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Le lumineux destin d'Alexandra David-Néel
Par Jean Chalon. 1985
Mme David-Neel ne s'est jamais arrêtée: anarchiste, bourgeoise, bouddhiste, cantatrice, orientaliste, exploratrice (elle fut la première parisienne à pénétrer à…
Lhassa en 1924), journaliste, écrivain... Quelle leçon de persévérance que cette femme qui, à 100 ans, faisait renouveler son passeport! 1985.Last moments of a world
Par Margaret Gaan. 1978
Reminiscences of life in Shanghai from the early 1920s to 1950, when the author and her mother, the only remaining…
members of a Euro-Chinese family, left for Hong Kong and eventually America. Includes portraits of her wacky family and their unscrupulous, but faithful, Chinese household staff. 1978.Jasmine and arnica
Par Nicola Naylor. 2001
Many would balk at the idea of a white woman traveling India alone - and in particular, a blind woman.…
Throughout her childhood Nicola Naylor had been fascinated by images of the subcontinent and was determined both to realize her dream of visiting and to push back the stifling constraints imposed by perceptions of her disability. While depending on her third eye - or sixth sense - she explores India from the inside. 2001.Arousing the goddess
Par Tim Ward. 1996
During his two years meandering the "Dharma Trail" through Asia, Ward met and fell in love with an Austrian Indologist…
who was in India doing research. Working as her assistant, Ward travels India with her. Together they find themselves sharing their discovery of the tantric path, in which all acts and emotions, including sex and passion, become part of the search for spiritual liberation. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1996.Journey to the Middle Kingdom
Par Christopher West. 1991
Christopher West fills a rucksack, and heads for the country most unlike his own he can imagine. He travels up…
the eastern coast of China by train, bus, bicycle and boat, meeting peasants, racketeers, monks, entrepreneurs, veteran revolutionaries and former Red Guards. The climax comes on the Great Wall, where he experiences a moment of intense revelatory happiness. 1991.Japan, where East meets West (Discovering our heritage)
Par Judith Davidson. 1983
An introduction to the history and culture of Japan including a discussion of Japanese in the United States. Discusses Japanese…
legends, festivals, home life, schools, and sports. Grades 5-8. 1983. (Discovering our heritage)I have something to tell you
Par Natalie Appleton. 2017
On the eve of Christmas and a proposal, Natalie Appleton discovers she doesn’t want to settle for sevens, and starts…
over. So, she abandons everything in Alberta for Bangkok. Along the way, Natalie unpacks the past that caused her to flee: cheating hearts, small-town suffocation, a tattered family and a genetic disposition to madness. In Bangkok, Natalie kills an albino gecko, crawls into bed with a lampseller and nearly calls off her quest when she’s almost attacked by a leather vendor. And then, at a grimy guesthouse one year after arriving in Thailand, everything changes. 2017.Intolerable: a memoir of extremes
Par Kamal Al-Solaylee. 2012
As a gay man living in an intolerant Middle East, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where…
he became a journalist and academic. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West, his once-liberal family slowly fell into the hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping large parts of the Arab-Muslim world in the 1980s and 1990s. The differences between his life and theirs were brought into sharp relief by the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Yemen. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. 2012.The right to remain silent is one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture, yet…
there is widespread misunderstanding about the right and the protections promised under the Fifth Amendment. Dershowitz reveals precisely why our Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being reshaped, limited, and in some cases revoked in the wake of 9/11. 2008.Indian summer: a good man in Asia
Par Will Randall. 2004
Learning as much as he is teaching in the Indian city of Poona, Will finds his life transformed by his…
remarkable class of orphans: Dulabesh, the joker; Prakash, who learnt self-sufficiency by scavenging in skips; the nutty yet charming Tanushri. When the slum barons threaten to level the school, Will hits upon a fund-raising plan. 2004.India Britannica
Par Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1984
A social history of the British rule in India and the men who went there: poets, painters and politicians. This…
complex edifice brought out the best - and worst - in these temporary landowners. The author covers a wide span from the tuckshop greed of the seventeenth century nabobs to the departure of the last soldier in February 1948. 1984.The explorer and travel writer chronicles his horseback trip across Mongolia, retracing the twelfth-century route of Genghis Khan and his…
horde. Severin describes the wild, untamed expanses of Mongolia that, despite the years of Communist rule, have changed little since the time of Genghis Khan. Historical anecdotes as well as descriptions of nomadic herders, exotic traditions, and austere people pepper the narrative. 1992.All monsters must die: an excursion to North Korea
Par Saskia Vogel, Magnus Bärtås, Fredrik Ekman. 2015
The authors have created a mosaic of North Korea, past and present: from the Japanese occupation to the demarcation of…
the border at the 38th parallel and the Korean War, the development of North Korean Juche ideology, the establishment of the Kim dynasty's cult of personality, and the aggressive manufacturing of political propaganda, which motivated the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous film couple. Intelligent and shocking, this book offers a rare and fascinating window into the “hermit kingdom.” 2015. Uniform title: Alla monster måste dö.Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan
Par Jamie Zeppa. 1999
In 1989 Jamie Zeppa decided to try something completely different from anything she had ever done before. She signed on…
as a teacher for two years in the Far East country of Bhutan. Once she arrived there she discovered the difficulties in bridging cultural divides, and the rewards that come from immersing oneself in a completely different culture. 1999.Days and nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber
Par Anthony Weller. 1997
The highway adventures of an American journalist traveling the fifteen hundred miles of the Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta across…
northern India and Pakistan to the Khyber Pass. Weller recounts the region's religious and political history; describes the cities, countryside, and people he encounters; and conveys his joy at traveling in an area he has read much about. c1997.Dancing in the no-fly zone: a woman's journey through Iraq
Par Hadani Ditmars. 2005
When Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997, she found art, and beauty, amidst the misery and suffering. She travelled…
to Iraq again and again, and in 2003, she returned to Baghdad to find the people she had met over the years and see what had become of them since the US "liberation". Ditmars portrays the full depth of the humanity of the Iraqi people. 2005.Everyday law: a survival guide for Canadians
Par Jack Batten, Marjorie Harris. 1987
Easy-to-follow handbook that outlines the common legal problems which every Canadian faces. Discusses such subjects as choosing a lawyer, preparing…
a will, getting married, going to court, and buying a house. c1987.Hiding out: a memoir of drugs, deception, and double lives
Par Tina Alexis Allen. 2018
Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her stern father, Sir John, an…
imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. When Sir John discovered Tina was attracted to women, he too revealed he was gay. Their second lives brought father and daughter closer, but little did Tina know, darker secrets lingered below the surface. 2018.Honor girl: [a graphic memoir]
Par Maggie Thrash. 2017
Maggie has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in…
the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing--until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and, most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle--let alone understand. For senior high readers. 2017.Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of The great railway bazaar
Par Paul Theroux. 2008
With this vibrant and illuminating travelogue that shows just how much the world has changed in the 30 years since…
he wrote "The great railway bazaar," Theroux returns to the rails of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia for an exceptionally detailed and entertaining update that will entice fans and newcomers alike. 2008.