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Yet being someone other
Par Laurens Van der Post. 1982
Learning to understand the Japanese has provided the author with his greatest spiritual joy and some of his most painful…
lessons in survival. The process has been spread over twenty years and between extremes of experience: a visit to Japan at the age of twenty in return for rescuing two Japanese visitors from severe embarrassment in a whites-only cafe in Durban, and then as a British colonel in the P.O.W. camps in Java for three and a half years. 1982.With the Kama Sutra under my arm: an Indian journey
Par Patricia Bernard. 2006
Having been left for another, Trisha decides that the best way to nurse her broken heart is to escape to…
India, armed with a copy of the Kama. At the last minute, she is joined by her long lost backpacking companion, Sally. With her passion for architecture and history in her heart, and with the Kama Sutra under her arm, Trish Bernard takes us on a hilarious romp through India. 2006.Where the Indus is young: a winter in Baltistan
Par Dervla Murphy. 1977
The author travels through the gorges of Baltisan with her six-year-old daughter. The wanderer from Waterford is a citizen of…
the world in the widest sense and believes that in order to see how the other half lives it is essential to seek amongst those who are still uncontaminated by this half. 1977.What I talk about when I talk about running: a memoir
Par Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel. 2008
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year…
later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. 2008. Uniform title: Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto.We are soldiers still: a journey back to the battlefields of Vietnam
Par Harold G Moore, Joseph L Galloway. 2008
Walking up & down in the world: memories of a mountain rambler
Par Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.Walking the Bible: a journey by land through the five books of Moses
Par Bruce S Feiler. 2001
One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, author Feiler recounts a personal odyssey -…
by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel - to retrace the Five Books of Moses through the desert. Along with archaeologist Avner Goren, he treks through Turkey, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Sinai, and Jordan, visiting the actual places of some of history's most storied events, from the mountain where Noah's ark landed to the site of the legendary burning bush. 2001.Voyageur
Par Pierre Graveline. 2014
" 1971. Rêvant depuis toujours de prendre son envol, un jeune homme de dix-neuf ans quitte le Québec et part…
sur les chemins aventureux du monde. Seul et désargenté, il se déplace au gré des hasards de la route et dort souvent à la belle étoile. En huit mois, il parcourt 36 000 kilomètres, traverse l'Europe, explore la Turquie, puis l'Iran, l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan, trois pays que les fous de Dieu ont désormais rendu inaccessibles, vagabonde en Inde et au Népal, à la rencontre des peuples de la terre, de leur histoire, de leur culture. Jour après jour, il observe le cirque éternel de la vie des hommes, et découvre étonné, captivé, troublé, linfinie, l'étrange, la sublime diversité de notre insensée humanité. En ces temps pourtant pas si lointains où la poste met des semaines à livrer une lettre d'un continent à l'autre, où les communications téléphoniques internationales ne sont accessibles qu'aux plus fortunés, où l'Internet n'a pas encore réduit la planète à une peau de chagrin, il est tout simplement, dans le merveilleux sens ancestral du terme, un voyageur. " -- 4e de couv.Villages
Par Richard Critchfield. 1981
In the tradition of the traveler-storyteller-amateur anthropologist, an award-winning American journalist describes the Third World villages he experienced during the…
1970s. Among the countries he visited were Brazil, Morocco, Sudan, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, India, Egypt, and China. 1981.Video night in Kathmandu: and other reports from the not-so-far East
Par Pico Iyer. 1988
This description of the collision of western culture with the Third World includes chapters on expatriate life in Hong Kong,…
the sex scene in Thailand, the mock paradise of Bali, popular movies in India, and baseball in Japan. Some descriptions of sex. 1988.Un barbare en Chine nouvelle
Par Daniel Poliquin, Alexandre Trudeau. 2016
Trudeau décrit les changements que vit la Chine en ce moment, en même temps qu'il jette un regard rétrospectif sur…
l'histoire de cette société encore soumise à des codes rigides et profondément ancrés. En partageant le quotidien d'hommes et de femmes qui incarnent la Chine nouvelle, il apporte un éclairage neuf sur toute une société, comme seul un voyageur doublé d'un conteur hors pair peut le faire. 2016. Titre uniforme: Barbarian lost.Un barbare en Asie
Par Henri Michaux. 1967
Quand je vis l'Inde, et quand je vis la Chine, pour la première fois, des peuples, sur cette terre, me…
parurent mériter d'être réels. Joyeux, je fonçai dans ce réel, persuadé que j'en rapportais beaucoup. Y croyais-je complètement ? Voyage réel entre deux imaginaires. Peut-être au fond de moi les observais-je comme des voyages imaginaires qui se seraient réalisés sans moi, œuvre d''autres'. Pays qu'un autre aurait inventés. J'en avais la surprise, l'émotion, l'agacement. C'est qu'il manque beaucoup à ce voyage pour être réel. Je le sus plus tard. Faisais-je exprès de laisser de côté ce qui précisément allait faire en plusieurs de ces pays de la réalité nouvelle : la politique ? [...] Ce livre qui ne me convient plus, qui me gêne et me heurte, me fait honte, ne me permet de corriger que des bagatelles le plus souvent. Il a sa résistance. Comme s'il était un personnage. Il a un ton. À cause de ce ton, tout ce que je voudrais en contrepoids y introduire de plus grave, de plus réfléchi, de plus approfondi, de plus expérimenté, de plus instruit, me revient, m'est renvoyé... comme ne lui convenant pas. Ici, barbare on fut, barbare on doit rester. 1967.Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
Par Henry A Grunwald. 1999
The author chronicles his experience of macular degeneration, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications, and…
the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. 1999.Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
Par Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.Touch the dragon: a Thai journal
Par Karen Connelly. 1992
Karen Connelly, 17 years old and bored with her life, was accepted by an exchange program which took her from…
Calgary to a small town in Thailand. She describes her assimilation into the Thai language and culture and her despair at leaving when the year came to an end. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1992.To the frontier
Par Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1984
The author travelled up through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, finally coming to…
the high Hindu Kush Mountains in the North. He crossed the Baluchistan desert, lingered in Lahore and was one of the few foreigners to penetrate the Khyber Pass as far as the border of Afghanistan. 1984.To get rich is glorious: China in the eighties
Par Orville Schell. 1984
Tibet, otage de la Chine
Par Claude B Levenson. 2002
Three Pagodas Pass: a roundabout journey to Burma
Par George Fetherling. 2002
George Fetherling visited Burma to get a first-hand look at the dictatorship-ruled land. Before arriving, he traveled to such diverse…
places as Greece, Casablanca, the Falkland Islands, Antarctica, and Easter Island. When he finally reached Burma, he considered its geography as well as politics. 2002.Three cups of tea: one man's extraordinary journey to promote peace - one school at a time
Par Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin. 2007
An American mountaineer returns to an impoverished Pakistan village to repay the help he received after a disastrous attempt to…
climb K2. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools in remote villages across Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. 2007, c2006.