Biographie / Témoignage littéraire
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In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on a journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. More than a thousand years later, using their writings as a guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their steps. ...
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A FORTUNE-TELLER TOLD ME - EARTHBOUND TRAVELS IN THE FAR EAST
Tiziano Terzani
- Flamingo
- 1 Octobre 1998
- 9780006550716
An account of the travels of Tiziano Terzani, a news correspondent who travelled only by rail, road and sea, having been told that he should not risk flying by a fortune teller. Terzani consulted fortune tellers and shaman from then on, since the original seer had prevented him from taking a plane w...
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Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.Through the story of three generations of women in her own...
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Born in the 1920s to bohemian parents, Paula Fox was left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother and cared for by a poor minister, her parents began to re-surface, their self-absorbed, toxic "care" a blight on Paula's life. ...
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An anthology of travel writing one of the 20th century's greatest living explorers and enduring travel writers. The text contains extracts from the eight books Thesiger published between 1959 and 1998, most notably "Arabian Sands", "Marsh Arabs" and "The Life of My Choice". ...
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