Theme Recommended Books - The world is so big, where can we go to see it? Body and soul, there is always one on the way

The charm of travel is to go to different places and complete encounters again and again. Encountering completely unfamiliar landscapes and customs, encountering a kind of life, a kind of philosophy, a kind of human attitude, encountering our own dreams, and touching a self that we have never met before. Have you ever wanted to take a quick trip? But for various reasons, I never took the first step. Don’t be depressed, if you can’t travel as much as you want for the time being, then read these books! See the outside world through the author's eyes. Body and soul, there is always one on the way.

"The Old Patagonia Express"

Author: Paul Theroux

"Reading this book is more interesting than a boring trip Much more. It is full of personality and very exciting, which can make you excited and inspire you to follow him all the way. This is a rare reading experience more than thirty years ago. After completing his trip to Africa, Paul Theroux began to visit Latin America, which was still mysterious and closed. This journey starts with a commuter subway train, followed by a relay of various trains. At that time, the back of old Europe was bleak and thick, and the smile of America was ambiguous and difficult to understand; the big countries and small countries struggling to escape were bumping into each other, and their future was uncertain. This journey started with a commuter subway train, followed by a relay of various trains. From Medford, Massachusetts, which is close to the big city of Boston, we came to the small town of Esquel in the Patagonian plateau of Argentina. In one season, the cold and heat, the heaven and the earth have rumbled around on the wheels and tracks. The Andes Mountains, the homeland of the Inca, distant relatives who have never met, Borges in his twilight years... It was an era without the Internet, mobile communications and digital cameras. Street talks, local customs, scenery and scenery were all in the eyes of travelers. The end of the pen.

The author spends a lot of pen and ink describing all kinds of people along the way, whether they are indifferent passengers on the train, enthusiastic or deceptive conductors, or people from all walks of life who deal with each other at small stations along the way. The stories in this book are exciting and exciting to read.

He said, "Travel is not a vacation alone", but "a little adventure, some danger, some kind of emergency, immersive discomfort, and the experience of being with yourself" is what he want.

His journey is to discover the world. After reading this book, people always have the urge to start.

"Traveler's Breakfast"

Author: Banri Yonehara

"Eat caviar in Russia happily, eat fried carp in the Czech Republic with a sad face, go Looking for the delicious Turkish honey in my childhood in Europe, and eating fresh ice fish shavings when I was stationed in Siberia... ”

"Traveler's Breakfast" is a collection of essays on food and beauty by the writer Banri Yonehara.

A pair of good neighbors, profound culture and interesting jokes will always live on the tip of human tongue. Banri Yonehara is a well-known Russian translator and a well-known "venomous beauty". He travels freely in Eurasia and records the journey of hilarious tongue-in-cheeks.

I happily ate caviar in Russia, ate fried carp in the Czech Republic with a sad expression, went to Europe to find the delicious Turkish honey of my childhood, and ate fresh ice fish shavings when I was stationed in Siberia... Banri Yonehara Follow your insatiable taste buds and wander the vast map of food culture. Food satisfies the hungry stomach and soothes the wandering soul, and the delicious food and worries are all swept away!

Author Banri Yonehara follows the insatiable taste buds and travels on the map of food culture. Food It can not only satisfy the hungry stomach, but also soothe the wandering soul, and record these stories caused by food in funny and witty writing.

Banri Yonehara said, "Many people like to classify people by blood type, but I would first divide people into "eating to live" and "living to eat." The former are mostly pessimistic philosophers who like to dream, while the latter are mostly realists who are optimistic about life. "

You will die if you eat delicious food, and you will die if you don't eat it. If you are going to die anyway, it would be a waste if you don't eat it!

"Drums in the Distant Place"

Author: Haruki Murakami

“One morning I woke up and suddenly listened, hearing the sound of drums in the distance. The sound of drums came from far, far away, far away in time, and was very faint. Listen, listen, I'm going to embark on a long journey no matter what. ”

To be precise, this is an essay about Haruki Murakami’s life in Europe. The book hardly introduces the famous places of interest, but more about integrating into the ordinary local residents and starting from the most ordinary things. Life begins, using subtle and rational brushstrokes to record the differences and similarities in every detail of this foreign country.

