长城和美玉：我的中国之爱（英）

　　本书讲述了一个英国人独特而真实的长城故事。三十多年来，经历过各种苦与乐、失与得，威廉·林赛从长城的擅自闯入者，变成了有影响力的长城守护者和长城文化传播者。他用优美的文字描写了长城的壮美，细腻地表达了自己爱与深情。在通往长城事业的道路上，总有爱妻“美玉”坚定的支持与无私的奉献。他们定居在北京箭扣长城脚下，为来访的中外客人分享长城和他研究长城的故事，并带着他们身临其境。一切来源于长城，一切为了长城——这也成为了林赛一家子的生活方式。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.

　　威廉·林赛，英籍长城学者，毕业于英国利物浦大学地理地质专业。1987年成功独步长城2470公里。2000年起专门探索、研究、保护长城和传播长城文化。已出版《威廉：我的长城生活》《虚拟长城展：50件长城文物》《万里长城百年回望》《万里长城百题问答》《亚洲印象：长城》等著作。因在长城保护和促进中英友好方面所作贡献，荣获中国国务院颁发的“友谊奖章”（1998年）；英国女王伊丽莎白二世陛下颁发的“大英帝国勋章”（2006年）；北京市人民颁发的长城“友谊奖牌”（2008年）。婚后与妻子吴琪和两个儿子（詹姆斯和托马斯）长期居住在北京。William Lindesay OBE is a British geographer， a research fellow at Liverpool University， a member of The Explorers Club and a recent recipient of The Special Award of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. After a journey on foot along the Great Wall in 1987 he settled in China in 1990， and has been dedicated to Great Wall studies since 2000.Lindesay has spent an estimated 2，800 days on the Great Wall. He curated The Great Wall Revisited exhibit， shown in nine venues across China， and has published six books on his subject， including Alone on the Great Wall and The Great Wall Explained. A popular presenter， he has fronted documentaries for National Geographic and Discovery channels， while versions of his Flying the Great Wall have been broadcast in more than 40 countries. Lindesay received the Friendship Award of China in 1998 and the Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award in 2008.William Lindesay is married to Qi， whose name means ‘Beautiful Jade’. They live beside the Great Wall at Jiankou， Beijing.

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