Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Runabout
    Cheryl Lynn Broas
    What does it feel like to run a marathon?To run an ultra-marathon 50 miles through sand, slip rock, and slot canyons? How about 100 marathons? Held in 30 countries and 39 different US States!RUNABOUT delivers in-depth race reports with lessons learned from long-distance running adventures around the world. Anyone who is fascinated with running will find this book offers unique...
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    36,81 €

  • 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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    202,21 €

  • 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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    202,28 €

  • How to Take 10 Years to Write a Book
    Robert Patterson Sr.
    After cancer strikes, a middle-aged couple drop everything, sell most of their belongings, buy an old motor home and utility trailer, and set out on a five-month journey around the country. A few years later, tragedy strikes, and the husband begins his struggle to get the story published and begin fulfilling his dream of starting a nonprofit organization.Along the way, his fait...
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    15,58 €

  • How to Carve a Pineapple
    Danica Ann / Shauna Desmarais
    In November 2016, Shauna, her husband Clint and their three pre-teen boys sold their business, rented out their home, packed up all of their possessions and left Canada to backpack around the world. They left with nothing but a skeleton itinerary and a dream in their hearts to see the world. They touched down in sixteen countries, took overnight trains, planes and ferries and t...
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    20,12 €

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
    Nellie Bly
    'She was part of the ’stunt girl’ movement that was very important in the 1880s and 1890s as these big, mass-circulation yellow journalism papers came into the fore.' -Brooke KroegerAround the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) is a travel narrative by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Proposed as a recreation of the journey undertaken by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s...
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    17,77 €

  • Touching the Wild UP
    John Highlen
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    12,91 €

  • 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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    9,91 €

  • The Cruise of the Snark
    Jack London
    The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a work of travel literature by American writer Jack London. In 1906, after achieving early success as an author of novels and short stories, London began dreaming of the adventures of his youth. Inspired, he spent a fortune to build a 45-foot yacht complete with two sails and a 70-horsepower engine, powerful enough to carry him across the Pacif...
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    18,49 €

  • A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
    Isabella L. Bird / Isabella LBird
    A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized to...
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    18,56 €

  • Enhancing Joy in Travel
    Virginia Murphy-Berman
    This book is a must read for those in the hospitality and travel industry (both students and professionals) and general readers who want to better understand the complexities of the psychology of travel. It will serve as an invaluable guide to all who would like to learn what it means to travel well. ...
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    22,93 €

  • French Bliss
    Chip Williams / Joni Sutton
    Have you ever dreamt of living in a foreign country?Follow two intrepid Minnesota retirees as they learn what it takes to live like a local in France. Read about their adventures in their adopted country- the humorous encounters, the obstacles they overcame, and the life-long friends they made along the way. Whether your interest is France, travel, wine, local history, or just ...
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    15,06 €

  • A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
    Nancy Prince
    Nancy Prince is an African American woman who writes about her personal and professional life, including her marriage and travels abroad to Russia and Jamaica. It’s a vivid account of the events that would shape her business and legacy. Little is known about Nancy Prince’s early years. She was born in Massachusetts to a seaman and mother who remarried multiple times. Despite an...
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    6,54 €

  • History of a Six Weeks’ Tour
    Mary Shelley / Percy Bysshe Shelley
    History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) is a travelogue by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Composed of journal entries, letters, and a poem, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour was published anonymously with a preface by Percy. Detailing their stay in Switzerland during the legendary 'year without a summer,' the travelogue was Mary’s first published work and remains an invaluable t...
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    6,81 €

  • Gods Drink Whiskey, The
    Stephen T Asma / Stephen T. Asma
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    12,70 €

  • Great Adventurers of the 20th Century
    Ron Tagliapietra
    Have you ever hungered for adventure? Now, you can accompany nineteen adventurers on their record-setting trips. Explore the earth from its deepestspot with Jacques Piccard to the top of its highest peak with Edmund Hillary, and even into the atmosphere by helium balloon with Ben Abruzzo. Mushwith Roald Amundsen to the South Pole, crawl through tight cave passages with John Wil...
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    14,59 €

  • The Cruise of the Snark
    Jack London
    The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a work of travel literature by American writer Jack London. In 1906, after achieving early success as an author of novels and short stories, London began dreaming of the adventures of his youth. Inspired, he spent a fortune to build a 45-foot yacht complete with two sails and a 70-horsepower engine, powerful enough to carry him across the Pacif...
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    10,56 €

  • Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror
    Susan J Bocock / Tina Pentland
    Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror weaves together heart-warming and humorous stories focused on characteristic aspects of Italian culture-its traditions and rituals, its food, and of course its people and their engaging approach to ’living life in the piazza’. But, as we discover, these are just the backdrop for a more compelling narrative.While pursuing her insatiable passion...
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    20,94 €

  • A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
    Isabella L Bird / Isabella L. Bird
    A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized to...
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    10,62 €

  • until we meet again
    R. Clift / RClift
    From R. Clift comes so intimately a collection of memories, a snapshot of her heart, like nothing she has ever written or shared before. A travel memoir written in poetry, of backpacking through Europe in the summer of 2019. Filled with daily poem entries, imperfect polaroids, never-to-be-sent postcards, and 3-hour-train-ride illustrations all pulled from the pages of her journ...
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    24,12 €

  • First We Ate Your Wife
    Adeena Gerding
    How do you end up adrift on the Pacific? And survive pirates? How do you accidentally cycle across a continent? Why didn’t you listen to your mother when she taught you not to hitchhike?                                                                                                                              Forced to watch all 64 games of the 2010 World Cup, ADEENA needs to ...
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    20,23 €

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
    Nellie Bly
    'She was part of the ’stunt girl’ movement that was very important in the 1880s and 1890s as these big, mass-circulation yellow journalism papers came into the fore.' -Brooke KroegerAround the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) is a travel narrative by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Proposed as a recreation of the journey undertaken by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s...
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    9,84 €

  • Risking Is Better Than Regretting
    Cornelia E. Davis
                    Live Without Regrets                 Then Master the Three Cs...Choice, Chance, Change. Based on the author’s true-life experiences, working thirty-five years internationally in infectious diseases in twenty countries in Africa and Asia, Cornelia E. Davis shares stories and exploits from h...
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    13,61 €

  • West of East
    Stephen J. Lyons
    In West of East, veteran journalist Stephen J. Lyons takes readers on a journey into America’s western interior, a tableau chockfull of one-of-a-kind, rough-around-the-edges characters and scenes rarely experienced by the everyday traveler. Lyons himself is at the center of these landscapes, chronicling not only his own past as migrant worker, but also expertly and sensitively ...
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    17,06 €

  • Long Peace Street
    Jonathan Chatwin
    Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city’s recent history, explaining how the present and future of the world’s rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through to the present day. ...
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    23,14 €

  • Square Up
    Lisa A Dailey
    Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the 'Day of the Wanderer,' Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wanderlust. Although she and her husband had planned to take their family on a ’round-the-world adventure, she didn’t expect their plans to come together on the heels of grief, after losing seven family members in five years. Square Up s...
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    20,83 €

  • Complete Book Of Marvels
    Richard & / illus Halliburton
    Take A Whirlwind Tour of the Wonders of the WorldExplore the wonders of the world with America’s foremost adventurer, Richard Halliburton. In the Complete Book of Marvels Halliburton takes you with him on thrilling journeys to countless wonders of the world, including natural features like Gibraltar, the Grand Canyon, and Mount Fuji, and famous or forgotten temples and ancient ...
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    75,50 €

  • Complete Book Of Marvels
    Richard & / illus Halliburton / Richard Halliburton
    Take A Whirlwind Tour of the Wonders of the WorldExplore the wonders of the world with America’s foremost adventurer, Richard Halliburton. In the Complete Book of Marvels Halliburton takes you with him on thrilling journeys to countless wonders of the world, including natural features like Gibraltar, the Grand Canyon, and Mount Fuji, and famous or forgotten temples and ancient ...
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    65,75 €

  • Diary of a Pilgrimage
    Jerome K Jerome / Jerome K. Jerome
    When Jerome K Jerome and his friend decide to attend the Oberammergau Passion Play, an Easter pageant that is performed in Oberlin, Germany once every decade, they turn the trip into a vacation. From London to Germany, the pair plan a cross-continent trip, excited to sight-see and experience different cultures. However, the friends run into conflict before they even take off, u...
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    9,18 €

  • A Road Trip in Bad times
    Anshuman Sehgal
    The book is about a vacation trip undertaken by a common family amidst Corona. This book is based on real life experiences of the family and provides guidance on how to prepare for a road trip in such times. It also gives a less scary and a fresh outlook about the dreaded disease.It’s the astory of adapting to the new normal, as they say. Equally enjoyable for all age groups. ...
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    13,34 €


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