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Mirrors of the unseen: journeys in Iran
Par Jason Elliot. 2006
This is an exploration of the immensely rich heritage of Persian culture and a unique portrait of contemporary Iran. In…
it, we are introduced to the hair-raising streets of Tehran, and ponder the sublime architecture of Isfahan; we travel on horseback through the forests of the north, across the bleak landscapes of Kurdistan, and re-trace Robert Byron's steps to the sites of the nation's most fabled monuments. 2006.Deux innocents en Chine rouge
Par Alexandre Trudeau, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Jacques Hébert, Marie José Thériault. 2007
Depuis que l'Occident a découvert la Chine, notre imaginaire est hanté par son exotisme lointain, sa culture mystérieuse et sa…
population prodigieuse. En 1960, fascinés par ce grand pays, Pierre Trudeau et Jacques Hébert visitent ses usines, ses hôpitaux et ses musées avant de publier " Deux Innocents en Chine rouge ". Un récit d'aventures passionnantes appelé à devenir plus que jamais un classique de la littérature canadienne. 2007.Life is a wheel: love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America
Par Bruce Weber. 2014
Based on his series in the New York Times chronicling his cross-country bicycle trip, Weber shares his adventures from his…
solo ride across the USA. He made the trip over the summer and fall of 2011 - at the age of fifty-seven. He extols the pleasures of cycling and reflects on what happened on his adventure, in the world, in the country, and in his life. The story begins on the Oregon coast with a middle-aged man wondering what he's gotten himself into and ends in triumph on the George Washington Bridge, wondering how soon he might try it again. 2014.Listening for coyote: a walk across Oregon's wilderness
Par William L Sullivan. 1988
While making a 1360-mile west-to-east walk through Oregon, Sullivan touches 18 wilderness areas and crosses mountain ranges. This daily journal…
tells about his solo walk as he scouts a route later recommended for the New Oregon Trail. Some strong language. 1988.Letters from China
Par Maureen Hynes. 1981
In 1980, Hynes was selected by the Canadian external affairs department to teach at Sichuan University in China. Letters, diary…
entries, and narrative commentary portray a vivid picture of the day-to-day adventures and experiences of a Canadian "foreign expert" in China. 1981.Margaret Powell in America
Par Margaret Powell. 1973
Long road home: a China journal
Par Vera Schwarcz. 1984
An exchange student at Peking University gives an account of her insights. Includes descriptions of the 30th anniversary celebration of…
the People's Republic of China, and her journey through 13 provinces. 1984.Le libraire de Kaboul: récit
Par Åsne Seierstad. 2003
L'auteur a vécu le printemps suivant la défaite des Talibans chez Sultan Khan, libraire à Kaboul. Elle nous fait partager,…
dans ce récit très vivant et toujours respectueux, la vie quotidienne des épouses, enfants, frères et soeurs jumelles d'une famille où chaque destin est riche démotions et dont le ched incontestable est Sultan, l'amoureux des livres. 2003. Titre uniforme: Bokhandleren i Kabul et familiedrama.L'enfant de la jungle: récit (J'ai lu. Récit)
Par Sabine Kuegler, Barbara Fontaine. 2007
Le roman de Pékin (Le roman des lieux et destins magiques)
Par Bernard Brizay. 2008
Pour les Chinois, comme pour les Occidentaux, jamais capitale n'a autant mérité le statut de ville mythique. Résidence du Fils…
du Ciel, capitale administrative, culturelle et religieuse du plus vieux, du plus peuplé et du plus grand empire au monde, Pékin et la Cité pourpre interdite où vivait l'empereur, entouré de ses concubines et de ses eunuques, fait toujours fantasmer. Le palais impérial est resté pendant cinq cents ans le centre sacré de l'Empire, le siège du gouvernement, où s'est écrite la grande histoire, celle de la Chine. Et la petite histoire, car la Cité interdite fut aussi le lieu privilégié d'intrigues, de drames et de crimes. 2008.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.Le roman du Mississippi
Par Bernard Pierre. 1983
En suivant les 3,750 km du Mississippi, de sa source à la frontière canadienne jusqu'à son delta dans le golfe…
du Mexique, l'auteur fait vivre et parler le père des eaux comme un être humain. 1983.American vertigo
Par Bernard Henri Lévy. 2006
Où va l'amérique ? Devant ce pays colossal et blessé, contradictoire et protéiforme, devant ce pays-concept dont les emblèmes, nobles…
ou infamants, tournent à n'en pas finir sur le manège médiatique mondial, chacun est pris de vertige. American Vertigo ? Un livre-enquête mobile et chaleureux. Un reportage conceptuel et un " road book " sensuel, cérébral, drôle, véridique. La perspicacité du philosophe. L'oeil et le style du romancier. 2006.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.American notes (Everyman's library ; #290)
Par Charles Dickens. 2000
To the nineteenth-century Englishman, America was not unlike Russia or China or Cuba today - a new society, founded on…
new and revolutionary principles. Charles Dickens was only one of the more famous of those Englishmen who crossed the Atlantic to see democracy in action. He chronicles his five-month trip around the United States in 1842 and records his adventures as well as his impressions of American schools, prisons and slavery. 2000.Kayaking the full moon: a journey down the Yellowstone River to the soul of Montana
Par Steve Chapple. 1993
Chapple, fed up with life in San Francisco, decided to return to his roots in Montana. In August, 1991, he,…
his wife, and their two sons began their adventure. They travelled the 671 miles of the Yellowstone and found two Montanas -- the old, where natives teach youth to appreciate their heritage, and the new, where people have summer homes and appear unconcerned for the environment. 1993.Journey on the Crest: walking 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada
Par Cindy Ross. 1987
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.