Seinen Reisen nach Zentralasien ließ Sven Hedin mit diesem Band seine Fahrt in den Nahen Osten folgen, die in der Hauptsache in einer Exkursion zum Euphrat, dem Besuch von Bagdad mit den Ruinen Babylons und von Mosul mit den Ruinen Ninives bestand, alles höchst anschaulich und lebendig geschildert.
When Terry Repak and her husband moved to West Africa with two small children at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, she seized the opportunity to connect with people of other cultures and bear witness to the ravages of the disease.
This majestically illustrated and deeply insightful guide explores 100 of the most spiritually significant places throughout the world, seeking to understand what it is that defines these sites.
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.
'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track.
