Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Holy Days
    Sarah HN
    What makes a good holiday and how do you become a Holy Day Maker? How do you travel well - and can you travel without leaving home? How can you extend the life of your holiday? This little travel companion examines these and other holiday matters in the hope that it will help the reader, as it helped the writer, to clarify her thoughts on the subject, assisting those of us who ...
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    37,70 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Hotels from HellIs a collection of travel stories of one of the most basic experiences and needs of travelers, namely, securing safe and secure lodging during their travels. Indeed, of the nearly 2,000 travelers whom I have interviewed over nearly five decades, I’ve collected and chronicled the phenomenal, the good, the wonderful, and the fascinating of all sorts ...
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    24,24 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Ghost EncountersCollects Michael Brein’s ghostly accounts of the nearly 2,000 interviews with travelers he has met in his own travels around the world over the last four decades.Although the typical travel stories collected in the True Travel Tales book series are ordinarily oriented towards safety and security in travel, the very scary and spooky accounts of ghos...
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    27,21 €

  • The Sabbatical
    James R.A. Herriot
    If you were able to travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? During the 2nd Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, James Herriot decided to collate various of the journeys he and his wife (Debbie) have made during their life together as a journal for the grandchildren. Reminiscing about their favourite places, James also includes suggestions for good books, his favourite music, a...
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    37,94 €

  • The Sabbatical
    James R.A. Herriot
    If you were able to travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? During the 2nd Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, James Herriot decided to collate various of the journeys he and his wife (Debbie) have made during their life together as a journal for the grandchildren. Reminiscing about their favourite places, James also includes suggestions for good books, his favourite music, a...
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    53,51 €

  • The Expat
    Jovelle Fernandez
    AS AN EXPAT, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH UNFAMILIAR SITUATIONS AND PLACES AND NAVIGATE LIFE ALL OVER AGAIN?For Jovelle, this is a constant cycle in her life as an expat. This book will reveal the life lessons of an expat who lived and worked in five countries and traveled in fifty of them. Those life lessons came from extraordinary but true experiences.Whether you are an expat or not,...
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    25,25 €

  • Most Adventures Wins?
    Don Munroe
    MOST ADVENTURES WINS?My urge for adventure started early in life right after I was born when Doctor Janowski slapped me to welcome me to a Tom Sawyer style of life that was full of mischief. When I was not fishing on Colquitz Creek, playing the piano at Toronto Conservatory of Music, or being a marksman at a local gun club, I was found playing every sport that came around. My i...
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    22,97 €

  • Most Adventures Wins?
    Don Munroe
    MOST ADVENTURES WINS?My urge for adventure started early in life right after I was born when Doctor Janowski slapped me to welcome me to a Tom Sawyer style of life that was full of mischief. When I was not fishing on Colquitz Creek, playing the piano at Toronto Conservatory of Music, or being a marksman at a local gun club, I was found playing every sport that came around. My i...
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    31,46 €

  • Walk or Die
    Maureen Pecknold
    Three months on snowshoes and sleeping in a tent. What were they thinking?In the middle of the cold, dark winter, an intrepid and motley collection of snow walkers discovers the wild beauty of the Canadian North. Their 700km self-supported expedition is at times difficult, but hilarious and heart-warming as they face challenges together, braving deep snow, slush, and temperatur...
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    30,88 €

  • Walk or Die
    Maureen Pecknold
    Three months on snowshoes and sleeping in a tent. What were they thinking?In the middle of the cold, dark winter, an intrepid and motley collection of snow walkers discovers the wild beauty of the Canadian North. Their 700km self-supported expedition is at times difficult, but hilarious and heart-warming as they face challenges together, braving deep snow, slush, and temperatur...
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    41,86 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is a very funny book. It’s a collection of Michael Brein’s funniest travel accounts of the nearly 2000 interviews with travelers he has met in his own travels around the world over the last four decades. Although the typical travel stories collected in the books that make up the True Travel Tales series are ordinarily oriented towards safety and secu...
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    30,37 €

  • The Expat
    Jovelle Fernandez
    AS AN EXPAT, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH UNFAMILIAR SITUATIONS AND PLACES AND NAVIGATE LIFE ALL OVER AGAIN?For Jovelle, this is a constant cycle in her life as an expat. This book will reveal the life lessons of an expat who lived and worked in five countries and traveled in fifty of them. Those life lessons came from extraordinary but true experiences.Whether you are an expat or not,...
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    11,77 €

  • He Had Me At ’Olé’
    Stacey M. Erbacher
    A jaunty Spanish sojourn with a side of sherry, shawls and shoes.When a striking male flamenco dancer singles Stacey out during a showstopping tour of Australia, she decides to throw herself hook, line and castanets into the rhythmic heart of Spain. After making a spectacle of herself in Barcelona, Stacey stomps her way around Seville before journeying to Jerez to attend ...
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    12,89 €

  • Taste of Freedom/ L’Esprit de Liberté / Sabor a Libertad
    Janet Kaufmann
    ’Taste of Freedom’ is a beautiful collection of poems and essays that takes us on the author’s journey across the world as she overcomes her own limits, belief systems, cultural norms and standards. In this book, she shares her adventures, critical views, observations and deep reflections about life and society with empowering messages of freedom and love for humanity. This boo...
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    24,51 €

  • The Mountain Will Decide
    Karen Swenson
    'Where will you go when I die?' Swenson’s elderly aunt asked, triggering her first journey to Tibet. But what began as a trip in memoriam expanded to a fascination with a country with a deeply Buddhist culture, dominated and exploited by its wealthy neighbor China. The fascination in turn enlarged to an obsession whose essence became a mountain.Over a couple of decades Swenson ...
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    23,72 €

