Following the death in 1216 BCE of the Egyptian Coptic patriarch Yuhanna ibn Abi Ghalib, a priest by the name of Daud ibn Yuhanna ibn Laqlaq petitioned the Muslim Ayyubid state authorities to be appoi
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跟著老黑看世界！一本似乎講旅行，實際講人生的書！「我的職志是寫作，但旅行是做幾乎所有事情的動機！」老黑說。旅行，令你一時間講不出話來，接著讓你有講不完的故事。——Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta以一百則旅行諺語為骨幹，包括作家、哲學家、科學家、政治家、教育家、美食家，藝術家等，透過體驗觀察，歸納出旅行的本質。雪兒（知名作家）游國珍（雄獅旅遊品牌策略總經理）曾琬鈴（「Winnie散漫遊」版主）廖科溢（旅遊節目主持人 ）豌豆老公主 Amy（「豌豆老公主與歪嘴雞の小資退休生活」版主）謝文憲（知識創業家）蘭萱（資深媒體人）旅遊真好推薦（以上按首字筆畫序排列）少數人對旅行者偏見是只懂享受、沒有遠見。的確，沒踏足遠行，難以體會站在山川景致下潸然淚下的感動。老黑的每一句旅行諺語，如醍醐灌頂，如久別重逢，說到人的心底，也到肉骨子。能出走，是幸福的，能閱讀此書，人生多一位旅友知己。 —— 同為旅人、一直跟隨老黑的後輩 雪兒Cher提早退休並不代表從此不工作，而是搶在人生還沒進入黃昏前，就開始做自己。老黑大哥是FIRE 族的標竿，在人生的上半場奮力得分，下半場時為自己而活，且過得比上半場更加精采。他同時也是許多郵輪愛好者崇拜的對象，開啟了讀者對旅遊不同的看法與想像，原來環遊世界可以用更加輕鬆的方式達成，還可以看到與眾不同的風景。書中提到許多我尚未曾造訪過的地方，看完書裡的描述和照片之後，讓人心嚮往之，很開心可以在出版前一睹為快。——豌豆老公主Amy「人生+旅行=無悔。年輕時，總想收集國家與城市，卻忘了帶上自己的心前行；五十歲後，旅行的野心小了點，但每回都記得帶上自己的心出發，卻意外窺探世界的美好。旅行教會我的事，除了謙卑與自省外，還有活在當下與忠於自我的人生觀。透過老黑的視角與觀察，帶領我看見旅程中，世界與人生的無限美好！——謝文憲大家有多久沒旅行了？ 跟著老黑的100個故事，就像跟著他一起走過一段段的旅程。沿路不只走馬看花， 還有深刻的與自我、與天地、與過去未來的對話，讓我也跟著回想起自己曾經走過的旅程，思考那些路途的意義.。與其說這是一本旅遊書，不如說是一本人生哲學書，非常適合在疫情坐困家中的大家，跟著老黑大哥一同去神遊世界、思考人生。——曾琬鈴無論你現在是18歲還是80歲，女生還是男生，已婚還是單身，有錢還是沒
──當人類輕視天塹地障，便是地理復仇之時──全球百大思想家 地緣政治經典之作深入衝突熱區，見證地圖上的權力傾軋▎專文導讀張登及／國立臺灣大學政治學系教授、臺大人文社會高等研究院副院長、中華民國國際關係學會副會長▎專業推薦（依姓氏筆畫排列）：任天豪／國防大學通識教育中心副教授杜念中／獨立研究者袁 易／政治大學國關中心兼任研究員黃介正／中華戰略暨兵棋研究協會理事長閻紀宇／資深媒體人「即便我們能把人造衛星送上太陽系，財經市場和網路空間甚至可以無垠無際，興都庫什山脈仍是極難跨越的障礙。」國際觀察家卡普蘭深入各大國際衝突地帶，以歷史為經、地理為緯，結合過去多位名家真知灼見，在書中展開名為地緣政治的巨帙──從歐洲、俄國、中國、印度，到土耳其、中東阿拉伯世界、巴爾幹半島與美洲大陸，他指出地理如何在政治、社會、文化等層面，影響一個乃至多個區域的過去、現在，還有未來。作者藉由豐富的實地探訪經驗、地緣理論與文史紀錄，重新喚起國際關係議題對地理的重視。亦在書中提到臺灣的關鍵戰略地位，以及在第一島鏈中點作為「不沉航母」的樞紐力量。種種跡象，都證明了地理因素是討論國際政治的重要視角。要掌握全球政經脈動，必得從地理、自然條件、國界劃定等實際面來審視。本書再次向地球村主義者證明，地理界線乃是不可逾越的環境因子──一片土地究竟會走向何種前景？答案就寫在無聲的山川地貌之中。「我們愈是關注時事，個人及其選擇就更重要；我們愈是觀察數百年的歷史演進，就愈感到地理的重要。」──重磅現身，重返偉大學者的理論與時代──（依書中登場順序排列，未全列）：摩根索（Han J.Morgenthau）／美國國際關係學者赫勒敦（Ibn Khaldun）／阿拉伯穆斯林學者、被譽為中世紀最偉大的思想家之一史派克曼（Nicholas J.Spykman）／美國地緣戰略學家、「圍堵政策」教父以撒．柏林（Isaiah Berlin）／著名英國思想家麥克尼爾（William H. McNeill）／美國歷史學家麥金德（Halford J. Mackinder）／英國地緣政治家哈濟生（Marshall G. S. Hodgson）／伊斯蘭史學家、社會思想學者史特勞斯─胡培（Robert Strausz-Hupé）／前美國外交官、地緣政治理論家史塔克（Freya Stark）／探險家、遊記作家湯恩比（Arnold J. Toynbee）／
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