Leseprobe
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Among the Tibetans
Isabella L. Bird, Sheba Blake
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Reise / Welt, Arktis, Antarktis
Beschreibung
"There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with "the pleasantest of people." She offers evocative and colourful descriptions of Tibetan rituals and culture, along with vivid descriptions of its villages, monasteries, temples and palaces. "Up to Kargil the scenery, though growing more Tibetan with every march, had exhibited at intervals some traces of natural verdure; but beyond, after leaving the Suru, there is not a green thing, and on the next march the road crosses a lofty, sandy plateau, on which the heat was terrible - blazing gravel and a blazing heaven, then fiery cliffs and scorched hillsides, then a deep ravine and the large village of Paskim (dominated by a fort-crowned rock), and some planted and irrigated acres; then a narrow ravine and magnificent scenery flaming with colour, which opens out after some miles on a burning chaos of rocks and sand, mountain-girdled, and on some remarkable dwellings on a steep slope, with religious buildings singularly painted. This is Shergol, the first village of Buddhists, and there I was 'among the Tibetans.'"
Kundenbewertungen
the girl who played with fire millennium trilogy, twilight, the tales of beedle the bard, j.k. rowling, birdsong, jd salinger, truman capote, classic books for teens, classic fiction, classic fiction for teens, sylvia plath, penguin random house, a short history of nearly everything, 21st century, shoots and leaves the zero tolerance approach to punctuation, aldous huxley, marcel proust, william faulkner, short story, mark twain, literary, a short history of tractors in ukrainian, george r.r. martin, charles lutwidge dodgson, memoirs of a geisha, historical, classics of american literature, ray bradbury, fiction, leo tolstoy, stupid white men, deception point, anton chekhov, man and boy, gustave flaubert, the shadow of the wind, my sister's keeper, harry potter and the half-blood prince, eclipse, angela's ashes a memoir of a childhood, stephanie meyer, the gruffalo's child, classics, fifty shades freed, george rr martin, the gruffalo, classics books, e l james, 19th century, ancient, classic books for kids, h. p. lovecrat, harper collins, medieval, you are what you eat the plan that will change your life, william shakespeare, classic fiction collection, eats, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, harry potter and the chamber of secrets, the broker, harry potter and the deathly hallows, fifty shades of grey, the sound of laughter, the world according to clarkson, f scott fitzgerald, franz kafka, life of pi, 16th century, j.d. salinger, the subtle knife, classic books for adults free, john steinbeck, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, classic book collection, classics literature, the kite runner, the interpretation of murder, dr. atkins' new diet revolution, dear fatty, ps i love you, classic, fiction best sellers, james joyce, arthur conan doyle, jk rowling, stephen king, northern lights, neil gaiman, renaissance, harry potter and the philosopher's stone, c. s. lewis, the no.1 ladies' detective agency, classic books, vladamir nabokov, fiction novels, rudyard kipling, the amber spyglass, harry potter and the order of the phoenix, edgar allan poe, new moon, hannibal, to kill a mockingbird, charlotte bronte, j. r. r. tolkien, the girl who kicked the hornets' nest millennium trilogy, 17th century, the boy in the striped pyjamas, a thousand splendid suns, albert camus, dr. seuss, classic books for adults collection kindle, digital fortress, 18th century, a child called it, herman melville, classic book, captain corelli's mandolin, young adult books for girls classics, ernest hemingway, charles dickens, chocolat, george orwell, jrr tolkien, 20th century, jack kerouac, james patterson, hp lovecraft, classics to read aloud to your children, bridget jones's diary a novel, fifty shades darker, jamie's 30-minute meals, virginia woolf, breaking dawn, j.r.r. tolkien, one day, kurt vonnegut, classic fiction novels young readers, the da vinci code, the help, agatha christie, kindle books, j. k. rowling, john grisham, atonement, fyodor dostoyevsky, oscar wilde, c.s lewis, cs lewis, labyrinth, the lost symbol, the very hungry caterpillar, literature, classic fiction books, the lovely bones, j. d. salinger, classic books for adults, free ebooks kindle classics, maya angelou, classic fiction books for adults, harry potter and the goblet of fire, simon schuster, classic fiction books best sellers for adults, the time traveler's wife, fiction classics, classic fiction novels, historical fiction, flannery oconnor, dan brown, harry potter and the half-blood prince children's edition, the girl with the dragon tattoo millennium trilogy, harper lee, classic novels, george r. r. martin, toni morrison, delia's how to cook, men are from mars women are from venus, billy connolly, free kindle books classics, short stories, roald dahl, contemporary, jules verne, angels and demons, the lord of the rings, the island, victor hugo, h.p. lovecraft, jane austen