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Short walks in the Lake District. Guide to 20 local walks
The Lake District contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in Britain with superb walking areas. These can be explored with these 20 walks, all of which are 5 miles or under in length and can easily be completed in less than 3 hours.



This guide, produced in co-operation with the Ramblers and featuring Ordnance Survey mapping, is the perfect way to really appreciate the landscapes of the Lake District.



INCLUDES:

20 easy to follow walks which can be completed in 3 hours and under.



Each walk has a detailed 1:25 000 Ordnance Survey map with the route clearly marked plus a detailed description of the route.

The walks have been chosen with issues like parking and refreshments in mind to make life easy for families.

Packed with colour photographs of scenes you will see along the walk.

The perfect guide for afternoon walks near to Keswick, Windermere, Coniston, Grasmere and Ambleside.

Серия: Collins Maps
Год: 2017
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 897299
ISBN: 9780007555017

Short walks in the Peak District. Guide to 20 local walks
The Peak District, with its gentle limestone White Peak and the wilder more dramatic gritstone Dark Peak, is a superb walking area. Explore the district with these 20 walks, all of which are 5 miles or under in length and can easily be completed in less than 3 hours.



This guide, produced in co-operation with the Ramblers and featuring Ordnance Survey mapping, is the perfect way to really appreciate the stunning scenery of the Peak District.



INCLUDES:



20 easy to follow walks which can be completed in 3 hours and under.

Each walk has a detailed 1:25 000 Ordnance Survey map with the route clearly marked plus a detailed description of the route.

The walks have been chosen with issues like parking and refreshments in mind to make life easy for families.

Packed with colour photographs of scenes you will see along the walk.

The perfect guide for afternoon walks near to Chesterfield, Sheffield, Matlock, Buxton and Macclesfield.

Серия: Collins Maps
Год: 2014
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 897300
ISBN: 9780007555031

Unusual Hotels of the World
Take your diving gear along to reach an underwater hotel; stay in a disused US Air Force radar tower in the heart of the equatorial rainforest; slide back the roof of your bedroom to gaze at the stars; sleep in the cabin of a dockside crane that you can rotate, or in chalets hidden in the forest, a survival pod from an oil rig platform, a giant shoe, a coffin, lighthouse, tree, plane, train, chapel, prison, igloo, or even a red cube lost in the countryside...

All these strikingly unusual hotels have grown up around the world in the last decade or so. So that you'll never get bored and spoil your holiday, we've taken great pleasure in tracking down and testing some exceptional places to stay that are really out of the ordinary.

With prices ranging from 20 euros to over 1, 000 euros per night, we've selected 50 hotels in 23 different countries.

Серия: Michelin Must See Guides
Год: 2007
Производитель: ABBYY
Артикул: 368774
ISBN: 9782915807257
Автор: Dobson Steve

Aller Retour New York
'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks'



In 1935 Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. Aller Retour New York, his exuberant, humorous missive to his friend Alfred Perlиs describing the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer, is filled with vivid reflections on his hellraising antics, showing Miller at the height of his powers. This edition also includes Via Dieppe-Newhaven, his entertaining account of a failed attempt to visit England.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2016
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972886
ISBN: 9780141398860
Автор: Miller Henry

South and West. From a Notebook
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles



Here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulfurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage she finds in the small towns they pass through.



And from a different notebook: the "California Notes" that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Though Didion never wrote the piece, watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the city, its social hierarchy, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here, too, is the beginning of her thinking about the West, its landscape, the western women who were heroic for her, and her own lineage.
Год: 2018
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 897772
ISBN: 9780008257200
Автор: Didion Joan

The Little Book of New York
- Discover everything about the neighborhoods and heritage sites of the city of New York in this glorious little book

- Complete with period illustrations, it tells the history of New York, its five boroughs and its famous monuments

Which woman was the model for the Statue of Liberty? Why do we call NY's stock exchange Wall Street? Why is Broadway the only avenue going through Manhattan diagonally? Which is the first Art Deco skyscraper of the city? How many workers died during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge?

Which building was known by the press as The Flatiron? What happens on Times Squares every NYE? How many books can you find in the Public Library on Fifth Avenue? How long did it take to build Central Park? Where can we go to the beach in NY?

This richly illustrated little book tells the story of the greatest American city through its monuments, streets and neighborhoods.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Юпитер-Импэкс
Артикул: 944567
ISBN: 9782812315329

Wonders of the World (+CD)
Around the world there are many beautiful places. There are famous buildings, old and new. Some are interesting; some are important. Some are the tallest or biggest in the world. The Great Wall, Machu Picchu, the Grand Canyon, the Taj Mahal...Which are your wonders of the world?

Серия: Pearson English Active Readers
Год: 2010
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 764197
ISBN: 9781408232002
Автор: Shipton Vicky

Great Escapes Europe
Featuring a selection of the most unique hotels and guesthouses from Sweden to Turkey - all places where you can melt away from the problems of the 'real world' - the book mixes gorgeous color photographs with directions, pricing, and contact information. Since reading is a requisite part of your relaxing escape, we also suggest books for you to take along to each destination. From a lighthouse in Wales to a former monastery in Spain, these are the sorts of hotels that will open up your senses and just might change your whole perspective on life.

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the author:

Shelley-Maree Cassidy is a writer and marketing specialist who has written two books on hotels around the world and has contributed travel articles to magazines and journals. Her particular interest in hotels stems from her family background, as her great-grandparents owned several of the first hotels in New Zealand, where she lives.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206348
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1501-6
Автор: Cassidy Shelley-Maree

Tokyo. Restaurants & hotels 2009
The MICHELIN guide contains a selection of 560 quality , restaurants based on anonymous visits made by our team of professional local inspectors. Only the best places within a wide range of budgets and cuisines are included in the MICHELIN guide Here's how it works:

- Our inspectors visit hundreds of establishments and rate

each one according to a rigorous set of criteria.

- The inspectors classify restaurants with

indicating a modest establishment and the most

luxurious, taking decor, ambience, and service into account.

- The restaurants that stand out for the exceptional quality of their cuisine are awarded Michelin stars- the highest honor in the culinary industry.

- Special symbols, such as the Bib Gourmand, indicate our inspectors' favorites for great food at reasonable prices.

- Our extensive list of places to eat for $25 or less is perfect when both quality and price matter.

- The guide is organized by neighborhood, and contains colorful maps to help you find each establishment.

Our inspection process has been refined over decades so you can feel confident in selecting a Michelin recommended restaurant. No matter what the occasion, the MICHELIN guide will help you make the right choice.

Серия: Красные гиды
Год: 2010
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230681
ISBN: 978-2-06-713714-1

A Beginner's Guide to Japan. Observations and Provocations
How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?

Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?

Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?

After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 777318
ISBN: 9781526611512
Автор: Iver Pico

Prymorye. Modern Guidebook
The guidebook contains information about exploration history, sights and infrastructure of Primorsky Krai, as well as walking routes and transportation. For the first time, you can read a full review of natural and cultural objects of Vladivostok Free Port. Here, the information about traditions of the indigenous people, climate and weather conditions was finally put together. The book also offers a review of the economic prospects of the region. It contains plans and schemes of local settlements, illustrated with photos and maps. The book will be of use - for anyone who is interested in history and geography of the region or is planning to visit Primorye.

Серия: Современный путеводитель
Год: 2015
Производитель: PressPass
Артикул: 510926
ISBN: 978-5-9906156-7-0

Tunis. Architectural Guide
The courtyards, winding passages, and mosques of the Medina; an Art Nouveau theatre, churches, a brutalist hotel, and contemporary glass facades: Tunisia s capital has a rich and incredibly diverse built heritage. In addition, the archaeological remains at nearby Carthage give an impression of the power of an ancient city that once rivalled the Roman Empire.

This architectural guide presents over 100 sites in both Tunis and its surroundings. The Tunisian archi tect Faouzia Ben Khoud selects buildings from a long stretch of history: from the Phoenicians, who first founded a city there, to the Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia in 2010. Also covering recent renovation projects in detail, the author puts special emphasis on efforts to preserve the city s exceptional cultural heritage.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 823990
ISBN: 9783869226767
Автор: Khoud Faouzia Ben

Inland Waterways Map of Great Britain
The bestselling guides to Britain's canals and rivers for 50 years.



The map companion to the Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides, covering the entire network of canal and river navigations in England, Scotland and Wales, including newly restored/opened canals and rivers.



The map identifies:

- narrow and broad canals;

- navigable rivers;

- tidal river navigations;

- waterways under construction.



Also:

- contact telephone numbers and dimensions for each waterway

- internet links



Clear insets of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, Scottish inland waterways, the Norfolk Broads and the London area.

Серия: Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides
Год: 2020
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 898355
ISBN: 9780008363802

Moscow. Guidebook
В "Путеводителе по Москве" представлена вся Москва - настоящая и её история с прекрасными фото. "Путеводитель по Москве" описывает достопримечательности Москвы, реки (такие как Москва река, Яуза, Неглинная и др.), парки, музеи, где в выходные и праздничные дни Вы можете развлечься и прекрасно отдохнуть. К путеводителю прилагается схематическая карта, которая помогает понять, о какой части города идет речь, аксонометрический план и карта, которые ориентируют в районах и кварталах, где проходит маршрут. Также путеводитель снабжен подробной информацией к выделенному объекту. Книга издана на английском языке.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Яркий Город
Артикул: 302091
ISBN: 978-5-9663-0170-5
Автор: Лобанова Т. Е

Great Escapes South America
Continuing its quest to seek out the world's most unique and inspiring hotels, TASCHEN takes on South America. This diverse selection of hotels, posadas, and haciendas highlights the most exceptional destinations on the continent. Among the breathtaking paradise spots are a hotel on a Patagonian natural reserve, a hacienda perched high in the Andes mountains, an adobe hotel in the Chilean desert, a converted monastery in Peru, a hotel built entirely of salt in Bolivia's Uyuni salt desert, and an "ecolodge" on a natural reserve in the Amazon rain forest. For the love of nature, tango dancing, and caipirinhas, nothing beats these exotic escapes from the fast lane.

Countries included: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the photographer:

Tuca Reines is a native and resident of Sao Paulo. For over 20 years, he has been a frequent contributor to magazines such as Vogue, Casa Vogue Brasil, and Wallpaper*, among others. He is the photographer of several architectural books and his work has also appeared in many publications, including TASCHEN's Seaside Interiors and Great Escapes South America.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206380
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1483-5
Автор: Reines Tuca

Great Escapes North America
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters

Following up on our Great Escapes Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America titles is this volume concentrating on the most extraordinary and tempting Canadian and American hotels. Ranging from funky and inexpensive to luxuriously elegant and wildly pricy, these hotels, inns, guesthouses, bungalows, ranches, lodges, resorts and even-yes-wigwams and treehouses will surely seduce you.

Highlights include:

blast from the past: mid-century shiny metal trailers with period interiors in Arizona

shabby-chic bungalows on Highway 1 in Big Sur, California

supercool hot springs resort near Los Angeles

elegant auberge in Napa Valley where you can stay during your wine tasting tour

cedar cabins and classic raised safari tents in California's El Capitan Canyon

historic ranch nestled in a Death Valley oasis

rustic ski resort in Sundance

your own luxurious bungalow on a tiny island in the Florida Keys

regal Italianate villa in rural Massachusetts

deluxe wigwams in Arizona's Navajo County

lakefront sanctuary in New York's Adirondack Mountains

historic 1930s hotel in Texas where James Dean once stayed

cabin treehouse 50 feet above the ground in Washington's Mount Rainer

exquisitely-restored country house inn in Connecticut

Frank Lloyd Wright house on a wooded bluff overlooking Mirror Lake, Wisconsin

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the photographer:

Don Freeman is a New York-based photographer whose work appears regularly in Vogue, The World of Interiors, AD France and Architektur & Wohnen. Recently, he photographed Ted Muehling`s collaborations with Nymphenburg porcelain and Stuben glass. His work appears in galleries in the United States and in the collections of the Victoria Albert Museum in London, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and others.

About the author:

Daisann McLane writes for National Geographic Traveler Magazine, The New York Times, New York Times Magazine and International Herald Tribune. She is the author of TASCHEN's Cheap Hotels and lives in New York City and Hong Kong. (www.daisann.com)

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206381
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1485-9
Автор: Freeman Don

Gardens in France
France's most beautiful public and private gardens open their gates to us in every season of the year: from the classical French palace gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte down to humble domestic gardens in Normandy, from stylized Zen gardens in Provence to cactus displays on the Cote d'Azur. The typical plants of each climatic region are represented-delphiniums, roses and irises in the North, and Californian poppies, santolinas, and lavender in the Midi. This book is a source of inspiration for all lovers of gardens and nature as well as anyone travelling to France. Most of these gardens are open to the public and provide an astonishing feast for the eyes.

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the photographer:

Deidi von Schaewen, who has lived in Paris for thirty years, is a contributor to a range of international periodicals and a filmmaker, and has published numerous books. Her publications with TASCHEN include Indian Interiors, Fantasy Worlds, Gardens of Provence, and Inside Africa.

About the author:

Marie-Francoise Valery studied English and political science before devoting herself to landscape gardening, an area in which she is a recognized expert. She has written a large number of gardening books on various topics, as well as articles for well-known French garden and design magazines.

Издание на английском языке.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206263
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0309-9
Автор: Valery Marie-Francoise

Great Escapes Asia
Much more than a travel or holiday guide, Great Escapes Asia is first and foremost a paradisiacal photo album. Featuring opulent photographs of places that seem too perfect to be real, some of which look like James Bond movie sets or National Geographic subjects, this book will quickly convince you that an Asian sojourn is crucial to your mental and physical wellbeing. The icing on the cake is that not only do these hotels really exist, but-thanks to the pricing and contact information provided-you can succumb to their mysterious charms and book yourself a room (or houseboat, hut, or tree house, whatever the case may be).

Among the gems waiting for you in Great Escapes Asia:

In Kerala, India, choose between luxurious tree houses suspended 25 meters off the ground or futuristic-looking, Star Wars-style houseboats made of bamboo poles, palm leaves, and coconut fibers

Are you more the resplendent-resort or budget-bungalow type? Find the best of both in Bali

The best place for a delectable cup of joe: a luxury lodge and spa on a java plantation in (you guessed it) Java

In the Philippines, an organic resort composed of superimposed huts whose every room affords instant access to the beach via rope ladder

Tadao Ando's sprawling minimalist concrete-and-steel hotel attached to the contemporary art museum in Naoshima, Japan-the perfect place to contemplate on the relationship between humans and nature

An exclusive hotel on a private island in Sri Lanka, once owned by Paul Bowles and frequented by Arthur C. Clarke and Peggy Guggenheim

Thatched-roof cottages in India whose gardens overflow with mangos, nutmeg, and cardamom

An Ayurvedic spa in the Himalayas where nothing matters but peace and relaxation

In Myanmar, an elegant river cruise boat and a hotel on a breathtaking archeological site

Chairman Mao's former getaway in Beijing, where you can rent his lavish, traditionally-decorated suite complete with adjoining concubine rooms

Countries: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the author:

Christiane Reiter is a freelance author based in Hamburg. She studied journalism at the University of Eichstatt and worked as a travel editor for Ringier Publishing in Munich and Zurich. She then established the travel section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. For TASCHEN she has also written the texts of Great Escapes Asia and Great Escapes South America.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206349
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1481-1
Автор: Reiter Christiane

Journey to Portugal
Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.



From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land.



Embarking in the autumn of 1979, Saramago resolves to travel to Portugal, as well as through it. As his country emerges from an authoritarian dictatorship, he traverses his beloved homeland, neglecting its grand 'sights' in favour of Romanesque churches and cobweb-ridden chapels, determined to find belonging in the landscape which went on to inform his greatest works of fiction.

Серия: Vintage Classics
Год: 2019
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891798
ISBN: 9781784871826
Автор: Saramago Jose

Burgundy. Art. Architecture. Landscape
La Bourgogne (Burgundy) - the name evokes beautiful landscapes and cities, famous wines and culinary pleasures. In this book, the reader will discover all cathedrals and cloisters, castles and vineyards of this region. Burgundy is a guide through 3, 000 years of Burgundy's history, beginning at the Neolithic era with mysterious meter-thick layers of horse bones, through Greek craftwork and Etruscan gold, then further on to the Cistercian cloisters and up to the present day. Burgundy is exciting!
Год: 2022
Производитель: H.F.Ullmann
Артикул: 875618
ISBN: 9783848004010
Автор: Laule Ulrike

Cry of the Kalahari
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owenses began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.



An international bestseller on original release, Cry of the Kalahari is the story of the Owenses's life with lions, brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes, and the many other creatures they came to know. It is also a gripping account of how they survived the dangers of living in one of the last and largest pristine areas on Earth.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Corsair
Артикул: 976332
ISBN: 9781472156457
Автор: Owens Delia, Owens Mark

Wild. A Journey from Lost to Found
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Atlantic
Артикул: 929531
ISBN: 9780857897763
Автор: Strayed Cheryl

Санкт-Петербург и его окрестности. Реконструкция времен года (на английском языке)
Альбом посвящен Санкт-Петербургу и его окрестностям.

На английском языке.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Золотой лев
Артикул: 591039
ISBN: 978-5-905985-84-3
Автор: Anisimov Yevgeny

Камчатка - край водопадов
Книга камчатского фотохудожника и путешественника Юрия Калинина посвящена камчатским водопадам, "собирателем" которых автор является уже более 30 лет. В книге собраны все водопады полуострова, описаны вулканы, где многие из них берут свое начало, а также растения, украшающие ущелья и каньоны, по которым ниспадают потоки воды.

Книга богато иллюстрирована фотографиями автора, дополнена картами маршрутов, по которым можно найти водопады, а также текстом, который дублируется на английском языке.
Год: 2012
Производитель: ХК Новая книга
Артикул: 629689
ISBN: 978-5-87750-155-3
Автор: Калинин Юрий Германович

Icons of England
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.



First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 891293
ISBN: 9781784161965
Автор: Adie Kate, Aslet Clive, Alagiah George

A Walk In The Woods. The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike
In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world.



Ahead lay almost 2, 200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.



