The master of travel writing at his most elegiac and luminous best tackling an arduous Tibetan mountain and his mother's recent death. In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world's mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth's people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually c...(展开全部)

“NEPAL AIR DISASTER — NO SURVIVORS.” This newspaper headline transforms Tintin’s holiday into an extraordinary adventure. The little reporter learns that his friend, Chang, was in the aircraft that crashed, and that there were no survivors. Nevertheless, the strength of their friendship and some powerful and vivid dreams convince Tintin to set off to rescue Chang, whom he belie...(展开全部)

河口慧海，日本僧人，为求取西藏保存的佛教未传之经典，1897至1903年进入西藏，归国后将这趟旅程的见闻悉数记录成文，以《西藏旅行记》为题在报刊上连载，英译本《西藏三年》（Three Years in Tibet）也于1909年在印度出版后，获得民众热烈回响，风靡一时。

河口慧海，日本僧人，为求取西藏保存的佛教未传之经典，1897至1903年进入西藏，归国后将这趟旅程的见闻悉数记录成文，以《西藏旅行记》为题在报刊上连载，英译本《西藏三年》（Three Years in Tibet）也于1909年在印度出版后，获得民众热烈回响，风靡一时。

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him. This novel by International Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai - perhaps his most serene and poetic work - describ...(展开全部)

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: “he continually saw the garden in his mind’s eye without being able to touch its exis...(展开全部)

An exquisitely beautiful novel from one of the world's greatest living writers - now in paperback The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him. This novel by Internat...(展开全部)

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him. This novel by International Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai - perhaps his most serene and poetic work - describ...(展开全部)

Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and performing artists. Most of the essays focus on the lives of individual women, whether fr...(展开全部)