Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Goats Ate Our Wires
    R.F. Hemphill
    How do you start a solar business from nothing, and make it one of the world’s largest?Can you really see hundreds of thousands of birds in the middle of winter in Nebraska and will you freeze to death in the process?Is there any limit to how much pasta can you eat in two weeks, if you really concentrate?In this collection of stories, written as letters to his father and then t...
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    16,59 €

  • Border Crossings
    Richard Dobson
    When Richard Dobson toured the border county of Herefordshire in 2005, following in the footsteps of Victorian artist Henry Thornhill Timmins, he recorded the experience in his subsequent book In My Own Time.Join him in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, even before the word ‘tourism’ was...
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    19,56 €

  • Basilicata
    Karen Haid
    Journey to the small, rocky region in the heart of the Italian south, to a land where ancient pagan rites live alongside those of the Catholic Church, world-class wine washes down edible hyacinth bulbs, zip-lines parallel old mule trails, and the air is infused with the ideals of Roman poets and brigands. Best known for the evocative cave dwellings of Matera, Basilicata packs a...
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    14,26 €

  • Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table
    Carole Bumpus
    An intimate peek inside the homes and lives of the French, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre-'peasant foods'), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions, sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories, this culinary travel memoir-the second of the Savoring the Olde Ways series-reveals French families at ...
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    13,69 €

  • Into the Carpathians
    Alan E. Sparks / Alan ESparks
    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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    29,04 €

  • Same-Same But Different. Searching for the Perfect Place to Retire in Thailand
    Gerald Hogg
    There is a saying in Thailand: 'Same same but different.' I asked a Thai lady once what the meaning was and she answered 'You and me the same, but different', which I think sums it up. It has become quite a catchphrase here in Thailand, and it is seen on tee shirts, coffee mugs and heard all of the time, wherever you go. You might ask a local what’s the best beer in Thailand, C...
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    22,34 €

  • Between Inca Walls
    Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
    It’s 1964, and Evelyn-an adventurous and romantically inclined twenty-one-year-old-joins the Peace Corps and is sent to the Andes, where she falls in love with her village, her indigenous pupils . . . and a university student. Violating the sexual prohibitions of her Catholic upbringing, she finds herself pregnant and must choose whether to marry the father of her unborn child....
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    13,05 €

  • The Geography of Strabo
    Duane W. Roller / Duane WRoller
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    52,29 €

  • Trials & Truffles
    T.D. Arkenberg
    “Refreshingly Pure and Endearing” (The BookLife Prize)Chicagoans Todd and Jim embarked upon a grand adventure, an open-ended transfer to Brussels. For Jim, the expat posting fulfilled a professional dream. For Todd, a former global airline executive grappling to reinvent himself as a writer, the move from his family home meant more uprooting.Along with exciting escapades, their...
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    31,31 €

  • Amurath to Amurath
    Gertrude Bell
    Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Contents include: 'Tell Aḥmar...
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    24,50 €

  • The Wayfarer
    Heidi Barr / Theodore Richards
    Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspires our readers,enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agencyand change-making that each individual holds.By our definition, a wayfarer is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. The Wayfarer’s mission as a...
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    16,89 €

  • Pilgrims with Credit Cards
    Asifa Kanji
    Pilgrims with Credit CardsSaintly Queen Isabel of Portugal walked the Camino de Santiago in 1306. Seven hundred and twelve years later, Princess Asifa gave it a shot.When husband David invited her to walk the Camino del Norte with him, she laid down the conditions. 'No hostels. Only private rooms with ensuite bathrooms,' she decreed. 'And a team of sherpas please, to carry my b...
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    19,10 €

  • A Voyage Round My Room
    Xavier de Maistre
    In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was sentenced to forty-two days under house arrest for his participation in a duel. Bored and frustrated, but unwilling to let domestic confinement wreak havoc on his sanity, de Maistre decided to look at his prison with fresh eyes. What he saw was a world of unexpected wonder, a world as full of marvels as any distant land. ...
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    11,32 €

  • The Gathering Storm
    Peter Hardy
    Following two and a half years of misadventure in rich, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia (now impoverished, African-controlled Zimbabwe).  At the age of nineteen, having travelled 8,000 miles by liner and train from Britain, the author became a technician in the Rhodesian Roads Department but after six months he escaped his impending confinement in a road construction gang car...
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    15,94 €

