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Origines
By Amin Maalouf. 2004
Maalouf brasse l'histoire des siens, revisite leur mémoire et ressuscite le destin de cette " tribu " qui, à partir…
du Liban, essaimera de par le monde - jusqu'aux Amériques, jusqu'à Cuba... Dans cette aventure qui court sur plus d'un siècle, le romancier convoque les morts, les vivants, les ancêtres, les fantômes ; il explore leur légende ; il les suit à travers les convulsions de l'Empire ottoman ; il observe cette diaspora de mystiques, de francs-maçons, de professeurs, de commerçants, de rêveurs polyglottes et cosmopolites. Il sait que leur sang fiévreux bat dans ses veines. Et il sait que son propre parcours serait vain s'il n'était lui même, par l'écriture et le cur, fidèle à cette généalogie tumultueuse. Un chant d'amour à l'endroit d'une famille qui reste l'unique patrie de cet écrivain de l'exil. 2004.Open lands: travels through Russia's once forbidden places
By Mark Taplin. 1997
An American diplomatic officer chronicles his travels through seven Russian cities and regions that were restricted zones prior to 1992.…
Describes the local scenes, people, and historical events that took place in these areas during the Soviet era. Descriptions of violence. c1997.One room in a castle: letters from Spain, France & Greece
By Karen Connelly. 1995
Connelly writes of her travels and experiences in Spain, France, and Greece. Favouring letters because of the "sometimes funny, sometimes…
jarring intimacy" they create, Connelly has collected letters she has written to friends, to herself in diaries, and to the reader of this book. 1995.One year off: leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children
By David Elliot Cohen. 1999
Travelogue of a forty-year-old suburbanite who sold his house and possessions, closed his thriving business, and set out in 1996…
with his wife, three children, and a baby sitter on a thirteen-month, sixteen-country trip. This is a compilation of the lengthy descriptive e-mails he sent to friends while on the road. c1999.Deux ans au Mexique avec ma famille: chroniques de voyage ((Collection Récit de vie).)
By Robert Brown. 2013
" Suivez les aventures d'un couple de Québécois et leurs deux enfants à Cuernavaca, une ancienne ville coloniale située à…
85 km au sud de Mexico. Pendant deux ans, ils y ont vécu des situations parfois cocasses, parfois formatrices, lesquelles vous feront rire et même réfléchir. Découvrez la nouvelle réalité d'un ex-salarié devenu un homme au foyer et un père digne. À travers le regard aiguisé et les fines observations de Robert Brown, qui tente de s'accommoder raisonnablement dans son pays d'adoption temporaire, vous lirez avec plaisir les péripéties d'une famille qui délaisse le bien-être d'une existence rangée pour élargir sa zone de confort dans la vie. " -- 4e de couv.Nullarbor (Étonnants voyageurs)
By David Fauquemberg. 2007
À l'orée des années 2000, un jeune homme traverse seul le Grand Ouest australien. Les Hell's Angels rôdent sur la…
plaine de Nullarbor. Les pêcheurs de l'océan Indien tirent les squales à la Winchester. Et les aborigènes dérivent dans les mangroves du Kimberley. 2007.One man's justice: a life in the law
By Thomas R Berger. 2002
Tom Berger is best known for championing aboriginal rights, including early advocacy work that led to the precedent-setting Nisga'a Accord,…
but he has also often represented those not well served by the legal and legislative status quo. In a career that spans four decades, Berger has taken on the challenge of many controversial cases in order to test or transform the application of justice within the law. c2002.On the road again: thirty years on the traveller's train to India
By Simon Dring. 1995
Over thirty years after his first trip, the author retraces his route to India - through Europe, the Middle East…
and Asia - documenting the changes and meeting a new generation of nineties' travellers. What are they looking for? Do they like it? Is it the same thing that the travellers of the sixties were in search of? Do freedom and friendship, curiosity and an overwhelming desire to survive, learn and grow still fire the imagination and challenge us to seek new horizons? 1995.On the shores of the Mediterranean
By Eric Newby. 1984
