Red Dust tells the fascinating account of Ma Jian`s three-year journey around China. Following his 30th birthday he becomes desperate to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Facing surveillance from his work unit & the police as a result of Deng Xiaoping`s clamping down on ` Spiritual Pollution` he chooses to uproot himself from his bohemian lifestyle, estranged wife & child, & flee for the Chinese hinterlands in search of himself. Setting off for the westernmost border of China he immerses himself in the remotest parts of country, travelling with little or no money & surviving by doing odd jobs & publishing poetry & short stories through his remaining network of literary friends. He leads us through an array of amazing adventures, from finding himself lost in the desert with no water for three days to scaling a huge cliff in a remarkably gung-ho style. This story speaks volumes about this fascinating l&. Beautifully translated from Chinese by Flora Drew the story he tells is written from both an insider & outsider`s perspective providing a complete portrait of what life is like for ordinary Chinese people. Told with an understated & elegant style, this is a book that means that you can experience the wonders of China for yourself, seen through the eyes of a native & told in a way that no foreign writer could match. Winner of the 2002 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award ...

Highlights many places in Australia with beautiful full colour photos that express land & seascapes of extreme contrast. This collection of images captures oceans washed with saturated blue hues & deserts flooded with brilliant red.

Includes:: images of the Simpson Desert, Purnululu National Park, Flinders Ranges, Monkey Mia etc

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Winner of the Duff Cooper & Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority & detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, & what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. The book draws on a mass of archival material & first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It

Includes:: accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly `anti-revolutionary` elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine`s cultural & political leadership
- & then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified & memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, & were undermined & harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country`s true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship & human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories & that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia & Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.


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The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag & Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority & detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, & what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. The book draws on a mass of archival material & first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It

Includes:: accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly `anti-revolutionary` elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine`s cultural & political leadership
- & then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified & memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, & were undermined & harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country`s true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship & human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories & that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia & Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.


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Map No. 111, Red Feather Lakes
- Glendevey, CO, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national
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This is the extraordinary story of the Kremlin
- from prize-winning author & historian Catherine Merridale. Both beautiful & profoundly
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America`s secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations & blunders of superpowers, & the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy & Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States & the USSR acted out the world`s rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations
- the charismatic Fidel Castro, & his mysterious brother Raul; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; & Francois ` Papa Doc` Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement & torture
- had ambitions of their own. Alex von Tunzelmann`s brilliant narrative follows these five rivals & accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, & then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heatis an authoritative & eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic & dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

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Light up your life! Prepare for your next outdoor adventure with the vintage-inspired Gentlemen`s Hardware Hurricane Lamp. This portable, battery operated device features 15 bright red, energy efficient LED lights & an on/off dimmer switch to create the perfect ambience. Constructed from a lightweight pressed steel with a matte red coating, the lamp features embossed branding at the base & two hooks, ideal for hanging & transporting around camp. Requires 2 D1V batteries, not included. ...

Communism & its fall had a worldwide impact, but none felt the changes more than the previously Soviet states. In 2007 & 2008, photographer Nick Hannes travelled across the 15 former Soviet republics & took pictures of the different consequences of the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991. This publication

Includes:: intense photography of a developing region full of contrasts: extreme wealth amidst poverty; & golden statues of new dictators in cities of concrete. It shows how much change has already occured & how much is still to come, with experienced photographer Nick Hannes` poignant images.

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Cambodia! not a subject normally expected to cause congestion around the travel shelves. Why then a third edition? Perhaps because it is different. Two elderly, some would say naive, doctors from middle England throw caution to the winds & head off with VSO, an organisation more usually associated with adventurous youngsters. They face not just humid heat, cockroaches & cultural somersaults but something incomparably more challenging, the harsh realities of a country still reeling from the prolonged terrors of Pol Pot`s Khmer Rouge. With generosity of spirit & an unquenchable sense of humour they plunge into a maelstrom of lawlessness where life is cheap & guns & greed prevail. Surrounded on all sides by medical, financial & ethical dilemmas, the author gradually gropes her way towards the climax of her work, the launch of a clinic for prostitutes actually inside the brothel where they work. She tells the stories of these young girls, many of them under sentence of death from AIDS, stories that shock, horrifies & form the pivotal point of the whole story. It is a thoughtful book, written with great artistry & turn of phrase. It is written with an eye & an ear to the history, new & old, of an extraordinary & little-known country. This third edition contains a postscript considering events since 2003 bringing the reader up-to-date with the situation in Cambodia as it is today. ...