  • Whatever Comes, Eat It
    Kathy Binns
    In 2004, Canadian Kathy Binns was offered a job teaching middle school in Moscow. Thus began an incredible overseas adventure that lasted seventeen years. With humour, candour, and a keen observational eye, Kathy recounts her memorable experiences inside and out of the English-speaking expat bubbles in the various places she and her husband Michael lived and worked. Russia Bang...
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    22,64 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: England, Ireland & The UK Collects travel tales of one of the world’s multi-faceted favorite destinations. The allure of the UK or Ireland is a magnet to comfort and convenience, yet marvelous sightseeing, and is one of the easiest adventures to make without worrying about the language.            "Comfort" and "convenience," because, for the English speaker, a fo...
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    19,71 €

  • Holidays the HST way.
    Danny Nolan
    The tale of two young men in the 1980s on holidays under the influence of Hunter S Thompson ...
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    23,24 €

  • I Married Adventure
    Peter Yoshio Bullock
    Think Rick Steves crossed with The Hitchikers Guide to the Universe!These are the tales of a reckless traveler including: deportations, attack dogs, an arrested in Vienna, a hotel fire in Venice, smugglers in Scotland, and numerous police interactions. How I got drunk and was kidnapped in Boreao. Have gone without meals and slept on floors. Spent the night in brothels (twice). ...
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    27,45 €

  • A HAYES RIVER ODYSSEY
    John Kudlas
    Join six adventurers as they plan, practice and canoe and sail through a chain of large lakes and Hayes River rapids in northern Manitoba, Canada. The expedition passes through unique sights, a Cree village and terminates at historical York Factory, a Hudson Bay facility of yore. To sail the large lakes the group improvises a modern-day York boat from the three canoes. Directio...
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    25,30 €

  • A HAYES RIVER ODYSSEY
    John Kudlas
    Join six adventurers as they plan, practice and canoe and sail through a chain of large lakes and Hayes River rapids in northern Manitoba, Canada. The expedition passes through unique sights, a Cree village and terminates at historical York Factory, a Hudson Bay facility of yore. To sail the large lakes the group improvises a modern-day York boat from the three canoes. Directio...
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    34,86 €

  • Real Ventures
    Bonnie Burgess Neely
    Isolation during the Pandemic vastly increased RV travel, but also created anxiety and depression. The best release for emotional distress is humor. This book presents the gift of laughter and escape, so needed at this troubled time in the world! This is the perfect read for your favorite chair or on any trip. Whether you are campers or those who prefer staying at home, it will...
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    18,84 €

  • Refraction
    Bruce Rettig
    Refraction recounts the experience of working in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a remote Arctic outpost and home to the largest oilfield in North America. It’s the story of one person’s journey, told in a series of reflections on a time spent living in a frozen wasteland. Justifying the endeavor as a modern-day gold rush or a romantic odyssey could otherwise be viewed as another distorte...
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    21,95 €

  • Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere
    Markus Heide
    Travel reports have shaped the emergence of early U.S. culture and its 'geographical imagination' (David Harvey). Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere examines the trans-national imagination in travel reports by American authors written between 1770 and 1830. Its range is from John and William Bartram’s pre-revolutionary travelogues and Jonathan Carver’s exploratory repo...
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    24,17 €

  • Places of the Heart
    Peter Fischer
    'Places of the Heart' is a collection of poems interspersed with poetic travel stories and recollections. The poems explore a wide range of emotions including the joys and sometimes heartbreak and sadness of love and relationships, longing, loss, loneliness, depression and grief. The travel stories, written in a narrative poetic style, visit exotic and memorable places and, tog...
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    28,27 €

  • The Coazze Notebook
    Luigi Pirandello / Lisa Sarti
    'During his sojourn, the Maestro kept a notebook in which he recorded everything that caught his eye, from the natives’ peculiar manners and dialect to the fast-changing scenery on his walks along picturesque trails. These notes and impressions gave way to poems, illustrations, and storylines, all merging into a seemingly experimental text encompassing graphic art, fiction, and...
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    15,16 €

  • Singapore
    Suman Kathuria
    This book is an up-close-and-personal guide to majestic Singapore. With over 250 photographs, this book takes a look at the many facets of Singapore, sharing details and capturing the beauty of this unique nation. Within, you will discover the iconic architecture, beautiful bridges, and public housing evocative of Singapore. Prepare to be swept away by the wealth of colourful m...
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    58,45 €

  • Singapore
    Suman Kathuria
    This book is an up-close-and-personal guide to majestic Singapore. With over 250 photographs, this book takes a look at the many facets of Singapore, sharing details and capturing the beauty of this unique nation. Within, you will discover the iconic architecture, beautiful bridges, and public housing evocative of Singapore. Prepare to be swept away by the wealth of colourful m...
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    77,73 €

  • ANSWERING THE SIREN’S CALL
    Mark di Frangia
    Part One explores growing up amid the racial and homophobic backlash of suburban California in the 50’s and 60’s. As a child of two well-meaning parents, themselves from broken, dysfunctional families, the narrator strikes out at an early age to come to grips with his ’otherness’. These tales include insights into family and neighborhood characters and first, innocent looks at ...
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    40,13 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Scary StoriesIs also a collection of the fearful sorts of things that can and do happen to some travelers on occasion, but mainly these things will not happen to you. But if they do, you may get to experience real, raw fear including sometimes even fear for your very own life. These are very unsettling occasions that pop up now and again in your travels.This colle...
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    32,32 €