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Claude Marthaler
BETWEEN SADDLE AND EARTH
(Entre Selle et Terre)
3 years after publication of his first book around the world (120'000 km in 7 years), the author makes off for another biketrip of 3 years accompanied by his girlfriend. They travel through Nord Africa, the Middle East, the Himalaya - beside many adventrues they are witnessing the uprising of the Tibetan people in Spring 2008 and were in Burma a few days after the cyclone Nargis hit the country badly.
320pp (Editions Olizane)
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Bruno Paulet
MEMORIES OF THE SANDS
(Mémoires des Sables. En Haute-Asie sur la piste oubliée d’Ella Maillart et Peter Fleming)
In the steps of Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming in Central Asia. This book relates a 800 km trip on a high altitude desert (average of 4000 m) situated on the edge of the Taklamakan, a region where the tibetan, mongol and uighur civilisation meet. The book received the prestigious Prix Pierre Loti (for travel literature) in 2008.
320pp - 16pp colour photographs (Editions Olizane)
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Claude Marthaler
THE SONGWHEELS – Seven Years by Bicycle Around the World
(Le Chant des Roues. 7 ans à vélo autour du monde)
During his 7 year trip around the World the author visited 60 countries and covered more than 122'000 km. Well written and nicely illustrated book (line drawings and photographs).
304pp – 16pp colour photographs (Editions Olizane); Rights sold: German, Italian – English translation available
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Claude B. Levenson
KAILASH – Jewel of the Snows. A Tibetan Travelogue
(Kailash, Joyau des Neiges. Carnet de voyage au Tibet)
Situated in Western Tibet, between India and Nepal, Mount Kailash is the most venerated holy mountain of Asia. The mythical Mount Meru is the axis of the World and abode ot the gods for the Hindus ; mandala for the buddhists, this solitary summit is venerated since immemorial times.
192pp – 16pp colour photographs (Editions Olizane)
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