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The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia
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This is the best of all the many books I've read about "the" silk road, since I have been visiting Gansu province, China, for the past ten years. It is very informative, as well as beautifully illustrated and engagingly written. Wood adeptly covers the subject from varied perspectives: historical, geographical, cultural, artistic, political,etc. Supe... »
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The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
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For one so young (born in 1966) Thant Myint-U is the best Myanmar writer of our time. He has created a very readable book that shows how remembrances are shaped and reshaped with time, cutting from present day to the past and back. Contrary to what some other reviewers think, his final chapter: "Palimpsest" is probably the most important argument in hi... »
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The Village
Probably the way that the VN War should have been conducted (provided that we belonged there in the first place); very aggressive small unit tactics const... »
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