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.
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.
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.
