Travel writing

A detailed account of the journey from Trebizond to Quetta.

Den Cono de Sur – Amerikas Südzipfel – hat Alexander v.

Bernhard Schlörit, Geburtsjahrgang 1949, schildert in seinem ersten Buch (Band 62 "Hast du mal einen Sturm erlebt") die ersten Erfahrungen mit der Seefahrt in der Funktion eines "Aufwäschers", seine Ausbildung zum Funkoffizier und die Reisen auf dem Kühlschiff MS "PEKARI".

Ein humorvoller und charmanter Blick auf das Leben in den USA aus der Perspektive eines Deutschen.

In diesem neuen Band nimmt der Autor uns mit auf seine Reisen als Funkoffizier auf den Massengutfrachtern "PROPONTIS" und "SAXONIA".

Eine junge Frau erobert mit Mut, Charme und Motorrad den südamerikanischen Kontinent.

Vom Drahtesel zum Esel - nachdem Jutta Speidel und Bruno Maccallini in ihrem Bestseller Wir haben gar kein Auto .

Es ist eine der ursprünglichsten Gegenden der Erde und zugleich der Schnittpunkt zweier Welten: die Region zwischen Sibirien und Japan.

Ernesto J.

An omnibus containing Austin Mitchell's classic books THE HALF-GALLON QUARTER-ACRE PAVLOVA PARADISE and PAVLOVA PARADISE REVISITED, available for the first time in ebook.

A trip to the heart of the world's most colourful nation - Spain.

One car, one caravan, one kid, one continent.

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award.

A rollercoaster ride through a land of chaos and contradiction with a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life - and her sanity.

A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America.

Before Eat, Pray, Love there was Almost French'This isn't like me.

Fascinating journey through Bolivia.

A funny and moving memoir of a young journalist on a mission to make sense of life in a part of the world that never makes sense.

Without Reservations is about a woman's dream come true - taking a year off to travel the world and rediscover what it is like to be an independent woman, without ties and without reservations.

The third Nancy Chan novel: a mischievous, insightful romp set in Provence during the summer of 2002.

From bestselling author Torey Hayden comes a moving novel of loss and redemption.

Winner of the 'Travel Narrative Book of the Year' in 2005 by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), The Coast Road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today.

As Featured in the Guinness Book of Records, this is the thrilling, inspiring storyof Dave Cornthwaite's epic journey down-under by a most unusual form oftransport.

The Water Road is the story of a four month circumnavigation by narrowboat of 'The Grand Cross', the name given to the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey.

The Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first timeDrawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading.

'Bill Bryson on two wheels' IndependentScaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest.

Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe.

K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none.

In the bestselling tradition of Peter Mayle, the second hilarious instalment of George and Donella East's adventures in Normandy.

A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business.

Bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS, BIG SNAKE and VOYAGEUR enters into the desert in search of a lost oasis'Last night my son wanted to appease me because of some annoyance he had caused.

'Cuadernos perdidos de Japón' es la crónica de una viajera que atraviesa geografías interiores y exteriores para reconocerse y afirmar su voz, para indagar en la escritura como registro del pasado, en la fragilidad de las mujeres que viajan solas y en la memoria como lazo familiar.

Best-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas travels across the Rocky Mountains by canoeFifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean.

The brilliantly entertaining true story of how one couple set out with a dream of moving to France - and got far more than they ever bargained for.

After a decade in the London media, Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin set sail for a new life in New York.

An extraordinary portrait of one family across the years of Japan's greatest changes; a loving, honest, moving biography of the author's mother.

Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan Sun.

'El chador azul' es la historia de dos mujeres viajeras, madre e hija, que sortean las dificultades que supone que una de ellas viaje en silla de ruedas, gracias a la fuerza de voluntad propia y a la hospitalidad ajena.

El conde polaco Jan Potocki, justamente celebrado por El manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza, esa especie de serpentín fantástico que hace del tiempo y del espacio una verdadera fiesta para el lector, fue también un esforzado viajero por toda Europa, China y el norte de África.

«Viajar puede servir para mucho o para nada.

Una estancia en el valle persa del río Lahr, es la excusa para reelaborar un texto anterior y convertirlo en el espejo de sus dramas íntimos.