (2006) (in part)

Mueenuddin, Daniyal.  In other rooms, other wonders (2009)

Murphy, Dervla. Full tilt (1986) (in part)

Naqvi, Maniza. On air (2000)

Naqvi, Tahira. Dying in a strange country: stories (1992) (in part)

Rahman, Tariq. The legacy: and other stories (1989)

Reeves, Richard. A passage to Peshawar: Pakistan, between the Hindu Kush and the Arabian Sea (1984)

Roberts, Yvonne. A history of insects (2000)

Rushdie, Salman. Shame (1983)

Schmidle, Nicholas.  To live or to perish forever:  two tumultuous years in Pakistan (2009)

Schofield, Victoria. Every rock, every hill: a plain tale of the north-west frontier and Afghanistan (1984)

Shafqat, Khan. Chain of being (2005)

Shaikh, Farzana.  Making sense of Pakistan (2009)

Shamsie, Kamila. Broken verses (2005)

Shamsie, Kamila. Kartography (2002)

Siddiqui, Ashraf, et al. Pakistani folk tales: toontoony pie and other stories (1998)

Siddiqui, Shaukat.  God’s own land: a novel of Pakistan (reissue 1995)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. An American brat: a novel (1993) (in part)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. The bride (1983)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. City of sin and splendour: writings on Lahore (2006)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. Cracking India: a novel (1991)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. The crow eaters: a novel (1992)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. The Pakistani bride (2008)

Sidhwa, Bapsi. Water: a novel (2006)

Singer, André.  Lords of the Khyber (1984)

Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan (1981)

Sisson, Richard. War and secession: Pakistan, India, and the creation of Bangladesh (1990)

Suleri, Sara. Meatless days (1989)

Talbot, Ian. Pakistan: a modern history (2005)

Talbot, Ian and Gurharpal Singh.  The partition of India (2009)

Thapar, Valmik.  Land of the tiger: a natural history of the Indian subcontinent (1997) (in part)

Theroux, Paul. The great railway bazaar (1975) (in part)

Theroux, Paul and Steve McCurry. The Imperial way: by rail from Peshawar to Chittagong (1985)  (in part)

Viesturs, Ed.  K2: life and death on the world’s most dangerous mountain (2009)

Weaver, Mary Anne. Pakistan: in the shadow of jihad and Afghanistan (2002)

Wolpert, Stanley. Jinnah of Pakistan (1996)

Wolpert, Stanley. Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: his life and times (1993)

Wood, John. A journey to the source of the River Oxus (1976) (in part)

Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali.  The long partition and the making of modern South Asia: refugees, boundaries, histories (2007) (in part)

Morocco

Marcel Theroux visits Tahir Shah, author of The Caliph's House.

The success of 'The Caliph's House' has already made the house the object of literary pilgrimage -- the American ambassador and his wife have popped out to take a look.  Future visitors will be subsidising recycling.  -- from "Casablanca Writ Large," by Marcel Theroux, The Guardian

August 2010 Literary Events

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.  -- Andre Gide

Australia

Melbourne Writers' Festival
August 27-September 5
Melbourne
http://www.mwf.com.au/

Melbourne Writers Festival is the city's premier literary festival featuring over 400 writers from around the world.  Literary banquets, debates, readings, performances, film screenings and workshops are just some of the events you'll enjoy at this year's festival.

Canada

British Columbia

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
August 12-15
Rockwood Centre, Sechelt
http://www.writersfestival.ca

Join Canada's longest running summer gathering of Canadian writers and readers, featuring established literary stars and exciting, new voices... with opportunities for writers and readers to mingle amidst Rockwood's heritage gardens.

Dominica

The Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair 2010
August 6-8
UWI Open Campus, Elmshall Road, Roseau
http://www.facebook.com/NatureIslandLiteraryFestival

The festival began in 2008 and is a registered non-profit organisation.  It's purpose is not only to showcase recognised regional talent, but also to encourage new talent and publicise the work of local writers and poets.

New Zealand

Going West Books & Writers Festival
August-September
Waitakere, West Auckland
http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/whats-on-show-reviews/2010/jul/72826-going-west-books-and-writers-festival-2010

Two theatre seasons, the first-ever West Auckland Pecha Kucha event, the popular Book Market and Poetry Slam, as well as a line-up of leading contemporary New Zealand writers, all feature as part of Going West Books and Writers Festival 2010.

