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Author : Luigi Barzini
Publisher : Demontreville Press
ISBN 13 : 9780978956318
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Peking to Paris written by Luigi Barzini and published by Demontreville Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dina Bennett
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620878003
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Peking to Paris written by Dina Bennett and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling road trip from Peking to Paris, a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking...
Author : Philip Young
Publisher : David and Charles
ISBN 13 : 1845847199
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Peking to Paris - The Ultimate Driving Adventure written by Philip Young and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official record of the centennial re-enactment of a great motoring milestone. Man and machine against the elements, driving where no car has gone before … that was the impossible challenge of 1907, when a handful of buccaneering madcap motorists took up the idea of a Paris newspaper to prove that the car could now go anywhere by driving the huge distance between two capital cities – Peking to Paris. To mark the 100th anniversary of the original 'Great Race', over 100 cars set out to drive the original route used by Prince Borghese in 1907. They ranged from authentic veteran Italas and vintage Bentleys to classic Aston Martins, and pretty much everything in-between. Drivers of 26 different nationalities came together to test their wits and their cars by driving for 40 days from the Great Wall of China, across the Gobi Desert. With around 250 photos, official maps and inside information from the event organiser, this is a fascinating and colourful read for every red-blooded motoring enthusiast.
Author : Rosie Thomas
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751529531
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Border Crossing written by Rosie Thomas and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first international motor rally from Peking to Paris took place in the summer of 1907. Only five cars were involved and the crews wrote their agreed code of conduct on the back of a menu the night before the start. Their only navigational aids were the sun and telegraph poles. Ninety years later the race was re-enacted when 110 vintage cars gathered in Peking. Their goal was the finishing line in Paris, 45 days and 16,000 kilometres away. In this book, one of the competitors - novelist Rosie Thomas - describes the excitement of the daily time challenge, the strange camaraderie, the test of sleeping outdoors or in flea-pit hotels in foreign lands and her own internal journey, including a near-death experience high in the Himalayas.
Author : Genevieve Obert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571780850
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Prince Borghese's Trail written by Genevieve Obert and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genevieve Obert discusses the experiences she had while competing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge in 1997.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580380
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author : Vincent Goossaert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174546
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949 written by Vincent Goossaert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernization. The author focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Although almost forgotten, they were all major actors in urban religious and cultural life. The clerics at the heart of this study spent their time training disciples, practicing and teaching self-cultivation, performing rituals, and managing temples. Vincent Goossaert shows that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies, nor otherworldly ascetics, but active participants in the religious economy of the city. In exploring exactly what their crucial role was, he addresses the day-to-day life of modern Chinese religion from the perspective of ordinary religious specialists. This approach highlights the social processes, institutions, and networks that transmit religious knowledge and mediate between prestigious religious traditions and the people in the street. In modern Chinese religion, the Taoists are such key actors. Without them, ""Taoist ritual"" and ""Taoist self-cultivation"" are just empty words."
Author : Ruben Lundgren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462264175
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Ellen Thorbecke written by Ruben Lundgren and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Blofeld
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570626375
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book City of Lingering Splendor written by John Blofeld and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143800361
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Betrayal in Paris written by Paul French and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers, the country was to be severely disappointed. In this First World War China Special Paul French explores China's betrayal by the West, the charismatic advocates it sent to the conference and the hugely significant May Fourth Movement that resulted from the treaty.
Author : DOUGLAS. MCWILLIAMS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912892716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Driving the Silk Road written by DOUGLAS. MCWILLIAMS and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever imagined what it might be like to take a fairly standard luxury saloon, designed to take ministers and tycoons about their business, across the Gobi Desert in the notoriously hard 'Peking to Paris' endurance rally?
Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Tamtam Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Autumn in Peking written by Boris Vian and published by Tamtam Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. "In the Exopotamian desert, where hepatrols blossom and children collect little animals called sandpeepers, the sun shines in an unusual way: it produces eerie black zones whose mysteries remain unexplained. Above all, Vian's pecurilar way with language proves that, indeed, life in the desert is equal to none. Since unusual language is bound to produce unusual fiction, it follows that the story does not take place in the fall, nor is it set in China" - from the Foreword by Marc Lapprand. The fourth novel by Vian, who was a contemporary of Sartre and Beauvoir. His innovative style, cutting-edge during his lifetime, but only successful in the sixties, made him an icon of the May 1968 student movement.
Author : Kassia St Clair
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473630827
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Secret Lives of Colour written by Kassia St Clair and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547540434
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book How to Travel with a Salmon written by Umberto Eco and published by HMH. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly). A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellers—Umberto Eco takes readers on “a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life” (Publishers Weekly) as he journeys around the world and into his own wildly adventurous mind. From the mundane details of getting around on Amtrak or in the back of a cab, to reflections on computer jargon and soccer fans, to more important issues like the effects of mass media and consumer civilization—not to mention the challenges of trying to refrigerate an expensive piece of fish at an English hotel—this renowned writer, semiotician, and philosopher provides “an uncanny combination of the profound and the profane” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Eco entertains with his clever reflections and with his unique persona.” —Kirkus Reviews Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Author : Warren Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732282530
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (825 download)
Download or read book The Great Peking to Paris Expedition written by Warren Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1907, the Parisian newspaper Le Matin offered the world a challenge - 'Will anyone agree to go this summer from Peking to Paris by motorcar?'Prior to this time, the car was still a novelty, an expensive toy for a wealthy elite - hardly a dependable form of transport. The 14000km challenge was ultimately taken up by drivers of four different makes of automobile. There were to be no rules, no maps and. for that matter, no roads for much of the route.Now, in a daring recreation of a milestone in motoring history, adventurer Lang Kidby, newspaper cartoonist and media personality Warren Brown and motoring journalist Mick Matheson will retrace the exact route of the original Peking to Paris Trial for the first time in almost 100 years.Closed to the world for the best part of a century, the route travelled by the original participants is now accessible. The Great 2005 Peking to Paris Expedition is an historic recreation never before attempted, and this book is a must-have collectable for vintage car lovers and travel enthusiasts.The book ties in with ABC TV's documentary, to
Author : Sally Price
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226680703
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Paris Primitive written by Sally Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre. Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African fetishes were on view under the same roof as the Mona Lisa. Then, in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac presided over the opening of a new museum dedicated to primitive art in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower: the Musée du Quai Branly. Paris Primitive recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris’s museum world that resulted from Chirac’s dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society. Along with exposing the machinations that led to the MQB’s creation, Sally Price addresses the thorny questions it raises about the legacy of colonialism, the balance between aesthetic judgments and ethnographic context, and the role of institutions of art and culture in an increasingly diverse France. Anyone with a stake in the myriad political, cultural, and anthropological issues raised by the MQB will find Price’s account fascinating.
Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307793818
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Question of Hu written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France--a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical detective work and a gripping narrative, The Question of Hu deftly probes the collision of tw ocultures, with their different definitions of faith, madness, and moral obligation.