"Drums in the Distance" records the period from the autumn of 1986 to the autumn of 1989. Haruki Murakami and his wife started a life of half travel and half creation in Greece, Italy, and surrounding countries.

In the past three years, they have lived in different countries, islands and cities in Europe, tasted all the local food and wine, and experienced different folk customs and cultural differences. It was during this period that he created "Norwegian Wood" and "Dance!" dance! dance! "Two full-length novels, and also recorded every detail of those three years of life in "The Sound of Drums in the Distance".

In the smooth and slightly humorous writing, you can always feel the author's calm and gentle attitude towards life; the description of the details of life can be seen everywhere between the lines.

These make people feel at peace and understand that travel, aside from the initial novelty and excitement, is nothing more than life after calming down.

"Chasing Dreams and Growth"

Author: Ye Wubin

"Through this incident, I understand that in the case of information asymmetry, it is easy for us to use our own Feeling or imagining can magnify the degree of difficulty. If you don’t insist on checking the facts, you will easily be limited by your own subjective experience and choose to retreat. This reminds me of the sentence: Doing is the best way to solve the current anxiety. "

"Chasing Dreams, Growing Up, and Using Dreams to Achieve Yourself and the World" records the author's seven-year journey to complete his "global trip" dream, as well as his experiences and thoughts during this period, emphasizing "the power of learning through experience." Expand, open up a new pattern for your life, and gain the wisdom of growth." The book is divided into three parts. In the first part, the author reviews his experience of "realizing his dream" of traveling around the world; in the second part, he sorts out the "dream rules" for readers to overcome difficulties and challenges and achieve their goals; and in the third part, the author turns his perspective to " "Others", unearthed more than ten interesting stories, and provided an in-depth and simple interpretation of vivid cases of "overcoming huge difficulties and realizing dreams" in the development process of mankind throughout the ages. This book sorts out a series of "human growth stories" for us, conveying the wisdom about growth - "difficulties are a ladder for climbing upwards" and a dividend for growth.

As we grow up, we will inevitably face various difficulties and experience our own confused years and difficult moments. We hope that the "successful" thinking and methods shared in this book will convey the courage and energy to realize our dreams. , can help you at a critical moment in life to grasp the freedom of choice; lead you in ordinary daily life to enjoy an unbalanced and happy life.

"The Lost Satellite"

Author: Liu Zichao

"The level of development in each region therefore varies greatly: places like Khujand located in the Fergana Basin The northern cities are relatively industrialized; the central and southern parts are able to maintain self-sufficient agriculture; as for the Pamir Plateau, people still use ancient agricultural methods and are teetering on the edge of survival."

Over the past nine years, writer Liu Zichao wrote. Go deep into the heart of Asia for the first time and travel to the mysterious neighboring countries - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan - in this land on the edge of globalization and between the great powers, a journey between the past and the future will unfold. A journey of search between.

Speeding along the national border, bypassing scattered enclaves, galloping in the Pamir no-man’s land, and anchoring at the Soviet nuclear explosion test site, he witnessed the isolated place with the spirit of an explorer; he set foot on it. On the golden road of Samarkand, he wandered through the bloody battlefields and imperial palaces, stared at the oldest holy books, and touched the pagodas written by Xuanzang. He tried to find the eyes of the ancients; he met the Tajik youth who placed their future on the Chinese language, and met The Chinese, who have been trapped in the Aral Sea for seven years, heard a drunken businessman shouting at the banknotes thrown into the air in an Uzbek bar: "What you saw before was all an illusion, this is reality!" Along the way, he heard Meet all kinds of people, wandering between hope and frustration, freedom and loss.

Everything is like a deorbiting satellite, ambiguous and lost, full of vitality, loneliness and struggle. We are right next door, but we don’t realize it - until the trip starts, until we open this book.

"The Eternal Journey of Time"

Author: Michio Hoshino

"The so-called scenery may be a certain mountain, or a beautiful river, or it may It is the touch of the wind blowing through this land. If the dream scenery is nature, no matter how much enthusiasm humans show, the other side will not respond, and the seasons will continue to change before our eyes. Slowly passing."