Scotland

Edinburgh International Book Festival
August 14-30
Edinburgh
http://www.edbookfest.co.uk

We are the largest public celebration of books in the world.  Taking place every August in a leafy Georgian garden in Scotland's beautiful capital city, the Edinburgh International Book Festival brings writers and thinkers from across the planet together to rub shoulders with you, the audience.

United States

California

Steinbeck Festival
"Journeys: Steinbeck Around the World"
August 5-8
Sallinas
http://www.steinbeck.org/Festival.html

This summer, set out for the open road.  Your destination:  the world--today and at key moments in history, with John Steinbeck as your guide.  Eat, drink, and dream of far horizons.  Go behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s and wander through Moscow, Krakow, Budapest.  Stand at the Berlin Wall.  Visit Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, 100 years ago this year.  See literary landmarks around the globe.  Drive through the Badlands of North Dakota with a large poodle.  Create your own journey.

New York

Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival
August 21
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
http://www.nywriterscoalition.org/events/fort-greene-park-summer-literary-festival/

Six weeks of outdoor creative writing workshops for young people (ages 7 to 17) will culminate in our 6th annual free outdoor reading.  This literary festival will feature NYWC's young writers from the workshops reading alongside six poets who have appeared at the Calabash International Literary Festival and in the anthology So Much Things to Say:  Swame Dawes, Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Carl Hancock Rux, Patricia Smith, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor.  This exciting event brings several generations of writers together to build on the rich literary traditions of the neighborhoods surrounding the beautiful Fort Greene Park.

Read books.  They are good for us. -- Natalie Goldberg

Oman Book List

Bird, Christiane.  The sultan’s shadow: one famly’s rule at the crossroads of East and West (2010) (in part)

Clapp, Nicholas. The road to Ubar: finding the Atlantis of the sands (1998)

Morris, James. Sultan in Oman (1957)

Owtram, Francis.  A modern history of Oman: formation of the State since 1920 (2004)

Rabi, Uzi.  The emergence of states in a tribal society: Oman under Sa’id Bn Taymur, 1932-1970 (2006)

Strong, Roy.  The Laskett: the story of a garden (2003)

Thesiger, Wilfred.  Arabian sands (1959) (in part)

Nepal Book List

Allison, Stacy.  Beyond the limits: a woman’s triumph on Everest (1993)

Anderson, Mark. On the big hill (1988)

Aran, Lydia. The art of Nepal: a guide to the masterpieces of sculpture, painting, and woodcarving (1978)

Armbrecht, Ann.  Thin places: a pilgrimage home (2009)

Arthur, Elizabeth. Beyond the mountain (1984)

Ball, John. The eyes of Buddha (1976)

Beal, Daphne.  In the land of no right angles (2008)

Bishop, John M. and Naomi Hawes. An ever-changing place (1978)

Bista, Dor Bahadur. People of Nepal (1980)

Blum, Arlene. Annapurna: a woman’s place (1980)

Bonington, Chris. Annapurna South Face (1971)

Bowman, W. E. The ascent of Rum Doodle (1956)

Brower, Barbara.  Sherpa of Khumbu: people, livestock, and landscape (1991)

Chetrri, Lil Bahadur.  Mountains painted with tumeric (2007)

Childs, Geoff.  Tibetan diary:  from birth to death and beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (2004)

Connell, Monica. Against a peacock sky (1991)

Craig, Sienna R.  Horses like lightning: a story of passage through the Himalayas (2008)

Cronin, Edward W.  The Arun: a natural history of the world’s deepest valley (1979)

Desai, Kiran.  The inheritance of loss (2006)

Dinerstein, Eric.  The return of the unicorns: the natural history and conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros (2003)

Downs, Hugh R. Rhythms of a Himalayan village (1980)

Fisher, James F.  Sherpas reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal (1990)

Gillman, Peter, editor.  Everest: the best writing and pictures from seventy years of human endeavour (1993)

Gregson, Jonathan.  Blood against the snows: the tragic story of Nepal’s royal dynasty (2002)

Grimmett, Richard, Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp.  Birds of Nepal (2000)

Guneratne, Katharine Bjork. In the circle of the dance: notes of an outsider in Nepal (1999)

Guring, K. K. The heart of the jungle (1983)

Hall, Lincoln. Dead lucky: life after death on Mount Everest (2008)

Herzog, Maurice.  Annapurna: the epic account of a Himalayan conquest and its harrowing aftermath (1997)

