Production company Moon Studio has launched a new children's series called WILDLIFE JACK AND HIS ANIMAL ADVENTURES on the Disney channel this summer, narrated by Chris Packham.
Was ist das für ein Land, in dem Bananen, Kakao und Kaffee im Überfluss gedeihen, Vulkane mit Gletscherhauben Touristen anziehen, Unmengen Gold und Erdöl lagern und das trotzdem zu den ärmeren Ländern Südamerikas zählt?
Disguised as a Persian dervish, Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) set out to become the first Christian to penetrate the Muslim shrines of Medina and Mecca - a reckless stunt that would have resulted in his being executed if discovered.
Many disenchanted Westerners have gone to the Himalayas in search of renewal, but no one has written about the experience as perceptively and personally as Andrew Stevenson in Annapurna Circuit.
Between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War Macmillan published a much-loved and extremely successful series of books under the title of 'Highways and Byways'.
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.
Si el viaje es también una lectura, Provenza se puede visitar y recorrer como un texto privilegiado en el que es posible leer los orígenes y el desarrollo de la noción de paisaje en el arte.
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.
Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity.
'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.
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa.
'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?
Mientras residía en Londres, inicia Twain en el otoño de 1894 un viaje en barco de vapor desde Vancouver hasta Ciudad del Cabo, siguiendo la imaginaria línea del Ecuador, viaje que en 1897 publicará como libro, en el que tenemos todas las virtudes humanas y literarias de Twain.
Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed 'Among the Mountains', searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery .
A deliciously different travelogueIn 2005, Cathy and Jason threw in successful careers as TV presenters and producers to become olive farmers in Italy.
1948: with post-war Britain's sense 'dulled by traffic and by bombs', this pocket-sized book was a clarion call for readers to rediscover the beauties of the idyllic English countryside.
This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo's supernatural encounter with angels - who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes.
Con Flor del desierto la autora regresa a la temática social, tan intrínsecamente ligada a su vida profesional con una historia basada en hechos reales que no deja indiferente al lector que decide empezar este apasionante viaje.
The Road to Oxiana takes us on an extraordinary journey through travel literature, as British explorer Robert Byron chronicles his ten-month adventure, accompanied by his friend Christopher Sykes, to Persia and Afghanistan.
Jörn Hinrich Laue erzählt in diesem Band 22 aus seinem Leben als Seemann und Schifffahrtskaufmann und von seinen Seereisen als Passagier auf Fähr-, Frachtschiffen und Oldtimern.
Reportage di un lungo viaggio compiuto nella Valle di Kathmandù, costeggiando a nord-ovest la dorsale himalayana e spingendosi sino al Terai ed il Chitwan.
Les Trois Mousquetaires Alexandre Dumas - Aux trois gentilshommes mousquetaires Athos, Porthos et Aramis, toujours prêts à en découdre avec les gardes du Cardinal de Richelieu, s'associe le jeune gascon d'Artagnan fraîchement débarqué de sa province avec pour ambition de servir le roi Louis XIII.
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