本书真实还原了20世纪 20 年代时遗存的北京城墙与城门。作者通过实地走访考察，被这些宏伟古迹的壮美所折服，也因其衰败的现状而叹息。除了在描写中投入艺术史家的浪漫与情怀，喜仁龙还坚持严谨的研究方法：挖掘中国历史文献中对城墙城门的繁杂记载，勘测丈量每一段城墙、每一座城楼的尺寸，观察记录城墙、城门及周边街市乡野的现状，实景拍摄城墙城门的照片，精细绘制城门各种角度的建筑细节图，使这本考察手记在文学性、科学性、历史性等方面达到了极高的水准。

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

2003 film directed by Lars von Trier

1978 Swedish comedy film directed by Tage Danielsson

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.