Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Roads From the Ashes
    Megan Edwards
    When wildfire destroyed her home in the hills above Los Angeles, Megan Edwards seized the opportunity her sudden 'stufflessness' offered. She hit the road with her husband and dog in the Phoenix One, the one-of-a-kind motorhome that 'rose from the ashes.' This is the story of how a sabbatical that began with no itinerary and no return date grew into a five-year North American o...
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    17,92 €

  • Careening thru Cambodia
    Keith Lowry
                             The difference between a vacation and an adventure.For no particular reason, Cambodia had never made it on to my list of potential travel destinations. That all changed in late 2010 when as part of a film crew, I spent two intense weeks in the country, filming the exploits of a man involved in the removal of land mines. Despite my limited exposure to pe...
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    23,37 €

  • A Road Trip Through American History
    James T Parks
    This book is the first volume of a collection of RoadRUNNER travelogues written byJames T. Parks, which focus on locations and routes steeped in American history.Jim’s original articles are scattered piecemeal throughout various RoadRUNNERbimonthly issues, spanning more than a decade of time. With that in mind, we haveupdated information, where feasible, that appeared in the or...
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    19,78 €

  • Time Out
    Robert Olesen
    Traveling coast to coast across the USA is the dream journey for many. Although this can be done in the comfort of a car, combining the love for Harley Davidson with touring across the United States both ways has always been on the bucket list. After fifteen years, a once in a lifetime opportunity arose and the author went for it.Trying to plan ahead was easier said than done, ...
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    34,95 €

  • Time Out
    Robert Olesen
    Traveling coast to coast across the USA is the dream journey for many. Although this can be done in the comfort of a car, combining the love for Harley Davidson with touring across the United States both ways has always been on the bucket list. After fifteen years, a once in a lifetime opportunity arose and the author went for it.Trying to plan ahead was easier said than done, ...
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    41,20 €

  • Time Out - Monochrome Edition
    Robert Olesen
    Traveling coast to coast across the USA is the dream journey for many. Although this can be done in the comfort of a car, combining the love for Harley Davidson with touring across the United States both ways has always been on the bucket list. After fifteen years, a once in a lifetime opportunity arose and the author went for it.Trying to plan ahead was easier said than done, ...
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    16,14 €

  • Iceland Serow Saga
    Helen Lloyd
    - A compelling tale of heart-stopping adventure and immersion in nature -Searching for solitude in the wilderness, Helen Lloyd went to Iceland via the Faroe Islands for the summer of 2018. She found freedom and adventure riding her old Yamaha Serow motorbike, tackling the rough trails and deep river crossings for which Iceland is renowned.The Land of Ice and Fire is more than c...
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    19,87 €

  • Uphill, Against the Wind
    Douglas Reid
    We were seeing France as few tourists see it, from the back roads and in the small villages which only French tourists see, if tourists see it at all.  No trains stop in these villages, but we’d see occasional bus stops. We rode through villages in which no tourist car ever stops, only weary bicyclists. We were living for a few hours or a few days in villages with no Eiffel Tow...
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    12,60 €

  • Lutheran Mzungu
    Dot Radius Kasik Ph.D.
    Lutheran Mzungu is an exploration of personal cultural awakening when an American Lutheran professor of English volunteered for a six-month teaching stint at a Lutheran university in Tanzania and ended up teaching British Law. She quickly found herself to be mzungu (stranger, white person, outsider) on multiple levels: racially (white), economically ("first" world versus "third...
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    12,82 €

  • Where I’m Going with this Poem
    Wendy Lee Hermance / Jose Lima
                       "Wendy Lee Hermance’s prose and poetry are made of touching and surprising childhood memories – of shriveled apples, old pillows, fallen tree limbs, imaginary radio stations and things so difficult to put into words that we can only glimpse them between the lines of this highly compelling work."Richard Zimler, international best-selling author of The Last Kab...
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    7,92 €

  • July 19
    Peter MacFarquhar
    Before my driftwood fire I sit,And see with every waif I burn,Old dreams and fancies coloring it,And folly’s unlaid ghosts return.John Greenleaf WhittierThere is a great mountain in central Nepal called Annapurna, Goddess of the Harvests. This book recalls a walking tour in this lofty and exhilarating region.A time capsule from a world that has now largely passed, July 19: Toda...
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    19,90 €

  • Pacific Grove at Your Feet
    Joyce Krieg / Patricia Hamilton
    Discover Pacific Grove in a delightful new way-on foot! In these pages, we’ll explore walks, hikes, and rambles taking you along the shoreline bluffs overlooking Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean and into our wild and woodsy urban forests. Not just another trail guide, Pacific Grove at Your Feet is teeming with local legend and lore presented in a breezy, friendly style. Ride ...
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    14,94 €

  • The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
    Helene Hanff
    Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff’s delightful travelogue about her 'bucket list' trip to LondonWhen devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road--in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear frie...
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    15,06 €

  • To a Mountain in Tibet
    Colin Thubron
    'A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.' --Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books'Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can’t remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author’s outward journey inward.' --Bob Shacochis, Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Colin T...
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    15,59 €

  • Rome and a Villa
    Eleanor Clark
    'These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.' -- The New Yorker'Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city.' -- New York TimesBringing to life the legendary city’s beauty and magic in all its many facets, Eleanor Clark’s masterful collection ...
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    15,85 €

