Dumont Reiseabenteuer Orakelknochen
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Dumont Reiseabenteuer Orakelknochen
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Author : Peter Hessler
language : de
Publisher: Dumont Reiseverlag
Release Date : 2014-10-06
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Orakelknochen written by Peter Hessler and has been published by Dumont Reiseverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Travel categories.
China verstehen Hautnah erlebt der Journalist und Auslandskorrespondent Peter Hessler in China die Dekade der großen Reformen: den wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Umbruch, die millionenfache Migration vom Land in die neuen Megacities an den Küsten, die Zersetzung einer Kultur, die von uralten Traditionen geprägt ist. Hessler erzählt das Geschen aus der Perspektive der Betroffenen. Selbst die zeitgeschichtlichen Ereignisse, über die er als Korrespondent berichtet, beleuchtet er aus der Sicht einfacher Leute. Er lebt in einer kleinen Mietwohnung in den Gassen eines alten Pekinger hutong-Viertels, und von hier unternimmt er seine Reisen durch das Reich der Mitte, erlebt kulturelle Barrieren, historische Empfindlichkeiten und menschliche Schicksale. Der Wechsel von Themen, Geschichten und Erzählebenen macht Hessler's Buch so spannend: Der Leser beginnt, China als Ganzes mit seinen unterschiedlichsten Facetten zu erleben - und zu verstehen. In den literarischen Bericht seines Reporterlebens, seiner Begegnungen und seiner Reisen mischt Hessler auch seine Exkursionen in die reiche chinesische Geschichte. Manche Episode bleibt am Ende so rätselhaft wie die Weissagungen und Prophezeiungen der Orakelknochen, der ältesten Funde chinesischer Schriftzeichen, die in Knochen oder Schildkrötenpanzer graviert wurden.
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Wilde K Ste
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Author : John Gimlette
language : de
Publisher: Dumont Reiseverlag
Release Date : 2014-10-06
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Wilde K Ste written by John Gimlette and has been published by Dumont Reiseverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Travel categories.
Ungezähmtes Land Zwischen Orinoco und Amazonas liegt im Nordosten Südamerikas ein Flecken Erde, der kaum erforscht ist und den kaum jemand kennt. Guyana,Suriname und Französisch-Guiana werden bis heute von Dschungel und Wasser beherrscht. Die frühen Konquistadoren Südamerikas machten einen Bogen um dieses Gebiet, dessen Kolonialgeschichte schließlich Holländer,Briten und Franzosen prägten. John Gimlette begibt sich auf eine Reise entlang der neunhundert Kilometer langen Sumpfküste und durch ihr wildes Hinterland und sammelt dabei verwunderliche Geschichten und Hinweise auf eine erstaunliche Vergangenheit ein. Er stößt in unzugänglichen Regenwald vor, trifft auf die Verstecke entlaufener Sklaven und ehemalige Strafgefangenenlager, seltsame Forts und weltabgeschiedene Eingeborenensiedlungen - aber auch auf einen Weltraumbahnhof. Er begegnet Rebellen,Banditen und Hexenmeistern und sieht sich in Jonestown um, wo 1978 Hunderte Amerikaner dem Anführer ihrer Sekte in den Tod folgten. Wie über so viele andere Ereignisse hat der Dschungel auch darüber längst wieder das Tuch des Schweigens gelegt. Spannend und humorvoll geschrieben, öffnet das Buch die Tür zu einer wunderschönen, bizarren, in mancher Hinsicht auch grausamen Küste, die zu den vergessenen Winkeln dieser Welt gehört.
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Dem Nordpol Entgegen
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Author : Gavin Francis
language : de
Publisher: Dumont Reiseverlag
Release Date : 2014-10-06
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Dem Nordpol Entgegen written by Gavin Francis and has been published by Dumont Reiseverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Travel categories.
Auf hohen Breitengraden unterwegs Seit jeher übt die raue, karge Schönheit der europäischen Arktis auf Entdecker und Abenteurer eine magische Anziehungskraft aus. So geht es auch dem gebürtigen Schotten Gavin Francis, der sich auf eine mehrmonatige Reise zu den nördlichsten Außenposten Europas begibt. Sie beginnt auf den Shetlandinseln und führt ihn über die Färöer, Island und Grönland schließlich nach Spitzbergen und Lappland. Mit den Menschen, die in den einsamen und von weiterer Entvölkerung bedrohten Landschaften verwurzelt sind, spricht er über ihr Leben unter den extremen Umweltbedingungen, ihre Zukunftssorgen und Hoffnungen, über Klimaveränderung und das geopolitische Gerangel um die Bodenschätze der Arktis. Zugleich sucht er nach Spuren der Geschichte, geht Mythen und Sagen nach und nimmt den Faden von arktischen Expeditionsforschern wieder auf: Die Zeit der irischen Mönche, die sich auf Missionierungsreisen zu den entlegenen Inseln begaben, der Wikinger und Walfänger sowie wagemutiger Seefahrer, die Schiffspassagen durch das Eis der arktischen Gewässer suchten, wird wieder lebendig. Mit seiner spannenden Mischung aus Reisebericht, Geschichte und Mythologie zeichnet Gavin Francis ein einzigartiges Panorama der nördlichsten Vorposten Europas.
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Zu Fu Durch China
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Author : Rob Lilwall
language : de
Publisher: Dumont Reiseverlag
Release Date : 2014-10-06
Dumont Reiseabenteuer Zu Fu Durch China written by Rob Lilwall and has been published by Dumont Reiseverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Travel categories.
