DARI ISTANA TOPKAPI HINGGA EKSOTISME MASJID AL-AZHAR, Ahmad Rofi' Usmani

Judul/Title: Dari Istana Topkapi Hingga Eksotisme Masjid Al-Azhar
Penulis/Author: Ahmad Rofi' Usmani
Penerbit/Publisher: Mizan
Edisi/Edition: 2011
Halaman/Pages: 291
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 1 cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga/Price: Rp. 55.000,-
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Turki dan Mesir merupakan dua negeri dengan warisan sejarah yang sangat kaya. Keduanya sama-sama berada di dua benua, sama-sama menjadi saksi dari kejayaan peradaban Islam. Kedua negeri ini bagaikan museum raksasa bagi jejak peradaban besar umat manusia.

Relief-Relief di Hagia Sophia, Sultan Ahmet Square, Pesisir Laut Marmara, dan selat Bosphorus adalah sedikit dari kecantikan Turki. Begitupun benteng Shalahuddin, Masjid Al-Azhar, Piramida-Spinx, Nil hingga Alexandria yang cantik rupawan dan berbatasan langsung dengan birunya laut Mediterania barulah sebagian kecil dari kekayaan Mesir.

Penulis buku mengajak Anda untuk berwisata sekaligus memperkaya wawasan. Ditulis berdasarkan pengalaman langsung penulisnya, buku ini juga dilengkapi data-data sejarah dan berbagai tips. Buku ini akan membuat Anda seakan sudah mengelilingi Turki dan Mesir sebelum Anda benar-benar mengunjunginya.

"Jika Anda ingin menikmati sejarah klasik kejayaan Islam beberapa Abad lampau dengan cara tutur yang menyenangkan dan personal, buku ini layak menjadi salah satu koleksi bacaan Anda."
-- Imazahra, traveler yang telah mengunjungi 23 negara, penulis buku best-seller Long Distance love dan Kuliah Gratis ke Luar Negeri

SELIMUT DEBU, Agustinus Wibowo

Judul/Title: Selimut Debu
Penulis/Author: Agustinus Wibowo
Penerbit/Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Edisi/Edition: 2010
Halaman/Pages: 461
Dimensi/Dimension: 13.5x 20 x 2 cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga/Price: Rp. 75.000,-
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Selimut debu akan membawa Anda berkeliling "negeri mimpi"-yang biasa dihadirkan lewat gambaran reruntuhan, korban ranjau, atau anak jalanan mengemis di jalan umum-sambil menapaki jejak kaki Agustinus yang telah lama hilang ditiup angin gurun, namun tetap membekas dalam memori. Anda akan sibuk naik-turun truk, mendaki gunung dan menuruni lembah, meminum teh dengan cara Persia, mencari sisa-sisa kejayaan negara yang habis dikikis oleh perang dan perebutan kekuasaan, sekaligus menyingkap cadar hitam yang menyelebungi kecantikan "Tanah Bangsa Afghan" dan onggokan debu yang menyelimuti bumi mereka. Bulir demi bulir debu akan membuka mata Anda pada prosesi kehidupan di tanah magis yang berabad-abad ditelantarkan, dijajah, dilupakan sampai akhirnya ditemukan kembali.

As a backpacker, Agustinus has taken several routes in his journey which other travelers would have most likely avoided.
-The Jakarta Post

[Agustinus] tak ingin hanya menjadi penonton isi dunia. Ia mau terlibat sepenuhnya dalam perjalanan itu. Ia tak sekadar melihat pemandangan, berpindah dari satu tempat ke tempat lain, tapi juga mengenal budaya dan berinteraksi dengan masyarakat setempat.
-Kompas

GUIDE TO JAVA, Peter Hutton & Hans Hoefer

Judul/Title: Guide to Java
Penulis/Author: Peter Hutton & Hans Hoefer
Penerbit/Publisher: Apa Production
Edisi/Edition: 1974
Halaman/Pages: 377
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 22 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 45.000
Call No.: 910/Hut/g

If the soul of Java could be captured in oils, the result would be subtle and great; a balance of light and shade, nuances of warmth and softness amid brush-strokes with an edge of honed steel; there would be highlights of diamond briliance, green flowing into burning gold, and ruby fire touching fathomless azure.

