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The rope in the water: a pilgrimage to India
By Sylvia Fraser. 2001
Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more." Travelling 12,000 kilometres…
as a solitary traveler across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges and the Golden Temple of the Sikhs; spends time with a Hindu sect up Mount Abu and meditates eleven hours a day for ten days in a Buddhist retreat while observing a vow of silence. 2001.The dolphin's tooth: a decade in search of adventure
By Bruce Kirkby. 2005
Stuck in an engineer's cubicle and tormented by doubts and boredom, Kirkby quit his job to bicycle the Karakoram Highway…
in northern Pakistan. Over the next fifteen years, he undertook some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer, including running Africa's Blue Nile Gorge, climbing Mount Everest, or learning to embrace the wilderness on the Tatshenshini River of Canada's Arctic. 2005.The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
By 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.Hadrian: the restless emperor (Roman Imperial Biographies Ser.)
By Anthony Richard Birley. 1998
Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. In this text the author brings…
together the evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up to date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, and Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli. 1998.The rescue of Jerusalem: the alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC
By Henry T Aubin. 2002
In 701 BC, Assyria's powerful army laid siege to Jerusalem, after already pillaging forty-six Judean towns and cities -- but…
something happened. Instead of completing the attack, the invaders hastily abandoned their siege works, leaving the City of David intact. The Bible credits divine intervention, modern scholars cite a plague, but the author concludes that in the eighth century BC an Egyptian Pharaoh dispatched an army of Kushites, black Africans like himself, to do battle with the Assyrians. 2002.Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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.Wrapped for eternity: the story of the Egyptian mummy
By Mildred Mastin Pace, Tom Huffman. 1974
With the Kama Sutra under my arm: an Indian journey
By 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.Who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls?: the search for the secret of Qumran
By Norman Golb. 1995
A scholarly inquiry into the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the first of which was discovered in the Qumran…
caves in 1947. The author refutes the theory that scribes produced the scrolls in a local Essenean monastery and asserts that the manuscripts were transferred from Jerusalem when the city was under Roman siege. c1995.Where the Indus is young: a winter in Baltistan
By 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
By 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.We are soldiers still: a journey back to the battlefields of Vietnam
By Harold G Moore, Joseph L Galloway. 2008
Walking up & down in the world: memories of a mountain rambler
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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.