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An account of a journey on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of Central Africa. Adventure, discovery, and tragedy teem in this famous account of a trek into...
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During W...
Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish lan...
This is an anthology of four travel books written by English author Evelyn Waugh. The book consists of fragments from the travel books Labels (1930), Remote People (1931),...
Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahi...
In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with ...
British poet and journalist Fenton reported for British and American newspapers from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines and Korea from 1973 to 1987, and here recounts, wit...
Карибское путешествие B.C.Найпола, полное юмора и страсти, не только дает внутреннее видение повседневной жизни аборигенов одного из регионов романтического туризма (Трини...
Пятеро европейцев, трое мужчин и две женщины, отправляются в путешествие по Андам к развалинам полулегендарного города Вилкабамбы - города, в котором инки нашли свое после...
Два иммигранта в погоне за Американской мечтой...
Английский интеллектуал, который хотел покоя, а попал в кошмар сплетен и предрассудков, доводящих до безумия...
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For more than a decade following the end of World War II, Eric Newby toiled away in the British fashion industry, peddling some of the ugliest clothes on the planet. (Rega...
City of Djinns was the first product of Dalrymple’s love affair with India, centring on Delhi, a city with ‘a bottomless seam of stories’. Shaped more like a novel than a ...
Enzensberger's disillusioned travel diary based on his wanderings through six European countries is an acerbically witty look at a continent beset by corruption, shadow ec...
Freya Stark was the kind of woman who had to see for herself. RIDING TO THE TIGRIS is her story of a horseback trek across the high Turkish plateau and on to the Tigris Ri...
1960 год.
Веха между "золотыми пятидесятыми" и "бунтарскими шестидесятыми".
Старая, консервативная Америка медленно умирает - а новая только-только рождается. Что же про...
Ранее прославившийся своим эссеистическим трэвелогом-исследованием "В Патагонии", в "Тропах песен" Брюс Чатвин предпринимает путешествие внутрь еще одной мистерии, но уже ...
In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Hima...