But to begin with there is a clean canvas and a preliminary sketch of a restless, contradictory subject.

The sketch is of an island lying 6 degree to 9 degree below the equator, more than 12,000 kilometres from London, 17,000 kilometres from New York, and 2,600 kilometres from Tokyo. An island which has the fifth largest in the Indonesian archipelago after Kalimantan, Sumatra, Irian Jaya and Sulawesi. Overland on a map of Europe the archipelago stretches from the west coast of Eire to the Ukraine and Sevastopol in the east, from Berlin in the north to Belgrade and Bucharest in the south, covering an area of more than 10 million square kilometres... and even though much of the archipelago is warm sea and ocean, the total land mass is the size of Mexico, and Java the seize of Greece.

DAIRI THE HIDDEN PROSPERITY, Jansen Hulman Sinamo

Judul/Title: Dairi The Hidden Prosperity
Penulis/Author: Jansen Hulman Sinamo
Penerbit/Publisher: DR.MP Tumanggor
Edisi/Edition: 2000
Halaman/Pages: 96
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 23 x 0.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: English/Indonesia
Harga/Price: Rp. 52.000,-
Call No.: 910/Sin/d

Dairi, a north Sumateran regency on the western flank on Lake Toba, is like a beautiful pearl on the look-like ornament of Indonesia. The regency is also rich in natural resources that are still untapped. But many people have not known it, even including those of North Sumateran people.

This book aims to put it in a display window for people to get a closer look. That way readers will get familiar with its landscape, its flora and fauna, its water and stones, people and culture, government and social organizations, through over 100 colorful photographs explained in a delightful narration.

It is not exaggerated to say that life is not perfect without visiting this beautiful and rich land.

FACTS ABOUT FINLAND, Matti Eskola

Judul/Title: Facts About Finland

Penulis/Writer: Matti Eskola

Penerbit/Publisher: Otava

Edisi/Edition: 1996

Halaman/Pages: 190

Dimensi/Dimension: 11.5 x 19 x 1cm

Sampul/Cover: Softcover

Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 49.000,-

Call No.: 910/Esk/f

This book offers a concise introduction to Findland and the Finns. It describes the country's nature, climate, population, sights, and provides useful information for travellers. It also presents Finland's history, government, administration and political life. It gives an account of the country's economy, social policies and health care, as well as education, cultural life. communications, media, and last but not least. Finnish sport.

MOUNTAINS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES NORTH WEST VIETNAM, Tim Doling

Judul/Title: Mountains and Ethnic Minorities North West Vietnam

Penulis/Writer: Tim Doling

Penerbit/Publisher: The Gioi Publisher

Edisi/Edition: 1999

Halaman/Pages: 462

Dimensi/Dimension: 20x 11x 1.5cm

Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover

Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 69.000,-

Call No.: 910/Dol/m

Opened to foreign visitors only since 1993, the mountainous mien bac or northern mountainous region of Vite Nam is an area of sublime natural beauty, populated by colourful, culturally-distinct montagnard groups who have played an important role in the development of the Vietnemese nation.

This is one of the two small tourist guide books to the mien bac which identifies areas of scenic beauty, introduce the region's many different ethnic groups and provides helpful background notes on its turbulent history. The book takes the traveller on a guided tour of the beautiful north-west mountainous region, ancestral heartland of Black and White Thai, H mong and Dao ethnic peoples and scene of the final decisive struggle between the forces of the French colonial administration and the Viet Minh resistance at Dien Bien Phu (1954).