  • Big Cities and Mountain Villages
    Noor De Olinad
    An idyllic holiday in the Italian Alps... After a typical tour of Italy, Noor heads north to spend a nice, quiet winter with her Grandma. It’s going to be great. She’ll go for walks and enjoy the fresh mountain air, read by the wood-burning stove and under no circumstances use the chamber pot under the bed.At least, that was the plan. She didn’t plan on running out of money. Or...
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    22,25 €

  • Falafels and Bedouins
    Noor De Olinad
    It was supposed to be a stress-free holiday... A chance to see Israel’s beauty and Petra’s magnificence on a normal, safe group tour. That’s what Noor thought she was signing up for… but no one told her about passport officers on a power trip. Or about grumpy bus drivers leaving tourists behind. And then, that important detail about border crossing the travel agent forgot to me...
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    22,03 €

  • A Return to Italy
    Thomas Perro
    In, “A Return to Italy “, Thoma Perro goes to Italy to find peace and rediscover his Italian roots. Aftera trip to Italy with his wife and her subsequent death to cancer, the author decides to return to Italy as avolunteer olive picker in Tuscany. Along the way he rediscovers his roots and what it is to be Italian. Hediscovers the hard but enjoyable country life – picking olive...
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    14,13 €

  • Walks on the Wild Side
    John Pakenham
    Exploring and unforgiving land, Pakenham provides a glimpse of a tough terrain and its even tougher inhabitants, where every day was a battle for survival. This is extreme travel that, four decades on, still packs a powerful punch. ...
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    18,23 €

  • Village to Village
    Alister Kershaw
    In this witty and entertaining illustrated memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France - a country of villages - from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages. In post-war Paris, Kershaw lived a penniless but joyous existence and captures a Paris long gone. The author conjures Paris prior to the triumph of the technocrats and town ...
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    22,37 €

  • Taiwanese Feet
    John Groot
    Canadian John Groot’s walk around the entire coastline of Taiwan takes us through bustling cities, fishing ports, rural villages, military sites, and magnificent coastal scenery for a unique, intimate look at the country.Groot first came to Taiwan in 2001, fell in love with the island and its friendly people, and decided to stay. Years later, looking for a big adventure and a w...
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    18,57 €

  • A Journey of Three
    Una Peregrina
    Once upon a time, a woman was compelled to walk the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrimage route across the north of Spain. Her two delightful and steadfast young sons walked with her and they made all the difference. This vivid account is an invitation to join these three anonymous pilgrims on their journey as they are drawn ever onward.The Camino – the Way – is the timele...
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    19,43 €

  • Time Out - Premium 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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    38,70 €

  • Strange Stones
    Peter Hessler
    Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage--a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work.Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of th...
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    17,91 €

  • Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
    Louise Erdrich
    For more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to the National Book Award-winning The Round House, Erdrich’s lyrical skill and emotional assurance have earned her a place alongside William Faulkner and Willa Cather a...
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    13,22 €

  • River Town
    Peter Hessler
    A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Kiriyama Book PrizeIn the heart of China’s Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peac...
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    15,79 €

  • Spooring
    Patrick Barron
    The interconnected texts in Spooring have their origin in a slow journey down the Apennine Mountains in central and southern Italy over the course of a number of months. The genre is mixed. Poems trade places with short prose passages and transcriptions of road signs. Footnotes interrupt throughout, tempting fragments and byways. There are also a number of photographs and maps....
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    19,06 €

  • Not Exactly Retired
    David Jarmul
    Americans approaching retirement can redefine their lives and find new fulfillment by pursuing international adventure and service instead of drifting in their familiar jobs.That’s the message of Not Exactly Retired.Author David Jarmul describes how he and his wife veered from their conventional American lives to wander around Nepal and the United States and serve as Peace Corp...
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    11,51 €

  • Bonjour 40
    Karen A. Chase
    A Paris travelogue and collection of essays that 'must be on everyone's list before going to Paris along with Hemingway's A Movable Feast.' - Gregory RandallIf Karen A. Chase absolutely had to turn forty, she decided she could do it gracefully in Paris… for nearly forty days. What began as a blog to communicate with friends and family, became a travel journal filled wit...
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    27,33 €

  • The innocents abroad
    Mark Twain
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    20,07 €

  • The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese
    Fernão Mendes Pinto / Henry Cogan
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    16,20 €


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