Random House, 2007. — 352 p. Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down....
Éditions du Seuil, 2002. — 480 p. Déambulation dans Paris à travers son histoire, à la rencontre de ceux qui, personnages réels ou de fiction, l'ont habité. L'auteur exprime son admiration pour ces personnages mythiques et anonymes qui ont fait, et continuent à faire, la force de Paris.
Éditions du Seuil, 2016. — 208 p. " Mon trajet est plutôt diurne et va d'Ivry à Saint-Denis, il suit à peu près la ligne de partage entre l'est et l'ouest parisiens ou, si l'on veut, le méridien de Paris. Cet itinéraire, je l'ai choisi sans réfléchir mais dans un deuxième temps il m'a sauté aux yeux que ce n'était pas un hasard, que ce tracé suivait les méandres d'une existence...
Bayreuth, Verlag Kern, 2012. — 256 s. — ISBN: 978-3-939478-80-5. Schon der Titel verrät, dass dieses Buch etwas mit dem Orient zu tun hat und sich auf 1001Geschichten bezieht. Geschichten, die auf Lüge und Betrug basieren. Viele junge Menschen, die keine Möglichkeit haben ihr Land zu verlassen, sehen die europäische Heirat als Mittel zum Zweck. Ein angenehmes Leben durch Geld...
Eland, 2003. — 334 p. A Dragon Apparent, describes Norman Lewis's journeys in the Far East at a time when the countries he visited were passing out of the reach of the ordinary traveler, never again be seen as they were then. "Henry Kissinger said that the dominoes were falling, so now it was the turn of Cambodia and Laos. The holocaust visited on them consumed not the present,...
St. Martin's Press, 2000. — 192 p. Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first, wartime visit - to a land untouched since the Middle Ages - through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have changed over the years. In 1998 he returned...
NY.: New Press, 1996. — 179 p. "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a unique study of Europe's dark history in Africa, written in the form of a travel diary and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Like Edward Said's Orientalism, Lindqvist's book examines the history of European racism, setting Conrad's Heart of Darkness in context and tracing the...
Da Capo Press, 2008. — 348 p. Herodotus is known as the Father of History, but he was much more than that. Informed by his own travels, his historical work digresses more than it chronicles, with tales of the lands and peoples he visited. As Michael Ondaatje once famously suggested, "What you find in him are the cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history". In The Way of Herodotus...
Knopf, 2018. — 192 p. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two week vacation on the Cote d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off instead for Aix-en-Provence. Enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They have never looked back. As Mayle tells...
Ecowin, 2017. — 220 S. »Wir kommen nicht umhin, uns die Frage zu stellen, was es noch bedeuten kann, Deutsch zu sein. Und sei es nur zur Entlarvung und Bekämpfung unheilvoller Tendenzen und politischer Kräfte, die der Welt und Volk und Vaterland noch niemals Gutes gebracht haben.« „Ist Deutschland ein Land der Dichter und der Denker oder eines der Scharfrichter und der Henker?...
Singapore: Monsoon Books, 2008. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9789810810764. Contradictory, bewildering, revolutionary and hypocritical, Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze is a collection of articles on the complex and fascinating world of sex in Asia. For the past few years, the multicolored canvas of sex and sexuality in Asia has been portrayed in all its aspects — the good, the bad and the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2016 — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0316352413. Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet-navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in...
Beacon Press, 2006. — 132 p. Famous Iranian writers, artists, and intellectuals challenge Western (mis)perceptions about Iran in this watershed collection. In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” or as a...
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