Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea.

因此，这本书名为《追逐大海：迷失在中亚帝国的幽灵中》，讲述了一段从塔什干到卡拉卡尔的公路之旅。在卡拉卡尔，数百万人的生命因海洋的慢慢干涸而湮灭。

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The success of Jaipur's book bash, now the biggest literature festival in Asia, is in part thanks to India's burgeoning appetite for the written word.

斋浦尔图书盛会如今已是亚洲最大的文学节，它的成功多少要归功于印度国内对文学越来越浓厚的兴趣。

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“Asia is one” was the opening sentenceof a book published just over a century ago by a Japanese art historian calledKakuzo Okakura, entitled “Ideals of the East”.

“亚洲是一体的”是《东洋的理想》一书的开篇第一句话，这本书出版于一个多世纪前，作者是日本的美术家冈仓天心。

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WordPlay features talks and workshops with prominent local and international writers and poets like Philip Cornwel-Smith, author of the book Thai Hybrid, and Dean Barrett, author of the book Writing on Asia.

BBC: Bangkok becomes the 2013 World Book Capital

Certainly few residents mind that the December handover will also close the book on European colonial authority in Asia.

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The UK "rewards laziness", does not encourage risk-taking and must strive to emulate the work ethic and low-tax culture in parts of Asia, the five MPs argue in a book due out next month.

BBC: British workers 'among worst idlers', suggest Tory MPs