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By Luis Pellegrini. 2000
Récits d'un journaliste globe-trotter qui a parcouru le monde. Il nous raconte, à travers ses expériences personnelles, les divers types…
de voyages effectués: géographiques, spirituels, astraux, ésotériques, philosophiques, symboliques. Des années 1970 au milieu des années 1990. [SDMSeventeen fiction and nonfiction tales of adversity and courage by such authors as Jack London, Farley Mowat, Piers Paul Read,…
and Jon Krakauer. The editor states that these unwanted adventures "almost always begin with fate, foul-ups, and plain old bad luck." Some violence and some strong language. 2001By Tim Moore. 1999
A British journalist's comic account of his effort to re-create the 1856 Norwegian Arctic expedition of Lord Dufferin, who returned…
to write a bestselling travel book. But Moore suffers social and physical indignities as he leaves his comfortable coach to endure bitter cold, polar bears, born-again Vikings, and seasickness. 1999By Annick Cojean. 2001
Récit de voyage en Australie au printemps 2000, d'une journaliste du quotidien Le Monde. Un long périple d'est en ouest…
où elle rapporte des pages d'anecdotes, des portraits, l'humour australien et des histoires insolites et cocasses. [SDMBy Elise Ford. 1999
By Elie Faure. 2002
By Edmund White. 2001
Novelist, critic, and biographer White, who moved to Paris in 1983, describes his wanderings through the city's arrondissements, including districts…
congenial to writers, African-Americans, Jews, artists, gays and lesbians, and royalists. A flâneur is someone who strolls about a city with no specific purpose, yet is attuned to its history and character. Bestseller. 2001This anthology of humorous travel accounts includes pieces by Anne Lamott, Bill Bryson, J.P. Donleavy, Dave Barry, and Tim Cahill.…
The incidents occurred in such faraway places as Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Mexico, China, Morocco, Australia, and India, as well as right here in the United States. 2000By Walter Lord. 1986
In a companion volume to A Night to Remember (RC 9698, BR 11461), Lord revisits the tragedy of April 14,…
1912, and offers an update of what happened to the Titanic and its passengers. The discovery of the hull in 1985 brought with it a renewed interest, and Lord responds to some of the questions that arose by separating facts from myths. BestsellerSeventy-five articles selected from the popular magazine's 109-year existence. Although heavily illustrated, the periodical contains scholarly articles about the planet…
and its people. Contributors include Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Lindberg, Maya Angelou, Tad Szulc, and Shelby FooteBy Jan Morris. 2001
Travel writer Morris reflects on history, earlier adventures, friends, convictions, and change. She has chosen Trieste as the subject of…
what she claims is her last book because of its personal resonance, reexamining herself in the context of this Adriatic city to which she has been drawn for more than half a century. 2001By Noah Adams. 2001
National Public Radio host describes a year spent exploring the New River's course along three hundred fifty miles between North…
Carolina and West Virginia, by canoe, by bicycle, and on foot. Adams introduces the region's inhabitants and natural history as well as his own family roots there. 2001By Régis Debray. 2008
"D'après les Évangiles, et dans sa courte vie tant cachée que publique, le Galiléen s'est rendu, sans visa ni carte…
d'identité, en Israël, Palestine, Jordanie, à Gaza, au Liban, en Égypte et en Syrie. Je me suis faufilé dans tous ces pays : il y faut plus d'un passeport et des détours. Jésus pouvait traverser la mer de Génésareth, aller "au-delà du Jourdain", et revenir le lendemain sur l'autre rive. Ce n'est plus possible. Aussi ce voyage d'un flâneur des deux rives n'a-t-il pu s'effectuer d'un seul trait. C'est un pari que de refaire l'itinéraire de Jésus à travers le Proche-Orient d'aujourd'hui, pour observer comment juifs, chrétiens et musulmans vivent à présent leur foi. Les surprenantes et souvent rebutantes vérités qui se dévoilent en Terre sainte ont valeur d'avertissement. Plus qu'un voyage au bout de la haine, ce carnet de route peut servir à la connaissance du monde profane tel qu'il va. Tout à la fois témoignage, chronique et méditation, l'enquête peut dès lors se lire comme un pèlerinage au coeur de l'homme, qu'il soit croyant ou agnostique, d'ici ou de là-bas". -- 4e de couvBy Margaret Landon. 1943
Anna Leonowens, a Welsh widow hired in 1862 to be governess to the children and concubines of the king of…
Siam, found the contrasts between the exotic Orient and Victorian Great Britain striking. Landon recounts Leonowen's five years of adventures and confrontations. This book inspired the Broadway musical The King and IBy Michael Paterniti. 2000
As the author chauffeurs Dr. Thomas Harvey and the pickled remains of Einstein's brain from New Jersey to California, he…
recalls salient facts about the scientific genius, contemplates mysteries of the brain, and ponders the eccentricity of his traveling companion. Some strong language. 2000By Francis Spufford. 1997
A cultural examination of the British male obsession with polar exploration as evidenced in literary works. Provides some historical background…
about famous expeditions but concentrates on motivation: the allure of the vast unknown. Includes some commentary on the wives' feelingsBy Samuel Champlain. 1993
Ce récit de voyage rend compte des bouleversements géopolitiques considérables survenus chez les populations amérindiennes de la vallée du Saint-Laurent…
depuis la venue de Jacques Cartier. Réédition avec introduction, notes et appendices. [SDMBy Jacques-Emmanuel Bernard. 2002
By Ryszard Kapuściński. 2006
Ce livre est un extraordinaire voyage où Kapuscinski nous restitue le souvenir de ses premiers périples en relisant Hérodote, cet…
historien grec considéré comme le père de l'histoire. Pologne, Inde, Chine, Soudan, Iran, Congo, autant de pays traversés sur lesquels le journaliste pose un regard acéré mais empreint d'une grande tendresse. Souvenirs du reporter et commentaires sur Hérodote s'entrecroisent pour former une profonde réflexion sur le statut de journaliste [...] -- 4e de couvBy James Hamilton-Paterson. 1999
The author's account of his 1995 participation in Project Orca--the hunt for a Japanese submarine sunk during World War II…
and believed to be carrying several tons of gold. He portrays the anticipation of finding treasure and a primordial watery world full of unexpected beauty. Some strong language. 1999