"Eternal Time Journey" includes Hoshino Michio's unpublished photography and Siberian diary, which is a review and tribute to Hoshino Michio's epic photography career. Michio Hoshino uses his lens to capture the beauty of nature and the fragility and strength of life, and records the polar scenery, animals and people with the purest love. His words are as simple and warm as his images. Every journey is touching." A journey of the soul.” Michio Hoshino once said: "When life comes to an end, I hope that my life will end in Alaska." He dedicated the most youthful years of his life to this far north land, and it became his final resting place. place. He used his lens to leave us with those precious disappearing lives and landscapes, and also wrote the eternal dialogue between man and nature.

"Walk Again"

Author: Yang Xiao

"It is easy for people to imagine people walking on the road, especially on the highway, as weirdos or ascetics. , but don’t understand how happy they could be."

"Rewalking: Searching for Southwest Associated University on Roads, Rivers and Post Roads" is a work by the young author Yang Xiao, about a writer who is not without confusion. The story of retracing the Southwest Associated University's westward migration on foot.

In 1938, the "Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan Tour Group" trekked across three provinces and through the southwest hinterland; in 2018, the young author Yang Xiao, who was at a turning point in his life, set foot on this 1,600-kilometer road again. This is an atypical road hike. You have to pass by large trucks from time to time, but the scenery of the mountains, water, birdsong, and human voices along the way gradually overlap with what the exiles who walked the same road in history saw and heard. , interweaving, and even dialogue and political invigoration, a layered and neglected "China" slowly emerged.

"Chinese Scenery"

Author: Shan Zhiqiang

"I hope that the beautiful images evoked by migratory birds will not disappear because of the so-called 'bird flu'. May the subtle human emotions of time passing by, longing for homesickness, sorrow of farewell, and so on be evoked by the migrating birds from time to time."

Shan Zhiqiang, the author of "Chinese Scenery", is a well-known geologist in China. Experts and scholars. This book selects the essence of the prefaces written by Shan Zhiqiang over the past ten years. It is regarded as another exquisite work after "Beauty Pageant in China" and "Chinese People's Landscape Avenue", and a classic for the tenth anniversary of the revision of "National Geographic of China" collection.

"Chinese Scenery" revolves around the theme of "Understanding China" and builds a template for grasping China with seven parts: "Mountains, Waters, Glaciers, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, National Essence, Country, and Local Areas". Each part is a clever summary, which not only outlines China's landscape characteristics and geographical collections, but also accurately refines the author's grasp of China's natural landscape, humanities and history, demonstrating the author's true understanding and perception of the land of China.

Shan Zhiqiang, who has been wandering in nature for a long time and is deeply immersed in the humanities and geography disciplines, is well versed in the connotation of communication between man and nature. His words are always eloquent and full of insights. A beautiful cognition of the natural world without lack of rational or passionate descriptions. Through the framework and perspective he provides, those seemingly simple relics, ordinary landscapes or things are often outlined into concrete and vivid scenes and appearances, inspiring countless readers to have an endless yearning for Chinese landscapes.

The book "Chinese Scenery" also contains more than a hundred exquisite pictures and maps. Shan Zhiqiang said in the "preface" of this book that although this is a collection of essays, it is polished according to the standards of a new book. In addition to the careful layout of themes and structures and the careful combing of the text, each picture The descriptions of the pictures are also written by him himself. In order to use more detailed evidence to express his clear understanding of China's landscape and human geography.

"Seeing the World on a Motorcycle"

Author: Yuan Yue

"The value of travel depends on what you want to get from life."

Yuan Yue, who calls himself a motorcycle, has a wide range of interests and is involved in life sciences, environmental protection, cultural tourism, pop music and other fields. He has always been curious about exploring the world.

Walk on the top of the world to experience the lonely beauty of the Far North; travel to the Antarctic to explore the last frontier of mankind. Looking for Cuba on the eve of the great revolution, opening up the thorny flower of Sri Lanka, wandering in the mysterious South Pacific, and revealing the mystery of Zimbabwe... Yuan Yue used his enduring curiosity, knowledge reserves that keep pace with the times, and huge With passion and courage, we explore hard-to-reach landscapes and difficult-to-solve problems, and share unique experiences. In his words: "The more human stories I know, the less prejudice I have against the world."

Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.

Reading and traveling are both a dialogue between oneself and the world.

If you can’t leave home for various reasons,

Then explore the wonderful world in books!