Les deux fleuves de l'antique Mésopotamie que sont le Tigre et l'Euphrate ont servi de trame à l'expédition hors du commun de Gertude Lowthian Bell, une expédition de cinq mois entre février et juillet 1909.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITINGA thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not.
In this leadership journey unlike any other, Victor Prince shares the lessons he learned while on his pilgrimage and guides readers on their own Camino de Santiago.
'Every year, hundreds of books on the city are published, but none resembles this one' - Independent'This gem of a book offers practical advice but in a distinctly lyrical tone.
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world.
From the acclaimed poet and National Book Award finalist, "e;a sparkling book of travel and childhood: born on the bridge between two cultures"e; (Paulette Jiles, New York Times-bestselling author).
A pictorial display of South Carolina's extravagant beautyTruly a book that will captivate newcomers and renew the appreciation of longtime residents, this breathtaking photographic exploration showcases the fullness of the state's regional diversity, natural beauty, and human creativity.
The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discoveryElizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating episodes in exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Tales of meandering walks through Scotland’s capital by an essayist known for “often hilarious, sometimes poignant, takes on life” (The New York Times).
Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day.
These personal stories collected from a lifetime of travel will transport the reader from country to country across the world in an immersive reading experience.
Parcourant la cité, s’établissant de manière prolongée sur les places publiques, les skaters animent, jouent, mettent en scène ou perturbent l’animation des centres urbains.
A Financial Times and Observer "e;best summer read"e; 'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary.
Zwischen Melancholie und Moderne:Martin Zinggl, der seit über zwanzig Jahren immer wieder nach Lissabon zurückkehrt, nimmt uns mit über den Tejo, zu den miradouros mit dem besten Ausblick und auf eine Fahrt mit der legendären Elektrotram 28E.
2017/2018 erfüllte sich Carmen Rohrbach einen lang gehegten Traum und lebte mehrere Monate in einem Holzhaus fernab der Zivilisation, an einem See mit glasklarem Wasser, umkränzt von felsigen Bergen.
Die wilden Highlands mit ihren majestätischen Bergen und Lochs, mystische Kapellen, Steinkreise und Kirchen, die von reicher Geschichte und Kultur erzählen, endlose, windgepeitschte Küsten von rauer Schönheit, Whisky-Brennereien und pulsierende, kreative Metropolen: In jedem dieser Orte findet sich die schottische Seele mit ihrer Vielfalt von Natur, Kultur und Geschichte.
Lasciare la città, gli amici, la vita mondana, gli spaghetti alla carbonara e trasferirsi per un anno in un'estrema provincia d'Italia che non è proprio Italia, dove si parla un tedesco che non è proprio tedesco, dove tutti praticano assiduamente sport che non sono proprio sport.
The only travel writing book on Gascony, A Summer in Gascony is a charming and humorous tale of an extraordinary summer spent in this relatively unknown part of south-western France, the home of D Artagnan, Cyrano de Bergerac, gutsy red wine, fine sweet wine Armagnac and sunflowers.
To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, determined daughter Jane Christmas decides to take her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria, to Italy.
Die beiden jungen Bergsteiger Joe Simpson und Simon Yates brechen auf, um den Andengipfel Siula Grande über die bisher unbezwungene Westwand zu besteigen.
Entre los textos aparecidos tras su muerte en 1919 se encuentran estas breves páginas que ahora rescatamos sobre el tema central de su obra literaria y su propia biografía.
