In 2009, while the US Government is hunting down Osama bin Laden in the Middle East, Helen Watson and her husband Ed set off on a cycling expedition from Glasgow to China.
The spangled insanity, the stubborn reinforcement of crude national stereotypes, the scoreboard shamelessly corrupted by cross-border friendship and hatred.
Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement.
Packed with colorful illustrations and fun facts about Japanese culture, celebrations, language and history, this multicultural children's books will delight children and parents alike!
This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.
In Spite of Myself is an eclectic, passionate travel memoir about life and love across many countries - and one that will strike a chord with many a reader.
Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered.
An alternative look at Japanese life, history and cultureYour Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan?
THE TOP TWENTY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A brilliant new story-teller has arrived' ERIN KELLY'A read-in-one-sitting thriller' LUCY CLARKE'Chilling, devious' JANICE HALLETT'Glorious escapism with a murderous twist' TAMMY COHENThey thought it was perfect.
Alexander von Humboldt: The Explorer Who Changed Science is a captivating novel-style biography that brings to life the extraordinary journey of one of history's greatest explorers and scientific thinkers.
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Reiseratgeber - Reiseberichte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Wenn jemand eine [Flug-]Reise tut, so kann er was erzählen" - oder auch darüber schreiben.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 2,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit wurde im Rahmen des Seminars "Reiseliteratur" verfasst und beschäftigt sich mit der Deutung der Naturbeschreibungen in Heinrich Heines "Die Nordsee.
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: At first glance, it is not significant that Keats composed an ode which portrays a Grecian urn.
Deslumbrados por las montañas del Himalaya, Anuradha Roy y su pareja, Rukun Advani, decidieron abandonar sus trabajos de oficina en Nueva Delhi y mudarse a la localidad de Ranikhet.
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolinas inner coast.
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolinas inner coast.
Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand.
Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand.
*WINNER OF THE 2026 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2026A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026 SO FARH 'The best non-fiction writer of her generation' THE TIMES'When I read Flyn's writing I would often exhale with a sense of wonder' GUARDIAN'Fascinating and masterfully written' ALICE WINNA lyrical exploration of the world's most forbiddingly remote places, the supposedly uninhabited wildernesses of the world - and the humans who have always been there, by award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Cal Flyn.
