Jon Krakauer''s Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.
In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence. Just four months later, Chris was found dead. An SOS note was taped to his makeshift home, an abandoned bus.
In piecing together the final travels of this extraordinary young man''s life, Jon Krakauer writes about the heart of the wilderness, its terribly beauty and its relentless harshness. Into the Wild is a modern classic of travel writing, and a riveting exploration of what drives some of us to risk more than we can afford to lose.
From the author of Under the Banner of Heaven and Into Thin Air. A film adaptation of Into the Wild was directed by Sean Penn and starred Emile Hirsch and Kristen Stewart.
''It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.'' - Entertainment Weekly
La décolonisation faite, cet essai de compréhension du rapport Noir-Blanc a gardé toute sa valeur prophétique : car le racisme, malgré les horreurs dont il a affligé le monde, reste un problème d'avenir.
Il est ici abordé et combattu de front, avec toutes les ressources des sciences de l'homme et avec la passion de celui qui allait devenir un maître à penser pour beaucoup d'intellectuels du tiers monde.
Oeuvre majeure de la littérature mondiale, Les Métamorphoses rassemble en près de 12 000 vers le récit des métamorphoses des dieux et des héros, depuis le chaos originel jusqu'à la mort de Jules César. Ovide pioche dans l'immense répertoire des mythologies grecques et romaines et recompose sa propre épopée pour raconter le monde : Icare trop près du Soleil se brûlant les ailes ; Daphné se transformant en laurier pour fuir Apollon ; Orphée descendant aux Enfers pour retrouver sa femme Eurydice... Ces histoires mythiques irriguent encore de nos jours la littérature et la culture occidentale. Dans une nouvelle traduction, Marie Cosnay nous donne à lire le texte d'Ovide comme un immense roman d'aventures.Magique est la dernière métamorphose des Métamorphoses, sous la nouvelle apparence que leur confère la traduction remarquable de Marie Cosnay. Bertrand Leclair, Le Monde.Préface d'Hélène Vial.Postface de Marie Cosnay.Traduit du latin par Marie Cosnay.
Que sont devenus Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d'Artagnan ?
Vingt ans après leurs exploits en plein siège de la Rochelle, les mousquetaires reprennent du service. Alors que la Fronde oppose le pouvoir royal à celui de la noblesse, elle va aussi opposer d'Artagnan et Porthos, recrutés par Mazarin, à Aramis et Athos qui soutiennent les princes révoltés. Mais si leurs opinions divergent, leur amitié, elle, perdure. Et c'est le passé qui va se charger de les réunir. En effet, le fantôme vengeur de Milady les pourchasse, sous les traits de son fils.
Alors que règne l'individualisme, les valeurs portées par les quatre compères ont-elles encore leur place ? Parviendront-ils à unir leurs lames une nouvelle fois ?
La colère d'Achille, la mort d'Hector, le cheval de Troie... Ce texte fondateur est servi par une traduction qui revient aux sources orales de l'oeuvre d'Homère : l'occasion pour l'étudiant, l'enseignant ou le lecteur de redécouvrir une épopée d'un souffle inouï, étonnamment romanesque.
Penser ce qui excède la possibilité de penser, gagner le point où le coeur manque, les moments où l'horreur et la joie coïncident dans leur plénitude, où l'être nous est donné dans un dépassement intolérable de l'être qui le rend semblable à dieu, semblable à rien.
Tel est le sens de ce livre insensé. les trois récits rassemblés ici sont l'expression la plus concise de la terrible exigence d'un homme qui avait voué sa vie et son écriture à l'expérience des limites.
à travers le blasphème et l'indécence, c'est bien la voix la plus pure que nous entendons et le cri que profère cette bouche tordue est un alléluia perdu dans le silence sans fin.
'His stories are always a joy' - Ian Rankin'I'm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross' - Robert MacfarlaneAward-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards.Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? How did a thousand skulls come to be stacked beneath a church in Kent? Why is the music hall star who sang I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside buried on a hillside in Glasgow far from the sound of the silvery sea?All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath.So push open the rusting gate, push back the ivy, and take a look inside...
Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the bottom of the garden - you might think there is little time left for pleasures of the table. This title offers a presentation of rural life in France.
