Adventure & Literary Travel 35

**A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history……続きを見る

Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-k……続きを見る

Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen……続きを見る

The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on ……続きを見る

An epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world?s greatest round of golf In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was well familiar with the……続きを見る

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, offers a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership. Mik……続きを見る

In World Travel Tales: True Stories of Travel, Trouble and Transformation – BOOK ONE: France, Greece and India (and this entire World Travel and Adventure series), much of what I'm going to share wi……続きを見る

One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won interna……続きを見る

Practical Safe Travel Tips and Travel Health Advice Planning on travelling but worried about getting sick? Or maybe you're happy to travel but your parents are convinced that you will end up robbed,……続きを見る

First published in 1958, A Person From England tells of how the legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western travellers.……続きを見る

'It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' *N……続きを見る

When she was 45 years old, Deb Denis (who is not an athlete) set a goal to climb Africa-s tallest peak before she turned 50. She knew she could train up for the challenge - she had 5 years to get re……続きを見る

The highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth. Award-winning foreign correspondent Eric Campbell has been stoned by fundamentalists, captured by……続きを見る

A compelling Boyer Lecture from Australian literary sensation Geraldine Brooks. For theBoyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of the Idea of Home. ……続きを見る

**From "the poet laureate of medicine" and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Colum……続きを見る

Labrador Wilderness, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (Front Cover: Paradise River, Labrador) Refresh your body, mind and soul by getting away from it all. A Travel Handbook. Enjoy the beautiful ph……続きを見る

This volume contains four novels and a travelogue by Emily Post, the author of the famous "Etiquette book." The four novels included are: "The Flight of a Moth," "Woven in the Tapestry,", "The Title……続きを見る

“Let’s get lost together . . . ” Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of hisーand America’sーfavorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national pa……続きを見る

FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manuall……続きを見る

An American writer and his wife find a new homeーand a new lease on lifeーin the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his a……続きを見る

Kidnappings, car bombs, cocaine, paramilitaries, bullfights, the Amazon and madness. Welcome to Colombia, where life is cheap and so are the drugs. In 2006, Matt Thompson travelled to Colombia in se……続きを見る

A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime. How do you become an explorer? It's a question every child has asked. And, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to……続きを見る

Imagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in Peru Peru wears its ancien……続きを見る

The first volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. Since the 1970s, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From……続きを見る

Ben: Do you ever worry you’ll die without having left a mark? Tom: What about when you won that 3 a.m. break-dancing battle with the overweight Australian girl? Ben: It’s not enough. I want to go do……続きを見る

This book is an accompaniment to my main book, The Adventures of a Hard-up, Diabetic Traveller with a Corn Flake Problem. It includes the introduction from the main book and an extra 400 photos to i……続きを見る

Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano...pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster...picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: Frank Gardner's idea of a holiday is ……続きを見る

A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author. Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mi……続きを見る

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when……続きを見る

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is of Sherlock Holmes stories collection. It was published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story was divided to eleven adventures; Silver Blaze The Yellow Face The ……続きを見る