On the Wandering Paths

On the Wandering Paths
Title On the Wandering Paths PDF eBook
Author Sylvain Tesson
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 152
Release 2022-08-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1452967482

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A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France After a free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four months, the French writer Sylvain Tesson makes a promise to himself: if he’s ever able to walk again, he will traverse the entire country of France on foot. Part literary adventure, part philosophical reflection on our contemporary consumer culture, On the Wandering Paths takes us deep into the heart of what Tesson terms France’s “hyperrural” zones. Tracing the obscure paths peasants once followed throughout the countryside, Tesson embarks on a three-month journey of solitude and personal contemplation as he walks along vast stretches of mountain ranges and rivers, encountering ancient Roman stone bridges and walkways, the French Foreign Legion, pagan prayer sites, Provençal villages, and the majestic Mont-Saint-Michel. Connecting deeply with the places he visits, his experiences inspire reflection on the essential need to disengage from the digital and immerse oneself in natural beauty. Rich with humor, historical insight, and literary power, On the Wandering Paths is both a meditation on the act of recovery and a potent recognition of the traces of our past in the present. Asking us to reassess our values and our relationship to the land, Tesson’s exquisite chronicle through landscapes that continue to resist urbanization and technology is a thoughtful—and thought-provoking—glimpse into a poet’s adventurous life. Les Chemins de Pierre, a film based on the book starring Jean Dujardin, is due to release in 2022.

The Wandering

The Wandering
Title The Wandering PDF eBook
Author Intan Paramaditha
Publisher Random House
Pages 448
Release 2020-02-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1473562392

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*The most unusual novel you will read all year, where you create your own story* 'An ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge' Lauren Elkin, Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize You've grown roots, you're gathering moss. You're desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go. Turn the page and make your choice. You may become a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet other travellers with their own stories to tell. Freedom awaits but borders are real. And no story is ever new. 'Sets you free to roam the Earth... an incisive commentary on the cosmopolitan condition' Tiffany Tsao 'An electrifying novel about cosmopolitanism and global nomadism that keeps readers on their toes' Book Riot Winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and a Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America

Geophysical Abstracts

Geophysical Abstracts
Title Geophysical Abstracts PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 754
Release 1964
Genre Geophysics
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Palaeomagnetism

Palaeomagnetism
Title Palaeomagnetism PDF eBook
Author Donald H. Tarling
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 388
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Science
ISBN 9400959559

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Palaeomagnetism and archaeomagnetism are fascinating specialized studies because they are applicable to such a wide range of problems in geology, archaeology and geophysics. They can also be undertaken cheaply, when compared with most other geophysical techniques, and, at first sight, simply. In fact, real comprehension of the magnetic processes that have occurred in rocks and other types of material over several thousands or many millions of years is still extremely difficult to assess and measure. On this basis, this book cannot explain all such features, nor can it attempt to cover all the actual and potential applications of the method. All that can be attempted is to give an impression of the ways in which such techniques can be used in a wide variety of fields, and how these techniques are usually applied. The magnetization of rocks is, in fact, one of the earliest of the true sciences, but we are still not in a position to answer many of the problems posed. Consequently some of the examples given of applications are, essentially, state-of-the-art comments, rather than being a review as such. The changing position of the geomagnetic poles with time is still not adequately defined, for example, and some of the more recent conventional views are given, although the emphasis is placed on more subjective, probably more controversial, evaluations.

Seed

Seed
Title Seed PDF eBook
Author Joanna Walsh
Publisher
Pages 220
Release 2021-06-03
Genre
ISBN 9781838108106

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The Wandering Sheep

The Wandering Sheep
Title The Wandering Sheep PDF eBook
Author Warren O'Bryan
Publisher TheUniversityWithin
Pages 100
Release 2021-01-25
Genre
ISBN 9781732794702

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Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae

Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
Title Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae PDF eBook
Author Ashley Clements
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 245
Release 2014-04-24
Genre Drama
ISBN 1107040825

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Examines the engagement of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae with Parmenidean philosophy to issue a political critique of tragic deception and its effects.