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c2008., McClelland & Stewart Call No: 915.04 T412t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--From publisher description.
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2018., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Bio H314l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A transcendent memoir about travelling wildly out of bounds on the fabled Silk Road. As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved, that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician, with a flair for basic science and endless slogging, had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth. So she looked beyond this planet, vowing to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, she thought, not the thing itself, a little adventure to pass the time until she could launch for outer space. But somewhere in between sneaking illegally across Tibet, studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford, and staring down a microscope for a doctorate at MIT, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. A travel account at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous, and above all full of hope, exploring the nature of limits and the wildness of the self that, like our planet, can never be fully mapped. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, the author celebrates our connection as humans to the natural world, and ultimately to each other, a belonging that transcends any fences or stories that may divide us. Journalist Kate Harris lives in a log cabin in Altin, British Columbia"--Provided by publisher.
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2002., Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: 915.9 G231r Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1992., Vintage Books Call No: 909.82 K17s Edition: 1st Vintage international ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Abley, Mark2023., House of Anansi Call No: Bio A152s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western bohemians and vagabonds. It was a time when the Shah of Iran still reigned supreme, Afghanistan lay at peace, and city streets from Turkey to India teemed with unrest. Within a year, many of the places he visited would become inaccessible to foreign travellers. Drawing from the tattered notebooks he filled as a youthful wanderer, Abley brings his kaleidoscope of experiences back to life with vivid detail: dancing in a Turkish disco, clambering across a glacier in Kashmir, travelling by train among Baluchi tribesmen who smuggled kitchen appliances over international borders. He also reflects on the impact of the Hippie Trail and the illusions of those who journeyed along it. The lively immediacy of Abley's journals combined with the measured wisdom of his mature, contemporary voice provides rich insight, bringing vibrant witness and historical perspective to this beautifully written portrait of a region during a time of irrevocable change.
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-- Last great Imperial adventurer1994., Juvenile, HarperCollins Call No: Bio Y784f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
