“新時(shí)代的馬可·波羅”叢書共6種，中、英文版。本叢書選取長(zhǎng)期在中國(guó)生活和工作的國(guó)外友好人士的自述性作品，通過(guò)講述他們的在華經(jīng)歷和對(duì)中國(guó)的認(rèn)知、感受，促進(jìn)文明交流、文明互鑒、文明共存，推動(dòng)各國(guó)人民相互理解、相互尊重、相互信任，展現(xiàn)現(xiàn)當(dāng)代絲路精神新的傳承故事。
本書講述了一個(gè)英國(guó)人獨(dú)特而真實(shí)的長(zhǎng)城故事。三十多年來(lái)，經(jīng)歷過(guò)各種苦與樂、失與得，威廉·林賽從長(zhǎng)城的擅自闖入者，變成了有影響力的長(zhǎng)城守護(hù)者和長(zhǎng)城文化傳播者。他用優(yōu)美的文字描寫了長(zhǎng)城的壯美，細(xì)膩地表達(dá)了自己愛與深情。在通往長(zhǎng)城事業(yè)的道路上，總有愛妻“美玉”堅(jiān)定的支持與無(wú)私的奉獻(xiàn)。他們定居在北京箭扣長(zhǎng)城腳下，為來(lái)訪的中外客人分享長(zhǎng)城和他研究長(zhǎng)城的故事，并帶著他們身臨其境。一切來(lái)源于長(zhǎng)城，一切為了長(zhǎng)城——這也成為了林賽一家子的生活方式。
Marco Polo of the New Era, in both Chinese and English, is a series consisting of six narrative books by foreign friends who have lived and worked in China all along time. By describing their experience in China and their cognition and feelings about China, the bilingual series promotes the exchanges, mutual learning between and coexistence of civilizations, drives mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual trust between people from all countries, and shows the new inheritance of modern and contemporary Silk Road spirit.
Walking on the Great Wall of China: it's an experience of a lifetime. But for one man and one woman the Great Wall was to be so much more. Matchmaking. Life changing. Unfolding as a lifetime of experiences.
In this extraordinary Great Wall reality story, William Lindesay relives three decades of his China life with Beautiful Jade. He experiences the Wall as a vast theatre for exploration and adventure. Together they adopt it as their cause for conservation. As a family the Lindesays create their unique WildWall lifestyle beside it.
Exhilarating and humorous, frank and soulful, Great Wall, Beautiful Jade：My China Loves is an uplifting and inspirational account of a couple’s odyssey, their love for the Great Wall and the spirit of China that it embodies.
本書講述了一個(gè)英國(guó)人獨(dú)特而真實(shí)的長(zhǎng)城故事。三十多年來(lái)，經(jīng)歷過(guò)各種苦與樂、失與得，威廉·林賽從長(zhǎng)城的擅自闖入者，變成了有影響力的長(zhǎng)城守護(hù)者和長(zhǎng)城文化傳播者。他用優(yōu)美的文字描寫了長(zhǎng)城的壯美，細(xì)膩地表達(dá)了自己愛與深情。在通往長(zhǎng)城事業(yè)的道路上，總有愛妻“美玉”堅(jiān)定的支持與無(wú)私的奉獻(xiàn)。他們定居在北京箭扣長(zhǎng)城腳下，為來(lái)訪的中外客人分享長(zhǎng)城和他研究長(zhǎng)城的故事，并帶著他們身臨其境。一切來(lái)源于長(zhǎng)城，一切為了長(zhǎng)城——這也成為了林賽一家子的生活方式。
Walking on the Great Wall of China: it's an experience of a lifetime. But for one man and one woman the Great Wall was to be so much more. Matchmaking. Life changing. Unfolding as a lifetime of experiences.
In this extraordinary Great Wall reality story, William Lindesay relives three decades of his China life with Beautiful Jade. He experiences the Wall as a vast theatre for exploration and adventure. Together they adopt it as their cause for conservation. As a family the Lindesays create their unique WildWall lifestyle beside it.
Exhilarating and humorous, frank and soulful, Great Wall, Beautiful Jade：My China Loves is an uplifting and inspirational account of a couple’s odyssey, their love for the Great Wall and the spirit of China that it embodies.
The days and nights I have spent with William, Qi and his family in their farmhouse in the shadow of the Great Wall are among the most vivid and memorable of my life and of my years in China. Whether we were around the fire in the winter, nestling mugs of hot tea and jostling for space on the sofa with Hadrian (the black labrador, who was William’s 60th birthday gift) or sitting under the stars of a summer evening sky with the breeze gently rustling the leaves of the ginkgo trees in the courtyard and the jagged outline of the Wall just visible in the hills beyond, William’s stories of his adventures on the Wall have held me and his many guests entranced.
In this book, William tells the second part of his extraordinary story. Following his solo run along China’s Great Wall and marriage to Qi, they return to China with their first born, Jimmy, and begin in earnest to preserve and protect the Great Wall - the Wild Wall - of China, to research and share its story. It is a story of highs - meeting the Queen and the award of an OBE and recognition in China for his conservation work as the founder of International Friends of the Great Wall - but also of challenges overcome, of peasants throwing bricks with deadly aim at visiting philanthropists and of a very real brush with death in the Gobi desert.
