Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublaï Khan. He returned with stories that would take a lifetime to tell.
Featuring exotic creatures, strange customs, extraordinary legends, and political intrigues, The Travels of Marco Polo reveals the fantastical treasures of the East in the words of the legendary medieval explorer.
Conjuring up a forgotten world filled with mystery where wonder lurks around every...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world's "four corners." Seven epic expeditions brought China's treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world's oldest printed book.
The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean.
...Author
Language
English
Description
This is the author's story written by tears. He is the center of this odyssey as a participant and an observer. It's a story about the loss of innocence, freedom, family, comfort, and family and about the good tradition of the Chinese culture that is slowly being lost. But it's also a story about gain and growth: gaining a few cultures and languages, new friends and trust, of experience and education, humility, of freedom, and regaining of self. Chi...
Author
Language
English
Description
James Sullivan's Over the Moat details his travels in Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, the planned three-month bike trip in the fall of 1992 takes a detour.
Here, in a city spliced by the famed Perfume River and filled with French baroque villas,...
Author
Language
English
Description
As they drove through the hot flat Iraqi desert, Patricia looked over at her husband. He was guzzling water, sweat was running down his neck, the outside temperature was way over 100, and their 1963 VW camper van had no air conditioning. "Yikes," she thought. "This is not how I pictured our honeymoon." It was August of 1966. They had gone to Europe the previous summer after their wedding, and that trip had stretched into a two-year adventure that...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this classic memoir and travelogue, the Swedish explorer shares the story of his epic journey along the ancient Silk Road.
After a childhood spent reading tales of adventure in far-off places, Sven Hedin knew by the time he was twelve years old that he wanted to be an explorer. He lived in an age when maps still contained uncharted territories and he wished to travel to these mysterious destinations. By the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A fascinating inside account of the epic clash between the Japanese in the West in its earliest days. Sir Ernest Satow entered the British diplomatic service in 1861, a fresh graduate of London University, shortly arriving in Yokohama as the pressure of the Western powers heightened to force Japan from her self-imposed seclusion. This illustrated work, written between 1885 and 1921, offers his intriguing firsthand account of the critical years which...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a year later became his final travel book Following the Equator. Two years later he wrote, 'How I did loathe that journey around the world! except the sea-part and India.' Although he was only in India for just over two of the twelve months, his exploits and observations there take up forty per cent...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ellie was stranded in India as the world locked down.
After rescuing a rusty Royal Enfield, she embarked upon a thrilling adventure across the mighty Himalayas, conquering some of the world's most dangerous roads.
Prepare to close your eyes and smell the Samosas, as Ellie paints her experience of India from the streetside chai wallahs to the ghats of the Ganges. She discovers many of India's secrets, in a land which transforms every few hundred kilometers....
Author
Language
English
Description
Prowling among these stories about Japan one finds riffraff and gentlemen, pirates and warriors, saints and sinners, smugglers and legitimate businessmen. All those, in fact, who made up the foreign communities of Japan in the early days. Harold S. Williams tells about them with the same inimitable humor, irony, drama and whimsy that made his earlier Tales of the Foreign Settlements such a popular success. With due regard for historical accuracy he...
Author
Language
English
Description
John DeFrancis (1911–2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works – the landmark ABC Chinese–English Dictionary and his myth-busting The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy among them – changed perceptions of Mandarin and the way it was taught.
DeFrancis overcame a poor childhood – his Italian immigrant father was a laborer who died when DeFrancis was very young and his mother was illiterate – to attend Yale,...
Author
Language
English
Description
God has a plan for your life! What puzzle pieces or nuggets has he left for you along the way? How do you define your story? Where have you seen his grace and mercy in your situations? In This Means More, Author Nina Evans helps make sense of life's interruptions to help you see how each moment has been a significant part of God's master plan for your life.
The Means More will help you identify and reflect on the lessons from your past and expect...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Indian state of Rajasthan is a highly culturally rich and very beautiful state among all other states. This is basically a travelogue or a student's trip to explore the beauty and culture of the pink city of Jaipur. The author has observed the things deeply during the entire trip and panned the same. The trip has been started from Aligarh and was passed through Agra and ended up in Jaipur. This book will give you a unique experience of exploring...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Le récit de voyage plein d'humanité d'un jeune globe-trotter de 20 ans.
Pendant deux ans et sur quatre continents, Robin Boogaerts parcourt l'Espagne, le Sénégal, l'Inde, le Népal, la Thaïlande, le Laos, le Cambodge et le Canada. Alimenté par une intense quête de vérité, il observe, explore et rencontre, aime et apprend, trébuche et s'éveille.
Grâce à son récit de voyage, l'auteur nous offre l'intimité de son journal de bord. Agrémenté...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinary mix of travelogue and autobiography, Madame Alexandra David-Néel details her 1923 expedition to Lhasa as the first Western woman to enter Tibet's Forbidden City. Recounting how she traveled with her adopted son, posing as a beggar and relying on her fluency in Tibetan dialects and culture, David-Néel relates a story of survival among harsh conditions and the ever-present danger of being discovered as a white woman, as well...
Author
Series
Language
Français
Description
Suivez Jules Brossard de Corbigny dans un voyage merveilleux et étonnant à dos d'éléphant
En 1871, Norodom envoie une caravane, étrange et somptueuse, à Bangkok pour le retour des princesses cambodgiennes retenues par le roi de Siam. Jules Brossard de Corbigny (1841-1934), alors représentant de la France au Cambodge, en profite pour se joindre à la caravane et traverse ainsi à dos d'éléphant l'intérieur du Cambodge. Outre son témoignage...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul.
Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their...
Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Laissez-vous entrainer au cœur du Japon comme on ne le connaît plus
« Tant que je vivrai, je reverrai cela : dans le recul profond de ces jardins, cette lente apparition, si longtemps attendue ; tout le reste de la fantasmagorie japonaise s'effacera de ma mémoire, mais cette scène, jamais... Elles sont très loin, très loin ; il leur faudra plusieurs minutes pour arriver jusqu'à nous ; vues de la colline o nous sommes, elles paraissent encore...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request