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Post by wollastoni on Jan 9, 2015 13:13:50 GMT
As I travel a lot for my job and also for my collecting trips, I am always looking for good books to read. I will share the last 2 good books I have read. They are in French but should be translated very soon in all languages as they are best-sellers. Territoires : a great "polard" about the French suburbs. It is written by a policeman and it is really brilliant, you learn a lot of thing about our suburbs and about corruption ! Charlotte : a beautiful book about the life of Charlotte Salomon, a German artist persecuted by the nazi regime.
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Post by nomad on Jan 12, 2015 16:14:14 GMT
The most recent book I have read is an inspired biography of The late great German explorer ' Henrich Harrier ' Beyond Seven Years in Tibet'. Harrier packed an enormous amount of adventure in a life mostly well spent. He was in the 1938 party that was first to climb the massive north face of the Eiger. A year later after the start of World War Two, he was captured by the British while on a climbing expedition to the Himalayas. Harrier escape from internment into Tibet and crossing the vast plateau to Lhasa, he befriended the young Dali Lama, who today lives sadly in exile. Many more expeditions followed, but my favourite is his account of his 1962 expedition to New Guinea where among other adventures he climbed for the first time, the Carstensz Pyramid, the highest mountain on the island. In his later years, Harrier was dogged by a youthful but short Nazi past but luckily for him the events in India would change his life. He missed death by a whisker many times, he certainly was a man with nine lives. Perhaps the last of the true great explorers.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 12, 2015 22:20:44 GMT
I have read 7 years in Tibet many years ago and have been very much impressed by this man !
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