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Thaïlande
By Bradley Winterton. 1989
Un printemps en Sibérie
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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.The waiting land: a spell in Nepal
By Dervla Murphy. 1967
The author spent seven months in Nepal in 1965. She portrays the people and customs of this ancient, complex civilization…
and describes her experiences working in a Tibetan refugee camp. 1967.The Himalayan kingdoms, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim
By Bob Gibbons, Bob Ashford. 1983
The people of Japan
By Pearl S Buck. 1966
Comparing the Japan she knew as a child with the Japan of today, the author discusses the changes which have…
occurred since World War II. Family life, sexual attitudes, the position of women, and traditions are some of the topics covered. For junior and senior high readers. 1966.Seven years in Tibet
By Heinrich Harrer, Richard Graves. 1953
The author escaped from internment in India in 1943, and found shelter and work in the sacred city of Lhasa,…
to which few Europeans have penetrated. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans. He became friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion. 1953. Uniform title: Sieben Jahre in Tibet.Route des tropiques: récit
By Roland Dorgelès. 1944
Religions of Japan: many traditions within one sacred way (Religious traditions of the world)
By H. Byron Earhart. 1984
Shinto, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the folk religions and the so-called New Religions are surveyed, both as individual traditions and as…
interrelating aspects within the whole of Japanese society and culture. 1984.Panjamon
By Jean Yves Domalain. 1972
Étudiant des animaux de la jungle indonésienne, un jeune homme est capturé par les Ibans. Peu à peu, il gagnera…
leur confiance, épousera une fille de la tribu et partagera leur vie. 1972.Le pèlerinage aux sources ((Médiations ; 114))
By Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto. 1943
L'Iran: lu par Aline Gobeil
By Aline Gobeil. 1992
Une aristocrate en Asie: récit d'un voyage en Pays bakhtyar, dans le sud-ouest de la Perse (Anatolia)
By V Sackville-West. 2000
Ce couple de globe-trotters anglais a sillonné une ancienne piste empruntée par les caravanes, à travers les montagnes qui se…
dressent au sud-ouest d'Ispahan, en Iran. Ce récit retrace leur périple au milieu des années 1920, durant douze jours, sur les traces d'Alexandre en direction de l'Inde. Il décrit la vie des nomades de ces contrées, ainsi que leurs aventures. [SDMLe voyage de Marco Polo
By Victor Chklovski. 1993
Dans une introduction de quarante pages, K. Kounine rappelle la vie dans l'Empire mongol sous le Grand Khan et aussi…
qui fut Marco Polo. Le récit de Victor Chklovski pour sa part retrace le fabuleux périple du grand explorateur vénitien à travers l'Asie et les péripéties de son séjour en Chine à la fin du treizième siècle. Un texte fort documenté. [SDMTurquie (Passions d'ailleurs)
By M Anastassiadou. 2003
Avec plus de 300 photos, ce livre-plaisir pour lecteurs curieux fera découvrir la Turquie à travers sa vie quotidienne, son…
histoire, ses villes, ses paysages et ses sites naturels, mais aussi ses loisirs, ses fêtes et sa culture contemporaine. Pour donner un avant-goût de voyage ou enrichir ses découvertes ou ses souvenirs au retour.Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
By Kate Harris. 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZEWINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION"Every day on a bike trip…
is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.Mongolian Chronicles: A Story of Eagles, Demons, and Empires
By Allen Smutylo. 2019
Longlisted, RBC Taylor PrizeIn the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads…
survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting not with traps or guns, but on horseback with golden eagles.The Mongolian Chronicles recounts a story of this untamed world, seen through the eyes of artist, writer, and traveller Allen Smutylo. Smutylo lived with seven eagle hunters and their families for several weeks over two years, affording him rare insight into a disappearing culture. His extraordinary narrative is set within the context of Mongolia's turbulent past — the long shadow cast by the empire of Genghis Khan, the deprivations of early twentieth century warlords-cum-mystics — and its protean present, where ancient customs and shamanistic beliefs exist among an increasingly urbanized people.Smutylo's vivid prose and powerful artwork portray a Mongolia of contradictions and extremes. Readers will encounter a country with a vast wilderness that nonetheless has one of the most polluted capitals on earth; a modern economy in which tent-dwelling nomads still rely on their animals for survival; a people unchanged for millennia, yet recognizing that their way of life may disappear with their generation.