Adventure & Literary Travel 65

L'histoire vraie , captivante et souvent dramatique d'une exceptionnelle génération d'alpinistes, partis au bout de leurs rêves. Peu d'hommes peuvent prétendre avoir autant marqué l'histoire de la m……続きを見る

Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impair……続きを見る

Haardt Zongo, a revolutionary without a revolution, begins to question his life’s purpose and meaning. After a lot of soul searching, Haardt decides to leave the system of enslavement and the comfor……続きを見る

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves an……続きを見る

It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not……続きを見る

When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939–40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the inva……続きを見る

Have you ever watched a sailboat slip from its dock and cruise out to sea? Have you wanted to go along? "Go to Sea" gives you all the reasons to climb aboard a sailing adventure with your family. Wi……続きを見る

Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all,……続きを見る

First published in 1735, this account focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It also has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave tr……続きを見る

Children love to explore and are very inquisitive when it comes to their environment. As they learn about where they live, they also think beyond and wish to know more about what is out there, the d……続きを見る

When our children turn on the home's television sets, they will often flip through the channels to see the news or some nature channel. After seeing the video clips of film taken in other parts of t……続きを見る

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 4 for October 2014 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has g……続きを見る

When travel writer Dan Szczesny and his wife, Meenakshi, traveled to Nepal to marry in Kathmandu and trek to Everest Base Camp, they knew the journey would be difficult. What they didn't realize was……続きを見る

Nouvelles Asiatiques - Joseph Arthur de Gobineau Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816 - 1882), dit le comte de Gobineau, est un diplomate et écrivain français. Il doit sa notoriété posthume à son Essai s……続きを見る

An American businessman, author, mathematician, andastronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning……続きを見る

An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned as a travel writer ……続きを見る

Un voyage virtuel en Floride! Un voyage en Floride, sans vous déplacer! Voilà ce que vous proposent Chroniques floridiennes! Passez de l’Atlantique au golfe du Mexique. Arpentez les promenades qui l……続きを見る

In books such as The Complete Walker and The Man Who Walked Through Time, Colin Fletcher has established a reputation as a literate and witty apostle of roughing it. His newest book is a highly pers……続きを見る

At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare……続きを見る

The American Teacher Two months after 9/11, an American teacher arrives in Muscat with little more than a contract and a suitcase. What follows is a year that changes him forever. And changes everyt……続きを見る

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us is not just another bucketlist of big-ticket items. We've all he……続きを見る

Italy springs to life in the pages of this collection of luminous essays, vignettes and observations from Vernon Lee. Presented as fragments from an old diary kept by an expatriate whose youth was s……続きを見る

Fleurs d’Orient - Judith Gautier Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917) fut une c……続きを見る

Adrift in Buenos Aires, Layne Mosler was hungryーfor an excellent (and cheap) meal, for a great story, for a new direction. A chance recommendation from a taxi driver helped her find all these thing……続きを見る

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER I Some Preliminary Events "After me cometh a builder. Tell him I, too, have known."Kipling.It is an awful thing to be told that one has made history, or done somethin……続きを見る

Even more true adventures in the Philippines with pick pockets, scammers, pirate banca captains, dodgy business partners, suicidal scuba divers and a lot more! The highly entertaining add easy to en……続きを見る

Okay, so finding buried treasure left by forgotten pirates may be a a bit of a stretch but there's no discounting the fact that many a treasure has been unearthed by a diligent searcher. You've prob……続きを見る

This travel guide has been put together to explore Florence following in the footsteps of Robert Langdon and Sienna Brooks, the protagonists of Dan Brown's novel. Their journey begins at Torregalli ……続きを見る

Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds c……続きを見る

Eastward to Tartary*,* Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to b……続きを見る