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Sky burial: an epic love story of Tibet (Penguin Drop Caps Ser.)
Par Xinran, Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley. 2004
Inspired by a brief 1994 interview with an aged Chinese woman named Shu Wen, Chinese journalist Xinran describes Wen's 30-year…
search for her husband in Tibet, where he disappeared in 1958. Wen's husband, Kejun, an army doctor, is posted to Tibet and two months later is reported killed. Stunned and disbelieving, 26-year-old Wen is determined to find Kejun herself; a doctor also, she gets herself posted to the isolated Tibetan area where Kejun had been. There, she endures much hardship, rescues a Tibetan noblewoman, is separated from her fellow soldiers, and goes native with a tribe of yak herders, Wen learns the circumstances of Kejun's death and understands that her husband was caught in a fatal misunderstanding between two vastly different cultures. 2004.Getting a life: the social worlds of geek culture
Par Benjamin Woo. 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we…
used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. Yet these conventionalized representations of geek culture typically ignore the real people who have invested time and resources to make it what it is. Woo recentres our understanding of geek culture on the everyday lives of its participants, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions. He shows how geek culture is a set of interconnected social practices that are associated with popular media and argues that typical depictions of mass-mediated entertainment as something that isolates and pacifies its audiences are flawed because they do not account for the conversations, relationships, communities, and identities that are created by engaging with the products of mass culture. 2018. "What is a nerd?" -- Talk nerdy to me: the meaning of geek culture -- Taking geek culture seriously: a practice-theoretic account -- Values and virtues: what is best in life? -- Careers: boldly going on -- Making communities from mass culture -- Institutions: building worlds between production and consumption -- The limits of participation -- The geek, the bad, and the ugly --The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Par Doug Bock Clark. 2019
Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live…
on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. 2019.Oasis interdites
Par Ella Maillart. 1989
En janvier 1935, Ella Maillart quitte Pékin pour traverser la Chine d'est en ouest, atteindre les oasis " interdites "…
du Sin-Kiang et, de là, gagner le Cachemire. Ella Maillart est l'une des voyageuses les plus étonnantes de ce siècle, et la qualité de son regard sur les choses ne cesse de nous émerveiller. 1989.La voie cruelle
Par Ella Maillart. 1988
En juin 1939, Ella Maillart et une jeune compatriote suisse décident de partir, au volant d'une Ford, vers l'Afghanistan. Les…
paysages défilent, somptueux, inquiétants, inégalement hospitaliers. La voie cruelle est un parfait récit dans la mesure où notre regard se confond avec celui de l'auteur. 1988. Titre uniforme: The cruel way.Les Russes: la vie de tous les jours en Union soviétique
Par Hedrick Smith. 1976
En 1971, l'auteur est nommé chef du bureau du New York Times à Moscou. Pendant 3 ans, il sillonnera l'URSS…
de la Sibérie à la Mer Noire. À travers son expérience, c'est le tableau vivant de tout un peuple qu'il nous livre. 1976. Titre uniforme: The Russians.A winter in Nepal
Par John Morris. 1964
Baghdad without a map, and other misadventures in Arabia
Par Tony Horwitz. 1991
Horwitz travelled for 2 years throughout the Middle East, working as a free-lance writer. He watched awkward belly dancers, tracked…
down a camel race, and met a man who hated America but longed to visit Disneyland. 1991.A ride along the Great Wall
Par Robin Hanbury-Tenison. 1987
The author and his wife rode their horses for 1000 miles alongside the Great Wall of China. Often spending 12…
hours a day in the saddle, they travelled from the Yellow Sea to the edge of the Gobi desert. 1987.In the circle of the sun
Par Ann Woodin. 1971
Account of a 5000 mile, year-long trip across the deserts of the Old World by the Woodin family. Includes history,…
customs of the people, natural history, description of the scenery and day-to-day events. c1971.Calcutta
Par Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1972
A journalist offers a full-length portrait of the fourth largest city in the world and an introduction to the history…
of modern India. The author sees Calcutta, "the once glorious pearl of India," as a cruel but glamorous city now torn apart by political factions. 1972.China and the Chinese
Par Lyn Harrington. 1966
Mustang, the forbidden kingdom: exploring the lost Himalayan land
Par Michel Peissel. 1967
An anthropologist and explorer describes his travels and experiences when he became the first foreigner ever to make an extended…
visit to Mustang, a tiny, independent land on the Nepal border, surrounded on three sides by Tibet. For junior and senior high readers. 1967.La Chine de ma vie ((Pavillons))
Par Roger Clavet. 2001
Thaïlande
Par Bradley Winterton. 1989
Un printemps en Sibérie
Par Marc De Gouvenain. 1991
C'est au printemps 1990 que l'auteur charge d'ouvrir des itinéraires de marche et de randonnées équestres en Sibérie, a visité…
ce pays méconnu, plus vaste que l'Australie et dont les potentialités économiques seront un des grands enjeux du XXIe siècle. 1991.Retour à la saison des pluies
Par Kim Lefèvre. 1990
Voici le récit des retrouvailles de l'auteure avec le Viet Nam, d'abord imaginées puis vécues. L'histoire du choc ressenti par…
une femme retrouvant sa famille aux franges de la misère dans un pays aujourd'hui exsangue et pathétique. 1990.Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa: à pied et en mendiant, de la Chine à l'Inde à travers le Thibet
Par Alexandra David-Néel. 1985
En 1924, Alexandra David-Néel réalisait un fantastique exploit. Cette femme que rien n'arrêtait traversa à pied la Chine et tout…
le Tibet pour atteindre enfin Lhassa, la cité interdite, où elle fut la première Européenne à pénétrer et à séjourner. 1985.Visages dans un miroir
Par Ashraf Pahlavi. 1980
Ashraf Pahlavi raconte parallelement l'histoire de sa vie, celle de son frere, le Shah d'Iran, et enfin celle de son…
pays. Elle evoque aussi bien la vie des Pahlavi et leurs amours que leur ambition de construire un Iran moderne. 1980.What the Buddha never taught
Par Tim Ward. 1990
Tim Ward spent a season in the Theravada Buddhist monastery of Pan Nanachat in Thailand. He tells of his initiation…
into the monastery, where half of the members are western Caucasians, and his life there over the following months. 1993, c1990.