Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

5010 Catálogo de libros: Literatura de viajes

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  • Türkiye’yi Keşfederek Sınırlarımı Aşarken
    Lisa Morrow
       Lisa Morrow Türkiye'ye ilk geldiğinde Avrupa'ya ve başka diyarlara doğru muazzam bir sefere çıkan gençler kervanının bir üyesiydi. Yabancı ülkelerin manzaraları, sesleri, kokuları rengârenk gelir bu insanlara, serüven ve heyecan iştahlarını kabartır. Macera çok zahmetli hale geldiğindeyse, tek bir geri dönüş bileti yardımlarına koşuverir. Belli bir vakitten sonra bir...
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    15,36 €

  • 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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    42,72 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €