Renowned for its natural wealth since ancient times, the southern Thai island of Phuket has acquired a new kind of international celebrity in more recent days as a place of rest and relaxation for over a million foreign visitors a year.
Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today.
Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today.
Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race, and their careers in the oil industry, in search of freedom and adventure in the fabled South Pacific.
Renowned for its natural wealth since ancient times, the southern Thai island of Phuket has acquired a new kind of international celebrity in more recent days as a place of rest and relaxation for over a million foreign visitors a year.
Set against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks, Kai Carlson-Wee's debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust, depression, brotherhood, and survival.
WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer _________________________'I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy.
In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012 Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots.
Sibirien; Anfang der neunziger Jahre: Die russische Ärztin Olga Kharitidi verläßt ihre Klinik in Nowosibirsk, um mit ihrer kranken Freundin Anna in das Altai-Gebirge zu den dort lebenden Schamanen zu reisen.
Ob die mediterrane Küche der Küstenregionen, die einfachen Mahlzeitender Schafhirten in den Bergen oder Fast Food und Haute Cuisine in den quirligen Städten - Paul Richardsons atmosphärischer und informativer Reisebericht zeigt, dass spanische Küche mehr zu bieten hat als Paella, Gazpacho und Sangría.
An engrossing collection of travel essays from esteemed writer Norman LewisAuberon Waugh called Norman Lewis “the best travel writer of our age, if not the best since Marco Polo,” and here, Lewis’s trademark elegant prose is on display, along with his uncanny ability to travel to a place at an important cultural moment.
Extrait : "Dominique-Jean, baron Larrey, chirurgien militaire naquit, le 8 juillet 1766, à Baudéan, village de la vallée de Campan, près Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
Zwei große grüne Inseln auf der anderen Seite der Welt, Gletscher und verliebte Vulkane, malerische Weindörfer und 15000 Kilometer Meeresküste: Neuseeland ist das Paradies für Outdoor-Freunde, die Filmheimat der Hobbits, ein Traumziel für Reisende und Auswanderer.
'A lovely novel of female friendship and support when East meets West, of magic and things we may not understand, of hope, of comfort, and in the background the enticing salty, fishy, spicy aromas of Zanzibar.
Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant dogs had to be detached from lamp-posts by firemen.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.
When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River.
Extrait : "Un chroniquer raconte naïvement que Genève fut fondée par l'un de ces innombrables fils de Priam qui, après la guerre de Troie, se dispersèrent sur la terre habitable, semant les villes sur leur passage.
Extrait : "Saturne dévorait ses enfants ; Paris se dévore lui-même, et il ne n'en porte que mieux ; à tel point qu'après une absence de peu d'années, on le retrouve méconnaissable, tant ce régime accroît sa fraîcheur et son embonpoint.
This is Thailand is the riveting real-life account of Marek Lenarciks blind leap from the safe, comfortable and utterly bullshit, corporate world of Dublin to the charming, exotic beaches of Thailand.
Zarte Frauen mit Kegelhüten und Mönche in safranfarbenen Roben; am Straßenrand weiße Rinder und duftende Garküchen; bizarre Felsformationen und die berühmtesten Tempel der Welt: Südostasien bezaubert.
