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Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand

Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Nepal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most, I’m surprised there weren’t more explosions), goats being herded across the highway by ancient women, children playing...

Novel Without a Name

Novel Without a Name
  • Author(s): Duong Thu Huong
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War

Twenty-eight-year-old Quan has been fighting for the Communist cause in North Vietnam for a decade. Filled with idealism and hope when he first left his village, he now spends his days and nights dodging stray bullets and bombs, foraging...

Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives From Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime

Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives From Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime
  • Author(s): Maggie Lemere (editor), Zoe West (editor)
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): late 20th / early 21st century

Decades of military oppression in Burma have led to the systematic destruction of thousands of ethnic minority villages, a standing army with one of the world’s highest number of child soldiers, and the displacement of millions of people. Nowhere...

Oceans on Fire

Oceans on Fire
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, Guam, Marshall Islands, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Nathalie Thompson’s cameraman doesn’t show up at the airport alarm bells start to ring. But, with a TV commission on the table and a job to do she sets off across the world to make a documentary on...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

Old Fool’s Gold

Old Fool’s Gold
  • Author(s): Bob Johnston
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): Vietnam War to present day

Stolen gold from the Vietnam War, stolen again and hidden on a boat that is left behind by the US Navy. An old River Rat involved in the first theft runs across the boat 36 years later, tied up...

Once Upon a Sunset

Once Upon a Sunset
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny’s death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her...

One Foot in Laos

One Foot in Laos
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1997

The ever popular travel-writer Dervla Murphy encounters a large variety of complications on her latest adventure, when she tries to go trekking in little-known Laos. When Dervla Murphy mentioned that Laos was to be her next destination, most people...

One More Chance At Love

One More Chance At Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): St Lucia, Australia, Guatemala, Mallorca, San Francisco, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Thirty years ago, as teenagers, lawyer, Bobby McLean and travel writer, Sicora Clarke shared an intense love affair and had a happy future planned. But when Sicora ended it with no explanation and Bobby never heard from her again,...

Orchid House

Orchid House
  • Author(s): Cindy Coloma
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Love in a foreign land. A decaying hacienda full of secrets. And a woman searching for the story of her life. A funeral and some family business–that’s what Julia Bentley expects when she travels to the Philippines to bury...

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