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Un barbare en Chine nouvelle
By 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
By 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.Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
By 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
By 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
By 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
By Orville Schell. 1984
Tibet, otage de la Chine
By Claude B Levenson. 2002
Three Pagodas Pass: a roundabout journey to Burma
By 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
By 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.The walls of India
By George Woodcock. 1985
The traveler's key to Northern India: a guide to the sacred places of Northern India
By Alistair Shearer. 1983
The travels
By Marco Polo. 1958
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.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.