How to Live Koreantakesa deep-diveinto Korean culture, unpacking what it means to be Korean in all its forms and uncovering the way the locals think, what they enjoy getting up toand who they do it with.
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu'mani (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892.
In 1719, Jean-Franois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec.
Als Gertrude Bell im Januar 1905 zu einer ihrer Reisen in den Nahen Osten aufbrach, wollte sie dort vor allem byzantinische und römische Ruinen studieren.
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu'mani (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892.
George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War.
Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples.
Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Robert Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj.
The Gentle Art of Tramping is a practical guide to long-distance walking and a philosophical account of human restlessness and the desire to connect with nature.
Namibia – das bedeutet faszinierende Weite, Natur pur und Safari-Erlebnisse der Extraklasse in einem urweltlich anmutenden Land zwischen den Wüsten Namib und Kalahari, der rauen Atlantikküste im Westen und dem tropischen Osten.
In 1902, William Bulfin embarked on a cycling tour of Ireland, his musings along the way offering a fascinating glimpse into early 20th-century Ireland during a time of significant social change.
With fascinating extracts from his own writings, this book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
"e;Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel"e; is a 1894 account of Gertrude Bell's trip to Persia to visit her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, who was British minister at Tehran.
Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an edited collection with contributions by leading scholars brought together by a prolific author with expertise in eighteenth-century culture.
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War.
'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John MortimerWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his travels with an intense curiosity.
Deutschland ganz obenZwischen den Zehen der Schlick: Mareike Krügel und Jan Christophersen sind da zu Hause, wo andere Urlaub machen, und schreiben eine passionierte Liebeserklärung an Deutschlands Norden.
Stephan Thome blickt tief in die Seele seiner zweiten Heimat: Taiwan ist eine ebenso junge wie umkämpfte Demokratie, geprägt von Kolonialherrschaft, Diktatur und neuer Freiheit.
A vivid, varied account of a globally-minded woman's intriguing adventures and evolving worldview, Santha Rama Rau's "e;informal"e; autobiography covers a life defined by almost perpetual motion-from her birth in India to an upbringing in England and South Africa, from her education at Wellesley College in the United States to far-flung travel to China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Spain, and beyond.
"Sie sind ein Inseltyp…", so bescheinigte man es einst Regula Venske, denn ihre Reiseziele heißen gern Kreta, Paros, Gozo oder Teneriffa, und nichts läge ihr ferner, als eine mückenumschwärmte Hütte an einem schwedischen See zu beziehen.
Der Süden Frankreichs ist für viele Menschen ein Sehnsuchtsort: Der Duft von Lavendel, reifen Aprikosen und Rosmarin hat auch der Food-Autorin Sandy Neumann den Kopf verdreht.
Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way RoundIn the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world.
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWinner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to America, exploring the landscapes and communities of his homeland as an outsider for the first timeFor the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose.
Im Land der Trolle und der atemberaubenden NaturIsland ist schon lange kein Geheimtipp mehr, sondern hat sich zu einem wahren Touristenmagneten entwickelt.
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the RenaissanceIn 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean.
A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition.
