For the Chinese, the Great Wall defined a psychological frontier. Within it lay the Celestial Kingdom, the compass of all civilization. Beyond lay a barbarian world of chaos and exile. Chinese journeys to the west, along the ancient Silk Road, were passages into the unknown, often into legend. Today the great western province of Xinjiang is still a land of exile, the destination of soldiers, reluctant settlers, political prisoners and disgraced officials. Following in their wake, Stanley Stewart's journey takes him halfway across Asia, from Shanghai to the banks of the Indus. He passes through the heartlands of China, beyond the Great Wall and into the wilds of Tartary. He crosses the Gobi and the Taklamakan deserts to the high passes of the Pamirs and the Karakorams. Along the way, he meets the modern Chinese for whom these regions beyond the Wall still hold the same morbid fascination. The author describes the lost cities of Central Asia, a Buddhist monastery in the shadow of Tibet, a Kirghiz wedding on the roof of the world, an encounter with nomads in the Mountains of Heaven, a tussle with the secret police in Kashgar, and a love affair in Xian. In a book packed with character and incident, he investigates the paradoxes of travel itself, the lure of far horizons and the isolation of exile.

Frontiers of Heaven : Journey Beyond the Great Wall

History

STEWART, Stanley

Asia

Firebird Distributing

Despite the constant publicity surrounding aircraft safety, accidents involving commercial jets remain extremely rare, when compared to other forms of transportation. Much attention is given to the tragic demise of an airliner, but seldom do we hear about the near misses-dangerous in-flight dilemmas that are safely resolved. Emergency! recalls dozens of actual airline incidents &amp; near disasters that were brought to happy conclusions by the flying skill &amp; decision-making savvy of the pilots, flight engineers, &amp; flight crews involved. More than just a collection of suspense-packed stories-although it is certainly that-this book takes readers inside the cockpit to observe the dramatic operations of crew members as they successfully prevent emergency situations from becoming fatal accidents. An accomplished engineer, 747 pilot, &amp; aviation writer, Stanley Stewart has operated heavy jets for British Airways for almost 20 years.

Emergency: Crisis in the Cockpit

McGraw

Air Disasters

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ian Allan

The Enclosed Garden: The Tradition & the Image in 17th Century Poetry

The University of Wisconsin Press

Shakespeare and Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Nietzsche's Case: Philosophy as/and Literature

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nietzsche's Case

Magnus, Bernd

Mileur, Jean-Pierre

Philosophy

This book presents fascinating facts about what it takes to fly a big jet. How does a large aircraft fly? How long is the take-off run at maximum weight? How much fuel is carried on a transatlantic flight? The answers to these and thousands of other questions are given with sufficient enough detail to satisfy even the most inquisitive reader. Chapter by chapter, readers are taken from the basics of big jets through to the actual flight of a Boeing 777 from London to Boston. Readers will examine the weather forecast with the pilots, monitor the take-off from the flight deck, listen to the radio reports along the way, view the mid-Atlantic weather from above the clouds, witness the preparations for descent, and experience the excitement of landing in Boston. "Flying the Big Jets" is a comprehensive book that reveals the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot.

Flying the Big Jets: All You Wanted to Know About the Jumbos but Couldn't Find a Pilot to Ask

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Arco Pub.

From the Flight Deck 1 Heathrow

Americas

Allan

Literary

Ian Allan Publishing

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