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In this collection of short writings selected by him from 30 years of magazine articles, the author draws together for the first time his greatest short-form travel writing including his funny and touching adventures in Japan, England, Italy, Mexico, Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more. In these pages we find him beside the Sea of Japan, sitting with men whose memories of war are both fresh and ancient; searching for the real Yoknapatawpha County;...
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One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a Twentieth Century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist.
There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed...
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An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal).
Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos.
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Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos.
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us is not just another bucketlist of big-ticket items. We've all heard about Venice and, yes, it is probably worth going to Italy to see its waterways, but hopefully you'll take away something more from this book: a resolve to live life to the fullest--to add a dash of joie de vivre to every day. You Only Live Once will...
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This is a book of journeys, but it is not a guidebook. Cannot Stay doesn't merely describe traveling to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. It delves into why we leave our front porch in the first place. These twelve essays take us from Bali to the Baltics, from Corsica to Cambodia. But more importantly, they speak to the experience of travel, to shake loose of your at-home identity and pack all you need in a worn daypack. Cannot Stay bears witness...
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Trevor Carolan's eagerness for encountering faraway peoples and places equals Paul Theroux's excitement when he hits the road again in To the Ends of the Earth.
Veteran globe-trotter Trevor Carolan conjures 19 evocative road tales for armchair and seasoned travellers alike. A harvest of encounters with intriguing people, remarkable landscapes and cultures, his reportage sings with a love of food, art, literature, music and wine. Ranging from Bali...
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Adoro viajar sin norte, sin brújula; adoro viajar siguiendo el impulso del camino, el vagabundeo; viajar acompañado solo de la curiosidad. Es ingenuo pensar que quien vuelve es el mismo que partió. Si así sucede, el viaje fue perdido porque viajar es cambiar.
Un periplo a contracorriente por Barcelona, Río de Janeiro, São Paulo y Buenos Aires.
Un libro que cruza la frontera entre ficción, crónica y memoria; un escritor por cuyas venas transitan...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821—1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator and diplomat. Burton's best-known achievements include a well-documented journey to Mecca, in disguise, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, the publication of the Kama Sutra in English and an expedition with J. H. Spake to discover the source of Nile. Musaicum Books present his greatest works as an author, translator and explorer. His works...
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The preface of this book tells that even though voyages are called mere "trips," distant lands didn't get more familiar. As the world became more open and voyages more often, the differences between foreign lands and continents became more evident as ever. This truth remains topical even today, 120 years after these words were put down on paper. Now "With the World's Great Travelers" lets you make a personal voyage through distance and time and see...
11) Utopian Dreams
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Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world'-which is making him emptier and angrier by the day-and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, loneliness and depression, is it possible to be idealistic, to find belonging and companionship with others who share your sadness, or even, perhaps, your happiness? With his wife and baby in tow, Jones spends a year with spritualists, time-travellers,...
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Palmeras de la brisa rápida es una de las crónicas más célebres de Juan Villoro y un clásico de la literatura de viajes latinoamericana. Con una búsqueda personal como motor y una encomienda editorial como chasis, este ágil relato concentra una innumerable cantidad de prodigios que sólo la "hermana república" de Yucatán ha sido capaz de engendrar gracias a su historia, geografía y gusto por el sincretismo: pirámides demasiado arduas, platillos...
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Mientras residía en Londres, inicia Twain en el otoño de 1894 un viaje en barco de vapor desde Vancouver hasta Ciudad del Cabo, siguiendo la imaginaria línea del Ecuador, viaje que en 1897 publicará como libro, en el que tenemos todas las virtudes humanas y literarias de Twain. Norteamericano de origen y raíces, natural del condado de Monroe, Missouri, en el centro de los EE.UU., hijo de un droguero, Twain tiene además de un concepto sano y...
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El autor de este cuaderno de campo nos lo advierte con franqueza: "Sospecho que no hay viaje que no termine en la puerta de nuestra casa, y que tarde o temprano volvemos a ella, con más o menos equipaje, o sin él, con menos seguridades de las que creíamos, más incrédulos tal vez, más baldados, con algunos entusiasmos intactos".
Y así nos guía a través, sí, de sus periplos por territorios cercanos (Baztan, Pamplona, Bilbao, Madrid, Bayona...)...
16) Nerd Traveler
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It's time to pack a bag and ask, "what if?"
Combining relevant history, biography, and the culture of each city with her own experience and revelations, Nerd Traveler is a perfect voyage of mindful traveling for explorers of all generations.
For travelers who want to learn more about their destination through history and culture, Nerd Traveler is the perfect journey for intellectual curiosity. Librarian and professor Margaret Montet writes about her...
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In 2013, travel writer Ben Aitken decided to follow in the footsteps of his hero-literally-and started a journey around the UK, tracing the trip taken by Bill Bryson in his classic tribute to the British Isles, Notes from a Small Island.
Staying at the same hotels, ordering the same food, and even spending the same amount of time in the bath, Aitken's homage-updated and with a new preface for 2022-is filled with wit, insight and humour.
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All serious Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts want to visit London to see the places mentioned in the Great Detective s adventures. The e-book version of See the London of Sherlock Holmes allows enthusiasts to -visit- London from their home computers, or internet connected TVs. This is achieved by hyperlinking the latitude & longitude addresses in the book to the -Street View- feature in Google Maps. The map coordinates are also GPS addresses for those
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With the Second World War over, a weary Durrell seeks peace on an ancient isle. Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are struck by a powerful need to live on the ancient islands of the Mediterranean, where the clear blue Aegean is always within reach. After four tortuous wartime years in Egypt, Durrell finds a post on the island of Rhodes,...
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Extrait: "Alger est une ville que l'on quitte avec regret. En dehors de tout intérêt, de toute attache familière, certains lieux exercent sur nous un charme que l'on ne peut définir, et dont on ne comprend la force qu'en les quittant. Si le plaisir ou le devoir nous appelle ailleurs, nous nous sentons en partant comme retenus par d'invisibles liens que nous ne pouvons briser sans une secrète douleur..."
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