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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.By William Leith. 2005
The text charts new territory for everyone who has ever had a craving or counted a calorie. It is a…
satirical confession of food, fat and addiction. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2005.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.By Dan Rubinstein, Michel Saint-Germain. 2018
Le corps, l'esprit, la société, l'économie, la politique, la créativité, l'âme, la famille : toutes ces dimensions de la vie…
humaine sont interreliées, et toutes, démontre le journaliste Dan Rubinstein, peuvent être enrichies par ce geste simple, essentiel, qu'est la marche. En combinant fascinant reportage, recherche révélatrice et réflexions personnelles, ce livre le démontre admirablement : l'humain est fait pour marcher. La sédentarité et le recours intensif à l'automobile, encouragés par un urbanisme antipiéton , sont des facteurs importants, sinon la cause, de bien des maux de notre siècle, tels que l'obésité, l'anxiété, le sentiment d'isolement et les changements climatiques. Il ne tient qu'à nous de changer la donne, individuellement et collectivement, pour les générations futures, de faire un pas, puis un autre, dans la bonne direction. 2018. Titre uniforme: Born to walk.By Ernest E Wood. 1959