Author : Max Reisch, Alison Falls and Roger Bibbings
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category :
ISBN : 1787117081
An extraordinary account of a remarkable motorcycle journey made in 1933, through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan) to India. Wonderful descriptions of the people and cultures, now nearly forgotten, yet still hugely relevant today, are brought evocatively to life by the stunning period photos.
Author : Max Reisch
Publisher : Panther Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780955659591
MOTORCYCLES: GENERAL INTEREST. This is a truly great travel adventure through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan to India in 1933. But what really sets this book apart are the wonderful descriptions of the people and cultures, now nearly forgotten, but still hugely relevant in today's age: all brought evocatively to life by the wonderful photos from 1933. At that time, the idea of traveling to India on a motorbike through the deserts was considered impossible; there were no roads and they were attempting to cross the burning deserts in the middle of August, on a tiny two-stroke motorcycle with barely enough power for the bike and rider, let alone a pillion passenger! Gripping stuff, yet perceptive and full of drama - definitely a must for all travel and motorcycle enthusiasts.
Author : Eric Sevareid
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1635763495
"For anyone even remotely interested in American literature and journalism, Not So Wild a Dream is a must-read, and a joy."– Dan Rather In this captivating first-person account, Eric Sevareid describes in thrilling detail his time as a journalist covering international affairs during World War II. From a young man in North Dakota to an instrumental figure in establishing CBS as an international news organization, Sevareid witnessed the shaping of America’s journalistic landscape. His experiences provide an invaluable glimpse into the trials and tribulations of a dogged reporter. With current distrust of the press on the rise, Sevareid’s insight is poignant and all the more necessary. "The book is an excellent sketch of the war's progress, and a thoughtful personal record of Mr. Sevareid's adventures--one of the most far ranging war correspondent journals yet published."– Library Journal
Author : Jeffery Paine
Publisher : HarperCol
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1998-10-07
Category : History
ISBN :
Paine presents several mini-biographies of 20th-century Westerners whose lives and thoughts were radically transformed by their experience of India: E.M. Forster, Carl Jung, W.B. Yeats, Christopher Isherwood, V.S. Naipaul, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author : Shivya Nath
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353052653
Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.
Author : Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1462911463
Learn the sensual secretes of Eastern beauty practices with this informative and readable guide. The beauty rituals of the East have long been legendary--the use of oils and unguents, lotions of rose leaves and vinegar, the juice of ripe strawberries and plums, milk baths, honey, and myrrh. The very names evoke an aura of romance, a world where woman pamper and prepare their bodies. Such is the world of Indian beauty as introduced in this exquisite volume of beauty recipes handed down verbally through the ages.
Author : Charles Frode
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1312545372
14 STORIES EMERGED FROM MYSTICAL INTERSECTIONS of humanity, reality, and magic. Author CHARLES FRODE has ushered these worlds of radiance and darkness into life for those who have lost love or long to love; for those traumatized by broken family; for those warring between mind and feeling; and for those who relish a life that is a wonderfully harmonious feeling-flux of darkness and illumination- male and female, animate and inanimate.
Author : Simon Broughton
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781858286365
The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.
Author : David Rowe
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 1787117979
The only full-colour comprehensive guide to all Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam, Singer & Talbot cars and vans, from 1950 until the end of production in the 1970s. With model-by-model descriptions and detailed technical information, this is an invaluable Rootes resource.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Art
ISBN :