Facing savage weather, merciless insects, unreliable maps and a fickle companion whose profoundest wish was to go to a motel and watch The X-Files, Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors.

Серия: Bryson
Год: 2015
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 972838
ISBN: 9781784161446
Автор: Bryson Bill

Main Cities of Europe. Restaurants & hotels 2009
"Main Cities of Europe" is: 3000 hotels and restaurants to suit any budget; 150 town plans, with practical information to help you get around, visit the city, understand the menu or go out for the evening; Practical information for leisure and business use.

Серия: Красные гиды
Год: 2010
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230689
ISBN: 978-2-06-713826-1

Great Britain & Ireland. Restaurants & hotels 2009
Discover the Michelin inspectors' selection for 2009, including more than 400 new addresses.

More than 2, 700 hotels

- From luxury hotels to small and friendly guesthouses

- Particularly pleasant hotels

- Quality accommodation at reasonable prices.

More than 1, 800 restaurants

- From haute cuisine to gastropubs

- Starred restaurants

- Quality meals at reasonable prices.

120 town & city plans showing the main places of interest and all the best places to stay and eat.

Серия: Красные гиды
Год: 2010
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230684
ISBN: 978-2-06-713821-6

Secret Brussels
A "love hotel" where you can say a prayer, a reconstituted section of the Senne river at Saint-Gery, an extraordinary private museum devoted to plastic, a farm with sheep, goats, and turkeys at place de l'Yser, Masonic secrets in the Parc de Bruxelles, a hotel overlooking the Grand-Place, a surrealistic trip in a lift, a homage to the military pigeon, potholing at Koekelberg basilica, a swimming pool with a panoramic view of the city, a scandalous pavilion in the Parc du Cinquantenaire, an immense vegetable garden at Uccle, an 19th century artist's studio at Schaerbeek, a camping ground in the heart of the Belgian capital, a forgotten garden-city at Forest...

Серия: Local Guides By Local People
Год: 2011
Производитель: Jonglez
Артикул: 368777
ISBN: 9782915807967
Автор: Capart Nathalie, Pange Isabelle de, Beek Nicolas van

Secret Madrid
Have your favourite pet blessed, visit an underground mine in the centre of Madrid, see the astounding liquefaction of the blood of Saint Pantaleon once a year, meet Spain's only Catholic exorcist, find out how the king had his medicine made using alchemy, smell the apple odour that wafts once a year from the still-intact body of Mariana de Jesus who died in the 17th century, visit an underground art gallery, dine in a car park...

Madrid is overflowing with extraordinary and little-known places and curiosities. You just have to know where to look...

An essential guide for those who think they know Madrid well or for those looking to discover the hidden side of the city.

Серия: Local Guides By Local People
Год: 2011
Производитель: Jonglez
Артикул: 368781
ISBN: 9782915807677
Автор: Muro Veronica Ramires

Secret french riviera
A game of petanque played with square boules, an astonishing aerial well, stained-plastic windows, a marble bench built in memory of the Queen of England's haemophiliac son, the instruments of the Passion of Christ, a cannon that fires cherry stones, a good-luck pig, a mysterious pyramid, a monument to secret agents, an entire village that "moved house", a gas mask for horses, a statue sculpted by Saint Luke, a chapel showing the dead rising from their tombs, a trapdoor in the nave of a church that opens onto a rushing torrent, a restaurant in an Orient Express railway car, Babar's beach, Tintin's Black Island, and Sleeping Beauty's chateau, a chance to admire the Riviera's first pair of naked breasts, or spend the night sleeping in a tree

The French Riviera is not limited to the cliches of its beaches, private yachts, and luxury hotels.

For those who know how to leave behind the beaten paths, the Riviera is full of surprising details and curious sights. It will even amaze its inhabitants as well as visitors who think they know it well.

Серия: Walking Of The Beaten Track
Год: 2008
Производитель: Jonglez
Артикул: 368787
ISBN: 9782915807196
Автор: Cassely Jean-Pierre

Great Escapes Africa
Organic luxury in the heart of Africa: 100% natural hotels, no artificial ingredients

Whether you've always dreamed of a vacation in Africa or never even considered it, take one look through this book and you'll be planning your next five holidays before you know it. Our selection of the most splendid getaway havens nestled throughout the continent is sure to please even the most finicky would-be voyagers. Everything you need to know about each hotel, including pricing, services, contact information, and reading recommendations, is provided alongside opulent interior and exterior photographs. Who minds sleeping under a mosquito net when it's royally draped over your bed in a lush Kenyan open-walled hut fashioned from tree trunks and shielded from the sun by a sumptuous thatched roof? Or how about your very own South African A-frame beachside bungalow made of bamboo stalks? Seeing is believing, for sure, but even with the photos as evidence these places are not to be believed .

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the author:

Shelley-Maree Cassidy is a writer and marketing specialist who has written two books on hotels around the world and has contributed travel articles to magazines and journals. Her particular interest in hotels stems from her family background, as her great-grandparents owned several of the first hotels in New Zealand, where she lives.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206379
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1499-6
Автор: Cast Kristin

St Petersburg. A Traveller's Reader
Featuring a vivid selection from biographies, novels, letters, poems, diaries and memoirs, this volume traces the story of St Petersburg from earliest times. Through these pieces, readers can observe the city's foundation by Peter the Great on the marshy shores of the Gulf of Finland; see how literature and the other arts flowered during the nineteenth century; and observe the often violent turning points of its later history.

First-hand accounts tell of the 1825 Decembrists standing in the snow in Senate Square, refusing to accept Nicholas I as Tsar, being shot down where they stood; of the imprisonment of Dostoevsky and the duel that killed Pushkin; of the last moments of the mad Emperor Paul; and of the storming of the Winter Palace by the crowd in 1917. Many more historic scenes are witnessed by such diverse characters as Tolstoy, Catherine the Great and a voluble maid-servant of Irish descent.

Designed for on-the-spot use by visitors to the city, and as a highly readable anthology for the armchair traveller, this Traveller's Reader includes maps, engravings and notes on history, art, architecture and city life.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Robinson
Артикул: 705117
ISBN: 9781472140814

South Downs Way National Trail Official Map
The A-Z Adventure Series of maps combines the best of OS and A-Z, creating the perfect companion for walkers, off-road cyclists, horse riders and anyone wishing to explore the great outdoors.



The South Downs Way is a National Trail along the chalk escarpments and ridges of the South Downs. This undulating path begins in Winchester and finishes in Eastbourne covering 100 miles (160km) and lies completely within the South Downs National Park. The route on the map is clearly highlighted in yellow with mileage markers to gauge distances when planning sections of the walk to enjoy.



This official National Trail Map* of the South Downs Way features 44 pages of continuous Ordnance Survey 1:25000 mapping providing complete coverage of the South Downs Way. This atlas includes a route planner showing distances between places and the amenities available, featuring:



Campsites (seasonal opening)

Information Centres

Hotels/B&Bs

Youth Hostels

Public Houses

Shops

Restaurants

Cafes (seasonal opening)

Petrol Stations



Also featured is advice on safety and security when walking and a selection of QR codes linked to useful websites, including temporary route updates from the National Trails, regional information, map reading advice and weather reports.



Unlike the original OS sheets, this A-Z Adventure Atlas includes a comprehensive index to towns, villages, hamlets and locations, natural features, nature reserves, car parks and youth hostels, making it easy to find the required location quickly. Each index entry has a page reference and a six figure National Grid Reference. With a book size of 240mm x 134mm it is the same size as a standard folded OS map.



Other National Trails available within the A-Z Adventure series include: Cotswold Way, Hadrian's Wall Path, North Downs Way, Offa's Dyke Path, Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Pennine Way, SW Coast Path, Thames Path and The Ridgeway.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 899735
ISBN: 9781782571674

The Essential Africa
He made his fortune in IT and then conducted a three-year voyage around the world in a ship named Starship, and thereby anticipated the state of the planet at the end of the last millennium. The 1000-day journey was broadcasted daily on the internet to millions of viewers.

He now stays in Cape Town and is devoted to the exploration of this strange and exclusive continent Africa.

His book is remarkable and significant for the understanding and exploration of the nature and wildlife of Africa as it captures pictures from five African countries namely, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Test in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian

Серия: Photography
Год: 2008
Производитель: te Neues
Артикул: 247012
ISBN: 3-8327-9197-1
Автор: Poliza Michael

Scotland A-Z Visitors' Atlas and Guide
This A-Z Map of Scotland is a full colour visitors' atlas and guide combining detailed road mapping, at 3 miles to 1 inch, with an illustrated town plan section, providing a feature rich, informative and helpful tourist guide. Contents include:



64 pages of road mapping covering the whole of Scotland, including the Inner and Outer Hebrides and the Orkney and Shetland Islands

Index to cities, towns, villages, hamlets and major destinations

A comprehensive index to places of interest with corresponding map symbols shown alongside for quick identification

20 city and town plans with background text, tourist information and leisure attraction details:

Aberdeen

Aviemore

Ayr

Dumfries

Dundee

Dunfermline

Edinburgh, large scale map and street index

Glasgow, large scale map and street index

Falkirk

Fort William

Hamilton

Inverness

Kilmarnock

Kirkcaldy

Motherwell

Oban

Paisley

Perth

St. Andrews

Stirling

Instantly recognizable and easy to use, A-Z mapping includes the following features:

-Clear standard road classification colours for easy identification

-Full motorway junction detail

-Under construction and proposed roads

-Primary route destinations

-Service Areas

-A wide range of tourist attractions and ancillary information



Selected fuel stations.