  • Playing Off the Rail
    David McCumber
    When David McCumber armed himself with large amounts of cash and hit the road with ace pool player Tony Annigoni, he transformed himself overnight from journalist to 'stakehorse' - a guy who provides financial backing to a pool hustler in return for a share of the winnings. Alternately hair-raising and hilarious, Playing off the Rail is McCumber’s account of their coast-to-coas...
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    16,91 €

  • Letters from the Drinking Town
    David Macpherson
    Do you like bars? Do you like getting the same drink at every bar you go into? Well, Dave does. He spent several years going into every bar in Worcester and having a gin and tonic. He wrote about it in a blog. That became Gin and Tonics Across Worcester: The Book. It wasn’t just about the gin and tonic, though it was pretty damned important. It was about why people go to bars. ...
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    9,76 €

  • Go West, His Momma Said
    Tracy Ruckman
    “Only one question remained: Do we stay or do we go?”Faced with life-changing decisions, Tim and Tracy made the only choice they could—they went!Go West, His Momma Said chronicles the Ruckmans on their 189-day cross country road trip as they tent-camped their way from state to state. Piling into their SUV, loaded down with camping equipment and electronic gadgets, they determin...
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    44,60 €

  • Dance Life
    Lisa Alpine
    In Dance Life: Movin' & Groovin' Around the Globe, Alpine combines her three all-encompassing passions—writing, travel, and dance—into a bouquet of stories that span her lifetime and the globe. From twerking with a nun in an Albanian orphanage to salsa-ing with a hottie under the burning sun in Cuba, to braving an attempt at flamenco on a Parisian tabletop, these toe-ta...
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    11,41 €

  • Places I Remember
    Lea Lane
    “I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke—an ideal travel companion.”—Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN). Joyful and informative Places I Remember: Tales, Truths, Delights from 100 Countries presents writings and illustrated photos in a memoir covering over 50 years of travel throughout the world. You'll find a range of unforgettable people and places through...
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    42,27 €

  • Life As A Kite
    Cliff James / Ed Bixter
    The world feels increasingly volatile and polarised. Millions of people are displaced or alienated by abuses of power. Our lives are cluttered, stressful and unsatisfying. Our sense of who we are and where we belong is more fragile than ever. Following political and personal upheaval at home, Cliff James emigrated from his native England and travelled the globe in sea...
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    16,17 €

  • Travels and Travails
    George Mencher
    Why is this book entitled Travels and Travails? Through the stories I hope to amuse and inform the reader against a background of experiences and thoughts recounting my travels.  Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, some show anger, and some are (I hope!) interesting.  What makes this book different? This book covers travelling through life as well as places. Most trave...
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    28,91 €

  • Travels and Travails
    George Mencher
    Why is this book entitled Travels and Travails? Through the stories I hope to amuse and inform the reader against a background of experiences and thoughts recounting my travels.  Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, some show anger, and some are (I hope!) interesting.  What makes this book different? This book covers travelling through life as well as places. Most trave...
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    21,11 €

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
    Nellie Bly
    Published in 1890 under the pseudonym Nellie Bly, “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days” is the true account by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran of her daring trip around the world. Inspired by Jules Verne’s book “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Bly proposed to her newspaper editor that she undertake a similar adventure. On November 14, 1889, she boarded a steamer ship in Ne...
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    9,97 €

  • A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
    Isabella L. Bird / Isabella LBird
    First published serially and then into a book in 1879, “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains” is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird’s amazing travels and adventures. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1831, Bird was never formally educated and was often sickly as a child, but she was an avid reader and loved the outdoors. In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, she left a c...
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    9,89 €

  • Savoring the Camino de Santiago
    Julie Gianelloni Connor
    Savoring the Camino de Santiago: It’s the Pilgrimage, Not the Hike is the first book by author Julie Gianelloni Connor. The book focus on the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage trail that began around 820 AD. A resurrection of interest in the Camino since the 1970s has meant that more than 300,000 individuals are nowadays undertaking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compost...
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    19,48 €

  • Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails
    Lawrence Block
    While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. His instructional books for writers are leaders in the field, and his self-described pedestrian  memoir, Step By Step, has found a loyal audience in the running and racewalking community.Over the years, Block has wr...
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    16,27 €

  • Never a Stranger
    Tania Romanov
    I hang from the final limb of a family tree of generations of unintentional travelers—exiles, refugees, displaced people.My first journey—involuntary—took place less than a year after my birth. While I don’t remember the details, it’s as if I’ve often relived that entire experience, because my parents and their friends talked about it all their lives. I grew up with stories of ...
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    12,46 €

  • More Notes from the Field
    Kirk Ward Robinson
    In this sequel to Notes from the Field: A Diary of Journeys Near and Far, Robinson continues his journeys to places near and far, always peering around the corner for those insights that leave enduring legacies. Traveling on foot or bicycle, this very vulnerability leads him toward the greatest rewards, from chance encounters to hardships overcome to lasting friendships.Through...
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    11,77 €

  • Adventures Across America
    Jennifer White Fischer
    COLOR EDITIONA travel guide with a twist. The author weaves the exciting story of Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the west during the early 1800s into her story of discoveries throughout America, both on and off the historical trail. Take a road trip into history while discovering present day America.In addition to visiting many exceptional Lewis and Clark sites and the rivers...
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    29,67 €


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