長城和美玉：我的中國之愛（英）

　　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.

　　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 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.