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This classic collection of Indian fables and spiritual stories offers an intimate and joyful glimpse at the deep, mythical tradition of India.India is the Home of Fables, which are usually associated western mind with the Greek slave mentioned by Herodotus, by the name of Aesop. Few people realize that these stories, their special form and technique can be traced to very remote sources in India. The same can be said of Gypsy stories all over the world. The Gypsies are forgotten sons and daughters of India, almost all speaking the North-Indian language, Hindi.Ernest Rhys in his introduction to the Fables of Aesop and others justly remarks, «We have to admit that the best fables did not begin with Aesop or in Greece at all. We have, in fact, to go East and look into India and burrow in the 'Tales within tales' of Hitopdesha to get an idea how old the antiquity of the fables actually is.»
Malaysia Travel Atlas
Finding your way around Malaysia (and also the island nation of Singapore and the kingdom of Brunei Darussalam) is a breeze with this handy Tuttle Travel Atlas.<br><br>The perfect travel guide,designed for adventurous travelers and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views that are available nowhere else. It will help you find your destination in every city, town and region in all three countries. Each of the 90 maps in this atlas is presented in a logical, easy-to-follow manner, with emphasis on the most frequently visited areas. All place names, street names and buildings are indexed for quick reference.<br><br><b>COMPREHENSIVE</B>: Detailed insets of each major town, travel destination and business hub in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.<br><br><B>INFORMATIVE</B>: Precise locations for all popular sights, hotels, restaurants, office buildings, shopping malls and other essential locations.<br><br><B>PRACTICAL</B>: The handy size, well-designed key maps and comprehensive index help you find places you are looking for quickly.<br><br><B>RELIABLE</B>: The maps in this book are thoroughly researched and regularly updated by the leading publisher of Asia Pacific maps.<br><br>Maps featured include: Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor, Melaka, Sabah, Singapore and more!
Land of the Reed Plains
This collection of Japanese poetry and paintings is a wonderful addition to the collection of any enthusiast of Japanese poetry or culture.Land of the Reed Plains presents a rare and beautiful combination of Japanese lyric genius and artistic mastery. The poetry comes from the Manyoshu, Japan's earliest and greatest anthology and masterpiece of world literature, ably translated by Kenneth Yasuda. The 100 paintings that accompany the poems, each in full color, are the work of the contemporary Japanese artist Sanko Inoue.Their ability to evoke the beauties of an ancient past in a technique that speaks both of tradition and of today, confirms again the high and versatile place Sanko occupies in Japan's art world.
Thailand Travel Atlas
Navigating the various regions during your trip to Thailand is a breeze with this handy Tuttle travel atlas. Designed for the adventurous traveler, and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views that are not available on other maps of Thailand.<br><br>The atlas is conveniently divided into the major regions: Bangkok, Central Thailand, Southeastern Thailand, and Northern Thailand. Each of the 23 maps in this atlas is presented in a logical, easy-to-follow manner, with emphasis on the most frequently visited areas. All place names, street names and buildings are indexed for quick reference.<br><br><b>COMPREHENSIVE:</b> Detailed insets of major cities, travel destinations and business hubs in Thailand<br><br><b>INFORMATIVE:</b> Precise locations of all famous sights, restaurants, temples, shopping malls and other essential locations<br><br><b>PRACTICAL:</b> The well-designed maps and comprehensive index help you find places you are looking for quickly<br><br><b>RELIABLE:</b> The maps in this atlas are thoroughly researched and regularly updated by the leading publisher of Asia Pacific maps.
Indonesia Travel Atlas Third Edition
Finding your way around the various regions of Indonesia is a breeze with this handy Tuttle Travel Atlas. Designed for the adventurous traveler and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views that are available nowhere else.<br><br>This atlas is conveniently divided into the major regions of Indonesia: Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua. Each of the 144 maps in this atlas is presented in a logical, easy-to-follow manner, with emphasis on the most frequently-visited areas. All cities, towns, villages, places of interest and nature reserves are indexed for quick reference.<br><br><b>Comprehensive:</b> Detailed insets of major cities, travel destinations and business hubs in Indonesia<br><br><b>Informative: </b>Precise locations of all popular sights, hotels, restaurants, temples, shopping malls and other essential locations.<br><br><b>Practical:</b> The handy size, well-designed key maps and comprehensive index help you find places you are looking for quickly.<br><br><b>Reliable:</b> The maps in this atlas are thoroughly researched and regularly updated by the leading publisher of Asia Pacific maps.
