From the Seat of My Pants is a look at motorcycle touring from the perspective of someone who's spent countless hours and tens of thousands of miles in the saddle.
A general guide for visitors of the Casco Bay islands in Maine and greater Portland, this book includes profiles of the major islands in the bay; features on local history, island geology, and island wildlife; information about mainland departure points and tips on how to get to the islands; and maps of the individual islands profiled in the book.
For more than ten years, Elizabeth Peavey has been traveling around the state of Maine, and writing about her wide-ranging experiences and discoveries in Down East magazine.
La Fondation Atef Omaïs, dont l'objectif est de promouvoir la santé, l'éducation et la culture, produit également des guides sur les capitales francophones d'Afrique, en plus de carnets "culture et tradition".
Si l'ambition de cet ouvrage est avant tout une invitation au voyage, à travers le remarquable patrimoine naturel et culturel de la Corse, l'auteur développe également des thématiques complètes concernant : des personnages illustres, d'autres qui le sont moins, mais qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'île ; les principaux événements historiques des origines à nos jours ; de nombreuses légendes qui sont des marqueurs identitaires de la Corse ; les grandes évolutions dans les domaines institutionnel, politique, religieux et culturel.
Suite à la lecture du livre Voyage dans l'Empire mongol, Pierre Létang nourrit le projet de partir sur les traces de Guillaume de Rubrouck, moine franciscain chargé par Saint Louis de nouer des liens avec la cour des grands khans mongols.
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades.
Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths.
The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend Sailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea.
China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma.
The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions.
From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East.
This is Thailand is the riveting real-life account of Marek Lenarciks blind leap from the safe, comfortable and utterly bullshit, corporate world of Dublin to the charming, exotic beaches of Thailand.
**2021 Gourmand Cookbook Award Winner for Japan in Spirits and Other Drinks**The Japanese Sake Bible is the ultimate book about Japan's national drinkfrom its history, culture and production methods to how to choose the best sake and recommended food pairings.
Vividly written and fully illustrated sketches of the travels of the famous explorer, including descriptions of countries and peoples, tales of exploration in all ages and historical stories connected with places described.
A brand new edition of the finalist for the 2008 Casey Award, presented annually to the best baseball book, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out profiles America's greatest baseball museums, shrines, sports bars, pop culture landmarks and ballpark sites.
What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew.
Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history.
