Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Bike Riding in Kabul
    Jamie Bowman
    Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly 'feline sex-fest' in Kyiv, bribing Russian police to avoid jail in Mos-cow, sheltering under the sink (with the lizards) when the ammo dump exploded in Juba, automatic weapons training in Indiana, and that ill-fated morning bike ride in Kabul. It was a great job!Bike Riding in Kabul follows the professional and personal ...
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    20,89 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    THE SERIES Over the last few decades, I’ve interviewed nearly 2,000 world travelers and adventurers. I am weaving the best of their nearly 10,000 fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories. These are travelers I’ve encountered on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, bars, cafes, restaurants, and pubs...
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    16,63 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    THIS SERIESOver the last few decades, I’ve interviewed nearly 2,000 world travelers and adventurers. I am weaving the best of their nearly 10,000 fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories. These are travelers I’ve encountered on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, hotels, restaurants, cafes, and pu...
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    16,61 €

  • Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
    Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don’t usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...
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    155,11 €

  • Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
    Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don’t usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...
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    96,18 €

  • FAQ the Pilot
    Mark Greenfield
    Get in and fasten your seatbelt. Ready for take-off!Have you ever asked yourself why airplane windows have a small hole? Why your digestive system makes itself known with particular vigor high up in the air? If turbulence is actually as dangerous as it feels?Wouldn’t it be great to have these questions answered by someone who actually sits up front in the cockpit? Impossible? N...
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    8,00 €

  • In Tune with Nature
    Dr. Vijay Kumar Challu
    Wonders of life are revealed if lived passionately... Isn’t it better to identify the commonalities of Science & Spirituality rather than conflicts? How does trekking in the Himalayas make us realise our true identity in the universe? Beyond academics & career options, how can we enrich our lives with extracurricular activities? Won’t one wish to stay fit & young without ag...
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    18,91 €

  • Annals of Solitude
    Stephen Pax Leonard
    This philosophical travelogue is a record of the joys (and frustrations) of disconnecting from our complicated, modern existence and living, at a time of climate upheaval, a simple life as close to nature as possible. Eager to know what life might be like if we choose another path, Leonard lived for a year in a cabin in the most remote Arctic settlement he could find and discov...
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    20,17 €

  • Annals of Solitude
    Stephen Pax Leonard
    This philosophical travelogue is a record of the joys (and frustrations) of disconnecting from our complicated, modern existence and living, at a time of climate upheaval, a simple life as close to nature as possible. Eager to know what life might be like if we choose another path, Leonard lived for a year in a cabin in the most remote Arctic settlement he could find and discov...
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    33,75 €

  • A Tale of Two Yachts
    Barbara White / TBD
    A joyous comparative study of two kindred voyages undertaken a lifetime apart.In early summer 2015, following recent retirement, Barbara and Robert White left Plymouth, UK, on their elderly sailing yacht Zoonie, heading westwards to commence their circumnavigation. Eighty-seven years before them, in late summer 1928, recently married Erling and Julie Tambs left Ulvøysund, Norwa...
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    14,93 €

  • Jalan-Jalan
    Margo Weinstein
    Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood? Margo Weinstein did.For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the kiddie pool on a Disney cruise. Searching for a new path, a jalan-jalan, that could accommodate motherhood and satisfy her wanderlus...
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    16,52 €

  • Jalan-Jalan
    Margo Weinstein
    Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood? Margo Weinstein did.For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the kiddie pool on a Disney cruise. Searching for a new path, a jalan-jalan, that could accommodate motherhood and satisfy her wanderlus...
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    22,55 €

  • Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator
    Thomas P. Kaczur
    As increased attention is now being given to US-China and Pacific Rim relations, Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator stitches together real-life practices, skills, and experiences to pull back the domestic and foreign cultural trade curtain.Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator reflects the author’s belief that life is meant to be lived to its fullest. The book describes coincidental meeti...
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    26,22 €

  • Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator
    Thomas P. Kaczur
    As increased attention is now being given to US-China and Pacific Rim relations, Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator stitches together real-life practices, skills, and experiences to pull back the domestic and foreign cultural trade curtain.Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator reflects the author’s belief that life is meant to be lived to its fullest. The book describes coincidental meeti...
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    33,31 €

  • A Glimpse of the Other Americas
    Judi Lifton
    Backpacking in Belize 1983, Guyana 1990 and Ecuador 1997 -- It wasunbelievable that I was on a jungle river in a torrid rain in Guyana. Ifelt compelled to look through the veil of water pouring down the frontof my face and bouncing on the waves of the river. I watched thegreenery glisten and dance with the rain. The thatched huts, barelydiscernible in the distance, looked like ...
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    14,29 €

  • Studying Abroad for Black Women
    Adriana K. Smith / Adriana Smith
    Adriana, a blogger and educator, was embarrassed when she got lost in Madrid during the first two days of her study abroad program. She immediately wanted to book a flight home, but couldn’t as she was a first-generation student with no extra money. Yet, that moment defined her life’s journey. She discovered a new perspective to life: humility and global citizenry. Blown away b...
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    15,63 €

  • Beyond the Next Village
    Mary Anne Mercer
    A moving memoir of a young nurse’s experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient culture-and her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and ...
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    17,96 €

  • How the Heather Looks
    Joan Bodger
    A feast for any lover of English children’s books. -Christian HeraldOver sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children’s books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love.In Edinburgh, they ...
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    30,24 €

  • How the Heather Looks
    Joan Bodger
    A feast for any lover of English children’s books. -Christian HeraldOver sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children’s books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love.In Edinburgh, they s...
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    18,54 €

  • Travelogue Sketches
    Zandro Tumaliuan
    Straight from Zandro Tumaliuan’s sketchbooks, this coffee table book contains drawings done while on personal and business trips in England, France, the United States, the Philippines and around his own backyard, Canada. Rather than taking photos, as an urban sketching aficionado the artist prefers to draw the scenery, the active street scenes, and the unique buildings that he ...
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    27,83 €

  • Travelogue Sketches
    Zandro Tumaliuan
    Straight from Zandro Tumaliuan’s sketchbooks, this coffee table book contains drawings done while on personal and business trips in England, France, the United States, the Philippines and around his own backyard, Canada. Rather than taking photos, as an urban sketching aficionado the artist prefers to draw the scenery, the active street scenes, and the unique buildings that he ...
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    43,04 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    THIS SERIES:True Travel TalesOver the last few decades, I’ve interviewed nearly 2,000 world travelers and adventurers. I am weaving the best of their nearly 10,000 fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories. These are travelers I’ve encountered on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, bars, cafes, res...
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    26,94 €

  • Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
    Gary Fisher
    Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ’authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ’accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. ...
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    57,63 €

  • Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
    David Scott
    Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colo...
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    58,92 €

  • Into the Carpathians
    Alan E. Sparks
    Finalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hiking and wildlife research expedition along the Carpathian and Sudety Mountains, from Romania to Germany, some 800 miles as the crow flies. Still on the trail of wolves, we now exp...
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    16,67 €

  • Troubled Water
    Jens Mühling / Simon Pare
    A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there. Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the stories of people he meets along the way in order to paint a picture of the mix...
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    38,06 €

  • There’s No Business Like International Business
    Oliver Dowson
    First, on a whirlwind business trip around half the countries in South America in just a fortnight, Oliver Dowson faces near-death experiences in planes and cars, meets civil insurrection face-to-face, risks kidnap and must overcome mindless bureaucracy that could derail the itinerary on a daily basis.Next, follow along as he travels around the Far East for three weeks in the c...
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    21,98 €

  • My View from the House by the Sea
    Donna Marie Barr
    This true story, set in a small Samoan village at the turn of the twenty-first century, is told lovingly by a former Peace Corps volunteer and will take you there with its vivid imagery and emotional insight. As her poignant memoir unfolds, the author finds herself not only adapting to unfamiliar customs and foods, but also to the post-retirement phase of her life. Amongst her ...
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    17,85 €

  • Where the Sun Rises
    Trever Rustic
    Africa. Safari. Learn the many escapades, trials, and tribulations of Americans Kellie and Gary Wolf from their base camp at Sabie Bush Grand Lodge in South Africa’s province of Mpumalanga; a Zulu people word meaning 'the place where the Sun rises.'Based on actual events, these collection of stories paint a canvas of wondrous days under African skies filled with adventure, uniq...
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    14,44 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Wild Animals is a collection of wildlife viewing stories including some very scary tales of often coming close to serious trouble with wild animals in your travels but managing to just barely escape. It is also a collection of the fearful sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers, but mostly these will not happen to you. But if they do, you get to experi...
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    27,35 €


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