Ornamented Chair
Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America. This book is the product of an effort to satisfy that need and at the same time to bring new pleasures to lovers of beautiful furniture.The book is based on photographic and research material collected by the late Esther Stevens Brazer, who spent a lifetime in the study and revival of early American decoration.The authors are all qualified researchers, teachers, and decorators. In their text they present a general history of chair types, facts regarding ornamentation, and informative accounts of some of the leading craftsmen and decorators of the various periods. The final chapter of the book briefly relates the history of the Society and describes how its members carry forward the efforts of Esther Stevens Brazer, maintaining in their research, their teaching, and their restorations the standards of an old craft and the traditions of its finest workmen.
Beautiful Singapore
Singapore, City of the Lion, but also the Manhattan of the Far East. Smoke rises from joss sticks burning in the temples of Chinatown up towards bold, glittering skyscrapers in which modern international businesses flourish. The combined efforts of unstoppable progress and highly diverse but peacefully co-existing ethnic communities, each with its own history and traditions, make this tiny city-state one of the world's most successful cities.The Singapore story is one of perseverance and determination. This book attempts to capture the spirit of a thoroughly modern nation that still retains much of its old world charm.
Japan: Theme & Variations
This collection of Japanese poetry contains over 200 poems by some 153 Americans writing of their impressions and experiences of Japan.If Japan forms the theme of the poems collected here, the variations are certainly the deep feeling so many Americans have come to have for Japan and the Japanese People. And the Resulting Choral is, we are convinced, both a thing of beauty and unique expression of goodwill between nations.Through the many years and in many countries poets have been entranced with the romances suggested by the name Japan. They have enthralled the sweetness of its children; serenity of its art; the beauty of its fields, seas, and mountains; the grandeur of its ancient architecture and quiet gardens; colorful pageantry of its history and deep emotions of its drama; the industriousness of its workers, charm of its women, and indomitable character of its people.
Lady Nijo's Own Story
Lady Nijo, a lady–in–waiting of the thirteenth–century Japanese Imperial Court, was a small child when the young ex–Emperor Go Fukakusa took her under his protection. She was between twelve and thirteen years old when he made her his mistress, and for more than a decade after that the lovely young girl from one of Japan's most noble families lived at the court as an honored Lady in the ex–Emperor's entourage.As a historical work, the book documents the routine of long-ago court life, with its great emphasis on poetry contests, «football» games, drinking parties, and clothing (at the most tragic moment, Lady Nijo stops to describe what the messenger bringing word of her lover's death is wearing).Lady Nijo's story is much more than a day-to-day record of trivial events. It is the tale of a courageous woman, told with consummate skill. Scholars agree that the newly-discovered diary is one of the masterpieces of the country's literature, a genuine autobiography that not only records the social pastimes of the aristocracy, but also gives a contemporary view of the political and economic movements of the time.
A Gold Orchid
A Gold Orchid is a rare collection of classical Chinese erotic and love poetry translated for the first time.Chinese erotic poetry was at one time thought to be nonexistent, simply because it was considered unfit to translate from the imperial anthologies, This translation of poems of Tzu Yeh, a 4th-century wine shop girl, exposes a world the emperors may not have cared to record for posterity. But it is precisely this world that has fascination for the Western reader, who will discover in it, perhaps a shock of recognition, the same currents of feeling that rippled beneath alluring surfaces wherever girls like Tzu Yeh have offered entertainment and flattery, beauty, wit, and sometimes love-to paying customers.Following Tzu Yeh through the pleasure-chasing seasons into her years of bitter memories, the reader places together, but he left her «with a bitter heart still beating to each day’s sun.» She weaves. She remembers. «In thin silk dress, red sleeves a flutter» she searches for «a bold someone with a heart of mine»–her gold-orchid friend.These beautiful and original poems are made available to Western readers in a translation that fuses the imagery of age-old China with a supple, lively modern idiom.