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En 1275, alors que l’Empire mongol domine l’Asie, de la Chine à l’Euphrate, deux moines ouïghours chrétiens nestoriens vivant à Pékin, Çauma et son disciple Marcos, décident de se rendre en pèlerinage à Jérusalem, à l’époque même où Marco Polo effectue ce trajet en sens inverse.Parvenus en Mésopotamie, le catholicos nestorien – le pape de l’Eglise d’Orient – et l’empereur mongol de Perse leur font bon accueil. Cependant, il ne peuvent poursuivre leur périple à cause de la guerre entre les Mongols et les Mamelouks.Ils séjournent dans cette région depuis quatre ans quand le catholicos vient à mourir. Les évêques, qui doivent élire leur nouveau patriarche, sont désemparés face aux mœurs, aux coutumes et à la langue des maîtres du nouvel Empire mongol. Ils ont alors l’idée lumineuse de choisir Marcos, puisque les Ouïghours et les Mongols sont deux peuples très proches sortis des steppes d’Asie centrale.Bien que Marcos proteste, se sentant incapable de remplir cette tâche, il sera catholicos durant près de quarante ans, sous le nom de Jabalaha III. Çauma, grâce à sa maîtrise des langues, sera l’ambassadeur du khan auprès des puissances européennes pour tenter de sceller contre les Mamelouks une alliance qui aurait pu changer la face du monde. Çauma devient ainsi le premier homme connu à avoir parcouru l’Asie et l’Europe, du Pacifique à l’Atlantique.Jabalaha est le catholicos d’un véritable âge d’or de l’Eglise d’Orient, la plus vaste de l’époque. Cependant, à la fin de sa vie, il sera le témoin impuissant de son naufrage, victime de l’islamisation intolérante des Mongols.La biographie des deux moines fut écrite en syriaque au début du XIVe siècle, peu de temps après la mort de Jabalaha, par l’un de ses proches, et fut retrouvée en 1887 au Kurdistan.A travers ses voyages aussi bien réels que littéraires, Pierre Klein est tombé très jeune sous le charme de l’Asie. Cette passion l’a amené à la découverte de la chronique relatant le voyage des deux moines, qu’il présente de manière attrayante dans son ouvrage.
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Leon Ma. Guerrero (1915-82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus.
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Mayers analyses the entire history of American foreign relations with Russia and then the Soviet Union, using the drama of the lives of the men and women who worked at the American embassy in Moscow to tell his story. Particular attention is paid to the critical events of the twentieth century.
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The dramatic personal and professional story of Canada's most influential married couple.
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During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in Saigon and Hanoi following the French Indo-China war, the oppressions of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia, the erection of the Berlin Wall, multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva and New York during the Cold War are recounted with both insight and humility. Of his business career, MacLaren offers, for example, an insider's perspective on the collapse of Massey-Ferguson and the successes of his business magazine company. A political memoir set in an autobiography, The Fundamental Things Apply ranges widely over Canadian economic and international affairs, including NAFTA and deficit elimination, during the latter decades of the twentieth century, offering a timely and personal account of how the public policies - both domestic and international - pursued then were formative in creating the country we live in today.
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