Abenteuerlicher Fußmarsch durch das Reich der Mitte Rob Lilwall macht sich gemeinsam mit dem Kameramann Leon Mc-Carron zu Fuß auf den Weg von der Mongolei nach Hause: Hongkong. Als sie einem Mongolen beim Tee in seiner Jurte ihr Vorhaben erklären, schreit der Mann nur: »China!« Sein Blick verfinstert sich, er schüttelt den Kopf und fährt sich mit der Hand über die Kehle. »Die Kehle aufschlitzen ... Will er das mit den Chinesen machen, oder denkt er, die Chinesen werden sie uns aufschlitzen?«, fragen sich die beiden. So beginnt ihre außergewöhnliche Reise. Sie laufen durch die Wüste Gobi, besuchen am Weg liegende Kulturstätten und durchqueren riesige Industriegebiete. Der Fußmarsch ist beschwerlich, die Strapazen sind gewaltig, und immer wieder geschieht Unerwartetes: Wegen fehlender Genehmigungen für ihre journalistischen Arbeiten werden sie in Polizeiverhöre verwickelt, sie geraten versehentlich in militärisches Sperrgebiet, das auf den Karten nicht verzeichnet ist, Abkürzungen erweisen sich als Sackgassen, und als ihnen das Geld ausgeht, findet sich kein Bankautomat ... Ein spannender und sympathischer Reisebericht, humorvoll und anregend geschrieben, der tiefe Einblicke in das heutige China gewährt.
Empire Antarctica
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Author : Gavin Francis
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Empire Antarctica written by Gavin Francis and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Nature categories.
Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in winter. Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and a very little human history, but also a rare opportunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in he Antarctic. Following Penguins throughout the year –– from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter darkness –– Gavin Francis explores the world of great beauty conjured from the simplest of elements, the hardship of living at 50 c below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring. Empire Antarctica is the story of one man and his fascination with the world's loneliest continent, as well as the emperor penguins who weather the winter with him. Combining an evocative narrative with a sublime sensitivity to the natural world, this is travel writing at its very best
River Town
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Author : Peter Hessler
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-12-19
River Town written by Peter Hessler and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Travel categories.
When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the controversial consturction of the Three Gorges Dam have affected even the people of a remote town like Fuling. Poignant, thoughtful and utterly compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a place caught mid-river in time, much like China itself - a country seeking to understand both what it was and what it will one day become.
Strange Stones
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Author : Peter Hessler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Strange Stones written by Peter Hessler and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Travel categories.
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions. This unusual perspective distinguishes Strange Stones, which showcases Hessler’s unmatched range as a storyteller. “Wild Flavor” invites readers along on a taste test between two rat restaurants in South China. One story profiles Yao Ming, basketball star and China’s most beloved export, another David Spindler, an obsessive and passionate historian of the Great Wall. In “Dr. Don,” Hessler writes movingly about a small-town pharmacist and his relationship with the people he serves. While Hessler’s subjects and locations vary, subtle but deeply important thematic links bind these pieces—the strength of local traditions, the surprising overlap between apparently opposing cultures, and the powerful lessons drawn from individuals who straddle different worlds.
The Buried
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Author : Peter Hessler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-05-07
The Buried written by Peter Hessler and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Political Science categories.
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time.” —Wall Street Journal From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt. After his years of covering China for The New Yorker, friends warned him Egypt would be a much quieter place. But not long before he arrived, the Egyptian Arab Spring had begun, and now the country was in chaos. In the midst of the revolution, Hessler often traveled to digs at Amarna and Abydos, where locals live beside the tombs of kings and courtiers, a landscape that they call simply al-Madfuna: "the Buried." He and his wife set out to master Arabic, striking up a friendship with their instructor, a cynical political sophisticate. They also befriended Peter's translator, a gay man struggling to find happiness in Egypt's homophobic culture. A different kind of friendship was formed with the neighborhood garbage collector, an illiterate but highly perceptive man named Sayyid, whose access to the trash of Cairo would be its own kind of archaeological excavation. Hessler also met a family of Chinese small-business owners in the lingerie trade; their view of the country proved a bracing counterpoint to the West's conventional wisdom. Through the lives of these and other ordinary people in a time of tragedy and heartache, and through connections between contemporary Egypt and its ancient past, Hessler creates an astonishing portrait of a country and its people. What emerges is a book of uncompromising intelligence and humanity--the story of a land in which a weak state has collapsed but its underlying society remains in many ways painfully the same. A worthy successor to works like Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, The Buried bids fair to be recognized as one of the great books of our time.
Oracle Bones
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Author : Peter Hessler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Oracle Bones written by Peter Hessler and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with History categories.
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
The Timbuktu School For Nomads
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Author : Nicholas Jubber
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-09-08
The Timbuktu School For Nomads written by Nicholas Jubber and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-08 with Travel categories.
The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten places of North Africa and the legendary Timbuktu. Once the seat of African civilization and home to the richest man who ever lived, this mythic city is now scarred by terrorist occupation and is so remote its own inhabitants hail you with the greeting, 'Welcome to the middle of nowhere'. From the cattle markets of the Atlas, across the Western Sahara and up the Niger river, Nicholas joins the camps of the Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, and other communities, to learn about their craft, their values and their place in the world. The Timbuktu School for Nomads is a unique look at a resilient city and how the nomads pit ancient ways of life against the challenges of the 21st century.