A Saigon, Joseph, giovane reporter australiano, si guadagna da vivere scrivendo articoli, e soprattutto ricattando politici e uomini d'affari con fotografie compromettenti. Mentre sta seguendo il caso di una ragazza trovata morta sulle rive del fiume, viene avvicinato da un uomo che gli parla del Club 49 e della "piccola stanza oscura" in cui ha visto una bellissima donna dagli occhi color nocciola coperta di ferite. Joseph si lancia subito nelle indagini, non solo per scoprire ciò che di ...

Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point for a book that also describes travels through Vietnam, mountains in the Chinese Himalaya, lost cities of the Silk Road, mist-swathed cemeteries in Japan and the flat plains of Australia.

Dopo dieci anni trascorsi in Giappone, Cina e Vietnam, Patrick Holland ci racconta le storie di un occidentale alle prese con la complessità dell'Oriente. Un viaggio, quello di Holland, che attraversa la regione giapponese del Kansai – da Osaka all'area sacra dell'Oku-no-in – e continua nello Yunnan cinese e nelle città vietnamite di Saigon e La Vang. Come la sinuosa Muraglia cinese, i racconti si snodano uno dopo l'altro, dando voce ai luoghi e alla gente che li abita, disseminati di cita...

'Before nightfall I rode a taxi through Narita. Neon-lit restaurants and bars and dark cypress. The snow and a wind from the Sea of Japan had all but cleared the streets. Cedar temples sat beneath grey skies. Vending machines lit the wet and empty paths to their gates. I told the driver to go on to the city.'Lyrical and atmospheric. As the influence of the West falls away, an unnamed narrator drifts through the East's floating world of non-places - chain hotels, airports, ...

'The darkest little room in the world is the human heart,' she said at last. 'Even yours, perhaps, has black secrets that you would never let into the light.'Patrick's Holland's haunting new novel arises from his experiences in Indochina. An atmospheric literary thriller, it tells the story of Joseph, an Australian journalist living in Saigon who, shortly after reporting on a murdered girl washed up in Saigon River, is approached by a foreign businessman describing a brothel known ...

The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals are sympathetic to their escapades. When a policeman and a station manager go out on patrol from tiny Upper Warrego Station and disappear, Sergeant Nixon makes it his mission to purs...

Questa raccolta segue le tracce degli esuli attraverso gli inferni terrestri e i purgatori della modernità. In ogni storia c'è un contatto sensoriale con luce e suono, unito al bisogno di segni semplici e puri che diano un senso alla vita nel XXI secolo. “La città perduta in paradiso” fa rivivere i miracle plays nell'improbabile scenario di Pechino, contrapponendo la quiete della neve e i sussurri della tradizione al rumore del progresso. “Integrità” descrive un luogo desolato nel...

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showin...

INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote ...

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary.It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs...

In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Aged eighte...

Découvrez le premier tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique !Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople. Une aventure qui sera le grand événement de sa vie et dont il tirera un récit magistral en plusieurs volumes (Le Temps des offrandes, Entre fleuve et forêt et La route interrompue).