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Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one's own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus, the act of chronicling one's journey has never been more popular, nor the urge stronger. Writing Away: A Creative Guide to...
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Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...
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"The celebrated journals of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English, with nuanced observations from star author and journalist Anthony Brandt. At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography,...
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Joshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of fourteen and for the next thirty-five years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthly pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred- year-old sloop and set off for Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed...
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
8) In Morocco
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The great American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) here gives us her colorful and textured travel memoir "In Morroco" (1920). Still a deeply energized work, Wharton imbues the reader with a sense of wonder that served as the impetus for her travels into this exotic Northern African land. Edith Wharton made her name as a novelist closely associated with the prolific Henry James. Their personal and literary kinship may be seen in much of her long...
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Part of a remarkably talented family, Henry James is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century. Although he is best known for novels such as The Wings of the Dove and The Portrait of a Lady, James was also a renowned essayist. This volume collects a series of essays about James' extensive travels in Italy, which were written and revised by the author over a period of 40 years.
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Includes 32 color photos taken by the author during the month he was embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq.
This is a riveting account of the war in Iraq moving north with the 82nd Airborne. Units of the 82nd depart Kuwait and convoy to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its intact bridges across the Euphrates. Boots on the Ground quickly becomes an action-filled microcosm of the new...
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El Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón-transcrito por Bartolomé de las Casas-nos descubre a un personaje fascinante y contradictorio, que pasa del entusiasmo a la desconfianza o a las especulaciones geográficas más aventuradas (confunde, por ejemplo, Cuba por Cipango, el nombre que los europeos daban a Japón durante el Medioevo). Sin embargo, aunque en su persona se mezclen la maravilla ante el mundo desconocido, el piadoso deseo de evangelizar...
12) Mexicana
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"Mexicana" es el homenaje personalísimo, ameno y original de Manuel Arroyo-Stephens a México y a su abrumadora capital, a su pasado y su presente, a sus sabores, olores y colores, a sus cielos, tierras y mares, y sobre todo a sus personajes, propios y adoptivos, con quienes el autor tuvo la suerte de cruzarse durante los años que vivió entre México y España. En este texto a caballo entre las memorias, la crónica y el dietario, el lector descubrirá...
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La fascinante realidad del país más hermético del mundo.
En mayo de 2018, Michael Palin, estrella de los Monty Python, expresidente de la Real Sociedad Geográfica de Londres e intrépido trotamundos, pasó dos semanas en la República Popular Democrática de Corea, un país hermético sin cobertura ni internet donde el campo vive anclado en el pasado y en las ciudades abundan rascacielos brillantes y lujosas estaciones de tren.
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One of America's most important and influential naturalists, John Muir was a formative figure in the country's conservation movement and the establishment of the national park system. He was also a gifted storyteller, and in this series of essays he reminisces about his early years. Muir relates the circumstances that inspired and nurtured his fascination with the natural world, from his boyhood in Scotland to his years at the University of Wisconsin,...
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First published in 1947, Edmund Wilson's Europe without Baedeker returns to print with personal notes from the preeminent author-critic. This volume provides an informative and vivid account of postwar Europe in the countries of Italy, Greece, and England, as well as diary entries from Wilson's many travels.
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En la Antigüedad, mientras los hombres se lanzaban a empresas de exploración y conquista, las mujeres permanecían inmóviles en su hogar. El Medioevo les otorgó una forma de viaje permitido: la peregrinación a los Santos Lugares. Durante el Renacimiento, artistas e intelectuales humanistas viajaron a Italia para tomar contacto con la cultura clásica, anunciando los Grand Tour, las giras educativas por Europa que en el siglo XVIII realizarían...
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Con una mirada más allá de muchas convenciones, Anne Lister escribió, de forma sistemática y minuciosa hasta su muerte, sus diarios; en ellos recoge sus experiencias personales y cotidianas -dibujando así el paisaje social, económico, político y geográfico de su época-, y los detalles de sus relaciones con otras mujeres. Constituidos originalmente en 26 volúmenes y 4.000.000 millones de palabras, y escritos en 1/6 en un código propio elaborado...
18) Hermit in Paris
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This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside Italy and fighting in the antifascist resistance during World War II. He traces the course of his literary career and reflects on his many travels, including a journey through the United States in 1959 and...
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Extrait : "En compagnie du chat, j'ai travaillé tout le jour dans la solitude de mon palais de la Rotonde que j'avais déserté hier. A l'heure o le soleil rouge du soir s'enfonce derrière le Lac des Lotus, mes deux serviteurs, comme d'habitude, viennent me chercher. Mais, le Pont de Marbre franchi, nous passons cette fois sans nous arrête devant la brèche qui mène à mon fragile palais du Nord."
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First published in 1911, this vintage book contains extracts from the diary of John William Polidori, and chiefly those parts relating to his relationships with Byron, Shelley, and others of the Romantic movement. John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician famous for his associations with the Romantic movement and for being, as many maintain, the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction....
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