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Five Dark Tales

by Keith Devine ...

Every nation harbours its own mythical creatures, folklore, and supernatural tales that whisper through the ages. Within the pages of this collection, the shadows of the old Wild West come alive with vampires, while werewolves roam an ancient hamlet in the south of France. The elusive Yeti haunts the snowy expanse of Tibet, and the towering bone monster Gashadokuro stalks the landscapes of Japan. ... Read more

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Every nation harbours its own mythical creatures, folklore, and supernatural tales that whisper through the ages. Within the pages of this collection, the shadows of the old Wild West come alive with vampires, while werewolves roam an ancient hamlet in the south of France. The elusive Yeti haunts the snowy expanse of Tibet, and the towering bone monster Gashadokuro stalks the landscapes of Japan.
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Wilderness of Ice

A Tibetan Myth Becomes Reality

by Keith Devine ...

The yeti legend: fact or fiction? The Tibetan landscape of snowstorms and howling winter nights is a place where storytelling comes naturally. How often had stories been told in the villages about a massive humanoid who could kill yaks with a single blowthe awful snowman that the Tibetans and Nepalese all swear exist? From Marco Polo and Alexander the Great, through and beyond the Nazi-led ... Read more

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The yeti legend: fact or fiction? The Tibetan landscape of snowstorms and howling winter nights is a place where storytelling comes naturally. How often had stories been told in the villages about a massive humanoid who could kill yaks with a single blowthe awful snowman that the Tibetans and Nepalese all swear exist? From Marco Polo and Alexander the Great, through and beyond the Nazi-led
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The Telling

by Ursula K. Le Guin ...

Winner of the Locus Award • Winner of the Endeavor Award"[Le Guin] can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory—in The Telling, she does both, gorgeously." —Jonathan LethemSutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated ... Read more

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Winner of the Locus Award • Winner of the Endeavor Award"[Le Guin] can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory—in The Telling, she does both, gorgeously." —Jonathan LethemSutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated
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Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains

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by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent ...

**SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD AWARD**A thrilling and dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's least explored places.'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley'With tremendous verve and determination Antonia plunges through an extraordinary world. Thank heavens she survived to tell this vivid and ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD AWARD**A thrilling and dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's least explored places.'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley'With tremendous verve and determination Antonia plunges through an extraordinary world. Thank heavens she survived to tell this vivid and
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To a Mountain in Tibet

by Colin Thubron ...

"A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." —Bob Shacochis, Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a ... Read more

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"A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." —Bob Shacochis, Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a
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The Third Eye

by T. Lobsang Rampa ...

The story of Tibet at the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a boy. T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to enter the monastery, his heart was filled with trepidation, with only a slight knowledge of the rigorous spiritual training and physical ordeal that awaited him . . . . This is his ... Read more

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The story of Tibet at the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a boy. T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to enter the monastery, his heart was filled with trepidation, with only a slight knowledge of the rigorous spiritual training and physical ordeal that awaited him . . . . This is his
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Oblivion

by Sergei Lebedev ...

This acclaimed twenty-first–century Russian novel is "a Dantean descent" into the abandoned Soviet gulags, written "with a clear poetic sensibility" ( The Wall Street Journal).In Sergei Lebedev's debut novel, an unnamed young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a mysterious neighbor who once saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What ... Read more

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This acclaimed twenty-first–century Russian novel is "a Dantean descent" into the abandoned Soviet gulags, written "with a clear poetic sensibility" ( The Wall Street Journal).In Sergei Lebedev's debut novel, an unnamed young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a mysterious neighbor who once saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What
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A Book Of Five Rings

by Miyamoto Musashi ...

* Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of ContentsA Book Of Five RingsThe Book of Five Rings (五輪書 Go Rin No Sho?) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. There have been various translations made over the years, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than only that of martial artists: for instance, some ... Read more

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* Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of ContentsA Book Of Five RingsThe Book of Five Rings (五輪書 Go Rin No Sho?) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. There have been various translations made over the years, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than only that of martial artists: for instance, some
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Loop of Jade

by Sarah Howe ...

*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe ... Read more

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*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe
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Once on a Moonless Night

by Dai Sijie ...

Translated by Adriana Hunter ...

A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra—once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China—is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d’Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text.A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls ... Read more

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A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra—once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China—is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d’Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text.A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls
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No Flame But Mine

by Tanith Lee ...

Series Book 3 - The Lionwolf Trilogy
The Lionwolf scrolls conclude in this epic fantasy adventure set in a snowbound world where redemption and revenge collideThe powerful mage Thryfe gropes through the steel-white snows that have covered the huddles of ruins, abandoned villages, and casualties of the White Death. He is searching for the stunning witch Jemhara, but his magic mirror can only see her past, not her present, and the ... Read more

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The Lionwolf scrolls conclude in this epic fantasy adventure set in a snowbound world where redemption and revenge collideThe powerful mage Thryfe gropes through the steel-white snows that have covered the huddles of ruins, abandoned villages, and casualties of the White Death. He is searching for the stunning witch Jemhara, but his magic mirror can only see her past, not her present, and the
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Fried Eggs with Chopsticks

by Polly Evans ...

Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question; perched atop a tiny mule on a remote mountain pass; and attempting a dubious ferry ride down the Yangtze ... Read more

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Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question; perched atop a tiny mule on a remote mountain pass; and attempting a dubious ferry ride down the Yangtze
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