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Author | : Alec Le Sueur |
Publisher | : Summersdale Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : 9781873475935 |
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An entertaining and politically enlightening account of one man's experiences to the captivating land of Tibet. An ancient city that holds many mysteries, Alec describes for the reader the intricities and uniqueness that makes Tibet so intriguing. A varied, unusual array of experiences occur throughout this trip, such as the deliveries of live snakes and a Miss Tibet competition, that make this travelogue an entertaining read on this religious and historical land.
Author | : Alec Le Sueur |
Publisher | : Summersdale Publishers |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : 9781840241990 |
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Few foreigners have been lucky enough to set foot on Tibetan soil - Alec Le Sueur spent five extraordinary years there, working for an international hotel chain. Against the breathtaking beauty of the Himalayas he unfolds a highly amusing and politically enlightening account of his experiences.
Author | : Alec Le Sueur |
Publisher | : Rdr Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781571431011 |
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When marketing wunderkind Alec Le Sueur signed on for a five-year stint at the Holiday Inn on the roof of the world in Lhasa, Tibet, no one told him the job required the wit and wisdom of a psychiatrist, the nose of an exterminator, the artistry of an emergency medical technician, and the diplomatic talent of a mortician. A staff trained with Fawlty Towers videos (until the comedies were seized by Communist authorities) served an eclectic mix of celebrities, diplomats, mountain climbers, spiritual pilgrims and cognoscenti circumnavigating the world in their own private jets. Le Sueur literally brings down the house with this internationally best-selling account of Communist owners and capitalist managers trying to create a chain hotel in Shangri-La.
Author | : Alec Le Sueur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1999-11-01 |
Genre | : Hotels |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Douglas-Hamilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas Shoumatoff |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472086696 |
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Travelers and mountaineers recount their journeys and discoveries in some of the most remote places in the world
Author | : Tom Lutz |
Publisher | : OR Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1682190579 |
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“I am inordinately proud of my travels and at the same time embarrassed by my pride in them. I feel alternately overflowing and empty, replete with gratitude for my good fortune, and abashed at the overentitled, obsessive nature of my need to continue. I feel sometimes like the most interesting man in the world, sometimes like the most obtuse. I am driven onward and yet, even as I chart my next adventure, I remain unsure why I should want to, unclear why I need to. And I do need to. The road beckons me, and always has. But am I running toward something? Running away? Is there a difference?” —from the foreword Tom Lutz is addicted to journeying. Sometimes he stops at the end of the road, sometimes he travels further. In this richly packed portmanteau of traveler’s tales, we accompany him as he drives beyond the blacktop in Morocco, to the Saharan dunes on the Algerian border, and east of Ankara into the Hittite ruins of Boğazkale. We ride alongside as he hitches across Uzbekistan and the high mountain passes of Kyrgyzstan into western China. We catch up with him as he traverses the shores of a lake in Malawi, and disappear with him into the disputed areas of the Ukraine and Moldova. We follow his footsteps through the swamps of Sri Lanka, the wilds of Azerbaijan, the plains of Tibet, the casinos of Tanzania, the peasant hinterlands of Romania and Albania, and the center of Swaziland, where we join him in watching the king pick his next wife. All along the way, we witness his perplexity in trying to understand a compulsion to keep moving, ever onward, to the ends of the earth.
Author | : Rick Lipsey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2008-12-22 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1596918454 |
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Rick Lipsey returned from a vacation with an unusual job offer. After playing a few rounds at Bhutan's Royal Thimphu Golf Club, one of the members asked if he'd consider becoming the kingdom's golf pro. "Sure, I'd love to move to Bhutan," Lipsey flippantly responded. Next thing you know, he, his wife, and their infant daughter are boarding a plane for this remote Himalayan country. With one foot in the ancient world and the other in the twenty-first century, Bhutan is working to successfully meld the old and the new, from subsistence farming and religious festivals to the Internet and World Wrestling Entertainment. In Golfing on the Roof of the World, Rick sets great golf travel writing against the bigger political story of Bhutan's entrance to the modern world. Not only does he teach and play golf in the shadow of the world's tallest peaks, but he also comes to understand the seismic shifts in store for the last Buddhist kingdom where peace and spiritual prosperity have abounded, and the national standard for measuring success is Gross National Happiness.
Author | : Jess Butterworth |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616208198 |
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A story of adventure, survival, courage, and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India that introduces young readers to a fascinating part of the world and the threat to its people's religious freedom.
Author | : Alec le Sueur Sueur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Few foreigners have been lucky enough to set foot on Tibetan soil ́ Alec Le Sueur spent five extraordinary years there, working for an international hotel chain. Against the breathtaking beauty of the Himalayas he unfolds a highly amusing and politically enlightening account of his experiences.Fly infestations at state banquets, hopeful mountaineers, unexpected deliveries of live snakes, a predominance of yaks and everything yak-related, the unbelievable Miss Tibet competition, insurmountable communication problems and a dead guest are just some of the entertainments to be found at the ́Fawlty Towerś of Lhasa.Daily challenges are increased by the fragile political situation. Le Sueur, the only foreigner since the days of Heinrich Harrer to spend so long in Tibet, examines its intriguing cultural background, thus providing a fascinating insight into a country that is virtually impenetrable to todaýs traveller.