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When Heaven And Earth Changed Places

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside...

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Daughters of the River Huong

Daughters of River Huong by Vietnam-born, Houston-based writer Uyen Nicole Duong is a richly woven tapestry of family, country, conflict, and redemption. A saga spanning four generations of Vietnamese...

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A Year Without Make-Up: Tales Of A 20-Something Traveler

Have you ever wanted to quit your job and go travel the world? At 25 years old Stephanie Yoder was already fed up with the monotony of 9-5 life. After much agonizing, she quit her stable desk job to...

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The Perfect Hostage: A Life Of Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, “just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death.” Aung San Suu Kyi is considered to be Burma’s best hope for freedom, and, because of...

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Stranger In The Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic...

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The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O’Brien who has survived his...

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A Tiger In The Kitchen

After growing up in the most food-obsessed city in the world, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan left home and family at eighteen for America–proof of the rebelliousness of daughters born in the Year of the Tiger. But...

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South East Asia Backpacker Magazine

The first and only magazine for independent travellers through South East Asia. From the dusty streets of Cambodia to the pristine white beaches of Thailand, we bring news from travellers far and wide....

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Traveling the Cambodian Genocide

Traveling the Cambodian Genocide is a collection of poignant travel essays and striking photographs from travel writer Noah Lederman. Lederman takes readers to the unexplored sites that the Khmer Rouge...

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Wild Times

Wild Times is the real life account of the early days of author John Spies in the opium growing region of Thailand and Myanmar in the 1980′s. It’s a gripping read and fascinating to hear about this...

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