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Asia - Victoria Burrows

Asia

From the Urals to the Pacific
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2025
Amber Books (Verlag)
978-1-83886-518-4 (ISBN)
CHF 38,90 inkl. MwSt
Featuring more than 180 vivid photographs, Asia offers a pictorial exploration of this great and varied continent in all its majesty from ancient Chinese wonders, Indian palaces, Korean temples and modern Japanese cuisine.
The world’s largest and most populous continent with 4.6 billion inhabitants, Asia offers a variety of culture and landscape unmatched elsewhere, ranging from the 6000km- (3728 mile-) long Yangtze River – the heart of Chinese culture and commercial life for millennia – to the deepest recesses of the Bornean rainforest, one of the most biodiverse environments on the planet. Divided into five chapters by region, Asia is a sumptuous introduction to this most vibrant of continents. Explore the 12th century Hindu complex at Angkor Wat; be amazed at the beauty of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam; learn about the Great Wall of China, the world’s longest and oldest fortification dating back to the seventh century BC; and gaze upon the iconic Mt Fuji, one of Japan’s three holy mountains and the highest in the country. With over 180 vivid photographs of Asia, this book offers a pictorial exploration of the culture, flora and fauna of this hugely diverse continent.

Victoria Burrows is a Welsh food and travel writer who grew up in South Africa, studied in England, and worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for almost a decade. She lived in Delhi for a few years before escaping to the Himalayan foothills to run a boutique hotel on a tea estate near Darjeeling. She now lives in London – but is hardly ever home.

Contents include:

Introduction

Western Asia Caucasus Upper Svaneti, Georgia Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex, Turkey Petra, Jordan Western Wall, Jerusalem Done of the Rock, Jerusalem Mecca Medina Wadi Shab Euphrates River Babylon, Iraq Samarra, Iraq Dubai Socotra Archipelago, Yemen Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil, Iran Muscat

Central Asia Mountains of Heaven, Kyrgyzstan Song Kul, Kyrgyzstan Issyk kul lake – Kyrgyzstan Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva – Uzbekistan Registan Square, Samarkand Chimgan Mountains, Uzbekistan Tashkent - Samarkand Bullet Train, Uzbekistan Chorsu Bazaar - Tashkent, Uzbekistan Darvaza Gas Crater – Turkmenistan Pamir highway – Tajikistan Charyn cannon, Kazakhstan Big Almaty Lake, Kazakhstan Medeu and Chimbulak Ski Resort Almaty, Kazakhstan

South Asia Taj Mahal Ganges River The Red Fort, India Pink City of Jaipur, India Goa, India Mumbai Kerala backwaters, India Nine Arch Bridge, Sri Lanka Sigiriya (Lion’s Rock), Sri Lanka Himalayas Pashupatinath Temple, Nepal Chitawan National Park, Nepal Mt Everest Tiger’s Nest (Taktsang Monastery), Bhutan Punakha Dzong, Bhutan

East Asia Mt Fuji, Japan Bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan Fushimi-Inari Shrine, Japan eighth-century Todai-ji (Great East Temple), Japan Osaka caste, Japan Gyeongbokgung Palace, Korea Great Wall of China Gobi Desert The Fobidden City Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum – Terra Cotta aermy Yangtse River Pearl River Shanghai – the Bund Tiananmen Square Shaolin temple Huangshan mtns Taklamakan desert K2 mtn Hong Kong

Southeast Asia Bagan, Myanmar Inle Lake, Myanmar Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar Angkor Wat, Cambodia Kuang Si Waterfalls, Laos Sapa Rice Fields, Vietnam Phang Nga Bay, Thailand Chiang Mai Maya Bay, Thailand Ayutthaya, Thailand Reclining Buddha, Bangkok Royal Palace, Bangkok Borobudur Temple, Indonesia Gunung Agung/Besakih Temple, Bali Palawan, The Philippines Gili Islands, Indonesia Komodo National Park, Indonesia Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Sarawak Dayak longhouses Borneo rainforest Thaipusam festival, Malaysia Pulau Rawa, Malaysia Batu Caves, Malaysia

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Travel [Landscape format]
Zusatzinfo Halftones, color
Sprache englisch
Maße 296 x 219 mm
Gewicht 1400 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Reisen Bildbände
Reisen Reiseführer Asien
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-83886-518-7 / 1838865187
ISBN-13 978-1-83886-518-4 / 9781838865184
Zustand Neuware
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