Asia - Travel from The Penang Bookshelf

London: Wilton House Gentry, 1976. Hardcover. Good/very good. A guide to the islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. 256 pages with maps and an index. Weight 0.8kg. Post free within Malaysia This is an ex-library book with a label on a front end paper and stamps on a front end paper and the title page. The… Read more about this item

Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. This 329 page book is a guide book, though published 25 years ago, has yet to go out of date, although it is out of print. As the title suggests, the book is intended as an introduction to the serious Asian traveller, i.e.… Read more about this item

Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. Paperback. New. In an age of increased communication, not only interracial marriages, but marriages between different nationalities are becoming increasingly common. This trend has accelerated in East Asia because middle class women , with a greater access to higher education, more frequently than their mothers, do not consider marriage to be one of… Read more about this item

London: W.h. Allen, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. Somerset Maugham's nephew, Robin, a successful travel writer, describes in this book his search for, as he says in his Preface, "a place of contentment in which one intends to live until one dies." The book, written when Maugham was 60 ends up as part adventure and part… Read more about this item