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Lost Japan

By Alex Kerr

Travelers who’ve used Lonely Planet guides to navigate Laos by bicycle or trek through mountain passes in New Zealand may be surprised by Lost Japan, one of four titles published to launch the company’s new ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

South-East Asia

By various authors

For years, Thailand ruled as the primary destination in Southeast Asia. That’s probably still true, but while her popularity is still high, increasing numbers of travelers are looking to the surrounding destinations in the region, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Myanmar (Burma) 1996: 6th Ed.

By

For years, Thailand ruled as the primary destination in Southeast Asia. That’s probably still true, but while her popularity is still high, increasing numbers of travelers are looking to the surrounding destinations in the region, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Starplex

By Robert J. Sawyer

Starplex, by Thornhill, Ontario writer Robert J. Sawyer, involves the discovery of a new alien race and an apparently abandoned network of “shortcuts” – hyperspace portals that allow spacecraft to whisk about the universe. Sawyer, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Went Away

By Timothy Findley

Ahead of anything else, there is, in the matter of Timothy Findley’s You Went Away, a minor and yet nevertheless nagging question of classification. Why, that question goes, is You Went Away being introduced into ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels