“新時代的馬可·波羅”叢書共6種，中、英文版。本叢書選取長期在中國生活和工作的國外友好人士的自述性作品，通過講述他們的在華經(jīng)歷和對中國的認知、感受，促進文明交流、文明互鑒、文明共存，推動各國人民相互理解、相互尊重、相互信任，展現(xiàn)現(xiàn)當代絲路精神新的傳承故事。
本書講述了一個英國人獨特而真實的長城故事。三十多年來，經(jīng)歷過各種苦與樂、失與得，威廉·林賽從長城的擅自闖入者，變成了有影響力的長城守護者和長城文化傳播者。他用優(yōu)美的文字描寫了長城的壯美，細膩地表達了自己愛與深情。在通往長城事業(yè)的道路上，總有愛妻“美玉”堅定的支持與無私的奉獻。他們定居在北京箭扣長城腳下，為來訪的中外客人分享長城和他研究長城的故事，并帶著他們身臨其境。一切來源于長城，一切為了長城——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.
本書講述了一個英國人獨特而真實的長城故事。三十多年來，經(jīng)歷過各種苦與樂、失與得，威廉·林賽從長城的擅自闖入者，變成了有影響力的長城守護者和長城文化傳播者。他用優(yōu)美的文字描寫了長城的壯美，細膩地表達了自己愛與深情。在通往長城事業(yè)的道路上，總有愛妻“美玉”堅定的支持與無私的奉獻。他們定居在北京箭扣長城腳下，為來訪的中外客人分享長城和他研究長城的故事，并帶著他們身臨其境。一切來源于長城，一切為了長城——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，英籍長城學者，畢業(yè)于英國利物浦大學地理地質(zhì)專業(yè)。1987年成功獨步長城2470公里。2000年起專門探索、研究、保護長城和傳播長城文化。已出版《威廉：我的長城生活》《虛擬長城展：50件長城文物》《萬里長城百年回望》《萬里長城百題問答》《亞洲印象：長城》等著作。因在長城保護和促進中英友好方面所作貢獻，榮獲中國國務院頒發(fā)的“友誼獎章”（1998年）；英國女王伊麗莎白二世陛下頒發(fā)的“大英帝國勛章”（2006年）；北京市人民頒發(fā)的長城“友誼獎牌”（2008年）�；楹笈c妻子吳琪和兩個兒子（詹姆斯和托馬斯）長期居住在北京。
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 頁和后環(huán)襯
序 ........011
自序 ........013
前言：“野長城”由來三部曲 ........017
第一部分
重返長城
1994—1998
1. 在中國日報社工作的時光 ........024
2. 騎行去長城 ........026
3. 喬治的長城地段 ........029
4. 為繞道騎行去“長安”做準備 ........033
5. 此地不對外開放 ........035
6. 從山西到陜西 ........038
7. 在新華社當編輯 ........044
8. 在長城歷史上漫步 ........047
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9. 撲朔迷離的九眼樓 ........051
10. 在北京買房子 ........057
11. 英國使者路經(jīng)古北口 ........060
12.“偶遇”威廉·蓋洛 ........064
13. 長城腳下的農(nóng)家院 ........067
第二部分
保護長城
1998—2007
14. 我“美化”了長城 ........080
15. 長城，這座露天博物館有館長嗎 ........084
16. 穿越長城時空的享受 ........088
17. 首個“野長城周末”........092
18. 保護長城遠離現(xiàn)代化沖擊 ........097
19. 千禧年的跨年時刻 ........100
20. 荒野與長城對峙 ........107
21. 箭扣長城的四季 ........109
22. 長城急救落崖女 ........114
23. 在挪威使館里討論長城保護問題 ........119
24. 淶源長城上不愿離開崗位的敵樓 ........122
25. 長城奇遇 ........124
26. 瀕危的長城景觀 ........129
27. 尋找最古老的長城 ........133
28. 長城有禁區(qū)？ ........138
29. 我們也是志愿者！ ........151
30. 大雪紛飛寧夏行 ........153
31. 長城——世界新七大奇跡之一 ........158
32.《懷柔長城徒步指南》........163
33. 英國大使館里的長城展 ........173
34. 重攝長城中的新故事 ........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“萬里長城 百年回望”展覽 ........193
38. 長城的“顯赫時期”........202
39. 在“老龍”的心臟里 ........207
40. 尋找木長城 ........211
41. 戈壁灘遇險 ........216
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