Two Italian photographers come to the country they have often dreamed about and discover for themselves the meaning of the epithet "land of contrasts". They record the fact with their camera that everywhere, myth and reality, the present and the past, live harmoniously together.From the time of Marco Polo, India has been described as a land of astonishing variety. The authors of this photo-journal record this in images that range from the stark salt pans of Kutch and its colourful people, to the dense jungles of Orissa and its animistic societies. They click away at deserts and palaces, homes and markets, celebrations and pilgrimages, stopping to take a tender look at a wizened face, a shy grin, a wide-eyed stare, catching the colour of dresses swirling, the glint of burnished silver, the movement of busy hands.

Timeless India

Arts & Photography

Baldizzone, Gianni

Photography & Video

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

<p>Following the same trail that Alexandra David-Ne+a7el did seventy years ago, the authors embark on an odyssey through China and Tibet, capturing the many cultures, people, and landscapes in vivid and stunning photographs.</p>

Tibet: Journey to the Forbidden City : Retracing the Steps of Alexandra David-Neel

Baldizzone, Tiziana

Manferto, Valeria

Stewart. Tabori & Chang

The west of China, crossed in 1920-21 in her first attempt to reach Lhasa. The region was notorious as the home of tribes reputed to be fierce brigands who plundered the caravans which travelled from China to Lhasa. It was Alexandra David-Neel's determination to get to Lhasa, the forbidden city, escaping the controls of government officials, that made her decide to venture into this supposedly very dangerous part of the world. But her journey was also inspired by her craving to encounter different cultures, to travel unknown paths, to get to know the peoples who inhabited the vast solitudes of the plateaus and to become familiar with their traditions and beliefs, rooted in mysticism and magic. Her greatest regret was that her photographs could not render the splendid colours of their costumes. his book therefore sets out to "add colour" to the impressions of Alexandra David-Neel: it returns to the same places, the same tribes, and does so with the same animating spirit - the desire to encounter and explore different cultures. In its six chapters it retraces the steps of Alexandra David-Neel along an ideal itinerary which - as it switches repeatedly back and forth, from past to present - enables the reader to accompany her on the adventurous journey across the land of gentlemen brigands.

Tibet : Land of Gentlemen Brigands

Travel

Asia

White Star Publishers

Siddharta - Le prince qui devins bouddha

ALBANESE, Marilia

Religion & Spirituality

White Star

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