Extrait : "Il y a bien longtemps que, pour la première fois, on a dit : Les voyages forment la jeunesse, et qu'on a bien vite ajouté, avec infiniment de raison : Les voyages ne sont pas moins utiles au développement des facultés de l'âge mûr.
Extrait : "La date du départ fixée, nos préparatifs furent très vite faits, et après avoir embrassé parents et amis, vers la fin de mars de l'année dernière, nous gagnions la cité Phocéenne, alors toute angoissée par la grève qui faillit même compromettre notre départ, comme il avait dû en faire ajourner plus d'un.
Extrait : "Le scheick qui vous remettra cette lettre, citoyen général, me fait espérer qu'il pourra réunir assez de moyens de transport pour faire venir à Caïffa le riz et le biscuit qui doivent être arrivés à Césarée : concertez-vous avec lui et donnez-lui toute l'assistance dont il peut avoir besoin.
Extrait : "Pour s'emparer de Malte et de l'Egypte, il faudrait de vingt à vingt-cinq mille hommes d'infanterie, et de deux à trois mille hommes de cavalerie sans chevaux.
Extrait : "Il y a une infinité d'entr'actes en voyage : ce sont les heures vides, celles de la table d'hôte, du coucher, du lever, l'attente aux stations, l'intervalle entre deux visites, les moments de fatigue et de sécheresse.
The book is a true narrative of a young Jamaican teenager who, broken and devastated by the tragic death of her father, found herself tossed out too early into the rough seas of life.
Remarkable Road Trips collects over 50 of the most spectacular, dangerous, and thoroughly memorable road trips from around the worldEntries range from the shortest - the Guoilang Tunnel hewn into the side of a cliff face in China, to the longest, the Dempster Highway in desolate stretches of Arctic Canada.
This new book describes the life of Mary and William Howitt's eldest surviving son, Alfred, who travelled to Australia with his brother, Charlton, and their father William in 1851.
A young Sydneysider in London, Lenore Blackwood, was getting work as an actress, pulling beers to pay the rent, and reading about Gandhi, Nehru, Menon and the very new Republic of India.
Archibald Menzies was one of a legion of intrepid Scots plant collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries who roamed the world and, by a combination of toughness and knowledge, established the foundations of the botany of the British Empire.
In 1863 there was only one method of travelling from Britain to the other side of the world by sailing ship, on a journey that could take up to four months, and when the vagaries of wind and weather could put travellers in peril during long voyages.
Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE.
Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.
Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown.
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of The First of Everything ranges from the Big Bang to driverless cars.
An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth centuryScurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal.
A journey both historical and contemporary among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar.
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.