by Peter Hessler (2001)
Records the author's experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in the small Chinese city of Fuling, during which time he witnessed such events as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
[chef de projet, Anna Benn
Des articles et des commentaires sur les sites à visiter, ainsi que des adresses, des conseils et des informations pratiques pour bien voyager. Présente également la Sibérie, les îles Kuriles, le transsibérien, la Crimée.
Christopher Howells
"Three miles off Tenby on the south-west coast of Wales the small island of Caldey keeps faith with fifteen hundred years of tradition. Small boats ferry visitors to a sacred sanctuary, a place of peace and charm, a small world apart, a haven for wildlife, a delight of woods and flowers, cliffs and coves. Monks first settled here in the sixth century. Their successors, too, in their remarkable abbey, devote their lives to prayer and work; and in this book speak candidly of their personal struggles in embracing monastic life." -- p [4] of cover.
Liam D'Arcy Brown
"The ancient Chinese divided the zodiac into four quadrants and assigned a ruler to each - the Green Dragon of the East, the Scarlet Phoenix of the South, the White Tiger of the West and the Sombre Warrior of the North. As manifestations in animal form of wood, fire, metal and water - four of the Five Elements that underlay Creation - they symbolized the belief that even the most distant realms of All Under Heavan, though diverse, existed in harmony." "Taking the same frame of reference, Liam D'Arcy Brown set out to travel to the four corners of the People's Republic to reconcile for himself modern China's seemingly irreconcilable extremes. His 10,000-mile journey took him to an isolated fishing community in the East China Sea, a tropical holiday resort on Hainan Island, a Muslim city on the Silk Road and a riverside village in remote Manchuria. In each he discovered aspects of China that the wider world seldom glimpses. And amongst the variety of her peoples, the tangled web of her many histories and the astonishing contrasts of her physical and social geography, he found common themes: the hardships faced now that the iron rice bowl has been taken away; the strength millions have found in religion; the corruption and entrepreneurship that flourish in the rush to modernize; the growing nationalism that is drowning out minority voices; and gentler, domestic pleasures - pork buns steaming in a bamboo basket, gold Chinese characters pasted to a doorway on a red paper diamond, a battered thermos flask stencilled with the Double Happiness motif."--BOOK JACKET.
Vilem Nemec, Jana R. Nemec-Jirak
Looking for adventure, Vilem Nemec traveled from Prague to Cairo in 1884. During his 25 years in Africa, Vilem began to see life more like a native than a tourist. Unfamiliar with Arabic when he arrived, he struggled to learn it quickly, working menial jobs to support himself. Vilem not only learned to speak, read, and write Arabic, but he was able to communicate with tribal natives in many remote areas. His travels took him to remote places in Somalia, Abbyssinia, Sudan, and Sinai.