Travel writing

En diciembre de 2019, Fran y Caye llegan a India con la ilusion de adoptar a tres ninas, pero lo que parecian unas vacaciones se convierte en un laberinto burocratico y emocional del que no consiguen salir.

Christian Y.

Brive, devenue Brive-la-Gaillarde au XIVe siecle en raison de ses celebres fortifications, a subi une veritable revolution urbaine au XXe siecle en raison du triplement de sa population.

Unterwegs bei unseren ostlichen NachbarnUnterwegs bei unseren ostlichen NachbarnEin neuer Eiserner Vorhang senkt sich uber uns herab.

In the course of a year Julie Brominicks walked around the edge of Wales, having left her job in environmental education at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth.

Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers.

Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave.

Through past and present, the country and the city, Peter Fiennes takes a literary journey through the British Isles ';As enjoyable a guide to the relationship of writers to the landscape of Britain as one could hope to read: beautifully written, moving in its reflections, and often very funny.

2 Freunde, 16 Lander, 344 Tage WeltreiseAls der schwerbehinderte Alex seinem besten Freund Lovis vorschlagt, nach dem Studium gemeinsam ein Jahr lang auf Weltreise zu gehen, ist auch der bald Feuer und Flamme von der Idee.

Through past and present, the country and the city, Peter Fiennes takes a literary journey through the British Isles ';As enjoyable a guide to the relationship of writers to the landscape of Britain as one could hope to read: beautifully written, moving in its reflections, and often very funny.

Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave.

WINNER OF THE MARCO POLO OUTSTANDING GENERAL TRAVEL THEMED BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS The story begins in a public square in New Delhi.

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ';Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS ';Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer ';A wonderful really profound meditation on what it means to hope a gorgeous excursion into Greece and across the centuries on an environmental quest' BBC Radio 4 Open Book Book of the Year choice by Anita Roy What do the Greek myths mean to us today?

50th Anniversary EditionEverest the highest peak in the world, the ultimate challenge to a mountaineer's skill and endurance.

'I'm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross' - Robert MacfarlaneThe prehistoric sites of Britain and Ireland are places of wonder and wondering.

Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch toward the New World.

In fremde Kulturen eintauchen, traumhafte Landschaften entdecken oder einfach am Strand in die Sonne blinzeln – wir lieben das Verreisen.

Harlan and Anna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

The Trans-Canada, the world's longest national highway, comes to life in words and pictures.

Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849.

To get a personal look at what it is like to work on the Ohio River, newspaperman James E.

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues.

Grâce à une sélection de plus de 200 cartes postales et photographies, l'auteur, Michel Fontaine, vous invite à une promenade en images dans la vie quotidienne à Maubeuge dans les premières décennies du XXe siècle.

The 20th Anniversary Edition of the bestselling classic with a new foreword by Wade Davis.

In 1980, Graham Broyd did something outrageous-he sold his scholarship ticket to Washington, DC, bought a one-way flight to Los Angeles, and set off to hitchhike across America.

A l'occasion d'un conge sabbatique, Guillaume decide, avec son epouse, de passer plus de temps avec leurs jeunes enfants.

L'aventure commence.

Lorsqu'un jeune Francais de 25 ans decide de partir seul aux Etats-Unis pour effectuer un road trip sur la cote Est, il se lance alors dans l'inconnu : ce voyage etait pour moi une incroyable prise de risque.

Comment nommer cette clameur lancinante du reve de l'embarquement qui se declenche sur le pave d'un port, dans les ruelles desuetes de ces lieux ou sont garees les grandes caisses de fer, remplacantes aussi dangereuses pour l'esprit que les matures aux pendantes voiles mal carguees d'antan.

With the widest catchment area of any river in Britain, the Tay drains much of the lower Highlands of Scotland.

Andar la tierra presenta escritos muy diversos de Gabriela Mistral que entregan impresiones y relatos reunidos a lo largo de una vida en tránsito.

Moritz Busch, a German journalist, theologian, and participant in the Revolution of 1848, proved himself both an accurate observer and a sensitive interpreter of American life in the mid-nineteenth century.

Step aboard Boater, a mesmerising voyage along the tranquil waterways of England, written by former UK Canal Laureate, Jo Bell.

A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a three-month, twenty-eight state, 14,063-mile road trip in search of America's identity.

Julia Finkernagel weiß, wie Reisen geht.

Ubersichtlich im Westen des Vaterlandes angeordnet, ohne Extreme in Hohe oder Niederungen und weitgehend entspannt - das Bild der Niederlande scheint klar und vertraut.

Ubersichtlich im Westen des Vaterlandes angeordnet, ohne Extreme in Hohe oder Niederungen und weitgehend entspannt - das Bild der Niederlande scheint klar und vertraut.