Hillard, Darla.  Vanishing tracks: four years among the snow leopards (1989)

Hillary, Edmund.  High adventure (1955)

Holzel, Tom.  First on Everest: the mystery of Mallory and Irvine (1986)

Hornbein, Thomas.  Everest: the west ridge (1965)

Hutt, Michael, editor.  Himalayan people’s war: Nepal’s Maoist rebellion (2004)

Hutt, Michael James.  Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature (1991)

Hutt, Michael James.  Nepali: a national language and its literature (1988)

Iyer, Pico. Video night in Kathmandu (1989)

Jest, Corneille.  Tales of the turquoise: a pilgrimage to Dolpo (1998)

Khadka, Rajendra. Travelers’ tales Nepal (Travelers’ Tales Guides) (2000)

Kincaid, Jamaica. Among flowers: a walk in the Himalaya (2005)

Krakauer, Jon. Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster (1997)

Kreijger, Hugo.  Kathmandu Valley painting: the Jucker collection (1999)

Kuloy, Hallvard Kare. Tibetan rugs (1986)

Long, Jeff.  The ascent: a novel (1992)

March, Kathryn S.  If each comes halfway: meeting Tamang women in Nepal (2002)

Masskarinec, Gregory C.  The rulings of the night: an ethnography of Nepalese shaman oral texts (1995)

Matthiessen’s, Peter. The snow leopard (1978)

Moran, Peter.  Buddhism observed:  travelers, exiles and Tibentan Dharma in Kathmandu (2004)

Murphy, Dervla. The waiting land (1990)

Olds, Sally Wendkos.  A balcony in Nepal: glimpses of a Himalayan village (2002)

Onesto, Li. Dispatches from the People’s War in Nepal (2005)

Pradhan, Kumar.  A history of Nepali literature (1984)

Ricard, Matthieu.  Motionless journey: from a hermitage in the Himalayas (2007)

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Escape from Kathmandu (1989)

Schaller, George. Stones of silence: journeys in the Himalaya (1980)

Scot, Barbara J.  The violet shyness of their eyes: notes from Nepal (revised edition 2005)

Shrestha, Kavita Ram and Sarah Lamstein. From the mango tree and other folktales from Nepal (1997)

Shrestha, Nanda R.  Historical dictionary of Nepal (2003)

Somerville-Large, Peter. To the navel of the world (1988)

Stevens, Stanley F.  Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya (1993)

Sunquist, Fiona.  Tiger moon: tracking the great cats of Nepal (1988)

Thapa, Manjushree.  The tutor of history (2001)

Tilman, H. W. Nepal Himalaya (2002)

Thomas, Rosie. White (2000)

Upadhyay, Samrat. Arresting God in Kathmandu (2001)

Upadhyay, Samrat. The guru of love (2003)

Upadhyay, Samrat. The royal ghosts: stories (2006)

Vaidya, Karuna Kar.  Nepalese short stories (1976)

Valli, Eric and Diane Summers. Honey hunters of Nepal (1988)

Whelpton, John. A history of Nepal (2005)

Yuyutsu, R. D.  Roaring recitals:  five Nepali poets (1999)

Mongolia Book List

Angus, Colin. Lost in Mongolia: rafting the world’s last unchallenged river (2003)

Atwood, Christopher Pratt.  Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire (2004)

Avery, Martha. Women of Mongolia (1996)

Becker, Jasper. The lost country: Mongolia revealed (1992)

Becker, Jasper. The lost country: Mongolia revealed (1995)

Becker, Jasper.  Mongolia: travels in the untamed land (2008)

Berger, Patricia. Et al. Mongolia: the legacy of Chinggis Khan (1995)

Bodio, Stephen J.  Eagle dreams: searching for legends in wild Mongolia (2003)

Cable, Mildred. And Francesca French.  The Gobi Desert: the adventures of three women traveling across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s (1943)

Cabot, Mabel H. Vanished kingdoms: a woman explorer in Tibet, China and Mongolia, 1921-1925 (2003)

Calfee, Julia. Spirits and ghosts: journeys through Mongolia (2003)

Crane, George. Bones of the master: a journey to secret Mongolia (2000)

Croner, Don. Travels in Northern Mongolia (2004)

Davis, Matthew.  When things get dark: a Mongolian winter’s tale (2010)

Dunnell, Ruth W. Chinggis Khan: world conqueror (2010)

