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Mountain Rain: A Biography of James O. Fraser, Pioneer Missionary of China (An OMF book)

By Crossman, Eileen

THE GHOSTS OF EVEREST: The Authorised Story of The Search For Mallory & Irvine

By Hemmleb, Jochen, Johnson, Larry A., Simonson, Eric R.

Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels

By Chao, Claire, Sun Chao, Isabel

Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

By He, R., Link, Perry

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By Chang, Jung

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

By Hoffman, David E.

Ancestors: The Story of China Told Through the Lives of an Extraordinary Family

By Ching, Frank

Everest - The First Ascent: The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible

By Tuckey, Harriet

There Was a Country A Personal History of Biafra by Achebe, Chinua ( AUTHOR ) Sep-27-2012 Hardback

By Achebe, Chinua

The First Emperor of China

By Frances Wood

Three of China's Mighty Men: Leaders of Chinese Church under persecution (Biography)

By Lyall, Leslie

Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner (Panther)

By Gyatso, Palden

The Son from the West: From Comfort to Danger Zone

By Evelyn Cromer

Peking Story

By David Kidd

The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)

By Nietzsche, Friedrich, Kaufmann, Walter

Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China.

By Ann Paludan

Keep Calm for Chaps: Good Advice for Hard Times (Keep Calm and Carry on)

By Ebury Press

Daughter of the River: A Memoir

By Ying, Hong

Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine

By Summers, Julie

Kublai Khan

By Man, John

Mao for Beginners: 3 (A Writers & Readers beginners documentary comic book)

By Rius, Appignanesi, R.

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security)

By Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne, Henry A. Kissinger

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

By His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama

A Chinese Winter's Tale (Renditions Paperbacks)

By Yu Luojin, May, Rachel, Zhu Zhiyu

A Bend In The Yellow River

By Hill, Justin

Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China

By Nigel Cawthorne

Return to Dragon Mountain: Memoirs of a Late Ming Man

By Spence, Jonathan

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

By Krakauer, Jon

The Elixir And The Stone: The Tradition of Magic and Alchemy

By Baigent, Michael, Leigh, Richard

Everest: The Struggle to Reach the Top of the World

By Tibballs, Geoff