A passionate homage to Tibet in words and pictures by one of the last great explorers who brings the geographical, spiritual, and intellectual heart of the country to life. 250 photos.
More than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, introduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon. Against the odds--and in the tradition of the nineteenth-century explorers of whom he is a direct descendant--Peissel has combed Tibet for forty years and has come to know one of the last nomadic peoples on earth to live with what he calls a "Stone Age memory." In 1994, seizing the rarest of opportunities to journey deep into occupied Tibet, he accomplished what scores of Western explorers had tried and failed to do for more than a hundred years: He found the source of the Mekong River in the ice-strewn fields on the "roof of the world." This immensely readable account tells how a small group of modern adventurers made history not once, but twice, in the course of a single year: by accurately charting the origins of one of Asia's most majestic and storied waterways and by finding a living fossil, the Riwoche horse, a species unknown to contemporary zoology that may prove to be a missing link in equine evolution. The book's stage is forbidden Tibet--with its tragic politics, its natural wonder, and its fiercely independent nomadic tubes, who are known to the chinese as "the last barbarians.
L'histoire d'un homme, d'un rêve, d'un hôtel, d'une ville et d'un pays dans les années 1950, celle de Boris Lissanevitch, né à Odessa au début du XX e siècle, qui a ouvert la voie royale du tourisme au Népal. Bienvenue à Katmandou. Réfugié russe, cadet du tsar, danseur de ballet, chasseur de tigres, entrepreneur opiniâtre, aventurier mondain aux poches percées, buveur invétéré, ce personnage à la Kessel a vraiment existé : il s'agit de Boris Lissanevitch qui, le premier, a ouvert les portes du Népal à l'Occident. Michel Peissel l'a rencontré plusieurs fois dans son palace de Katmandou, et il en dresse le portrait dans un livre qui fait revivre le Népal des années 1950, la décennie où le petit royaume himalayen sortit du Moyen Âge pour s'ouvrir au monde. Ce livre a été publié sous le titre A Tiger for breakfast en 1966. Huit ans après la disparition de l'auteur, il est traduit pour la première fois en français par Béatrice Aguettant.
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A passionate homage to Tibet in words and pictures by one of the last great explorers who brings the geographical, spiritual, and intellectual heart of the country to life. 250 photos.
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