Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people taking part, what they got for their money and the adventures that befell them.
HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection.
Notas de un turista invita a los lectores a embarcarse en un viaje junto al autor, quien, a través de reflexiones y anécdotas, relata sus visitas a ciudades como París, Buenos Aires, y Santiago de Chile.
«A veces, no obstante, gracias a algún guiño del clima, a una asociación de ideas o a cierta alquimia del escenario, percibo en el aire del Estambul actual una traza de Venecia.
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time.
First published in 1939, Language Hunting in the Karakoram describes the journey taken by the author to the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, and Karakoram, and details the author's experiences when she resided in Hunza with her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel D.
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection.
"Fahrten Landschaften und Städte" von Stefan Zweig: Eine literarische Reise durch die WeltIn einer Zeit, in der das Reisen oft als bloße Bewegung von einem Ort zum anderen verstanden wird, lädt uns Stefan Zweig mit seinem Werk "Fahrten Landschaften und Städte" zu einer tiefgründigen und poetischen Erkundung der Welt ein.
The giant was released from his prison after a long search for a way out into the world of freedom and light, and when he lived for a long time in the world of slavery and darkness, he was about to break the "bottle" that contained him and emerge rampant and wandering on his face, neither remaining nor leaving.
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
