In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Die letzten sechs Jahre seines Lebens residierte Napoleon Bonaparte, einst Herrscher eines Weltreiches, in einem verfallenen Bauernhof auf Sankt Helena, einer unzugänglichen, sturmumtosten, struppigen Insel am Ende der Welt.
The Iron Scar is both a literal journey by a father and son on the longest railway journey in the world, and a metaphoric pilgrimage of not just the author and his adult son, but all of us.
Continuant ses pérégrinations européennes, Didier Rousselet a parcouru un milliers de kilomètres à travers l'Italie sur les traces de l'histoire commune entre ce pays et la France.
Insights into Uganda is a selection of newspaper articles written by columnist Kevin OiConnor for the Sunday Monitor, drawn almost entirely from 2007 to 2015.
Das Italien der Literatur ist eine Erfindung, ein Mythos, dessen Intensität die Gegenwart des Landes noch übersteigern soll, nichts als eine "wunderliche Fiktion", wie der Grüne Heinrich Gottfried Kellers einmal sagt.
Along the Samurai's Route, with its 9 maps and more than 200 photographs, invites the reader to go on a journey into the geography and history of Japan.
Gerónimo, un joven ansioso por graduarse en la carrera de Periodismo para saltar a los próximos capítulos de su vida, se topa accidentalmente con un pequeño libro que se convertirá de inmediato en el objeto principal de su tesis.
In this follow-up to his chart-topping "Bali Raw", Malcolm Scott strips off the island’s sunny veneer to reveal its dark and dirty underbelly, taking the reader where no tourist guide ever will.
With "e;In the Land of Living Dangerously"e;, an adventure travelogue set in Indonesia, author Jay Cowan explores myriad issues experienced during his travels in the Indonesian archipelago from culture and history to politics and anthropology, from exotic endemic wildlife and huge environmental challenges to one-on-one encounters with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, the natural disasters that keep the region in the news.
Based on the Emmy award-winning documentary series of the same name, Ring of Fire is a first-person account of the adventures of two English brothers as they explore the astonishingly rich cultures of the Indonesian islands.
Francisco de Paula Santander fue condenado al destierro por su supuesta participación en la conspiración contra la vida de Simón Bolívar, el 25 de septiembre de 1828.
Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers.
Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers.
Prabhu Ghate takes us off the beaten track on selected journeys in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Antarctica, and shows us that you don't have to be rich to travel simply, or even young for that matter just young at heart, empathetic, and curious.
Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe.
For two months prior to the general elections in May 2009 NDTV anchor and TV reporter Sunetra Choudhary, along with her colleague Naghma Sahar, clambered onto a bus equipped with some Club Class seating, the requisite machinery to beam out live from the remotest parts of India, and a motley crew of cameramen and engineers.
“…Ma esiste un altro male, un male buono che ti prende e non ti lascia più: si chiama Maldindia”: mosaico di racconti per avvicinarsi al Subcontinente e provare a comprenderne le sue ricchezze, diversità e contrasti.
Reportage di un lungo viaggio compiuto nella Valle di Kathmandù, costeggiando a nord-ovest la dorsale himalayana e spingendosi sino al Terai ed il Chitwan.