Goldstein, Melvyn C. The changing world of Mongolia’s nomads (1994)

Hare, John.  Mysteries of the Gobi: searching for wild camels and lost cities in the heart of Asia (2009) (in part)

Heissig, Walter. The religions of Mongolia (1980)

Holland, Ceceila. Until the sun falls (1969)

Jiang, Rong.  Wolf totem (2008)

Kahn, Paul. The secret history of the Mongols: the origins of Genghis Khan (1984)

Kessler, Adam T. Empires beyond the Great Wall: the heritage of Genghis Khan (1994)

Kohn, Michael.  Dateline Mongolia: an American journalist in nomad’s land (2006)

Kohn, Michael.  Lama of the Gobi: how Mongolia’s mystic monk spread Tibetan Buddhism in the world’s harshest desert (2010)

Lattimore, Owen. The desert road to Turkestan (1929)

Lattimore, Owen. Mongol journeys (1974)

Lawless, Jill. Wild east: travels in new Mongolia (2000)

Li, Zhichang.  The travels of an alchemist: the journay of the Taoist Ch’ang-ch’un from China to the Hindukush at the summons of Chingiz Khan (1976)

Man, John. Gobi: tracking the desert (1999)

Metternich, Hilary Roe, et al. Mongolian folktales (1996)

Montgomery, Sy.  Saving the ghost of the mountain:  an expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia (2009)

Morgan, David. The Mongols (1986)

Novacek, Michael J.  Dinosaurs of the flaming cliffs (1996)

Novacek, Michael. Time traveler: in search of dinosaurs and other fossils from Montana to Mongolia (2002)

Onon, Urgunge.  My Mongolian world: from Onon Bridge to Cambridge (2006)

Palmer, James.  The bloody white baron: the extraordinary story of the Russian nobleman who became the last khan of Mongolia (2009)

Pegg, Carole.  Mongolian music, dance, and oral narrative: performing diverse identities (2001)

Polo, Marco. The travels of Marco Polo (various editions) (in part)

Rossabi, Morris. Modern Mongolia: from Khans to commissars to capitalists (2005)

Sabloff, Paula L. Modern Mongolia: reclaiming Genghis Khan (2001)

Sanders, Alan J. K.  Historical dictionary of Mongolia (1996)

Severin, Timothy. In search of Genghis Khan: an exhilarating journey on horseback across the steppes of Mongolia (1992)

Soucek, Svat.  A short history of inner Asia (2000)

Stewart, Stanley. In the empire of Genghis Khan: an amazing odyssey through the lands of the most feared conquerors in history (2002)

Tschinag, Galsan. The blue sky: a novel (2006)

Tsedendambyn, Batbayar.  Modern Mongolia: a concise history (2000)

Warmbrunn, Erika.  Where the pavement ends:  one woman’s bicycle trip through Mondolia, China and Vietnam (2001)

Waugh, Louisa. Hearing birds fly: a nomadic year in Mongolia (2003)

Weatherford, Jack.  Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world (2004)

Weatherford, Jack.  The secret history of the Mongol queens: how the daughters of Genghis Khan rescued his empire (2010)

Wilson, Diane.  I rode a horse of milk white jade (1998)

Yep, Laurence. The Khan’s daughter: a Mongolian folktale (1997)

Yosano, Akiko.  Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China (2001)

Burma (Myanmar) Book List

Allen, Louis. Phoenix : Burma: the longest war 1941-1945 (1984)

Aung San Suu Kyi.  Freedom from fear and other writings (1995)

Aung San Suu Kyi.   Letters from Burma (1997)

Aung San Suu Kyi.   The voice of hope (1997)

Bates, H. E. The jacaranda tree (1949)

Bečka, Jan.  Historical dictionary of Myanmar (1995)

Becker, Stephen. The blue-eyed shan (1982)

Bixler, Norma. Burma, a profile (1971)

Bixler, Norma. Burmese journey (1970)

Brookes, Stephen. Through the jungle of death: a boy’s escape from wartime Burma (2000)

Buck, Pearl S. The promise (1997)

Chan, Susan.  Flavors of Burma/Myanmar: cuisine and culture from the land of golden pagodas (2003)

Charney, Michael W.  A history of modern Burma (2009)

Chit, Khin Myo.  Festivals and flowers (2006)

Collis, Maurice. Lords of the sunset: a tour in the Shan states (1977)

Collis, Maurice. She was a queen (1962)

