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Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle, along with his brother, Gerald, who would also go on to be a writer and a naturalist. Their real-life family is portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrell's in Corfu. Over the following decades, he rambled around the Mediterranean, making homes in Egypt, Cyprus, and...
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Avalanche and Gorilla Jim is a true picture of what it's like to hike over 1,300 miles of fun-filled, gut-wrenching, awe inspiring trail. It is filled with the humor of two guys on a long trek over grueling terrain. You actually live and feel Appalachian trail life, its exciting adventures and fun... and, in a sometimes crappy world, meet people who enrich your faith in humanity. This is the Appalachian Trail with all its beauty and flaws, written...
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A wonderfully immersive collection of short stories describing the otherworldly beauty of Norway's arctic fjords and villages seasoned with the comedy of an inexperienced group of international volunteers trying to run a remote island hotel.
The shockingly turquoise, almost tropical, water of the Norwegian Sea provides the background to these stories as they crash into the dark and foreboding mountains that form Norway's famously rugged fjords....
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Il était une fois une forteresse juchée au-dessus de l'Adriatique. Une vigie. Une sentinelle posée sur les rochers, verrou balkanique résolu à toujours rester arrimé au continent européen. Le Monténégro résonne comme une danse austère. Ses syllabes se découpent comme les fissures des montagnes qui l'entourent. Ce petit pays est à l'image de ses ctes échancrées, devenues villégiatures d'une clientèle fortunée à la recherche d'un...
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Imagine a world without late planes, missed connections, lost luggage, bumped passengers, cramped seating, high fees and higher fares, surly employees, and security lines. . . .
Ordinary travel is an extraordinary ordeal. Yet despite the high prices and huge hassles, travel is essential-along with the need for tips, tricks, and techniques to improve the journey. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel is an entertaining road trip and a helpful...
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Dix ans. Près de 80 livres publiés, dont beaucoup ont été salués par la critique. La collection "L'âme des peuples" est aujourd'hui une aventure éditoriale reconnue. Grâce à nos auteurs, tous spécialistes des pays, régions et villes qu'ils ont choisi de raconter, une communauté unique est née, passionnée du monde et résolue à comprendre les autres : ceux qui nous entourent, ceux qui sont loin, ceux que l'on oublie trop...Dix ans. Et...
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British author Graham Greene embarked on two awe-inspiring and eye-opening journeys in the 1930s-to West Africa and to Mexico. Greene would find himself both shaken and inspired by these trips, which would go on to inform his novels.
Journey Without Maps: When Graham Greene set off from Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown....
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An enlightening compendium of the best times of day, week, month, and life to do a variety of things - from the serious (money, marriage) to the mundane (taking a nap, walking your dog) - to save time and money in tough economic times.
Have you ever wanted to know the best day of the week to buy groceries or go out to dinner?
Have you ever wondered about the best time of day to ask someone out on a date-or for a raise?
A handy collection of...
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A travelogue of one man's whisky-tasting journey across Scotland's beautiful islands, by the bestselling author of 101 Gins to Try Before You Die.
Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavors are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books...
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In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco Elías Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing clouds of fascism, Greene was anxious to see for himself the effect it had on the people-what he found was a combination of despair,...
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«Un peu des deux» répondra souvent le Belge lorsqu'on lui demande s'il est Flamand ou Wallon. Étrange pays o vivent ces communautés qui ne semblent plus partager une véritable unité de destin, mais qui ont pourtant bien plus d'affinités qu'on ne pense.
Guerres, invasions, crises politiques... La Belgique a subi tellement d'aléas au fil des siècles qu'elle a fini par avoir le cuir épais, baigné de légendaire autodérision. Faut-il y...
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A collection of travel and adventure essays from a National Book Award-winning writer and former war journalist describes his experiences surfing, his obsession with fishing dorado in the rivers of South America and the time he went bushwhacking in Mozambique.
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Les révolutions sont les visages des peuples.
Au Portugal, la révolution des Œillets, le 25 avril
1974, transforma ce pays sans rompre avec son héritage. Le Portugal des œillets est celui du fado, une complainte attachante d'un cœur que l'amour de la patrie déchire.
Façade de l'Europe, le Portugal donna à ce continent ses lettres de grandeur lorsque ses navigateurs partirent à la découverte du monde.
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A lifelong adventurer shares his fascinating story in this memoir of travel, life in Japan, and special assignments from the White House.
Davis Hawkins lives a life of adventure and travel, approaching each opportunity with the mantra to "Go, See, and Do." He chronicles his life through this lens, starting with his southern California upbringing before moving to Japan at an impressionable age. He experienced a changing America and East Asia landscape...
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L'Islande est un volcan. Au sens propre comme au sens figuré. Et ce volcan ne sommeille plus. Il s'est réveillé, nous attire, irrigue notre imagination de ses geysers.
Vous en doutez ? Regardez l'explosion du nombre de touristes qui en reviennent émerveillés. Familiarisez-vous avec l'ampleur des changements survenus dans ce pays assommé par la crise financière de 2008. Déstabilisée, l'Islande a tenu parce qu'elle est incassable. Ce rocher...
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All the World's a Mall details a whirlwind world tour in five stops: Edmonton, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, and Casablanca, chosen because they are home to some of the biggest malls on the planet. Cities within cities, these malls are wonderlands where visitors come from afar to: walk, eat, sleep, watch, swim, ride, photograph, and, of course, shop. With a curious, critical, and sometimes ironic eye, Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud recounts her travels...
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Profiles five perpetually threatened American towns, from a snowbound high-rise in Alaska to a hurricane-stricken island near Louisiana, offering insight into why people choose to live near ongoing natural threats.
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In November of 2001, on a motorcycle trip to the tip of South America, Glen Heggstad was kidnapped at gunpoint by Colombian rebels and held captive for five weeks. Yet even after his traumatic incarceration, Glen did what few others would-finished his trip.
Three years later, frustrated by the climate of fear in a media-saturated world and the resulting stranglehold of self-imposed security in the United States, Glen decided to look for truth on...
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À l'occasion d'un congé sabbatique, Guillaume décide, avec son épouse, de passer plus de temps avec leurs jeunes enfants. Cette année, ils la passent en Polynésie française et explorent l'archipel des îles Marquises. Véritable source de découvertes, de réflexion et d'émerveillement, il vous invite à le suivre sur les traces de son périple riche en rencontres extraordinaires et intrigantes…
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When Graham Greene left Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by train and truck through Sierra Leone, and finally on foot, Greene embarked on a dangerous and unpredictable 350-mile, four-week trek through Liberia with his cousin, and a handful of servants and bearers, into a world where few had ever...
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