![]() It appeared to us at twilight, in the hollow of a ledge, flanked to the north by the sharp incisors of the Kunlun peaks soaring to 6,000 meters, and to the south by the Changtang. Observing Lake Yaniugol, rising high in the steppe, he writes: “It settled like a sacred host of jade upon the sand. ![]() Tesson’s words, in a ravishing translation by Frank Wynne, paint pictures as vivid as any photograph. In THE ART OF PATIENCE: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet (Penguin Press, 195 pp., $26), the French writer Sylvain Tesson chronicles his rapturous journey through Tibet’s Chantang plateau with the wildlife photographer Vincent Munier. Seven fascinating and purposeful new books revive the mystery, the history and the possibilities of the reawakened planet. Still, you don’t need a plane to reactivate your curiosity. ![]() But lately Americans have been returning to flight hubs by the millions - packed, vaccinated and thirsting for a cure for what the Germans call Fernweh: the yearning for far-off places. ![]() Last year, as the pandemic put passports in lockdown, the number of international tourist arrivals dropped by more than one billion. ![]()
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