ROMANCING VIETNAM, Justin Wintle

Judul/Title: Romancing Vietnam

Penulis/Writer: Justin Wintle

Penerbit/Publisher: Penguin Books

Edisi/Edition: 1992

Halaman/Pages: 462

Dimensi/Dimension: 20x 13x 2cm

Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover

Bahasa/Language: English

Harga/Price: Rp. 50.000,-
Call No.: 910/Win/r

Film like Platoon and Apocalypse Now have perpetuated an image of vietnam as a place of war. But what is Vietnam really like, all these year after the fall of Saigon? Justin Wintle went there to find out. His travels took him throught the whole country, from Cao Bang in the deep north to Minh Hai in the far south: a huge adventure that also become a running batlle.Communist propaganda, he found, had to be resisted just as resolutely as western misconceptions.

'An engaging, funny, often very funny, account of the difficulties of getting at this quicksilver world, where from the word go you are stitched up in bureaucratic

red tape' - Financial Times

'Compelling reading' - Sunday Telegraph

'Mr Wintle has written what may be the best account so far of live in pos-war Vietnaam' - Economist

'Immense wit, lovely descriptive passages and astounding energy ... His shines with the familiar brilliance his English countrymen have long displayed in books about travel to taxing, menacing or eerie places' - Washington Post

'An excellen traveller, Wintle is a inquisitive, is not burdened by self-

consciousness - and things happen to him' - Daily telegrap

VIETNAM: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE VIETNAM, May Ly Quang

Judul/Title: Vietnam: The Land and The People
Penulis/Author: May Ly Quang
Penerbit/Publisher: The Gioi Publishers
Edisi/Edition: 2000
Halaman/Pages: 348
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 21 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 89.000,-
Call No.: 910/Qua/v

Vietnam forms the rugged eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula. Bordering the Asian continent, it looks out on the East Sea and the Pacific, and is situated entirely in the intertropical band, in the centre of Southeast Asia.

Owing to its position of transition and contact between several natural systems and the long geological history of the subsoil, geographical conditions are complex and natural resources highly varied.

The mountainous topography and the East Sea exert a strong influence on Vietnam's environtment. They are also two sources of abundant wealth. Mountains and hills cover three-quarters of Vietnam's territory. The territorial waters of Vietnam are about 1,000,000 sq. and the coast line 3,000 km.

Vietnam is essentially a tropical country with a humid monsoonal climate. The humidity in its atmosphere makes forest the natural vegetation. However, tourist going along Highway i can often see stretches of savanna and grassy hills, the devastated primeval forests.

BOROBUDUR, John Miksic

Judul/Title: Borobudur: Golden Tales of the Buddhas
Penulis/Author: John Miksic
Penerbit/Publisher: Periplus
Edisi/Edition: I, 1991
Halaman/Pages: 157
Dimensi/Dimension: 24 x 26.5 x 2 cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 374.000,-
Call No.: 910/Mik/b

The glorious ninth-century Buddhist stupa of Borobudur -- the largest Buddhist monument in the world -- stands in the midst of the lush Kedu plain of Central Java in Indonesia, where it is visited annually by over a million people. Borobudur contains more than a thousand exquisitely carved relief panels extending along its many terraces for a total distance of more than a kilometer. These are arranged so as to take the visitor on a spiritual journey to enlightment, and one ascend the monument past scenes depicting the world of desire, the life story of Buddha, and the heroic deeds of other enlightened beings -- finally arriving at the great circular terraces at the top of the structure that symbolize the formless world of pure knowledge and perfection.

NO WORRIES: A JOURNEY THROUGH AUSTRALIA, Mark McCrum

Judul/Title: No Worries: A journey Through Australia
Penulis/Author: Mark McCrum
Penerbit/Publisher: Indigo
Edisi/Edition: 2000
Halaman/Pages: 314
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 2 cm
Sampul/Cover: Soft Cover
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 59.000,-
Call No.: 910/Mcc/n

Knowing Nothing of Australia except the lager-ad cliches of sun and surf, ockers and sheilas, kangaroos, and didgeridoos, Mark McCrum arrives Down Under.

Hitching, flying, by Greyhound and by train, he makes his way around the vast brown land. From royalist hippies to republican cattle-ranchers, from Queensland jillaroos to Indo-Chinese immigrants, from Perth millionaries to desert Aboriginals, he meets modern Aussies of every kind.