Explore the art of mindful travel with Kinfolk, the pioneers in "slow living," their philosophy of simplicity, authenticity, intentionality and community.
With nearly 450,000 copies in print, the Kinfolk series has applied this philosophy to entertaining (The Kinfolk Table), interior design (The Kinfolk Home), and living with nature (The Kinfolk Garden).
Now they have turned their attention to "slow travel," offering readers a road map for planning trips that foster meaningful connections with local people and authentic experiences of local culture. Go museum hopping in Tasmania, or birdwatching in London. Explore the burgeoning fashion community in Dakar. Take a bicycle tour through Idaho, or a train trip from Oslo to Bergen.
Drawing on the magazine's global community of writers and photographers, Kinfolk Travel takes readers to over 20 location across five continents, with travel tips from locals, stunning images, and thoughtful essays.
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city''s colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods - the late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the present, Russell Shorto''s masterful biography looks at Amsterdam''s central preoccupations. Just as fin-de-siecle Vienna was the birthplace of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century Amsterdam was the wellspring of liberalism, and today it is still a city that takes individual freedom very seriously. A wonderfully evocative book that takes Amsterdam''s dramatic past and present and populates it with a whole host of colourful characters, Amsterdam is the definitive book on this great city.
In this work for armchair and actual travellers alike, the author records the events of a year in Provence, from foie gras and burst pipes in January, through the Tour de France preparations, the grape "vendange" and the mushroom season, to the Christmas gastronomic splurge.
MICHAEL PALIN HAS WRITTEN AND STARRED IN NUMEROUS TV PROGRAMMES AND FILMS, FROM MONTY PYTHON AND RIPPING YARNS TO THE MISSIONARY AND THE DEATH OF STALIN. HE HAS ALSO MADE SEVERAL MUCH-ACCLAIMED TRAVEL DOCUMENTARI
Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards, alleys and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted church on a hot summer's day, remembering Notre Dame in a winter storm in 1940, describing chestnut trees lit up at night like 'Japanese lanterns' or lamenting the passing of street cries and old buildings, his book is filled with unforgettable imagery. It is a meditation on getting lost and wasting time, and on what it truly means to know a city.
Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. But the Durrells find that, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna.
Contains three books - "My Family and Other Animals", "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods". Offering portraits of the author's family and their many unusual hangers-on, this work also captures the beginnings of his lifelong love of animals.
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else.
Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this...
In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover the United States, feeling he might have lost touch with its sights sounds and the essence of its people. This book decribes his travels in a pick-up truck across nearly 40 states with his dog Charlie, a French poodle.
Si Paris est une ville dense moins bien dotée que d'autres capitales en " espaces verts ", peu nombreuses sont, en revanche, les grandes villes qui, du fait de leur histoire et de leur climat, peuvent se prévaloir d'une aussi riche variété de jardins. Le pittoresque y côtoie la géométrie, les conceptions les plus modernes voisinent avec les tracés et les manières anciennes, et les essences exotiques ont été si bien acclimatées qu'elles sont devenues communes. Ceci sans oublier les innombrables jardins privés, tantôt réduits à une jardinière sur un balcon, tantôt vastes et secrets. Tel est le prodige qu'une culture bi-millénaire a réussi à accomplir : Paris en ses jardins n'est pas moins superbe qu'en ses rues, ses places et ses palais, et Paris sans ses jardins ne serait pas la capitale la plus visitée du monde.
Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience.
Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.
In 1993, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.
"Songlines" are what Europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over Australia - they are both intricate sources of personal identity and territorial markers. From these, Bruce Chatwin has traced a great deal about Aboriginal culture, as complex as it is different.
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times ' Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier pushing, unsettling and exploratory' Evening Standard Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet... In Underland , Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart. 'Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading' The Times 'Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and beautifully written' Observer 'Attentive, thoughtful, finely honed... I turned the last page with the unusual conviction of having been in the company of a fine writer who is - who must surely be - a good man' Telegraph 'Poetry, science, a healthy sense of the uncanny and a touch of the shamanic are the hallmarks of his writing... This is a journey that tells the story not just of nature but of human nature. And there is noone I would more gladly follow on it' i 'Startling and memorable, charting invisible and vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns - frighteningly alone-to sing of what he has seen' New Statesman