The author and his wife set out from Tuscany to investigate the Mediterranean as it was and as it is…
now. They travel via tough Naples with its Camorra murders and eight-horse hearses to Venice, Yugoslavia and a dull bus tour of Albania. He climbs Mount Olympus in a cloud, takes a Turkish bath in Istanbul and is fined for climbing the Great Pyramid. Includes strong language. 1984.Off the map: western travels on roads less taken
By Stephen Hume. 2001
On a shoestring to Coorg: an experience of South India
By Dervla Murphy. 1976
Returning to India in an attempt to improve her feelings about the country, the author arrived with her small daughter,…
in the tiny province of Coorg. Here they settled down happily to learn something about its customs, ceremonies and attitudes. 1976.Off the map: bicycling across Siberia
By Mark D Jenkins. 1992
In 1989, three American and four Russians crossed Siberia by bicycle. The author describes the arduous 4-month-long journey; relationships with…
his teammates; an unwanted police escort for the first leg of the trip; cultural differences between Russians and Americans, and the Siberian landscape. Strong language. 1992.On Celtic tides: one man's journey around Ireland by sea kayak
By Chris Duff. 1999
Kayaker Chris Duff, on his slow boat around Ireland, spends equal time on land and sea. He brings us an…
old-fashioned travelogue of excitement on the waves, unhurried explorations of monasteries and ruins, and conversations in pubs. 1999.Old Patagonian Express: by train through the Americas
By Paul Theroux. 1979
The way from Boston to Patagonia, Paul Theroux discovered, was one of great contrasts - contrasts in people, in temperature,…
in scenery, in altitude, in attitude. Some of the trains were superb, most were deplorable. Parochialism and xenophobia were coupled with some of the most staggeringly beautiful sights in the world, and some of the most squalid. Throughout, he observed and experienced with a sharp eye, an unbiased mind, and ultimately, a vivid pen. 1979.L'homme qui marche
By Jean Béliveau, Géraldine Woessner. 2013
Après la faillite de son entreprise d'enseignes lumineuses, Jean Béliveau est parti sur un coup de têtele jour de ses…
quarante-cinq ans, le 18 août 2000, de Montréal. Il est rentré chez lui le 16 octobre 2011 après avoir parcouru 75 543 km à travers 64 pays. Il a réussi sans préparation à effectuer la plus longue marche ininterrompue autour du monde et celle-ci a été reconnue par l'Unesco dans le cadre de la décennie internationale dédiée à la paix pour les enfants. Durant ces onze années, le marcheur porte turban et grande barbe au Soudan, mange des insectes en Afrique, du chien en Corée et du serpent en Chine. Il dort sous les ponts, dans des foyers pour sans-abri, voire dans des prisons, mais la plupart du temps chez des gens séduits par son aventure. 2013.Mariage gai: les coulisses d'une révolution sociale
By Sylvain Larocque. 2005
Certains l'ont vu comme le plus important débat social de notre époque, c'est en tout cas une question déchirante, sur…
laquelle ont d se pencher la plupart des pays occidentaux. Ce livre raconte l'histoire inédite du mariage gai au Canada : la bataille des arguments juridiques et politiques, les stratégies secrètes et surtout les jeux de coulisses qui ont conduit à cette nouvelle avancée des droits de la personne. 2006.Notes from a big country
By Bill Bryson. 1998
This book contains eighteen months worth of the author's popular columns about the strangest of phenomena - the American way…
of life. The text discusses the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slacking direness of American TV, and the smug pleasure of being able to eat beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall. 1998.Norway: the essential guide to customs & culture (Culture smart!)
By Linda Davis March. 2016
North to danger
By Walt Morey, Virgil Burford. 1969
No worries: a journey through Australia
By Mark McCrum. 1997
Knowing nothing of Australia except the lager-ad cliches of sun and surf, kangaroos and didgeridoos, Mark McCrum arrives Down Under.…
Hitching, flying, by Greyhound and by train, he makes his picaresque way around the vast brown land. He explores the country and meets its varied inhabitants, from royalist hippies to republican cattle-ranchers, from Perth millionaires to desert Aboriginals. 1997.