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30 November 2011

Book Review: My China Years, by Helen Foster Snow, **

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Foster Snow is the wife of Edgar Snow, the author of "Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army". She actually met "Ed...
24 November 2011

Book Review: City of Sadness, by Bérénice Reynaud, ****

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Synopsis This work introduces the Western audience to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. It revisits a painful e...
23 November 2011

Book Review: Singapore Swing, by John Malathronas, *****

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MBS from the modern art museum Synopsis For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ulti...
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17 November 2011

Film Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), by Woody Allen, ****

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Synopsis Two couples discover the grass may not always be greener on the other side in Woody Allen’s breezy comedy on wry, You Will Meet A...
11 November 2011

Glass and gondolas in Venice

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Murano glass taking shape Early start of the day in Venice. I am here for a photo workshop and we are off to catch the sun rise by the ...
26 October 2011

Book Review: Formosa Betrayed, by George Kerr, *****

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Island of Tatan, off Quemoy with Nationalist flag By way of background... "Our experience in Formosa is most enlightening. The Ad...
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25 October 2011

Recensione: Percorsi d'Amore, di Maurizio Cremasco, ****

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Recensione Questa è una serie di poesie che trasmettono lo stato d'animo irrequieto dell'autore, uno scrittore che è stato pilota d...
15 October 2011

Book review: Coral Gardens, by Leni Riefenstahl, *****

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Review Leni Riefenstahl was a great, if politically controversial, movie director, but only later in her life she picked up photography in ...
14 October 2011

Book Review: A Little Book of Zen, *****

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I bought this book some six years ago and it has found a permament home atop my writing desk ever since. I open it almost every day, usually...
13 October 2011

Recensione: People from Ikea, di Andrea Pugliese, ***

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Sinossi Componendo a incastro questi tubi, ripiani, viti e bulloni, sono possibili milioni di combinazioni. Sul catalogo per tale meravigl...
10 October 2011

Book Review: Slaves of the Cool Mountains, by Alan Winnington, *****

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Author with released slaves in Yunnan Synopsis Beijing, 1956: foreign correspondent Alan Winnington heard reports of slaves being fre...
01 October 2011

Book Review: Excerpta Maldiviana, by HCP Bell, *****

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Male' harbour in early 1880s H.C.P. Bell 1887 This is not easy reading. In fact it is not really meant for reading at all. It is mo...
24 September 2011

Book review: Maldives: Kingdom of a Thousand Isles (2004), by Andrew Forbes, ****

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Cemetery on a Maldivian island Precious little is written on the Maldives besides guide books on posh resorts. This book goes a long way...
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12 September 2011

In treno in giro per l'Italia

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La settimana scorsa ho deciso di prendere il treno per andare da alcuni amici a Vicenza. Aperta la pagina delle prenotazioni di Trenitalia...
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01 September 2011

Bibliography: Books on the Maldives

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This is my selection of most significant books on the Maldive islands, which I have visited at least ten times since 2003: culture, history,...