Connelly, Karen.  Burmese lessons: a love story (2009)

Connelly, Karen. The lizard cage (2007)

Courtauld, Caroline. In search of Burma (1985)

Dahlberg, Keith.  Flame tree: a novel of modern Burma (2006)

Delisle, Guy. Burma chronicles (2008)

De Vries, Clare.  Of cats and kings (2002)

Donnison, F. S. V.  Burma (1970)

Edmonds, Paul. Peacocks and pagodas (1924)

Fink, Christina.  Living silence: Burma under military rule (2001)

Fraser, George MacDonald. Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma (1992)

Fraser-Lu, Sylvia.  Burmese crafts: past and present (1994)

Ghosh, Amitav. The glass palace (2000)

Hantover, Jeffrey. The jewel trader of Pegu (2008) (in part)

Iyer, Pico.  Video night in Kathmandu (1989) (in part)

Khoo Thwe, Pascal.  From the land of green ghosts: a Burmese odyssey (2002)

Kress, W. John.  The weeping goldsmith: discoveries in the secret land of Myanmar (2009)

Larkin, Emma.  Everything is broken: a tale of catastrophe in Burma (2010)

Larkin, Emma. Finding George Orwell in Burma (2005)

Latimer, Jon.  Burma: the forgotten war (2004)

Law-Yone, Wendy. The coffin tree (1983)

Levy, Adrian. The stone of heaven: the secret history of imperial green jade

Lewis, Norman. Golden earth: travels in Burma (1952)

Lintner, Bertil. Outrage: Burma’s struggle for democracy (1990)

Ma Ma Le. Not out of hate: a novel of Burma (1991)

MacLean, Rory. Under the dragon: travels in Burma (1998)

Marshall, Andrew.  The trouser people: a story of Burma – in the shadow of the Empire (2002)

Mason, Daniel. The piano tuner (2003)

Maugham, W. Somerset. The gentleman in the parlor (1930) (in part)

McClelland, Mac.  For us surrender is out of the question: a story from Burma’s never-ending war (2010)

Mirante, edith.  Down the rat hole: adventures underground on Burma’s frontiers (2006)

Mya Than Tint.  On the road to Mandalay (2006)

Nicholl, Charles. Borderlines: a journey in Thailand and Burma

Orwell, George. Burmese days (1934)

Parkin, Ray.  Into the smother: a journal of the Burma-Siam railway (1963)

Peek, Ian Denys.  One fourteenth of an elephant: a memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand railway (2004)

Phan, Zoya.  Undaunted: my struggle for freedom and survival in Burma (2010)

Rabinowitz, Alan. Beyond the last village: a journey of discovery in Asia’s forbidden wilderness (2001)

Rabinowitz, Alan.  Life in the valley of death: the fight to save tigers in a land of guns, gold, and greed (2008)

Sargent, Inge.  Twilight over Burma: my life as a Shan princess (1994)

Sharma, Prem. Mandalay’s child (1999)

Singer, Noel F. Burmese dance and theatre (1995)

Singer, Noel F.  Burmese puppets (1992)

Skidmore, Monique, editor.  Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century (2005)

Steinberg, David I.  Burma/Myanmar: what everyone needs to know (2009)

Stewart, John.  To the River Kwai: two journeys, 1943, 1979 (1988)

Tan, Amy. Saving fish from drowning (2005)

Thant Myint-U. The making of modern Burma (2001)

Thant Myint-U. The river of lost footsteps: a personal history of Burma (2006)

Thein Pe Myint.  Selected short stories of Thein Pe Myint (1973)

Theroux, Paul.  Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaar (2008) (in part)

Theroux, Paul. The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia (1975) (in part)

Thwe, Pascal Khoo. From the land of green ghosts: a Burmese odyssey (2002)

Tin Myaing Thein.  Old and new tapestries of Mandalay (2000)

Victor, Barbara.  The lady: Aung San Suu Kyi:  nobel laureate and Burma’s prisoner (1998)

Wa, Theippan Maung.  Wartime in Burma: a diary, January to June 1942 (2009)

Wakeman, Carolyn.  No time for dreams: living in Burma under military rule (2009)

Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road: the epic story of the China-Burma-India theater in World War II (2003)

Wintle, Justin.  Perfect hostage: a life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s prisoner of conscience (2008)

 

Malaysia Book List

Ahmad, Shahnon. No harvest but a thorn (1972)

Shahnon, Ahmad.  Srengenge: a novel of Malaysia (1979)

