An American Odyssey - an exploration, in prose and poetry of the restless American soul, raw, rhythmic account of a life spent on the highways of the North American continent.
For fans of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Lab Girl, an arresting memoir that chronicles a young womans journey from remote island research to Big Pharma and the boardroom.
This book is an odysseyto discover exotic Jewish communities around the worlda road map of travel and adventure set in suchlocals asRussia (including Siberia), Tahiti, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, and Israel.
This book is an odysseyto discover exotic Jewish communities around the worlda road map of travel and adventure set in suchlocals asRussia (including Siberia), Tahiti, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, and Israel.
"e;Wanna stand in the face of a charging elephant, get hit by a motorcycle, eat giant water bugs, blowtorch your mouth on some of the hottest chili peppers on earth, then go watch a sex change operation?
"e;Wanna stand in the face of a charging elephant, get hit by a motorcycle, eat giant water bugs, blowtorch your mouth on some of the hottest chili peppers on earth, then go watch a sex change operation?
For fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Without Reservations, a captivating memoir of one woman's bold leap into reinventiontrading academia for adventure, storytelling, and self-discovery in the heart of London.
A truly powerful paean to the night sky CAROLINE EDEN, author of Black Sea________________________________________________________________ At a time of personal crisis, travel writer and dark sky advocate Megan Eaves-Egenes turned to the stars for solace.
For readers who wish Eat, Pray, Love had a cynical streak comes this propulsive, wildly original memoir about a journalist's quest to conquer depression and addiction, set against the backdrop of international adventures and modern communal living.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025 AND A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A dazzlingly inventive work of literature Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir' James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral _____________________________________________________________________At the heart of this book is a highway.
Asienreisen 1971 bis 1999Fur Maria-Luise Kristen, aufgewachsen auf der Schwabischen Alb, wurde ein Traum wahr, als ihr Mann beschloss, seine berufliche Karriere im Ausland mit Fokus auf Asien zu starten.
Este libro recoge y analiza las obras de nueve cronistas de la llamada conquista espiritual de América: las escritas por aquellos autores pertenecientes a las distintas órdenes religiosas que participaron en la evangelización del Nuevo Continente.
Russ Williams was raised on Wales's stories, like the one about a mountain that would send you mad or turn you into a gifted poet if you camped out on it, the one about the lost civilisation drowned by the sea and the one about the bottomless lake leading down to the Welsh Otherworld.
If you want to see the whole of Wales, from cosmopolitan Cardiff in the south to the historic Victorian resorts of the north, there's one road that will take you all the way: the A470.
Taiwan ist eine Insel der Gegensatze: Spektakulare Landschaften und pulsierende asiatische Metropole, Hightech und Ahnenkult, Straenkuche und Halbleiterfabriken, Beethoven und Mull, existenzielle Bedrohung und erstaunliche Gelassenheit.
If you want to see the whole of Wales, from cosmopolitan Cardiff in the south to the historic Victorian resorts of the north, there's one road that will take you all the way: the A470.
Russ Williams was raised on Wales's stories, like the one about a mountain that would send you mad or turn you into a gifted poet if you camped out on it, the one about the lost civilisation drowned by the sea and the one about the bottomless lake leading down to the Welsh Otherworld.
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859.
This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859.
Yuko Koyano spent five years in the United States in the 1980s as the wife of a Japanese businessman, the mother of two sons, and an observer in her own right.
Yuko Koyano spent five years in the United States in the 1980s as the wife of a Japanese businessman, the mother of two sons, and an observer in her own right.
Longtime resident of Japan and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie shares his private recollections, capturing the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.
An epic journey on foot from Dingle to Burr Point in search of Ireland's lost footpaths, and a quest to unravel the complexities of countryside access in Ireland and Britain.
Longtime resident of Japan and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie shares his private recollections, capturing the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.