Woven through all this is a telling of China’s social history as the family, joined by Tommy born in 2000 and Hadrian the dog in 2016, experience life in fast-growing China through the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the worst of the airpocalypse.
We meet too the ‘terrible and terrific’ guests who have visited the farmhouse over three decades: from the worse-is-better Spartans to Joanna Lumley ‘a(chǎn)s beautiful inside as she is outside’. Spoiler alert: the Dutch stand out as the best guests.
威廉·林賽，英籍長(zhǎng)城學(xué)者，畢業(yè)于英國(guó)利物浦大學(xué)地理地質(zhì)專業(yè)。1987年成功獨(dú)步長(zhǎng)城2470公里。2000年起專門探索、研究、保護(hù)長(zhǎng)城和傳播長(zhǎng)城文化。已出版《威廉：我的長(zhǎng)城生活》《虛擬長(zhǎng)城展：50件長(zhǎng)城文物》《萬(wàn)里長(zhǎng)城百年回望》《萬(wàn)里長(zhǎng)城百題問(wèn)答》《亞洲印象：長(zhǎng)城》等著作。因在長(zhǎng)城保護(hù)和促進(jìn)中英友好方面所作貢獻(xiàn)，榮獲中國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)院頒發(fā)的“友誼獎(jiǎng)?wù)隆保?998年）；英國(guó)女王伊麗莎白二世陛下頒發(fā)的“大英帝國(guó)勛章”（2006年）；北京市人民頒發(fā)的長(zhǎng)城“友誼獎(jiǎng)牌”（2008年）�；楹笈c妻子吳琪和兩個(gè)兒子（詹姆斯和托馬斯）長(zhǎng)期居住在北京。
WILLIAM LINDESAYO BE, a Great Wall researcher from British, studied geography at Liverpool University. Go full time on things Great Wall related - exploration and study, conservation and guidance since 2000. His publications include Wild Wall: My Life at the Great Wall of China, The Great Wall in 50 Objects, The Great Wall Explained, The Great Wall Revisited, Images of Asia: The Great Wall, etc. For conservation work Lindesay has received the Friendship Award of China (1998), the OBE from HM Queen Elizabeth II (2006), the Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award (2008). William, Wu Qi and their two sons, James and Thomas live beside the Great Wall at Jiankou in Beijing.
目 錄
地圖：前環(huán)襯、178 頁(yè)和后環(huán)襯
序 ........011
自序 ........013
前言：“野長(zhǎng)城”由來(lái)三部曲 ........017
第一部分
重返長(zhǎng)城
1994—1998
1. 在中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)社工作的時(shí)光 ........024
2. 騎行去長(zhǎng)城 ........026
3. 喬治的長(zhǎng)城地段 ........029
4. 為繞道騎行去“長(zhǎng)安”做準(zhǔn)備 ........033
5. 此地不對(duì)外開放 ........035
6. 從山西到陜西 ........038
7. 在新華社當(dāng)編輯 ........044
8. 在長(zhǎng)城歷史上漫步 ........047
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9. 撲朔迷離的九眼樓 ........051
10. 在北京買房子 ........057
11. 英國(guó)使者路經(jīng)古北口 ........060
12.“偶遇”威廉·蓋洛 ........064
13. 長(zhǎng)城腳下的農(nóng)家院 ........067
第二部分
保護(hù)長(zhǎng)城
1998—2007
14. 我“美化”了長(zhǎng)城 ........080
15. 長(zhǎng)城，這座露天博物館有館長(zhǎng)嗎 ........084
16. 穿越長(zhǎng)城時(shí)空的享受 ........088
17. 首個(gè)“野長(zhǎng)城周末”........092
18. 保護(hù)長(zhǎng)城遠(yuǎn)離現(xiàn)代化沖擊 ........097
19. 千禧年的跨年時(shí)刻 ........100
20. 荒野與長(zhǎng)城對(duì)峙 ........107
21. 箭扣長(zhǎng)城的四季 ........109
22. 長(zhǎng)城急救落崖女 ........114
23. 在挪威使館里討論長(zhǎng)城保護(hù)問(wèn)題 ........119
24. 淶源長(zhǎng)城上不愿離開崗位的敵樓 ........122
25. 長(zhǎng)城奇遇 ........124
26. 瀕危的長(zhǎng)城景觀 ........129
27. 尋找最古老的長(zhǎng)城 ........133
28. 長(zhǎng)城有禁區(qū)？ ........138
29. 我們也是志愿者！ ........151
30. 大雪紛飛寧夏行 ........153
31. 長(zhǎng)城——世界新七大奇跡之一 ........158
32.《懷柔長(zhǎng)城徒步指南》........163
33. 英國(guó)大使館里的長(zhǎng)城展 ........173
34. 重?cái)z長(zhǎng)城中的新故事 ........179
35. 出乎意料的消息 ........185
36. 在白金漢宮的一天 ........188
37. 北京首個(gè)“萬(wàn)里長(zhǎng)城 百年回望”展覽 ........193
38. 長(zhǎng)城的“顯赫時(shí)期”........202
39. 在“老龍”的心臟里 ........207
40. 尋找木長(zhǎng)城 ........211
41. 戈壁灘遇險(xiǎn) ........216
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