National and county boundaries

This Scotland Visitors' Atlas and Guide is the ideal publication with which to explore Scotland's bustling towns and cities or enjoy the spectacular and tranquil landscape this beautiful country has to offer.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 899733
ISBN: 9781782570646

St Petersburg
The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St Petersburg will lead you straight to the best attractions St Petersburg has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best entertainment to the top guided walks. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, St Petersburg quickly became a magnificent city reflecting the majesty of the Russian Empire. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St Petersburg includes in-depth coverage of the wonderfully preserved heritage of Russia's cultural capital, and comes complete with a free pull-out city map, clearly marked with sights from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. The map has detailed street views of all the key areas, plus there are transport maps and information on how to get around the city, and there's even a chart showing the distances between major sights for walkers. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St Petersburg - showing you what others only tell you.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2017
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 606791
ISBN: 9781409371915

Around the World in 80 Days
'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air travel, even as a convenient means of escape, was not allowed.'

Following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world. The rules were simple, but nothing else about the trip was straightforward...

From a tour of Venice on a rubbish barge to ship spotting at the Suez Canal and the bicycle rush hour and snake snacks in China, this is an unparalleled tribute to man's ability to make life difficult for himself.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 795479
ISBN: 9780753823248
Автор: Palin Michael

A Voyage for Madmen
Already a classic among sailors, Nichols tell the true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world.



It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech, extreme sailors of today, a mere forty years later.



It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were, and they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Profile Books
Артикул: 988263
ISBN: 9781846684432
Автор: Nichols Peter

Architectural guide. Turin
Турин, в XX веке известный как город одной корпорации благодаря марке Fiat, примерно 20 лет назад запустил процесс трансформации и поиска новой идентичности.

Город стал лабораторией для переосмысления постиндустриального наследия отчасти благодаря Зимним Олимпийским играм 2006 года. Помимо своей промышленной истории, Турин может удивить барочной архитектурой и шедеврами современного итальянского зодчества. Путеводитель рассматривает 150 зданий, построенных с 1900 года и до наших дней.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774853
ISBN: 9783869224114
Автор: Chiorino Cristiana

Top 10 Beijing
A city of contrasts, Beijing has ancient temples and edgy art districts, winding hutongs and futuristic architecture - all within a stone's-throw of the awe-inspiring Great Wall of China.

Make the most of your trip to this enthralling city with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Beijing has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. Our updated 2022 travel guide brings Beijing to life. DK Eyewitness Beijng is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2023
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986738
ISBN: 9780241568965

Top 10 Cyprus
This sun-soaked Mediterranean island is the perfect blend of traditional and modern, with centuries of history and superb beach resorts. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around Cyprus with absolute ease.



Our regularly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Cyprus into helpful lists of ten - from our own selected highlights to the best museums and galleries, restaurants, watersports, natural beauty spots and of course, beaches.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986689
ISBN: 9780241462829

Top 10 Seoul
Encapsulating traditional tearooms, cutting-edge boutiques and K-pop spots, South Korea's capital is the perfect introduction to Korean culture. Make the most of your trip to this captivating city with DK Eyewitness Top 10.

Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Seoul has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. Our updated 2022 travel guide brings Seoul to life. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Seoul is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986688
ISBN: 9780241462737

London A-Z Premier Map
This A-Z map of London is a full colour, single sided, fold-out premier street map, covering a six mile radius from Charing Cross in central London and extending to Muswell Hill to the north, London City Airport to the east, Crystal Palace to the south and Wembley to the west.

Postcode districts, one-way streets, the congestion zone boundary and safety camera locations with their maximum speed limit are featured on the mapping.

Attached to the cover is a booklet containing the index which lists streets, selected flats, walkways and places of interest and place, area and junction names. Also included is a separate listing of National Rail, Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and London Underground Stations and a list of Hospitals and Hospices covered by this map.

In addition, the full London Underground map is featured on the inside front cover.

This map is now available at an enlarged scale of 5 inches to 1 mile (8 cm to 1 km). The London Knowledge Map is aimed primarily at people learning 'The Knowledge', it comes as a standard paper map or can be laminated allowing routes to be marked on the map with a dry marker then wiped clean or mounted on lightweight foam board. Supplied in 2 sections, the enlarged map can be butt joined as one if required.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 899760
ISBN: 9781843488873

South West Coast Path South Devon Adventure Atlas
The A-Z Adventure series features the accuracy and quality of OS 1:25000 mapping in a convenient book, complete with index.



The A-Z Adventure series is an innovative concept that utilizes Ordnance Survey 1:25000 mapping in a book, therefore eliminating the need to fold and re-fold a large sheet map to the desired area. OS 1:25000 is Ordnance Survey's most detailed mapping, showing public rights of way, open access land, national parks, tourist Information, car parks, public houses and camping and caravan sites.



Unlike the original OS sheets, this A-Z Adventure Atlas includes a comprehensive index to towns, villages, hamlets and locations, natural features, nature reserves, car parks and youth hostels, making it easy to find the required location quickly. Each index entry has a page reference and a six figure National Grid Reference. At a book size of 240mm x 134mm it is the same size as a standard folded OS map.



The South West Coast Path is a National Trail along the Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset coasts. This stunning walk from Minehead, Somerset covers 630 miles to South Haven Point in Poole Harbour, passing through two World Heritage Sites (the Jurassic Coast and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape), Exmoor National Park, Land's End and many areas of outstanding natural beauty.



This A-Z Adventure Atlas of the SW Coast Path South Devon features 40 pages of continuous Ordnance Survey mapping covering the SW Coast Path from Plymouth and following the route east to Lyme Regis. This atlas includes a route planner providing the distances between places and the amenities available, featuring:

*Information Centres

*Visitor Centres

*Hotels/B&Bs

*Youth Hostels

*Campsites (seasonal opening)

*Public Houses

*Shops

*Restaurants

*Cafes (seasonal opening)

*Petrol stations
Год: 2017
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 899734
ISBN: 9781782571551

The New York Mapguide
The award-winning, bestselling New York Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the market



Whether you're travelling to New York for a weekend break or a week's business, you'll find this fact-packed guide the perfect 24-hour companion in the city that never sleeps. Compact and light, it can be slipped into a pocket or bag and contains everything you need to get around and get the most out of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, day and night.



Contents include: clear, illustrated colour street maps; subway and bus routes; articles on the history and architecture of the city; interesting walks, and essential listings of everything from shops, museums and galleries to theatres, restaurants and night clubs.

For many years Michael Middleditch was chief cartographer at Geographia. He created the Mapguides especially for Penguin, and there are four award-winning and highly successful titles in the series: New York, Paris, London and the Map of the World.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886401
ISBN: 9780140294590
Автор: Middleditch Michael

The Hermitage
- История

- Коллекции

- Интерьеры

- Планы

650 цветных иллюстраций.

На английском языке.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Альфа Колор
Артикул: 291294
ISBN: 978-5-9778-0050-1
Автор: Добровольский Владимир

A Book of Voyages
An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth.

Patrick O Brian has unearthed from obscurity the most dynamic travel writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. With his scholarly mind, editor s eye, and traveller s heart he brings together a series of thrilling seaward tales.



Expertly chosen by O Brian and prefaced with details that bring these extracts to vivid life, A Book of Voyages is a broad yet intimate portrait of what life was like at sea during a time of discovery.



This rare collection sheds a glorious light onto these accounts of seaward adventure. From why eating rats is necessary and how to powder your hair in France to how to truly face fear and distress during a terrifying sea passage, this collection is rich in travellers experiences.



A Book of Voyages is a unique opportunity to not only accompany an adored nautical author as he digs up one gripping historical treasure after another, but to understand how he was inspired to write the Aubrey Maturin series for which he is so famous.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 897196
ISBN: 9780007487127

Sea Room
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own set of islands?

20 years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. His father had answered a newspaper advertisement in the '30s. 'Uninhabited islands for sale', it said. 'Outer Hebrides. 600 acres. 500 ft basaltic cliffs. Puffins and seals. Cabin. Apply Col. Kenneth Macdonald, Portree, Skye.' These were the Shiants, three of the loneliest of the British Isles, set in a dangerous sea, with no more than a stone-built, rat-ridden bothy as accommodation, five miles or so off the coast of Lewis. They cost ?1400 and for that he bought one of the most beautiful places on the planet.



