Author: Hermann HessePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"The story of a pilgrimage which apparently fails"--Cover.
The Journey to the East
Author: Hermann HessePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"The story of a pilgrimage which apparently fails"--Cover.
Journey to the East
Author: Le CorbusierPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Shares the influential architect's account of a 1911 trip through central and eastern Europe and includes sketches he made along the way.
Pub2Pub
Author: Ben CoombsPublisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1787116174
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There’s popping out for a quick pint, and then there’s this – a gloriously preposterous 27,000 mile journey across 25 countries to grab a beer in pubs (bars) at opposite ends of the world. We’re talking an epic adventure, from an abandoned Soviet mine 700 miles from the North Pole, to a remote pub at South America’s southernmost tip. A journey undertaken in a TVR sports car, a car that many might consider untrustworthy just to drive to the shops. The journey packed a lot into its eight months. From braving the sheer drops of Bolivia’s Death Road, to drag racing the locals in Texas. From roaring across flooded salt flats, to sailing the straits of Magellan. From the highs of the planet’s best driving roads, to the lows of life in No-Man’s-Land, trapped between borders by red tape and bureaucracy. And from looking out for Polar Bears in the High Arctic, to dodging penguins in Tierra del Fuego. The story of the Pub2Pub Expedition is an inspirational account of where your dreams can take you if only you believe in them. Chronicling the epic journey made by Ben Coombs in his TVR Chimaera, this book is both an exciting adventure and a fascinating snapshot of the life and culture of the countries that he drove through.
Thunder from the East
Author: Nicholas D. KristofPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375412697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise—a "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West. Thunder from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia.
The East in the West
Author: Jack GoodyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and economic historians have seen as intrinsic to capitalism, arguing that there was in fact little difference between East and West in terms of mercantile activity. Other factors said to inhibit the East's development, such as the family and forms of labour, have also been greatly exaggerated. This Eurocentrism both fails to explain the current achievements of the East, and misunderstands Western history. The East in the West starts to redress the balance, and so marks a fundamental shift in our view of Western and Eastern history and society.
Journey to the East
Author: Baird Thomas SpaldingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781439252772
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Baird Spalding's description on travel to the Far East offered the Western world innovative resolutions that conceptually yet conventionally transcend spiritual and intellectual knowledge paradigm.
A Visit to the East
Author: Henry FormbyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385118050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
How the East Was Won
Author: Andrew PhillipsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009064193
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.
Journey to the East
Author: Liam Matthew BROCKEYPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674028813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.
Author: Edward Bickersteth