Trips

Ancona, Jacobo. - The city of the light. Edition of David Selbourne. Planet. 2001

The publisher of this work affirms to have discovered in the particular file of an Italian family, the history of Jacobo de Ancona, on a trip realized by itself to China at the end of the XIIIth century. Without motives for doubting his word, we consider to be interesting the possibility of being completing the image of China that Marco Polo and his contemporary travelers provided to us. The histories scarcity on the China of the epoch full of interest to this book.

Ceinos Receptacle, Pedro. - Shangrilá (Trip to the borders Chinese Tibetan). Kapok tree. 2006

The history of a magic trip realized by the author across the grounds inhabited for algunosdelos peoples less known about China. From Chengdu the author penetrates for the grounds of the savages "Nosu" to discover that they are not so wild, it continues to the Kingdom Lamaísta de Muli, to the matriarchal society of the Moso of the Lake Lugu, to end up by visiting Lijiang and Zhongdian re-baptized at present like Shangrilá. A book full of surprises, emotions, sensations and reflections. Essential.

Hills, Antonio. - The buried seed. A trip to China. Siruela. 2005.

There are two types of trip, the physical trip and the interior trip. Between the China of the past and that of the present, in which the author looks for signs and signs for a new time, the buried seed from which there arises a third route that melts the knowledge spent with the current progress. The trip of one of the most original poets in Spanish language.

Spanish Parliament, Adriano. - Trip of the China. Alliance. 1991

The ship in which the Father Adriano de las Cortes travels suffers a shipwreck opposite to the coasts of China, his partners are dead, others enslaved, as he. During more than one year prisoner until they manage to rescue him, he narrates an image of China removed from the romanticismos of the epoch.

Ferrero, Jesús. - The Peking of the Prohibited City. Planet. 1991

An interesting literary portrait, in which the well-known novelist jumps from the reality, to the sleep, the philosophy and the literature. It does not leave in the inkwell the necessary history doses to be able to frame correctly lasmaravillas that offers this city. A good number of iliustraciones, reproductions in many cases of works of art on the city, they complete a magnificent book.

Fleming, Peter. - News of Tartaria. Peninsula. 1999

During the 30s Peter Fleming was the correspondent of the "Times" in Beijing. In the year 1936, with his partner Elia Maillart they initiate a long trip from Beijing to Kashmir, crossing Xinjiang, or the Tartaria as it was called by the Europeans; a region in flames during those years.

Hopkirk, Peter. Foreign demons in the Route of the Silk. Laertes. 1997

At the beginning of the XXth century the Route of the Silk is in decline. His cities, once flourishing, are in most cases, a heap of ruins. Adventurers, scientists, explorers and looters, and sometimes all this simultaneously, are done by the beautiful treasures buried with these cities.

Maillard, Ella. - prohibited Oases. Peninsula. 1999

In 1935 Ella Maillard, the whole expert in the life and culture of the peoples of Central Asia, goes out of Beijing in direction of Xinjiang, through which in these years there lives a raising of the Moslem population. They obtain his target, and to go out for the Karakorum towards Pakistan.

Martín Ríos, Javier. - It burns Shanghai. Publishing house Alhulia, Granada, 2007.

China is turning into a reference place in the world and in Spain every day there are more the books that appear in the bookstores that there are helping us to understand the culture and the society of the Asian colossus. In the field of the literature, there are still small the writers who are taking China as a literary motive, although we see that the tendency is changing in the last times with the appearance of a limited group of Spanish writers who live in this distant ground or are closely tied by this country.

Impressions of a Trip to the China. - Adolfo de Mentaberry

The diplomat and Basque writer Adolfo de Mentaberry (1840-1887) occupies an excellent place between the Spanish travelers who, during the XIXth century, opened his interest horizons towards East, contributing news first hand on regions of the world practically not known for his contemporaries.

Mourelo, Suso. - Farewell to China. Espasa. 2001.

The whole world who travels to China seems to discover a new world. Certainly the information that comes to Occident with regard to China, is so deformed, that is not rare to experience this sensation. It turns out to be more questionable and an interesting analysis topic, to study the need that there has every journalist who travels to China of writing his book, instead of studying the causes of this deformed information.

Sheepdog, José. - China for hypochondriacs. Edicions B.

The book, award of Narrative of Trips of Editions B, is, in our opinion, published late, and undeservedly rewarded. Based on the experiences of trip of the author in the year 1993, it details a series of topics, which only denounce the superficiality with which it has spent the traveled grounds to itself.

Peissel, Michel. - The last barbarians. Peninsula. 1999

The author has covered along his different expeditions the grounds and kingdoms of the Himalayas. This time travels from the Chinese side to the sources of the Mekong, of which exact location did not exist before his expedition. The Tibetan Qinghai area is precisely where the Tibetan nomads live, more independent fieramente, the last ones who accepted the Chinese sovereignty, and those that more headaches caused. A region seldom covered that describes this book to us.

Pernau, Gabriel. - To China in bicycle. Editions B. 1998

The author describes us as it carried out his sleep, and managed to cover the Route of the Silk from Istanbul up to Xian, happening for countries almost not known in Occident, and crossing the mythical cities and inhospitable places that throughout the centuries have seen going on to a travelers' rosary.

Pole, I Mark. - The book of the marvels. Anaya. 1989

The most wonderful trip of the Middle Age, and perhaps the one that more it has influenced to the world, proper Columbus and Renaissance navigators were looking for the Cathay full of wealths described in the Book of Marco Polo. A Venetian merchant who traveled to China in times of Gengis Khan.

Pole, I Mark. - Trips. Akal. 1998

The book of the Marvels, of Marco Polo supposed an authentic revolution in the Europe of the Middle Age, on having presented a public tremendously etnocentrista, a continent placed in another end of the world, which he enjoyed a civilization more advanced than that of Europe, richer, and with a more developed society. His influences have been tremendous.

Potocki, Jan. - Trip to the empire of China. Laertes. 1998

The Polish romantic writer Jan Potocki realizes a trip from Saint Petersburg up to the capital of Mongolia, in these years inside China. The only description of almost unknown grounds till then.

Seth, Vikram. - From the lake of the sky. Editions B. 1998

In 1981 later famous Hindu novelist, after finishing his Chinese studies in the city of Nanjing, decided to return to his country for the longest way: Xinjiang, Tibet and Nepal. To travel in hitchhiking round these almost deserted regions and scarcely open, would fill the trip of Vikram Seth of adventures and experiences.

Theroux, Paul. - In the iron rooster. Editions B. 1997

An already classic book of the trips to China, and of the trips in railroad, since Paul Theroux, he, an outstanding figure of the trips, makes use of the first opening of China himself, in 1986 China crosses up and down in a long and calm trip in railroad.

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