asia

Describes the history, geography, culture, and people of the legendary trade route that extended between China and the Mediterranean Sea.

Examines a country with one of the largest Muslim populations located in Asia where Islamic extremism is a significant and growing concern.

Examines the experiences of typical teenagers in fifteen Asian countries, each with a historical profile and information on family life, schooling, traditional and nontraditional food, social life, recreation and entertainment, religious practices, and cultural ceremonies.

An illustrated telling of the Asian and South American folktale in which a boy loses his breakfast money after hiding it under a stone, and the stone is put on trial for stealing it.

Follows the journey of Alexander the Great from Greece to India, searching for truth behind the legends.

Presents a collection of dispatches written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent George Weller during World War II. Depicts the world-wide horrors and heroism of war from both the Pacific and European fronts.

Text and plentiful illustrations trace the Second World War in the Far East and the Pacific from its origins in Manchuria to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Presents twelve traditional Chinese and East Asian legends, myths, and fables, adapted and vividly illustrated for children.

Profiles twelve significant natural and man-made places and monuments in Asia, including the Taj Mahal, Mount Everest, and the Great Wall of China, describing their histories and unique features.