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Author |
: Mike Spencer Bown |
Publisher |
: Douglas & McIntyre |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2017-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781771621434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1771621435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World's Most Travelled Man by : Mike Spencer Bown
"This is the account of twenty-three years of wilderness wandering, sea voyages and overland treks to survey the earth, with no home or possessions other than what fit in my trusty backpack. There was no specific destination in mind except to visit countries, not the airports and luxury hotels but the country itself, to experience local culture and ways of life. This entailed sleeping in tribesmen's huts and cheap hostels and using local transportation whenever possible: traversing jungle roads packed eighteen souls to a single Peugeot station wagon in Guinea-Bissau, boating the length of the Amazon snacking on roasted piranha, and hitchhiking across Iraq during the war. I've floated on dilapidated ferries across surging estuaries, ridden horseback or in military trucks across deserts and plains, followed the course of rivers, crossed wastelands, bused and trekked through deep jungle, traversed mountain ranges and lounged on the remotest beaches. I adopted local customs and ate local food: roasted goat's eye as the guest of honour at a Mongolian tribal feast, alligator nuggets, mystery kabobs, ‘bush meat' ubiquitous to certain regions of Africa ... but drew the line at wheelbarrows brimming over with smoked monkey corpses. A man's got to know his limitations." --Mike Spencer Bown In 1990, Calgary-raised Mike Spencer Bown packed a backpack and began a journey that would eventually take him through each of the world's 195 countries and span more than two decades. From relaxing on the white sand beaches of Bali to waiting out blizzards in Tibetan caves, Bown trekked from country to country, driven by a desire to see the world in the most authentic way possible, not to just collect stamps on his passport. Eventually, he began to earn international recognition for some of his more unconventional destinations--such as a memorable trip to war-torn Mogadishu. The World's Most Travelled Man is an eye-opening account of the universal human experience as seen from each corner of the changing world. Blending a romantic connection to nature through solitude and the social examination of culture, Bown fully immerses himself in each experience, however diverse, dangerous or dirty, veering way, way off the backpacker circuit to see the world through an unparalleled perspective. The World's Most Travelled Man is a journey of global proportions shared with the humility of a man who simply wants to satisfy his own curiosity and live life to the fullest.
Author |
: National Geographic |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426209598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426209592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis World's Best Travel Experiences by : National Geographic
Features some of the world's most transformative locales, from Norway's western fjords and Cambodia's Angkor Wat to Kyoto's Moss Garden and the urban surprises of Denver, Pittsburgh, and Vancouver.
Author |
: Dominic Sachsenmaier |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2018-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231547314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231547315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled by : Dominic Sachsenmaier
Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces. In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhu‘s life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhu‘s multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.
Author |
: Ryszard Kapuscinski |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2009-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307548238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307548236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Travels with Herodotus by : Ryszard Kapuscinski
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.
Author |
: Jason Roberts |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 526 |
Release |
: 2008-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061979941 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061979945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Sense of the World by : Jason Roberts
He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Af-rica, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored," triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain, poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret). Once a celebrity, a bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that has endured -- until now. A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history's most epic lives. Drawing on meticulous research, Jason Roberts ushers us into the Blind Traveler's uniquely vivid sensory realm, then sweeps us away on an extraordinary journey across the known world during the Age of Exploration. Rich with suspense, humor, international intrigue, and unforgettable characters, this is a story to awaken our own senses of awe and wonder.
Author |
: Eric Weiner |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2014-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448168484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448168481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Geography of Bliss by : Eric Weiner
What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) ·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! ·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.
Author |
: National Geographic Society (U.S.) |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426215643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426215649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Destinations of a Lifetime by : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
"Plan where, when, and how to plot your adventure with National Geographic's worldwide network of travel experts and insider tips from locals"--Cover.
Author |
: Erik Weihenmayer |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2002-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0452282942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780452282940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Touch the Top of the World by : Erik Weihenmayer
The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done). From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous. "An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine."—Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air
Author |
: George Prochnik |
Publisher |
: Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2014-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590516133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590516133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impossible Exile by : George Prochnik
An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile—from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis—where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of Zweig’s extraordinary rise and fall while it also depicts, with great acumen, the gulf between the world of ideas in Europe and in America, and the consuming struggle of those forced to forsake one for the other. It also reveals how Zweig embodied, through his work, thoughts, and behavior, the end of an era—the implosion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization.
Author |
: Chris Santella |
Publisher |
: Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 030740692X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780307406927 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Once in a Lifetime Trips by : Chris Santella
Fly-fish in the virgin waters of the Chilean fjords, participate in a polar bear safari near the Arctic Circle, or spend a night in Dubai's most luxurious hotel--these are the kinds of life-altering vacations profiled in this full-color volume.