Aw, Tash. The harmony silk factory (2005)

Barclay, James. A stroll through Borneo (1982)

Bevis, William W. Borneo log: the struggle for Sarawak’s forests (1995)

Bird, Isabella. The golden chersonese (reprint 1983)

Black, Gavin. The bitter tea (1972)

Burgess, Anthony. The Long Day Wanes: a Malayan trilogy (1965)

Buruma, Ian. God’s dust: a modern Asian journey (1989)

Carey, Peter. My life as a fake: a novel (2003)

Chuah, Guat Eng. Days of change (2010)

Chuah, Guat Eng. Echoes of silence (1994)

Chuah, Guat Eng.  Tales from the Baram River (2001)

Clavell, James. King Rat (1962)

Conrad, Joseph. Almayer’s folly (1895)

Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim (1899)

D’Alpuget, Blanche. Turtle Beach (1984)

Eggers, Paul.  How the water feels: stories (2002)

Eng, Tan Twan. The gift of rain (2008) (Indie May 2008)

Farrell, J. G. The Singapore grip (1977)

Garbutt, Nick, Cede Prudente and Sir David Attenborough.  Wild Borneo: the wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan (2006)

Goldshalk, C. S.  Kalimantaan (1998)

Hampson, Robert.  Cross-cultural encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay fiction (2000)

Hansen, Eric. Stranger in the forest: on foot across Borneo (1988)

Hartog, Jan de. The trail of the serpent (1983)

Hooker, Virginia Matheson.  A short history of Malaysia: linking east and west (2003)

Hooker, Virginia Matheson.  Writing a new society: social change through the novel in Malay (2000)

Kaur, Amarjit. Historical dictionary in Malaysia (2001)

Kaur, Amarjit and Ian Metcalfe. The shaping of Malaysia (1999)

Keris Mas. Blood and tears (1984)

Lat. Kampung boy (2006)

Lawlor, Eric.  Murder on the verandah: love and betrayal in Britiah Malaya (1999)

Lim, Catherine. The teardrop story woman (1998)

Lim, Shirley.  Joss and gold (2001)

Lim, Shiley.  Two dreams: new and selected stories (1997)

Maniam, K. S.  Between lives (2003)

Maniam, K. S. In a far country (1993)

Maniam, K. S.  The return (1994)

Manicka, Rani.  The rice mother (2002)

Maugham, Somerset. Borneo stories (1979?)

Maugham, Somerset. The Casuarina tree (1926)

Miller, Harry. A short history of Malaysia (1965)

Morgan, Mary.  The house at the end of the jungle: a novel (1998)

O’Hanlon, Redmond. Into the heart of Borneo (1985)

Reeman, Douglas. The deep silence (1968)

Reeman, Douglas. The greatest enemy (1971)

Reeman, Douglas. The pride and the anguish (1969)

Said, A. Samad.  Lazy river (1981)

Samarasan, Preeta.  Evening is the whole day: a novel (2008)

Shennan, Margaret.  Out in the midday sun: the British in Malaya 1880-1960 (2000)

Shute, Nevil. The legacy (1950)

Theroux, Paul. The consul’s file (1977)

Turnbull, C. Mary. A short history of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (1980)

Wallace, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago (1869)

White, Walter G. The sea gypsies of Malaysia (1926)

Wynd, Oswald. The blazing air (1981)

 

Macau Book List

Brazier, Mark and Shann Davies.  Viva Macau! (1980)

Carney, D. Macau (1985)

Chan, Ming K.  Historical dictionary of the Hong Kong SAR and the Macao SAR (2006)

Cheng, Christina Miu Bing.  Macau: a cultural janus (1999)

Coates, Austin.  A Macao narrative (2009)

Davies, Shann.  Macao Miscellany (also More Macau Miscellany)

De Jesus, C. A. Montalto.  Historic Macao (1984)

Guillen-Nuñez, Cesar.  Macao streets (1999)

Hao, Zhidong.  Macau history and society (2010)

Lamas, Rosmarie W. N. Everything in style: Harriet Lows Macau (2006)

McGivering, Jill. Macao remembers (1999)

Ng, Maria Noëlle.  Pilgrimages: memories of colonial Macau and Hong Kong (2009)

Porter, Jonathan.  Macau, the imaginary city: culture and society, 1577 to present (1996)

Ride, Lindsay.  The voices of Macao stones (1999)