An Extraordinary Journey
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy travel literature and humanistic wandering and are willing to feel a foreign atmosphere through words
- Beginner readers interested in Maya civilization, American history and legends of literature and art
- Readers who want to combine music appreciation with travel reading and seek sensory experience
- Ordinary readers suited to reading cultural essays in fragmented time on commutes or before sleep
Not a good fit for
- Readers of practical travel guides needing detailed transport, accommodation and itinerary planning
- Readers expecting systematic academic research or rigorous historical scholarship
- Readers who prefer a single main narrative and are unaccustomed to multi-themed cultural essays
Reading tips
- Start with the chapter on the civilization or region that interests you most, then return to other pieces; linear order is not required.
- When you encounter material on a musical or literary master, look up a related piece or work to compare and enhance immersion.
- Read the relevant chapters once before and once after a trip: build background impressions beforehand, and revisit descriptions of ordinary households and daily details afterward.
- Prepare a map or notebook to mark the regions and civilizational threads mentioned in the book, helping to connect the scattered chapters into a whole.
About the publisher
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House focuses on contemporary and modern literary and artistic works, literary theory, and translations of foreign literature, while also covering categories such as history, popular science, Eastern philosophy, and world classics. Its collection includes 737 titles, with representative publications ranging from traditional Chinese classics such as Records of the Grand Historian, The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, and The Analects to foreign literary works including the complete classic plays of Shakespeare, Balzac's Old Goriot and Eugénie Grandet (in celebrated translations by Fu Lei), and The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Its author resources span classical figures such as Sima Qian, Song Yingxing, and Confucius, foreign writers such as Shakespeare and Balzac, and translators such as Zhu Shenghao and Fu Lei. The press combines the transmission of classics with an orientation toward general reading, developing a distinctive profile in both the editing of traditional texts and the translation of foreign literature. Public information is limited, so the above emphasizes the publishing profile reflected in the books held in the collection.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 音符上的奥地利：山水之间的音乐旅行
- 版权信息
- 修订版序
- 原序一
- 原序二
- 第一章 “音乐之都”维也纳
- “金色大厅”的诱惑
- 维也纳爱乐“新年音乐会”漫谈
- 维也纳的“夜乐”与“白日梦”
- 维也纳国家歌剧院的《齐格弗里德》
- 中央公墓和城市公园的音乐家
- 莫扎特在维也纳
- 贝多芬故地寻访记
- 感受舒伯特的迷人忧伤
- 第二章 “音乐天堂”萨尔茨堡
- 萨尔茨堡艺术节小史
- 萨尔茨堡艺术节亲历记
- 萨尔茨堡的《唐·乔瓦尼》
- 重访萨尔茨堡
- 莫扎特的萨尔茨堡
- 萨尔茨堡的“莫扎特周”
- 在教堂聆听莫扎特
- 第三章 边走边听的感恩旅途
- 马勒：从“小屋”到墓地
- 一次与布鲁克纳有关的旅行
- 水天辽阔布尔根兰
- 新锡德尔湖上的轻歌剧
- 歌剧舞台上的“景观音乐剧”
- 穿越时空的《卡门》
- 湖光水色中的音乐盛宴——克恩顿音乐之夏
- 大气磅礴格拉茨
- 乡村受难剧院的瓦格纳节日
- 布雷根茨的湖上歌剧
- 黑山中的“Schubertiade”
- 湖区小镇的“乐长”
- 我的古尔达奇缘
- 莫扎特之殇
- “海顿年”的“冬之旅”
- 未竟的旅途
- 修订版后记
- 追寻加勒比海的阳光：穿越古巴、墨西哥的神秘之旅
- 版权信息
- 古巴
- 古巴，古巴
- 两个世界
- 圣哥伦布大教堂
- 五分钱小酒馆
- 朗姆酒博物馆
- 古巴雪茄
- 巧克力博物馆
- 老爷车呀真漂亮
- 艺术古巴
- 皇家力量城堡
- 革命博物馆
- 古巴男人
- 古巴人的生活
- 那几天，我们家住哈瓦那
- 哈瓦那之梦
- 黄色行李
- 墨西哥
- 坎昆——挂在彩虹一端的瓦罐
- 图卢姆纪事
- 巴拉多利德的白昼
- 巴拉多利德的夜晚
- 奇琴伊察
- 梅里达青年旅馆
- 美丽的乌斯马尔
- 坎佩切——玛雅之路上的遗憾
- 帕伦克
- 帕伦克，想说再见不容易
- 玛雅夜色也深沉
- 墨西哥壁画
- 银 城
- 墨西哥城地铁游记
- 人类学博物馆
- 流行艺术博物馆
- 龙舌兰博物馆
- 墨西哥冰棒
- 一个女人的自画像
- 墨西哥——最明净的地区
- 从三文化广场到加利巴迪广场
- 墨西哥城瓜达卢佩圣母大教堂
- 日月金字塔
- 我们的旅馆
- 后记
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About the author
Liu Xuefeng is a Chinese author whose writing centers mainly on classical music. Public information about him is limited, and a complete account of his life has not been made available. Nine of his works are held in the collection, including From Baroque and Classicism to Modernism, From Beethoven to Richard Strauss, The Hidden Chopin, Good Night! Der Rosenkavalier, and Nights in Mallorca, several of which belong to the series Listen to Music with Liu Xuefeng; the list also includes Notes of a Music Lover and Austria in Notes: A Musical Journey Through Landscapes. These works combine surveys of music history, commentary on composers and pieces, and musical travel essays. His prose is essayistic, attentive to the experience of listening and to cultural context, and is often classified under film and television, essays and miscellaneous writings, and theory.
Hou Ping is an author about whom limited public information is available. Two works can currently be confirmed, both in the fields of travel writing and miscellaneous prose. Among them, In Pursuit of Caribbean Sunshine: A Mysterious Journey Through Cuba and Mexico takes Cuba and Mexico as its travel thread, blending observations along the way with personal reflections and combining the immediacy of a travelogue with the lyrical tone of prose. Extraordinary Journey follows the same direction, weaving observation and thought into the narrative of travel. Judging from the available works, Hou Ping's writing emphasizes experiencing foreign lands on foot and recording the landscapes, people, and cultural details encountered along the way in plain language, allowing readers to complete a journey on paper through the text. The works may be classified as travel literature and miscellaneous prose, and are suitable for readers interested in the atmosphere of Latin America. Since no reliable records of the author's dates, nationality, or educational background have been found, no speculation is offered here; the introduction is limited to the known works.
Song Suchen is a Chinese author about whom public information is limited. The database holds only two of the author's works, both falling under travel writing and miscellaneous prose. The representative titles are In Pursuit of Caribbean Sunshine: A Mysterious Journey Through Cuba and Mexico and An Extraordinary Journey; the former focuses on observations from Cuba and Mexico, while the latter continues the travel-writing vein, suggesting that the author's writing is grounded in journeys and emphasizes what is seen and felt along the way. According to the existing profile, Song Suchen graduated from Nanjing University with a degree in English and from Monash University in Australia with a degree in psychology, currently works at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Nanjing University, loves travel and photography, and has published six translated books. This interdisciplinary educational background and translation experience lend the writing delicate perception and rational reflection beyond mere narration. Overall, Song Suchen's works are mainly travel essays, intended for readers interested in foreign cultures and travel experiences.