Adam Nicolson inherited the islands when he was 21, an astonishing gift, and they became in many ways the core of his life. This is the first time he has told the full story of his own experiences there, amid the dazzling concentration of birds, crowds guillemots, razorbills, great skuas and 240, 000 puffins coming in every spring out of the North Atlantic to breed; the violence and danger of the surrounding seas; the songs and poems which cluster around the islands; the accounts of attemped murder, witchcraft and catastophe; the treasured place which the Shiants still hold in the Hebridean mind



Sea Room describes the Shiants as a microcosm of richness, their long and at times painful history combined with a natural world at its most potent: Bronze Age gold and the memory of sea eagles, an 8th-century hermit and his carved pillow stone, 18th-century memories soaked into the landscape and stories passed down from generation to generation. This is not the account of a castaway on a deserted rock but its opposite, a celebration of life which an extraordinary island enshrines.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 896738
ISBN: 9780006532019
Автор: Nicolson Adam

How to Pack. Travel Smart for Any Trip
This illustrated guide shows readers how to plan strategically for a trip in a whole new way.



Written by a former consultant who has travelled more than 500, 000 cumulative miles around the world, How to Pack includes guidelines for narrowing down one's wardrobe, how many pairs of shoes are really necessary and best practices for storing toiletries and makeup. Here, too, are instructions on selecting the right luggage, when to fold vs. roll clothing, and trip-specific packing lists. Hitha's tips are for today's modern traveller who doesn't want to sacrifice style for space, but who still wants to fit a 2-week vacation wardrobe into a carry-on bag.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Pavilion Books Group
Артикул: 899860
ISBN: 9781911216629
Автор: Palepu Hitha

A Small Place in Italy
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.



In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this fulfilment would not come easy. The dream materialised in the form of I Castagni ('The Chestnuts'), a small, decrepit farmhouse with no roof, an abandoned septic tank and its own indigenous wildlife reluctant to give up their home. But in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the border of Liguria and Northern Tuscany, this ramshackle house would soon become a hub of love, friendship and activity.



Whether recounting dangerous expeditions through Afghanistan or everyday life in a country house, Newby's talent shines through as one of the foremost writers of the comic travel genre. Full of Newby's sharp wit and good humour, A Small Place in Italy returns, twenty years later, to the life of Newby's much-cherished classic, Love and War in the Apennines. It lovingly recounts the quickly disappearing lifestyle of the idiosyncratic locals, and the enduring friendships they forge, whether sharing in growing their first wine harvest as novices or frying poisonous mushrooms for a feast.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 897075
ISBN: 9780007367900
Автор: Newby Eric

Love and War in the Apennines
Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.



After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year. He evaded the German army by hiding in the caves and forests of Fontanellato, in Italy's Po Valley. Against this picturesque backdrop, he was sheltered for three months by an informal network of Italian peasants, who fed, supported and nursed him, before his eventual recapture.



'Love and War in the Apennines' is Newby's tribute to the selfless and courageous people who were to be his saviours and companions during this troubled time and of their bleak and unchanging way of life. Of the cast of idiosyncratic characters, most notable was the beautiful local girl on a bike who would teach him the language, and eventually help him escape; two years later they were married and would spend the rest of their lives as co-adventurers. Part travelogue, part escape story and part romance, this is a mesmerising account of wisdom, courage, humour and adventure, and tells the story of the early life of a man who would become one of Britain's best-loved literary adventurers.
Год: 2010
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 897074
ISBN: 9780007367894
Автор: Newby Eric

My Cool Campervan. An inspirational guide to retro-style campervans
My Cool Campervan celebrates a new wave of interest in modern-retro campervans.



Join Jane Field-Lewis and Chris Haddon as they set off on a 3500-mile trip to locate campervans and proud owners, sharing their memories of family holidays under candy-striped pop-top roofs and of sunny days and simple pleasures. Delve into a world of road-tripping as Jane and Chris introduce us to a succession of distinctive campervans, memorable locations and classic models, at times beautifully restored, and at others well-loved and well-used.



My Cool Campervan reveals a world beyond the stereotype, of vintage vans from another era, forgotten rarities and beautifully restored mass-produced models.



Chapters include:

Old Retro: In the 1970s and 80s as the motor industry turned its sights towards the global market, campervan designs began to change.

Simple Life: Exploring functional campervans where styling doesn't overwhelm function and where vans are so well designed in the first place, there's nothing more to add than the journey.

Weird and Wonderful: From a converted French fire truck, to an 'extension' to a regular saloon car, these campers are customized, unusual and have been created to provide space.

American Beauties: The large American Recreational Vehicles, or RVs, fulfill just about everyone's expectations of a comfortable life on the road. The enduring appeal of the RV lies in its iconic design and long association with the romantic notion of the great road journey.

Classics: Some vehicle designs last longer than others. The VW T2 campervan is, without doubt, the front runner.

New Retro: Reflecting owners' unique styles and interest, the vehicles here function as an artist's workroom or as a photographer's studio; these are not only places to camp out or chill out, they are happy extensions of creative lives.

Серия: My Cool
Год: 2020
Производитель: Pavilion Books Group
Артикул: 899917
ISBN: 9781911641551
Автор: Field-Lewis Jane, Haddon Chris

Inspire. Life Lessons from the Wilderness
The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild.



What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience?



Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place?



How can the isolation of the South Pole highlight what s most important? And how can we tap into the same reflective state in our daily lives?



Writing during the unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic and drawing on a wealth of personal stories, Ben reflects on the significance of nature to all our lives and shows us how we can benefit from living a little more wild.



Drawing on his greatest adventures, he shares what his time spent in the wilderness has taught him about life. Ranging across seas, icecaps, jungles and deserts, Ben s stories are filled with wonder and struggle, with animals, adventure, wilderness, friendships, unexpected acts of kindness and heroism, and are bursting with inspiration directly from nature. Ben s epic stories reveal a new side to his adventures and show how everyone can find meaning in the wilderness, even if it s just outside their front door.



Full of exciting adventures and practical guidance, this primer on positivity is a story about overcoming obstacles, surpassing your expectations and inspiring your journey of adventure.
Год: 2020
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 898411
ISBN: 9780008374075
Автор: Fogle Ben

Walking the Invisible
See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.



An 'imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontes' Grazia

In his journey to get closer to the Brontes, award-winning author Michael Stewart began walking the historic paths they trod while writing their most famous works. From Liverpool to Scarborough, across wild, windy, and often unforgiving scenery, he discovered echoes of the siblings' novels. And with the help of an unlikely cast of Yorkshire's inhabitants, Michael found himself falling further into their lives and writings than he could ever have imagined.



Vivid and evocative, and including a series of beautiful maps of walks Michael devised when creating the iconic Bronte Stones project, Walking the Invisible invites you to experience the lives and landscapes that inspired the Brontes as they've never been experienced before. Along the way, you'll find yourself getting closer to classics such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Agnes Grey, discovering the real locations behind their fictional settings, and uncovering the myths that surround this much acclaimed and wholly unique family.
Год: 2022
Производитель: HQ
Артикул: 898696
ISBN: 9780008430221
Автор: Stewart Michael

The Frozen River. Seeking Silence in the Himalaya
In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living alongside the Zangskari people, before the arrival of roads and mass tourism.



James immerses himself in the Zangskari way of life, where meditation and week-long mountain festivals go hand in hand, and silence and solitude are the hallmarks of existence. When butter traders invite James on their journey down the frozen river Leh, he soon realises that this way of living, unchanged for centuries, comes with a very human cost.



In lyrical prose, James captures a crucial moment in time for this Himalayan community. A moment in which their Buddhist practices and traditions are in flux, and the economic pull of a world beyond their valley is increasingly difficult to ignore.
Год: 2020
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 898306
ISBN: 9780008353216
Автор: Crowden James

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.



It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? setting in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul.



Inexperienced and ill prepared (their preparations involved nothing more than some tips from a Welsh waitress), the amateurish rogues embark on a month of adventure and hardship in one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth a journey that adventurers with more experience and sense may never have undertaken. With good humour, sharp wit and keen observation, the charming narrative style of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush would soon crystallise Newby's reputation as one of the greatest travel writers of all time.



One of the greatest travel classics from one of Britain's best-loved travel writers, this edition includes new photographs, an epilogue from Newby's travelling companion, Hugh Carless, and a prologue from one of Newby's greatest proponents, Evelyn Waugh.
Год: 2010
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 897073
ISBN: 9780007367757
Автор: Newby Eric

The Kon-Tiki Expedition
This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.
Год: 1996
Производитель: Flamingo
Артикул: 896760
ISBN: 9780006550334
Автор: Heyerdahl Thor

The Wild Places
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?



In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Granta Publication
Артикул: 954178
ISBN: 9781783784493
Автор: Macfarlane Robert

A Rose For Winter
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness-the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain. Rich with kaleidoscopic images, A Rose for Winter is as sensual and evocative as the sun-scorched landscape of Andalusia itself.

Серия: Vintage Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885086
ISBN: 9780099479710
Автор: Lee Laurie

Russia. Eyewitness Travel Guide
The DK Eyewitness Russia Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer.

The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets, whilst detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Russia effortlessly.

DK Eyewitness Russia Travel Guide - showing you what others only tell you.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 465278
ISBN: 9781409386650

London
London is one of the great cities of the world. It is the biggest city in Britain and in Europe. In 1900, it was the biggest city in the world. In this book you will find a lot of interesting information about London. You will read about its history from Roman times. You will learn about its famous people and the shops, museums and palaces of this exciting city.

