Colour of Asia

Colour of Asia

1955 • 229 pages

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40 books

Hong Kong

With My Back to the East
Hong Kong
Return Ticket
All the Right Places
A Vagabond Journey Around the World
Colour of Asia
River of Smoke

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48 books

Vietnam

Bridge Across My Sorrows
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Return Ticket
The China Voyage: A Quest by Bamboo Raft
Witness
The Road To Angkor

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2,153 books

Non Fiction

Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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90 books

Japan

Autobiography of a geisha
Blossoms and Shadows
All the Right Places
A Bridge for Passing
Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
With My Back to the East
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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86 books

Indonesia

My Life with the Headhunters
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
The Surgeon's Log
We Ended in Bali
The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea
The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

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13 books

Korea South

Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
A Year of Space
This One Time, In Korea...
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
War Trash
Colour of Asia
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"

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48 books

Singapore

Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
Return Ticket
First Overland
Eastern Journey
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
Tiger for Breakfast
Crossing the Shadow Line

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60 books

Thailand

With My Back to the East
Siam: Land of Temples
Return Ticket
First Overland
Thailand Journey
The Tender Traveller
Round the World in Seventy Days

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9 books

Macau

With My Back to the East
Return Ticket
Colour of Asia
The Colour of Tea
Flight to Formosa
Measured Drawings of the "Historic Centre of Macau"
Give Me the World

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20 books

Swiss Author

Cruises and Caravans
Sea People
Tupari
Afghanistan: The Soviet War
This Way Southward: The Account of a Journey Through Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
Desert Soul
Meditations of a Solitary Walker

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2,755 books

Owned

Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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4 books

Taiwan

Colour of Asia
Flight to Formosa
A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947
Seven League Boots

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1,513 books

Travel

City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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1,244 books

Own To Read

The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
27,000 Miles Through Australia
For Love and a Beetle: A Tale of Two Journeys
The World at Their Feet; the story of New Zealand mountaineers in the great ranges of the world
Camps and Climbs in Arctic Norway
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara