Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    THIS SERIESThis series collects the true tales of travelers in all kinds of situations maybe of which may be fearful, dangerous, and even life-threatening and what they did to travel safely and securely. No one wants to encounter very scary and dangerous situations in the first place, but if they do, they want to travel as safely and securely as possible to avoid or escape the ...
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    27,16 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Close Calls & Great Escapes Volume 2 is the second of a two-book companion set in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel tales of danger in your travels and managing to just barely escape. It is a collection of the fearful and dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers, but mostly these will not happen to you. You’ll read examples of ...
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    32,65 €

  • Travel Tales
    Michael Brein
    Travel Tales: Close Calls & Great Escapes Volume 1 is the first of a two-book companion set in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel tales of danger in your travels and managing to just barely escape. It is a collection of the fearful and dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers, but mostly these will not happen to you. You’ll read examples the ...
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    32,62 €

  • A Very Byzantine Journey
    J. Richard Smith
    Part travelogue, part exploration of religious images and pilgrimage, J. Richard Smith tells the story of icons and the places where the New Testament story really happened. ...
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    21,59 €

  • The Spirit of Rome
    Vernon Lee
    The Spirit of Rome (1906) is a memoir by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, The Spirit of Rome is a captivating meditation on the author’s experiences in Rome. Raised in the city, she returns as an adult to find it as mysterious and magical as before, a place where any day could offer ...
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    16,98 €

  • Beyond the Postcard
    John R. Swatridge / John RSwatridge
    Beyond the Postcard is a collection of one man’s world-spanning travel stories. From the humorous to the heart-warming, these tales each show how travel, despite the inevitable surprises, is rewarding in so many ways. It stirs emotions that reinforce and affect what we know about the world, about each other, and even about ourselves.Travel is one of the best safeguards against ...
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    56,51 €

  • Beyond the Postcard
    John R. Swatridge / John RSwatridge
    Beyond the Postcard is a collection of one man’s world-spanning travel stories. From the humorous to the heart-warming, these tales each show how travel, despite the inevitable surprises, is rewarding in so many ways. It stirs emotions that reinforce and affect what we know about the world, about each other, and even about ourselves.Travel is one of the best safeguards against ...
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    71,98 €

  • Life Story Of Juddy?
    Ronald Edmunds
    This is my life story, from birth to age eighty. During that period, I was not accepted by my birth mother or father or by their families. I became a ward of the court, foster child to a family, someone created through incest in the genes, and child abducted from New York to California. Yet I survived and made something out of myself, going from a life of being unwanted to a li...
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    25,34 €

  • Isabelle’s Bat
    Martin J Bush
    Isabelle has bought a bat in the market and she is trying to remember how her mother used to cook them. This poses a problem for the author, who is working in Madagascar to protect the same animals that Isabelle likes to eat. The adventures of thirty years of living and working in Africa and the Caribbean are recounted in this amusing and highly original series of true stories ...
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    16,15 €

  • Isabelle’s Bat
    Martin J Bush
    Isabelle has bought a bat in the market and she is trying to remember how her mother used to cook them. This poses a problem for the author, who is working in Madagascar to protect the same animals that Isabelle likes to eat. The adventures of thirty years of living and working in Africa and the Caribbean are recounted in this amusing and highly original series of true stories ...
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    22,17 €

  • Solo Travel
    Marilene Shane
    You’ve found this solo travel guide because you are ready to step into the unknown, release fears, and embark on an amazing travel experience. This is exciting because once you go a solo trip, you won’t return the same. I’ll share some important tips about solo missions like what to consider when selecting a destination, determining your trip’s purpose, considering the financia...
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    20,87 €

  • Becoming Ubermensch
    Marcus Johnson
    In this sequel to Alapaha Paganism, Professor Johnson chronicles, examines, and responds, in his eclectic philosophical style, to the events of 2019-2021. Informed by the Stoic emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and the itinerant philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, this book of praxis uses aphorisms, essays, and an Arctic Circle travel journal to develop and express a contemporary life ph...
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    54,54 €

  • Shadowed Soul
    Melissa Jennewein
    One Woman’s Worldwide Quest for Understanding and Liberating the Divine Within.In 'Shadowed Soul: Wandering to Find Your Inner Compass,' you will embark on an extraordinary quest that transcends borders, religions, and expectations. Through captivating storytelling, Shadowed Soul takes readers on a mesmerizing pilgrimage, guided not only by maps and itineraries but also by the ...
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    12,91 €

  • Cape Cod
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    First published in 1865, 'Cape Cod' is one of a series of excursion books by the famed American author and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Most well-known for his influential works Walden and Civil Disobedience, Thoreau was also an observant naturalist and spent much time watching and recording the seasonal patterns of natural spaces. Based on several trips he made to th...
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    9,88 €

  • Memories and Places in Time
    Peter Fischer
    Memories and Places in Time is a collection of poetic stories and recollections which celebrate images of the author’s travels to various overseas destinations since 1977, visiting, in turn, Italy, the Greek Islands, Morocco, India, Africa, Vietnam and Cambodia.Ranging from Italy’s romantic Florence and the stunning Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre and Northern Italian Lakes to the i...
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    35,34 €