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2022
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 894607
ISBN: 9781405881647
Автор: Shipton Vicky

London. Hotels & More
Such a big, hectic, and crazy city as London isn't easy to navigate unaided, which is why anyone planning a trip there should grab this invaluable guide. A wide selection of hotels, from classic to designer, gives a perfect variety to choose from, whether it's the Dorchester in Mayfair, the Soho Hotel, a Notting Hill's Lennox Hotel or Eleven Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea. Antique hunters and style mavens alike will find their personal happiness in our list of must-see boutiques, restaurants, bars, and cafes; Angelika Taschen tells you where to procure a classic English tailor-made suit and where to enjoy tea and scones while you're wearing it. From Dickensian charm to modern cool, London has it all - and this guide will help you find it.

About the series: Angelika Taschen's Hotel series books are much more than simple hotel guides. They are meant to be taken along on your trip, as they not only feature the best and most interesting places to stay -from low budget to luxury - but also list hot spots for each hotel's neighborhood. Once you're installed in the hotel of your choice, you can peruse our suggestions for restaurants, bars, boutiques, specialty shops, and more.

Special features:

- plastic jacket with silk screen

- hand-illustrated postcard

- a space for your personal travel notes

- an exclusive hand-illustrated map for each area

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the photographer:

David Crookes is a London-based travel, interior, and portrait photographer. He contributes regularly to Conde Nast publications and his work is featured in many private collections.

About the author:

Christine Samuelian is a writer, editor, and media consultant based in London. She began her career as a news reporter in Toronto before moving to the UK in 1997, where she worked at Vogue, and Wallpaper* magazine. She has contributed to Conde Nast Traveller, US Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The Observer Magazine.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206809
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2409-2
Автор: Samuelian Christine

Paris. Hotels & More
Where to stay and what to visit in the City of Love? Among the sumptuously-photographed accommodations hand-picked by Angelika Taschen are the Christian Lacroix-designed Hotel du Petit Moulin, the Trocadero Dokhan's (designed by Frederic Mechiche), the ultra-chic Hotel Costes by Jacques Garcia, the charming low budget Hotel Recamier overlooking the magnificent Place Saint Sulpice or the intimate secret hideaway of Tom Ford and a Marais apartment for rent owned and decorated by fashion designer Azzedine Alaia. While you're in town, enjoy her suggestions for everything from a literary cafe experience to a luxurious perfume boutique or a renowned cheese shop. Everything in this guide is carefully tailored to help make your Parisian holiday as fulfilling as possible.

Special features:

- plastic jacket with silk screen

- hand-illustrated postcard

- a space for your personal travel notes

- a hand-illustrated map for each area

About the editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

About the photographer:

Swiss-born Vincent Knapp (1957-2007) lived and worked in Paris for over two decades as a free-lance photographer, notably for Conde Nast magazines such as Architectural Digest, Vogue, and The World of Interiors.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 205531
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4961-3

Top 10 Israel and the Palestinian Territories
Whether you want to explore Jerusalem s religious sites, visit the awe-inspiring city of Petra, or make the most of Tel-Aviv's forward-thinking food scene, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Jerusalem, Israel and the Palestinian Territories have to offer.



Imbued with a fascinating mix of cultural influences and home to sacred sites and ancient ruins, this dramatic landscape has been enchanting visitors since the dawn of civilisation.



Our updated guide brings the region to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the region's iconic buildings and neighbourhoods.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986687
ISBN: 9780241462706

Top 10 Cuba
Cuba is a magnificently diverse island brimming with stunning beaches, lush valleys, beautifully preserved colonial-era buildings and classic cars. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around Cuba with absolute ease.



Our newly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Cuba into helpful lists of ten - from our own selected highlights to the best museums and galleries, places to eat, shops and cultural experiences.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986737
ISBN: 9780241568859

City of Djinns
'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly, ' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.'



From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters - from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj - William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately.



He pursues Delhi's interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.



'City of Djinns' is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India's past and present.
Год: 2005
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 923900
ISBN: 9780006375951
Автор: Dalrymple William

Seven Years in Tibet
A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of an escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.

Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner before him.



Made into a film in 1997 starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is a stunning story of incredible courage and self-reliance by one of the twentieth century's best travel writers.
Год: 2005
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 899293
ISBN: 9780586087077
Автор: Harrer Heinrich

A Short History of Seafaring
Discover over 5000 years of seafaring history, packed with first-hand accounts of triumphs and disasters.

A fascinating journey through more than 5, 000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers, and maritime environments.

For more than 5, 000 years, the seas have challenged, rewarded, and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it. This history of the seas and sailing tells the remarkable story of those individuals - whether they lived to tell the tale themselves or not.

From the early Polynesian seafarers and the first full circumnavigations of the globe, to explorers picking their way through the coral reefs of the West Indies, this book tells the compelling story of life at sea that lies behind man's search for new lands, new trade, conquest, and uncharted waters.

Charting the great milestones of nautical history from the discovery of America to the establishment of the Royal Navy, the naval history of the American Civil War, the Battle of Midway and modern piracy the book sets all of them in their cultural and historical context.

Previously published as The Conquest of the Ocean, A Short History of Seafaring is a unique compendium of awe-inspiring tales of epic sea voyages and great feats of seamanship, navigation, endurance, and ingenuity.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 827051
ISBN: 9780241379691
Автор: Lavery Brian

The End of the Road. A journey around Britain in search of the dead
A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous and not so famous tombs, graves and burial sites.



Along the way, he launches a daredevil trespass into Highgate Cemetery at night, stumbles across the remains of the Welsh Druid who popularised cremation and has time to sit and ponder the imponderables at the graveside of the Lady of Hoy, an 18th century suicide victim whose body was kept in near condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Mudlark
Артикул: 897959
ISBN: 9780008294717
Автор: Cooke Jack

One More Croissant for the Road
The nation s taster in chief cycles 2, 300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes.



A green bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper mill running on empty. The rider crouched on top in a rictus of pain has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from somewhere nearby, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged breathing.

A battered van appears behind her, the customary cigarette dangling from its driver s-side window as he passes, she casually reaches down for some water, smiling broadly in the manner of someone having almost too much fun. No sweat, she says jauntily to his retreating exhaust pipe. Pas de probleme, monsieur.



A land of glorious landscapes, and even more glorious food, France is a place built for cycling and for eating, too a country large enough to give any journey an epic quality, but with a bakery on every corner. Here, you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and taste the difference every time you stop for lunch. If you make it to lunch, that is



Part travelogue, part food memoir, all love letter to France, One More Croissant for the Road follows the nation s taster in chief Felicity Cloake s very own Tour de France, cycling 2, 300km across France in search of culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet via Poule au Pot, and Tartiflette. Each of the 21 stages concludes with Felicity putting this new found knowledge to good use in a fresh and definitive recipe for each dish the culmination of her rigorous and thorough investigative work on behalf of all of our taste buds.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Mudlark
Артикул: 898435
ISBN: 9780008377267
Автор: Cloake Felicity

In Xanadu. A Quest
One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of Return of a King , which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.

At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge s Xanadu itself.

At once funny and knowledgeable, In Xanadu is in the finest tradition of British travel writing. Told with an exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight, it is already established as a classic of its kind.
Год: 2010
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 896748
ISBN: 9780006544159
Автор: Dalrymple William

Unusual hotels. UK and Ireland
Escaping the mass market to find unusual hotels, bed and breakfast properties as well as holiday lets, this guide lists UK and Ireland properties providing value-for-money memories that will last long after the bill has been paid.

Selected from the award-winning online guide, this selection of properties offers unusual and unique accomodation choices for all budgets, from 25 for singles to suites costing more than 550 a night.

Take your pick from vintage Airstream caravans, a converted naval gunboat, an enchanted manor, water towers, windmills, monuments and lighthouses, peaceful retreats in tipis and Mongolian yurts, as well as prisons, chapels and churches. Try staying at a property where you have to be accompanied by a dog. Enjoy the elegance of a a royal palace in Surrey or rock'n'roll chic in London. Stop the train at with a private railway platform in Snowdonia. Experience living in castles, follies and magnificent monuments, including one dedicated to a pineapple. Take a trip in a horse- drawn caravans in Ireland or aVolkswagen camper van in Bristol. You can even sleep with wildebeest outside your room on safari in Kent.

Criss-crossing the UK and Ireland, from the Napoleonic fortifications and Second World War lookout towers of the Channel Islands, to railway carriages and a laird's treehouse in Scotland, design masterpieces to down-to-earth dwellings, your travels need never be boring again.

Серия: Michelin Must See Guides
Год: 2012
Производитель: ABBYY
Артикул: 368773
ISBN: 9782915807523
Автор: Dobson Steve

The Summer Isles. A Voyage of the Imagination
In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate the west coast of Ireland and the Inner Hebrides. Bearing the full force of the Atlantic, it is a seaboard which is also a mythical frontier, a place as rich in story as anywhere on earth.

Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores - of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss - and the redemptive power of the imagination.

Exhilarating and poignant, Marsden's prose has been widely praised. Bringing together themes he has been pursuing for many years, The Summer Isles is an unforgettable account of the search for actual places, invented places, and those places in between that shape the lives of individuals and entire nations.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Granta Publication
Артикул: 954276
ISBN: 9781783783007
Автор: Marsden Philip

Notes from an Apocalypse. A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world



In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.



