Marco Carnovale

Falcini, Giulia: Il Nüshu, la scrittura che diede voce alle donne (2020) ****  Sinossi   Al di là della Grande Muraglia, immerso tra le coll...

Synopsis The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the infamous 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to prote...

Un viaggio compiuto nel 2022, quando, a seguito di alcune disavventure professionali e sentimentali, decisi di cambiar vita. Un punto e a ca...

Synopsys This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. The shells were carried fro...

Synopsys In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer R...

Synopsys In this groundbreaking biography , Jung Chang  vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese...

Synopsys Scott Hicks' screen adaptation of David Guterson's best-selling novel. On San Pietro Island, shortly after the end of ...

Piccola zona di Chongqing, preservata più o meno come era prima della modernizzazione della Cina, una specie di museo a cielo aperto. Non ...

My latest book: Beyond the Wall: Adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle Beyond the Iron Curtain has just been published a...

Typical Maldivan boat Tales from the many trips to the Maldives of the author. Avoiding the tourist resorts, he visited remote villages,...

Islamic Center in Malé Synopsis The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than...

Synopsis Stef is a Dutch expat who moved to Italy in 2008, accompanied by his husband and dog, to start their bed and breakfast Villa I ...

Synopsis Diary of a young American Passionist missionary who is sent deep into China to preach and help. Theophane is just twenty-five y...

Synopsis What does Bhutan understand about happiness that the rest of the world does not? Award-winning journalist and author Madeline D...

Synopsis Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan—a tiny, landlocked country bordering China and India. Impossibly re...

Synopsis Shoe-horned into the Grand Himalayas, Bhutan - Land of the Peaceful Thunder Dragon - is a fiercely independent kingdom that celeb...

Beethoven nears the end, by Batt Synopsis What is music? How is it constructed? How is it consumed? Why do you enjoy it at all? Nichol...

Blogger learning to be human Synopsis Ever since Darwin and  The Descent of Man , the existence of humans has been attributed to our i...

Review This is, in its own peculiar way, a travel book, which is why this review has a place in this blog. When I asked the author what ...

Synopsis When Peter Hessler went to China as a Peace Corps  volunteer in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years...