  • The Looking-Glass Voyage
    Tariq Khan
    Tariq Khan invites readers on a geographical, historical, political, and personal journey in his riveting memoir, The Looking Glass Voyage. A Pukhtoon from the Peshawar region of northwest Pakistan, Mr. Khan lived through the historical events of the 1950s and 60s in Pakistan, and he documents the unrest of those years as he experienced them as a young man. Tales of his family ...
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    15,76 €

  • The Looking-Glass Voyage
    Tariq Khan
    Tariq Khan invites readers on a geographical, historical, political, and personal journey in his riveting memoir, The Looking Glass Voyage. A Pukhtoon from the Peshawar region of northwest Pakistan, Mr. Khan lived through the historical events of the 1950s and 60s in Pakistan, and he documents the unrest of those years as he experienced them as a young man. Tales of his family ...
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    37,18 €

  • The Way of the Traveler’s H.E.A.R.T.
    Julie A. Zolfo / Julie AZolfo
    'And so the adventure begins...'Do you love travel? Adventure? Excitement?And do you find daily everyday life... lackluster, tiresome, or too regimented? You feel the most alive and free when you’re traveling so the days and nights at home feel like you’re just biding your time until your next trip.Then you need Julie A. Zolfo and 'The Traveler’s H.E.A.R.T.' This concept is an ...
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    14,90 €

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2021
    Jason Wilson / Padma Lakshmi
    'The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in some other physical place and culture,' writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, 'and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.' The essays in this year’s Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020...
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    14,49 €

  • Wanderwest
    Michael Dustin Youree
    Wanderwest : The Old World is the first in a series of interactive, multimedia books that open the world through the experiences of digital nomad Michael Dustin Youree. With one hundred and forty images, and thirty-five QR codes built into seven philosophical stories, The Old World explores Europe, where MDY lived and travels extensively.Inspired by the classic coffee table boo...
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    24,98 €

  • Wanderwest
    Michael Dustin Youree
    Wanderwest : The Old World is the first in a series of interactive, multimedia books that open the world through the experiences of digital nomad Michael Dustin Youree. With one hundred and forty images, and thirty-five QR codes built into seven philosophical stories, The Old World explores Europe, where MDY lived and travels extensively.Inspired by the classic coffee table boo...
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    42,72 €

  • American Pie
    Pascale Le Draoulec
    'A rich, satisfying account of one woman’s cross-country search for the age-old dessert.' -- Entertainment WeeklyAn engaging and quirky travelogue, cultural and personal excursion, and adventure-cookbook that brings back from the highways and back roads a homemade slice of AmericaCrossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania ...
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    13,23 €

  • In Seven Stages
    Elizabeth Bisland
    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trap Around the World (1891) is a travel narrative by American journalist Elizabeth Bisland. When Bly’s journey-inspired by the travels of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)-was announced in Joseph Pulitzer’s popular newspaper the New York World, Cosmopolitan sent a young reporter of its own to race Bly across the glob...
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    8,12 €

  • My Swiss Home
    Karin Koehler / Melissa Bender / Wolfgang Koehler
    Captivated by the beauty of the Swiss Alps, Wolfgang Koehler was determined to experience living in Europe, with its rich history, cobblestone streets, medieval buildings and endless cafes, as more than a tourist. That being said, he convinced his wife of 25 years to leave their children, family and home that they knew in Canada and go on this crazy adventure.Through their init...
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    22,12 €

  • Plane Tales
    Kellina Craig-Henderson
    Plane Tales is a quirky book of stories involving different people, airplanes, and faraway places in foreign countries. What happens when you leave your faithless lover by boarding a plane to Israel? How do you balance the desire to live outside your familiar in a foreign country and still love your spouse who abhors change? Can a person really find peace following grave despai...
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    17,11 €

  • Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters
    Ben P Robertson / Nikolai Gretsch
    Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life. ...
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    202,43 €

  • Free Pilgrim 3
    Pilgrim
    In Free Pilgrim 3, the author returns to his place of birth, 'The Land Below The Wind.' Even though he had made similar trips back before, yet strangely he discovered that he still arrived 'where he had started and known the place for the first time.' His insightful writing clearly illustrates both the divine and mundane nature of humanity. We are all one people, though separat...
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    29,70 €

  • 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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    180,40 €

  • Memoirs of a Free Pilgrim
    Pilgrim
    In this book, Nicholas Fung, who has authored several travel books (the Free Pilgrim series), talks about his life, from its humble beginnings in Borneo to his education in England, his professional successes in both law and banking, and his eventual retirement to become a 'Free Pilgrim.' This book containing recollections of his former life should appeal to those familiar wit...
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    23,55 €

  • Tourorist
    Tanner Ballengee
    Fleeing the emotional tragedies of his hometown in Kansas, Tanner Ballengee set out for Southeast Asia. The plan was to meet up with a comrade and ride motorcycles across Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, a harsh bargethrough the infamous Killing Season. The only problem was that Ballengee knew nothing about the region, even less about motorcycles, and only had the money he’d be...
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    21,21 €