They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it.



Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O Connell set out to meet them.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Granta Publication
Артикул: 954201
ISBN: 9781783784073
Автор: O`Connell Mark

Barcelona. Hotels & More
Cool comforts in the Catalonian capital

Angelika Taschen has selected a delectable range of hotels and hotspots for your stay in Barcelona, from the Hotel Neri in the Gothic district to the modern and minimal Hotel Omm with breathtaking views of Gaudi's Casa Mila; to the Casa Camper, a quirky and multicultural smoke-free hotel in the former prostitute quarter run by the famous Spanish shoe makers. She also tells you where to taste the best tapas and innovative Catalan cuisine as well as where to check out contemporary art exhibitions and the best markets.

About the series: Angelika Taschen`s Hotel series books are much more than simple hotel guides. They are meant to be taken along on your trip, as they not only feature the best and most interesting places to stay-from low budget to luxury-but also list hot spots for each hotel`s neighborhood. Once you`re installed in the hotel of your choice, you can peruse our suggestions for restaurants, bars, boutiques, specialty shops, and more.

Special features:

- plastic jacket with silk screen

- hand-illustrated postcard

- a space for your personal travel notes

- an exclusive hand-illustrated map for each area

About the editor and author:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

About the photographer:

Pep Escoda is based in Tarragona, Spain, from where he travels the world in order to realize his projects, which were honored by the National Photographer Assosiation with 11 LUX awards. He has published more than 100 books and works for international magazines such as Homes & Houses of the New York Times.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 206808
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0047-0
Автор: Taschen Angelika

Berlin. Hotels & More
Glamorous in the Roaring Twenties, destroyed during World War II and divided afterwards, rebuilt in the 1950s, and now reunited, Berlin is a city of vibrant contrasts where diverse cultures form a multihued urban fabric. Derelict former Communist neighborhoods have been reincarnated as haunts for artists and designers while elsewhere the city's old traditions are also still very much alive. Places Angelika Taschen recommends you stay while visiting Berlin include everything from classic hotels like The Regent Berlin, bed and breakfast-style pensions such as Nurnberger Eck and Askanischer Hof in Charlottenburg, or the serviced apartments Lux 11 in Berlin-Mitte. And of course none of the hotel books would be complete without a copious helping of hotspots to visit and places at which to eat and drink during your stay. Favorite recommendations for Berlin: include Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery, the Helmut Newton Foundation, a curry wurst stand in Prenzlauerberg where Berlin's signature dish was invented and a ballroom nearly a century old.

Special features:

- plastic jacket with silk screen

- hand-illustrated postcard

- a space for your personal travel notes

- an exclusive hand-illustrated map for each area

About the editor and author:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

About the photographer:

Berlin-based photographer Thorsten Klapsch has published his works in various magazines, among them wallpaper*, DIE ZEIT, and qvest. He has collaborated on different book projects and works for architects, designers and advertising campaigns.

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 205532
ISBN: 978-3-8228-3712-2
Автор: Taschen Angelika

The Call of the Weird. An American Road Trip with Neo-Nazis, Porn Stars and One Alleged Space Alien
After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the sense of performance being filmed inevitably brings. It would allow him to get closer to people, to discover what really motivated them and what had happened to the assorted dreamers, outlaws and eccentrics since he last saw them.



On a journey that took him from the porn sets of Los Angeles to the gangsta rappers of Memphis, from a convention of UFO contactees in Arizona to Northern Idaho for a festive get-together of neo-Nazis, he asked what 'weird people' have to tell us about our own secret natures. Had he learned anything about himself by being among them? Do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?



Louis Theroux's first book is a hilarious, thought-provoking and at times surreal voyage into the heart of weirdness.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 902771
ISBN: 9781509893287
Автор: Theroux Louis

Architectural guide. Astana
Среди бесконечных равнинных просторов Казахстана возник экстраординарный архитектурный эксперимент: Астана. Всемирно известные и местные архитекторы проектируют здесь захватывающие дух здания. Всего через 20 лет после основания в этом городе прошла ЭКСПО-2017. Книга представляет 80 разных зданий и проектов, исследуя прихотливый архитектурный сплав восточных традиций, западных моделей и советских влияний.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774816
ISBN: 9783869224060
Автор: Meuser Philipp

Africa Drawn. One Hundred Cities
Африка это континент малых деревень в джунглях и саванне? Определенно нет. Урбанизация континента идет семимильными шагами, делая африканские города одними из самых быстрорастущих в мире. Данная книга представляет сто мегаполисов Африки, наиболее значимых и интересных с градостроительной точки зрения. Более 300 иллюстраций и подробных планов иллюстрируют их историческое и современное развитие.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774813
ISBN: 9783869224237
Автор: White Gary, Pienaat Marguerite

Architectural guide. South Africa
Путеводитель представляет собрание наиболее значимых архитектурных объектов крупных южноафриканских городов: Кейптауна, Дурбана, Йоханнесбурга и Претории. Книга дает исчерпывающую информацию о более чем 150 зданиях и проектах: от более ранних периодов становления европейских поселений, когда архитекторы получали образование в военно-инженерных училищах, к XX веку и современности, когда профессия стала самостоятельной и авторитетной. Эта книга представляет собой достаточно полный обзор современной архитектуры Южной Африки. Все выбранные авторами здания являются общественными или светскими, а потому путешественнику будет легко их рассмотреть вблизи. Описание проектов содержит данные о времени их создания, именах проектировщиков и точном местоположении, которое легко найти с помощью QR-кодов.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774868
ISBN: 9783869222622
Автор: Fisher Roger C

The Last Grain Race
An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last grain race of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.



In 1939, a young Eric Newby later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transportation of grain from Australia to Europe. Every year from 1921 to 1939, the vessels involved in the grain trade would strive to find the shortest, fastest passage home the grain race in the face of turbulent seas, atrocious weather conditions and hard graft.



First published in 1956, The Last Grain Race , featuring many photographs from the author s personal collection, celebrates both the spirit of adventure and the thrill of sailing on the high seas. Newby s first-hand account engaging and informative, with frequent bursts of humour and witty observations from both above and below deck chronicles this classic sailing voyage of the Twenties and Thirties, and records the last grain race of maritime history.
Год: 2014
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 897348
ISBN: 9780007597833
Автор: Newby Eric

Among the Mountains. Travels Through Asia
Wilfred Thesiger, this century s greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.



Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote areas of the Middle East and Asia.



In 1987 Thesiger wrote: I have always been attracted by mountains And he observed more recently: Had I done nothing else as a traveller except my journeys in Nuristan, these alone would have amounted to something worthwhile .



Eventful, interesting and remarkable achievements in their own right, the Asian journeys among the Hindu Kush, the Karakorams and the Pamirs have inspired many of the finest photographs Thesiger has ever taken and contribute significantly to his standing as a great traveller and explorer.



Spanning a period of over 30 years (1951-1983) this book draws on Thesiger s original diaries of his various journeys and his vivid memories of them, and includes some 80 or so previously unpublished photographs of the stunning mountain scenery he saw and the people he encountered.
Год: 2000
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 896764
ISBN: 9780006551003
Автор: Thesiger Wilfred

Architectural guide. United Arab Emirates
Этот путеводитель раскрывает разнообразие и многогранность архитектуры Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов. Вниманию читателей представлены примеры поразительной архитектуры Дубая и монументальные здания Абу-Даби. Сегодня ОАЭ стремятся перенести акцент с эксплуатирования природных ресурсов на развитие таких областей экономики, как туризм, строительство, торговля и логистика. Доказательствами экономического подъема страны являются город Масдар, остров Яс в Абу-Даби, а также искусственные острова и высокие небоскребы Дубая.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774854
ISBN: 9783869225081
Автор: Bohle Hendrik, Dimog Jan

Pictures from Italy
In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments and novelties around him, the celebrated author of Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol captured his experiences and impressions in vivid detail. The result is a travelogue like no other, written by one of the finest writers of all time.



Abounding in colour and humour, and interspersed with unforgettable set pieces, such as an eyewitness account of the beheading of a robber in Rome and a hilarious description of a tour guide s ruinous tumble down the slope of Mount Vesuvius, Pictures from Italy is further proof of Charles Dickens s genius and versatility.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Alma Books
Артикул: 960919
ISBN: 9781847498854
Автор: Dickens Charles

Journeys to Impossible Places. In Life and Every Adventure
Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life.



In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and close to home.



Journeys to Impossible Places continues the story Simon started in his phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Step by Step, which traced the first decades of his life from depressed and unemployed teenager through to his early TV programmes.



Now Simon takes us on the epic and thrilling adventures that followed, in beautiful, tricky and downright dangerous corners of the world, as he travelled through the Tropics, to remote paradise islands, jungles dripping with heat and life, and on nerve-wracking secret missions.



Simon shares what his unique experiences and encounters have taught him, and the deeper lessons he draws from joy and raw grief in his personal life, from desperate struggles with his own fertility and head health, from wise friends, fatherhood, inspiring villagers, brave fighters, his beloved dogs, and a thoughtful Indian sadhu.



