Was passiert, wenn ein von einer Vielzahl von "Paranoia-Gedanken" heimgesuchter Liebhaber exotischer Abenteuerliteratur erstmals selbst in einem exotischen Land das echte Abenteuer sucht und zu seinem Entsetzen ungewollt und ungebucht auch noch findet?
"Berlin - Geschichte in Geschichten" ist eine Flanerie, die den Leserinnen und Lesern in 14 Erzählungen von den besonderen Seiten der deutschen Hauptstadt berichtet und dies auf eine beeindruckende Weise, in einer beeindruckenden Sprache.
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities.
Follow Sue Perkins' extraordinary adventures across southern Asia in this fabulously funny travelling tale - inspired by her BBC 1 documentary series 'The Ganges with Sue Perkins' 'Vivid, laugh-out-loud, moving' Sunday Express'A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks of Tibet.
The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities.
A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe.
Touring the southern counties of England by foot and on horseback from the white cliffs of Dover to the heart of the countryside, William Cobbett recorded a swiftly changing way of life with energy, wit, passion and principle.
Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook.
Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, but in his own right he was a remarkable, observant and enjoyable writer - whether on a woefully mishandled pirate raid in Spanish America or on a desperate journey to Sumatra in an open boat or on the habits of manatees or bats.
Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) left a vivid, informative, clever account of her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and courts which - even as her husband's career was falling apart - she could not have enjoyed more.
One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910) account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe is both hilarious and touching, Twain's exasperation and dismay at the phoney and exploitative being matched by his excitement and pleasure in the genuinely beautiful.
An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth.
The American Henry James's descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour.
The halo of romance and the magic of the unknown which have for so long drawn the adventurous as by a magnet to the mysterious land of Tibet have now been in great part dissipated.
When Tonia Parronchi's husband, Guido, told her of his plans to buy a boat and take her and their baby sailing, she had her reservations, but she soon came round to the idea and has never looked back.
De entre todas las páginas italianas que ocuparon la obra de esta original y algo excéntrica autora, sobresalen estas miniaturas sobre Roma, la ciudad que conoció a fondo y por la que pasea una mirada de múltiples intereses, casi impresionista.
Con fascinacion y horror, a partes iguales, seguia el mundo la construccion del coloso de hierro que se levantaba en Paris como gran atraccion de la Exposicion Universal de 1889.
Considerado un texto clave en la historia del alpinismo, el ascenso a esta montana de la Provenza francesa por parte del poeta Petrarca, en compania de su hermano Gherardo, constituye un episodio nada frecuente en la epoca.
From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings.
Disguised as a Persian dervish, Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) set out to become the first Christian to penetrate the Muslim shrines of Medina and Mecca - a reckless stunt that would have resulted in his being executed if discovered.
Between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War Macmillan published a much-loved and extremely successful series of books under the title of 'Highways and Byways'.
Prabhu Ghate takes us off the beaten track on selected journeys in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Antarctica, and shows us that you don't have to be rich to travel simply, or even young for that matter just young at heart, empathetic, and curious.
Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity.
1948: with post-war Britain's sense 'dulled by traffic and by bombs', this pocket-sized book was a clarion call for readers to rediscover the beauties of the idyllic English countryside.
Con Flor del desierto la autora regresa a la temática social, tan intrínsecamente ligada a su vida profesional con una historia basada en hechos reales que no deja indiferente al lector que decide empezar este apasionante viaje.
Les Trois Mousquetaires Alexandre Dumas - Aux trois gentilshommes mousquetaires Athos, Porthos et Aramis, toujours prêts à en découdre avec les gardes du Cardinal de Richelieu, s'associe le jeune gascon d'Artagnan fraîchement débarqué de sa province avec pour ambition de servir le roi Louis XIII.
"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.
