Adventure & Literary Travel 11

Paris Dear Alice, Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the ……続きを見る

「今天過得很愜意；但「愜意」一詞並不足以描述一個首次獨自在巴西森林中漫行的自然學家的感受。在許許多多令人驚賞的東西之中，草木所呈現的一致繁盛之貌叫人嘆為觀止……對一個喜愛自然史的人，像今天這樣的日子所……続きを見る

Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. This new edition includes a previously unpublished epigraph in the form of a walk. W……続きを見る

The unexpected gift of a favored bottle of shiraz from her husband leads to the adventure of a lifetime for Karen Pond and her family--moving from rural Maine to the largest city in the world: Tokyo……続きを見る

一期一會 你就是路上最美的風景 謝謝，讓我這樣遇見你 他，是知名主持人； 也是日韓娛樂達人； 更是粉絲口中的「大好人」。 他和日本的緣分開始得很早，從早期隻身前往日本拍攝節目、到日本行腳節目主持人，在不斷……続きを見る

The world is filled of miracles, in this some miracles are man-made and some are natural. It has always have been a born desire of a man that he should always do something new and discover new thing……続きを見る

The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai……続きを見る

TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Ex……続きを見る

A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English lan……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote ……続きを見る

Can you be a stranger in your own country? A Japanese-American raised in California, 24-year-old Katie Kitamura returns to Japan to discover the country she left behind. Travelling across this forei……続きを見る

Life in the Skies is a unique compendium of tips, advice, anecdotes and tales from the storied career of life-long pilot, Captain Lim Khoy Hing. Captain Lim provides insights into every aspect of ai……続きを見る

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a hou……続きを見る

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagin……続きを見る

A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Joh……続きを見る

12 works of Agnes Christina Laut Canadian journalist, novelist, historian, and social worker (1871-1936) This ebook presents a collection of 12 works of Agnes Christina Laut. A dynamic table of cont……続きを見る

Dies ist der zweite Band des Reiseberichtes des britischen Naturforschers Alfred Russel Wallace. Er unternahm in den Jahren 1854 bis 1862 im südlichen Malaiischen Archipel eine ausführliche Forschun……続きを見る

In A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain’s unofficial sequel to The Innocents Abroad, the author records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights while on a fifteen-month walking trip through Centra……続きを見る

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James ext……続きを見る

Oxford is a world-renowned stronghold of knowledge, a lush medieval city dotted with beautiful gardens. But it also has a symbolic meaning well beyond these things. It stands for something deep in o……続きを見る

This vivid, prophetic book on China’s magnetic attraction to the West is the perfect introduction to China in the eighties. 続きを見る

'I was warned by all those who knew me that to take on a project like this was madness.' At the peak of her fast-paced career, presenter and interviewer Selina Scott bought a house in the Tramuntana……続きを見る

Renowned naturalist John Muir is widely credited as being one of the important early figures in the conservation movement. In this series of essays, Muir introduces readers to the wonders of the maj……続きを見る

150 years separate two explorers of Africa: the Englishman John Hanning Speke and South African Sihle Khumalo. Speke set out to “discover” the source of the Nile, and Khumalo to fi gure out what the……続きを見る

2 years on the road. 1 backpack. 15 countries. Banned from one. Stories about Nepal, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, Kenya, Qatar, UAE, Panama and more. This book is about the days, ……続きを見る

_______________ 'A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page' - Literary Review 'The most successful attempt I know to grip th……続きを見る

There are many ways to die in the Sierra Madre, a notorious nine-hundred-mile mountain range in northern Mexico where AK-47s are fetish objects, the law is almost non-existent and power lies in the ……続きを見る

Hugh Dennis' hilarious and insightful exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness will enthral those who love Outnumbered, The Now Show, Mock the Week and quintessentially British h……続きを見る

A kastélyok és várak az emberi együttélés tanúbizonyságai, amelyek időszerűségükkel nemcsak a romantikusokat ihletik. Történelemmel telítve, fáradtsággal sok éven át föld ből, fából és kőből épített……続きを見る

Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux Cape Cod ……続きを見る