Journeys to Impossible Places inspires and encourages all of us to battle fear and negativity, and embrace life, risk, opportunities and the glory of our world.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 956142
ISBN: 9781529364057
Автор: Reeve Simon

Soundings. Journeys in the Company of Whales
From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves. Following them, by bus, train and ferry, are Doreen and her toddler Max, in pursuit of a wild hope.



Doreen first visited Alaska as a young BBC journalist reporting on climate change among indigenous whaling communities. There, drawn deeply into an Inupiaq family and an ill-fated love affair, she joined the bowhead whale hunt out on the sea ice.



Years later, now a single mother living in a hostel, Doreen embarks on this extraordinary journey: following the grey whale migration back to the Arctic, where greys and bowheads meet at the melting apex of our planet.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Virago
Артикул: 977192
ISBN: 9780349014937
Автор: Cunningham Doreen

Blood Rive. A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.



When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers.



Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Серия: Vintage Voyages
Год: 2019
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891882
ISBN: 9781784875381
Автор: Butcher Tim

Shadow of the Silk Road
Colin Thurbon s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey.



On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. A magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment, Thubron covers over 7000 miles in eight months enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way.



Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Серия: Vintage Voyages
Год: 2019
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891880
ISBN: 9781784875343
Автор: Thubron Colin

Clanlands. Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky.

As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road trip around their homeland. They discover that the real thing is even greater than fiction.

Clanlands is the story of their journey. Armed with their trusty campervan and a sturdy friendship, these two Scotsmen are on the adventure of a lifetime to explore the majesty of Scotland. A wild ride by boat, kayak, bicycle and motorbike, they travel from coast to loch and peak to valley and delve into Scotland's history and culture, from timeless poetry to bloody warfare.

With near-death experiences, many weeks in a confined space together, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Graham and Sam's friendship matures like a fine Scotch. They reflect on their acting careers in film and theatre, find a new awestruck respect for their native country and, as with any good road trip, they even find themselves.

Hold onto your kilts... this is Scotland as you've never seen it before.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 976292
ISBN: 9781529342031
Автор: Heughan Sam, McTavish Graham

Great Escapes II
Far from the madding crowd

Inspiring getaways from California to Zanzibar

This round-up of the world's most exceptional hotels and retreats is packed with awe-inspiring photos and tantalizing descriptions of the world's greatest getaways. While few will visit them all, this collection provides a dizzying array of exotic destinations for the armchair traveler.

Highlights include a California inn where Liberace would have felt right at home, and shabby-chic bungalows on Highway 1 in Big Sur. Choose from luxurious residences nestled on the Ubud hillside overlooking the Ayung River in Bali, or oceanside bungalows on a Brazilian archipelago. Go camping in "royal style" in the Indian desert, or opt for a luxury tented camp on an island in the best game-viewing location in Botswana. Relax in a hand-woven banda on Zanzibar, a hotel-museum full of contemporary art on the Sicilian coast, or a sumptuous Provencal spa retreat in the south of France.

The editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN from 1987 to 2010, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 314351
ISBN: 978-3-8365-3166-5
Автор: Cassidy Shelley-Maree, Reiter Christiane

Between the Sunset and the Sea. A View of 16 British Mountains
Simon Ingram takes us high into Britain s most forbidding and astonishing wild places through all the seasons of the year from the first blush of spring to the darkest bite of the mountain winter.



In the late 18th century, mountains shifted from being universally reviled to becoming the most inspiring things on earth. Simply put, the monsters became muses and an entire artistic movement was born. This movement became a love affair, the love affair became an obsession, and gradually but surely, obsession became lifestyle as mountains became stitched into the fabric of the British cultural tapestry.



In his compelling new book, Simon Ingram explores how mountains became such a preoccupation for the modern western imagination, weaving his own adventures into a powerful narrative which provides a kind of experiential hit list for people who don t have the time nor the will to climb a thousand mountains.



For some of these mountains, the most amazing thing about them might be the journey they ve taken to get here. Others, the tales of science, endeavour and art that have played out on their slopes. The mythology they re drenched in. The history they ve seen. The genius they ve inspired. The danger that draws people to them. The life that clusters around them, human and otherwise. The extreme weather they conjure. The adventure they fuel. The way that some raise the hairs on the back of your neck, and trigger powerful, strange emotions. And moreover, what they re like to be amidst, under, on just what that indefinable quality is that the British mountains wield which takes possession of you so powerfully, and never goes away.



From Beinn Dearg to Ben Nevis, Ingram takes us on a journey spanning sixteen of Britain s most evocative mountainous landscapes, and what they mean to us today.
Год: 2016
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 897272
ISBN: 9780007547906
Автор: Ingram Simon

A Thing of Beauty. Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece
What do the Greek myths mean to us today?



It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what's to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled?



Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes - stunning and spoiled - on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the 'most beautiful beach in Greece', consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Oneworld Publications
Артикул: 954317
ISBN: 9780861544356
Автор: Fiennes Peter

From the Holy Mountain
The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ( one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ( the best travel book I have ever read George Mackay Brown).

In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their world shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos s writings as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps.

Despite centuries of isolation, a surprising number of the monasteries and churches visited by the two monks still survive today, surrounded by often hostile populations. Dalrymple s pilgrimage took him through a bloody civil war in eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the vicious tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in southern Egypt. His book is an elegy to the slowly dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity and the peoples that have kept its flame alive. It is a rich and gripping blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with a thread of black comedy familiar to readers of Dalrymple s previous work.
Год: 2024
Производитель: Flamingo
Артикул: 896756
ISBN: 9780006547747
Автор: Dalrymple William

Island of Dreams. A Personal History of a Remarkable Place
Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given the chance to move to Maxwell's former home, a tiny island on the western seaboard of the Highlands of Scotland.

Island of Dreams is about Boothby's time living there, and about the natural and human history that surrounded him; it's about the people he meets and the stories they tell, and about his engagement with this remote landscape, including the otters that inhabit it. Interspersed with Boothby's own story is a quest to better understand the mysterious Gavin Maxwell.

Beautifully written and frequently leavened with a dry wit, Island of Dreams is a charming celebration of the particularities of place.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 903110
ISBN: 9781509800773
Автор: Boothby Dan

The Crossway
In 2013 Guy Stagg walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the pilgrimage after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. For ten months he hiked alone on ancient paths, crossing ten countries and more than 5, 500 kilometres. Travelling without support, he had to rely each night on the charity of strangers.



The Crossway is an account of Stagg's extraordinary journey. It describes the dangers he faced on the road, captures the people he met and the landscapes he experienced, offers a unique insight into contemporary faith, and - most movingly - lays bare his struggle to escape the past and walk towards recovery.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 902932
ISBN: 9781509844593
Автор: Stagg Guy

Architectural guide. Delhi
Город Дели, столица Индии, замечателен не только своей богатой архитектурной историей здесь встречаются и индуистские храмы, и старинные мечети, и образцы колониальной архитектуры, но и разнообразием современных проектов. Именно современная архитектура стала катализатором развития города после того, как страна обрела независимость. Сегодня город стремительно меняется в результате настоящего строительного бума. В этой книге представлено более 200 наиболее ярких и значимых зданий Дели.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774888
ISBN: 9783869221670
Автор: Bansal Anupam, Kochupillai Malini

Architectural guide. Berlin
Ни в одном другом месте на Земле сменяющиеся идеологии и градостроительные концепции не отразились так на городской структуре, как в Берлине. Показательная коллекция зданий и сооружений, представляющих разнообразные городские районы и архитектурные направления, позволит читателю отправиться в путешествие по истории, от средневековых кварталов Альт-Берлина до современности. Четыре маршрута познакомят с важнейшими архитектурными достопримечательностями города.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774817
ISBN: 9783869225470
Автор: Schendel Dominik

Architectural guide. Madrid
Gran Via - амбициозный проект, охватывающий четыре десятилетия. Он, вне всякого сомнения, стал одной из самых масштабных градостроительных операций за всю историю существования Мадрида. Завершение строительных работ около 1930 года ознаменовало начало трансформации Мадрида из старинного города в современный мегаполис.

Данный гид представляет 150 наиболее значимых архитектурных проектов, созданных с этого момента. Читателям предлагаются 9 возможных маршрутов, пролегающих через 21 район Мадрида.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774848
ISBN: 9783869223988
Автор: Robles Juan Valle, Robles Irene Valle

Architectural guide. Venice
Эта книга первый путеводитель по современной архитектуре Венеции города-музея под открытым небом, места, которое словно магнит привлекает архитекторов со всего мира, ведь именно здесь каждые два года проходит крупнейшее событие в мире архитектуры Венецианская архитектурная биеннале. Архитектурный путеводитель предлагает читателю узнать иную, не столь знакомую нам Венецию после 1950 года. Он включает водные и пешеходные маршруты по островной и континентальной Венеции, а также по площадкам Биеннале. В книге рассказывается о наиболее значимых проектах Карло Скарпы, Тадао Андо, Дэвида Чипперфильда и других всемирно известных архитекторов. Специальная глава книги посвящена масштабным, но нереализованным концепциям таких известных мастеров, как Фрэнк Ллойд Райт, Ле Корбюзье и Луис Кан.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774826
ISBN: 9783869223629