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The sun my heart: from mindfulness to insight contemplation
By Thich Nhat Hanh. 1988
The author is a poet, Zen master, and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. He draws from Buddhist psychology, epistemology,…
and contemporary physics, and uses many anecdotes to accompany the reader on this journey from mindfulness to insight. 1988.The 'Tigris' expedition: in search of our beginnings
By Thor Heyerdahl. 1980
The true story of an epic voyage in a boat made of reeds from the Gulf into the Indian Ocean.…
It tells of terrifying encounters with supertankers and bandits, and of the political dispute which led to the ceremonial burning of the boat. At the heart of the expedition is an anthropological theory which gives an added edge to this real life adventure. 1980.The stars my blanket
By Beryl Smeeton. 1995
The author relates the stories of her two remarkable solo journeys before World War Two - a thousand mile horseback…
trek in the Andes, and a hike of several hundred miles through Burma and Siam (now Thailand). 1998.The snow leopard
By Peter Matthiessen. 2003
1973. Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan…
blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty. 2003.The silenced cry: one woman's diary of a journey to Afghanistan
By Anna Tortajada, Ezra E Fitz. 2004
Spanish writer Tortajada hears an Afghan refugee speak at a conference and decides to see the camps herself. In August…
2000, she and two companions journey first to a refugee camp in Pakistan, where they visit clandestine women's literacy classes, embroidery shops, and a brick factory, and then to Kabul, where they view underground schools and women's health and literacy classes, soccer fields where executions still take place, and the ongoing search for land mines, often travelling after dark to avoid discovery by the Taliban. Some descriptions of violence. 2004. Uniform title: Grito silenciado.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.The sewing circles of Herat: my Afghan years
By Christina Lamb. 2002
The author returns to Afghanistan to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her…
life as a young graduate. Her journey brought her in touch with the people no one else has written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Among them are the brave women writers of Herat. 2002.The Russians
By Hedrick Smith. 1976
Former Moscow bureau chief for the "New York Times" offers a portrait of the country today. Smith conveys the texture…
and fabric of the personal lives of the soviet people and what Russia means to them. c1976.The religions of the east: paths to enlightenment (The modern scholar)
By Stephen R Prothero. 2005
In a Siberian village, Turk met a female Koryak shaman who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend…
Turk's fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where the shaman was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives. 2009.The places in between
By Rory Stewart. 2005
This is an account of Rory Stewart's walk through Afghanistan in January 2002. Travelling entirely on foot and following the…
inaccessible, mountainous route, Stewart was nearly defeated by the hostile conditions. With the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way, he survived to report back on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war. 2005.The open road: the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama
By Pico Iyer. 2008
Iyer, a travel writer, essayist and novelist, has known the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, for more…
than 30 years. Organizing his observations by aspects of the Dalai Lama's work and character: icon, monk, philosopher, politician, Iyer plumbs different sides of His Holiness, whom he demythologizes even as he expresses a clear-eyed respect for his achievements. 2008.The narrow road to the Deep North and other travel sketches
By Matsuo Basho, Nobuyuki Yuasa. 1966
In his haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. He wrote of the…
seasons changing, of the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These travel writings not only chronicle Basho's perilous journeys through Japan, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him. 1966.The lost heart of Asia
By Colin Thubron. 2004
This book charts Colin Thubron's journey through the newly emergent countries of Central Asia. It is the story of his…
encounters with people, landscapes and the past, looking for lost cities, mosques and tombs, as he searches into the regions fragmented identity and discovers the plight of the once-dominant Russians who remain. 2004.The last wild men of Borneo: a true story of death and treasure
By Carl Hoffman. 2018
The riveting true story of two very different men, a Swiss environmentalist and an American art dealer, in one of…
the most untouched places left on earth--Borneo. A tale of true crime, clashing cultures, greed, exploitation, and the encroachment of Western "civilization" on native lands. 2018.The last heathen: encounters with ghosts and ancestors in Melanesia
By Charles Montgomery. 2004
In 2002 the author set out to trace the path of his great- grandfather, the Right Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery,…
a man of the cloth who, like hundreds of others in the late 19th century, sought to bring Christianity to the natives. He encountered cargo cults, martyred missionaries, the so-called pagan beliefs of the indigenous people, civil war, the brutal hand of British colonization, slavery, savagery, cannibalism, and conspiratorial sharks. What he found was not just on the Melanesian islands and among the people, but in the ether, in the howls of the past, and ultimately in himself. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 2004.The lady and the monk: four seasons in Kyoto
By Pico Iyer. 1991
While studying the old Japanese culture in Kyoto, Pico Iyer meets Sachiko. The mother of two children, she is the…
unhappy housewife of an absent businessman, who yearns for the freedoms of the West. Through her, Iyers learns about the conflicts and complexities of modern-day Japan. 1991.The Japan we never knew: a journey of discovery
By David T Suzuki, Keibō Ōiwa. 1996
The country of Japan conjures up many contradictory images, from serene gardens and Shinto shrines to high-tech gadgets and an…
army of businessmen. David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa journeyed through Japan, interviewing men and women who showed them another side of Japan. Here they share their insights and discoveries. 1996.The insider's guide to China
By Derek Maitland. 1987
Survey of China's history and culture, combined with well-organized travel advice. Restaurants and hotels of note are mentioned in the…
text itself, with travel tips at the end of each chapter. c1987.Sky burial: an epic love story of Tibet (Penguin Drop Caps Ser.)
By 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.