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The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
Par John Vaillant. 2010
Nature writer follows a government tiger-control team as it pursues an endangered Siberian tiger, which had killed a poacher, through…
Russia's far east in the winter of 1997. Explores the beauty of the setting, the tiger's strength, and the political and geographical forces that shaped this remote region. Canada Reads 2012. 2010.Astrophysics for people in a hurry
Par Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2017
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit…
within us? Few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos, so Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. Bestseller. 2017.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.Lands of lost borders: out of bounds on the Silk Road
Par Kate Harris. 2018
As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer--had gone extinct. So she…
vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, but Harris realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, she celebrates our connection as humans to the natural world, and ultimately to each other--a belonging that transcends any fences or stories that may divide us. Bestseller. Winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize. 2018.The prince of the marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
Par Rory Stewart. 2006
British diplomat and author of "The Places In Between" describes his 2003 postwar work as deputy governor in the marshlands…
of southern Iraq. Details the hazards of keeping the peace among the Shia warlords while trying to rebuild the infrastructure. Strong language and some violence. 2006.City of Djinns: a year of Delhi
Par William Dalrymple. 1993
Although New Delhi has been invaded and burned many times through the centuries, it has always been rebuilt. During his…
stay there, Dalrymple found a city full of relics, both architectural and human, from different periods of history, side by side. Research description is combined with tales of his travels and encounters with people from various levels of society, different religions, and numerous traditions. 1993.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.Why does E=mc²?: (and why should we care?)
Par Brian Cox, J. R Forshaw. 2010
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.What is real?: the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics
Par Adam Becker. 2018
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.Une brève histoire du futur: comment la science va changer le monde
Par Michio Kaku, Olivier Courcelle. 2014
" Faire surgir de la matière à partir du néant, créer des formes de vie inédites, exploiter l'énergie des étoiles,…
terraformer Mars : quelles percées scientifiques nous attendent d'ici à 2100 ? En quoi vont-elles révolutionner notre quotidien ? Pour le savoir, suivez Michio Kaku, spécialiste mondial de la théorie des cordes, et entreprenez un magistral voyage dans le temps ! Découvrez une vision stupéfiante de notre futur, fondée non sur des spéculations, mais bien sur des technologies qui existent déjà à titre expérimental dans une poignée de laboratoires. Loin d'une compilation hasardeuse, ce livre est le fruit d'une colossale enquête auprès de 300 chercheurs de haut vol, afin de délimiter les frontières de la connaissance dans les domaines du calcul formel, de l'intelligence artificielle, de la physique quantique, de la médecine, des nanotechnologies, du spatial, etc. Fantastique conteur, Michio Kaku met en scène les dernières avancées de la science pour mieux nous surprendre, nous émerveiller - voire nous faire peur - par ses intuitions géniales, toutes compatibles avec les lois de la physique... actuellement connues ! " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Physics of the future.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.