Secondhand travel books from the home of Bintang beer and Hello Kitty, what more can we say? Dig our handpicked range of second hand books from Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Java, Bali, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand. Vietnam. And more!
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SECRET HISTORIES Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop by Emma Larkin
This Burma travel memoir looks like an excellent read.
Price: AUD $12.00
SETO SUMMER Peter Aston - A Personal Journey by sail through Japan's mystical Inland Sea
A scarce travel book, the Aussie authors sail through Japan's Inland Sea.
Price: AUD $13.00
SHADOWS AND WIND Robert Templer - A View of Modern Vietnam
An interesting looking book on modern Vietnamese culture and politics.
Price: AUD $8.00
SHALOM Shifra Horn - One Woman's Journey into the Land of Sushi, Communal Baths and Hi-Tech Toilets
A scarce travel book. The Israeli author spends five years in Japan, an interesting clash of cultures.
Price: AUD $10.00
SHANGHAI DANCING Brian Castro
Shanghai Dancing is a fictional autobiography by popular Australian author Brian Castro, based on his family's life in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau from the 1930's to the 1960's. This book is quite hard to find.
Price: AUD $10.00
SHANGHAI TANGO Jin Xing - A Memoir (China)
SHANGHAI TANGO: China's foremost male ballet dancer (and colonel in the People's Army) underwent China's first sex-change operation and became the Shanghai Ballet's prima ballerina.
Price: AUD $8.00
SHENZHEN A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
A hard to find and most unusual travelogue in graphic novel form. Book is in very good condition, clean with only light wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
SHIELD OF THE GREAT LEADER Joseph S. Bermudez Jr - The Armed Forces of North Korea
In Shield of the Great Leader, author Joseph Bermudez examines the military side of the Kim Jong-il regime. A rare book.
Price: AUD $14.00
SHOOTING THE BOH A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo by Tracy Johnston
The author goes rafting down the Boh River in Borneo.
Price: AUD $6.00
SHOUTING FROM CHINA Helen Chung
A China memoir by an ABC foreign correspondant. This book is very hard to find, and cheap.
Price: AUD $10.00
SIDELINES: WRITINGS FROM TEMPO Indonesia's banned magazine by Goenawan Mohamad
A scarce book of very interesting articles on Indonesia. Book is used in good condition with light reading wear, bumped corners, pages are clean and tanning at the edges with age. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $9.00
SIGHTSEEING Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Thailand)
Set in contemporary Thailand and written with a grace and sophistication that belie the age of its young author, this masterful new collection contains generous, tender tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shifts beneath the glossy surface of a warm setting.
Price: AUD $6.00
SILVER SISTER Lillian Ng (China Hong Kong Singapore)
SILVER SISTER: a novel set in China, Hong Kong Singapore and Australia.
Price: AUD $5.00
SKULDUGGERY Mark Shand (Irian Jaya / Indonesia)
SKULDUGGERY: popular travel writer Mark Shand travels the Asmat area of Indonesian Irian Jaya into the heart of cannibal country.
Price: AUD $8.00
SKY BURIAN An Epic Story of Tibet From the Author of the Good Woman of China by Xinran
Book is in good condition: clean with light wear, pages are tanning with age. See photos for cover blurb and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
SLEEPING WITH THE DEAD Marko Cunningham - A Kiwi Working with Bangkok's Bodysnatchers
Sleeping With The Dead is an amazing book. The author is the only westerner working in the volunteer ambulance service in Bangkok.
Price: AUD $9.00
SLOW BOAT TO MONGOLIA Lydia Laube (Indonesia China Outer Mongolia)
SLOW BOAT TO MONGOLIA: A scarce travelogue by a popular Australian writer covering Indonesia, China and Outer Mongolia.
Price: AUD $10.00
SNAKE FANG SALAD Culinary Travels in China by Greg Elms
The author travels China photographing food for Lonely Planet.
Price: AUD $10.00
SOMEWHERE IN ASIA Prue-Torney-Parlicki - War, Journalism and Australia's Neighbours 1941-75
Somewhere in Asia examines war journalists, media coverage to show how war journalism shaped Australia's perception of Asia and the Pacific.
Price: AUD $10.00
SOUNDS OF THE RIVER Da Chen - A Memoir of China
SOUNDS OF THE RIVER: Da Chen's Chinese memoir in which he arrives in Beijing, armed with a dogged determination to learn English and familiarise himself with 'all things Western', he must compete with every other student to win a chance to study in the US - a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of the all - powerful professors.
Price: AUD $6.00





















