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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.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.O'Keefe and Stieglitz: an American romance
By Benita Eisler. 1991
This dual biography chronicles the 30-year relationship between photographer/gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Twenty-three years older than…
Georgia, Alfred introduced her into his exclusive New York art circle and acted as her dealer while she often posed as his model. They married in 1924. 1991.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.Norval Morrisseau: man changing into thunderbird
By Armand Garnet Ruffo. 2014
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), Ojibway shaman-artist, drew his first sketches at age six in the sand on the shores of Lake…
Nipigon. By the end of his tumultuous life, the prolific self-taught artist was sought by collectors, imitated by forgers and received the Order of Canada. Ruffo evokes the artist's life from childhood to death, including his breakthrough exhibition at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto; his heartwrenching battle with alcoholism, then Parkinson's disease; and exultant "Shaman's Return" to national status in the Canadian art scene and his solo show at The National Gallery of Canada. Ruffo also draws upon his own Ojibway heritage and experiences to provide insight into Morrisseau’s life and iconography from an Ojibway perspective. 2014.Northern light: the enduring mystery of Tom Thomson and the woman who loved him
By Roy MacGregor. 2010
The author re-examines the mysteries of Tom Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does…
a man who died almost a century ago and painted relatively little still have such a grip on our imagination? 2010.Navigating Nystagmus with your doctor: What You Need To Know
By Edie Ann Glaser. 2008
In this first comprehensive book written for the patient with nystagmus and those who care for them, the topics include…
What causes nystagmus, How to get a good diagnosis, How nystagmus affects daily vision, and What various treatments are available, including optical aids, vision therapy, drugs, and a review of the recently developed tenotomy procedure. Also covers surgery, and includes references for further study and an extensive glossary and index. 2008.New Europe
By Michael Palin. 2007
Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived…
intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. 2007.My life at Grey Gardens, 13 months and beyond: a true and factual book
By Lois Wright. 1978
Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie led an unconventional existence in Grey Gardens, a mansion in East Hampton surrounded…
by overgrown gardens and filled with fleas, cats, raccoons, and old rubbish. In 1975, they invited family friend Lois Wright to live with them. Lois' journal offers an intimate look at the daily lives of the Beales, and chronicles the events from Lois's arrival at the house through Edith's death in 1977. 2007, c1978.Muddling through in Madagascar
By Dervla Murphy. 1985
Dervla Murphy and her 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, make their most accident-prone journey amongst "the most lovable people". The travellers set…
out on foot to Antsirable through the Ankaratra Mountains, then on by bush taxi and truck to discover that in Madagascar motoring is much more gruelling than walking. 1985.Monet
By Pascal Bonafoux. 2007
"Au jour le jour de sa correspondance - car Monet ne cesse d'écrire, de compter et surtout de douter -…
voici le récit d'une vie magnifique obsédée par l'accomplissement d'une oeuvre sublime". Par un écrivain et historien de l'art qui a déjà consacré plusieurs ouvrages à des peintres, notamment Van Gogh et Cézanne. 2007.Mon coeur s'appelle Amazonie (Collection "Vécu")
By Anne-Sophie Tiberghien. 1983
Mornings in Mexico
By D. H Lawrence. 2009
In the 1920s, Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality,…
purity and darkness that he observed there. The diverse and evocative essays that make up "Mornings in Mexico" - "Market Day", "Dance of the Sprouting Corn", "The Hopi Snake Dance" - bring to life the elemental simplicity of the Zapotec Indians in Mexico. The intense, dark rhythms of the Indians in the American South West are brightly adorned with simple and evocative details sharply observed: piles of fruit in a village market, strolls in a courtyard filled with hibiscus and roses, the play of light on an adobe wall. 2009.Mountain year
By Michael Joseph Murphy. 1964
The account of the year in an Irish mountain district, divided into twelve essays, describes the attitudes and characters of…
some of the people who live there. All his life Michael J. Murphy has lived within sight of Slieve Gullion. To him it does not represent just a large outcrop of rock, but a way of life. In his opening essay he shows how the personality of a mountain can dominate and influence the lives and living of everyone within its shadow, even the very fields. 1964.Au pied du mur: au coeur de la Terre sainte en guerre : Paris, Jérusalem, Ramallah : petit guide à usage politico-spirituel
By Marie-Pierre Samitier. 2010
Mai 2009, Marie-Pierre Samitier part pour un voyage en Terre sainte. Nous la suivons avec un groupe de pèlerins américains…
sur cette terre chargée d'histoire et revendiquée par deux peuples et trois religions monothéistes. À Jérusalem, Hébron ou Ramallah, nous visitons avec elle les lieux saints. Mais, surtout, nous découvrons un monde en guerre, où règne la peur, matérialisée par un gigantesque mur de béton. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2010.L'enfant des neiges: récit
By Nicolas Vanier. 2004
Conquérant de l'impossible
By Mike Horn, Jean-Philippe Chatrier. 2005
Michaelangelo
By Diane Stanley. 2000
A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet known for his work on the Sistine Chapel and St.…
Peter's Cathedral in Rome. Describes how his seventeen-foot-high marble statue of David established young Michelangelo's reputation as "the greatest sculptor in all of Italy." Grades 4-7. 2000.Matisse the master: a life of Henri Matisse : the conquest of colour, 1909-1954
By Hilary Spurling. 2005
Hilary Spurling's exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries…
while paving the way for modern art. This second volume tells the story of Matisse's growing artistic maturity and the relationship between his life and art from 1909 to 1954, his glory years. 2005.Éloge du voyage: sur les traces d'Arthur Rimbaud : [récit]
By Sébastien De Courtois. 2013
" Voyageur au long cours, Sébastien de Courtois a suivi les traces d'Arthur Rimbaud à Djibouti, en Éthiopie, et jusqu'à…
Alexandrie, dans cette Afrique orientale où le poète a passé ses dix dernières années à chercher la vie loin de la littérature. Expédition sensible dans l'espace et le temps, Éloge du voyage superpose l'Afrique d'alors à celle d'aujourd'hui, l'Afrique vivante et celle des livres, en hommage à ce bord du monde mythique et envoûtant. " -- 4e de couv.