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With a polished walking stick and neatly pressed trousers, Richard Halliburton served as an intrepid globetrotting guide for millions of Americans in the 1920s and '30s. Readers waited with bated breath for each new article and book he wrote. During his career, Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn, nearly fell out of his plane while shooting the first aerial photographs of Mt. Everest, and became the first person to swim the Panama Canal. With his...
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William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally enlisted in the Chinese military.
After five years of fierce campaigning against the Miao in remote Guizhou province, Mesny rose to the rank of general and used this privileged position to travel around...
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Come join me on a journey through my past memories. From adventurous to vulnerable stories. I see things as poetic in nature and try to simplify what I observe. So, I keep it short for several reasons. Manly because most of the details have been lost with time. More will surface and I'll be sure to include you to join the journey again.
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Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career-more than twenty years-in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.
Along the way she meets Bruno, a French reporter whose spirit and audacity are a match for her own. Their love affair spans nearly a decade and a dozen armed conflicts before they settle in Paris to...
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Le quotidien d'un voyageur journaliste dans un pays qui s'ouvre au monde : le Japon du XIXe siècle.
Rudyard Kipling fait escale au Japon – à la fin du XIXe siècle - entre un long séjour professionnel en Inde et l'Amérique qu'il ne connait pas encore. Cette étape est une découverte surprenante et ses écrits par ces quelque onze lettres racontent avec malice son quotidien de voyageur journaliste dans un pays qui s'ouvre au monde. Voici...
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In “Chat GPT: The Seance Machine”, Chat GPT takes readers on a journey through time and space as they interview some of the most influential figures in history. From Julius Caesar to Marie Curie, from Mahatma Gandhi to Joan of Arc, Chat GPT engages in thought-provoking conversations with these figures, asking questions and predicting their answers based on what they know about each person.
With a rich history in AI technology and an impressive...
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Grand reporter pour Le Soir, Colette Braeckman arpente la planète dès les premières années de sa carrière de journaliste. Les reportages se succèdent, Amérique latine, Asie du Sud-Est, Portugal, Corne de l'Afrique… Puis dans les années 80, elle se concentre sur le pays dont elle rêvait depuis l'enfance : le Congo devenu Zaïre, l'ancienne colonie des Belges.
Elle y couvre les dernières années du régime Mobutu, l'arrivée au pouvoir...
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Sagesses d'un peuple en équilibre, roman ponctué de passages philosophiques et de réflexions sur notre rapport au monde, nous amène dans le quotidien des Indiens d'Amazonie. Ici, notre protagoniste participe, avec ces derniers, à leurs activités sociales et spirituelles, et partage leur mode de vie en accord avec la nature. En faisant le parallèle avec nos sociétés occidentales, il nous propose un autre regard sur le monde. En quête d'un...
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William Robert Sivel, 1908-1982, ingénieur du son avant même que le métier existât sous cette appellation, fut le benjamin de l'expédition. Ses notes de voyage, reprises dans les dernières années de sa vie, donnent un éclairage inattendu et vivant sur le quotidien des membres de l'équipe et sur les aventures parfois piquantes vécues en cours de route.
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Jim Christy's life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia...
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