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Secret bars and restaurants in Paris
Dine in the home of a perfect stranger, enjoy your meal on an extraordinary, little-known terrace looking out on the Parc de Monceau, eat lunch at a restaurant that's totally invisible from the street, have a drink at a bar next to a man taking a shower in a glass box, join a band of artistic squatters for an afternoon barbecue, visit a Royalist bar, catch up with a moveable feast, get unbeatable value for money at a hostelry school, and experience numerous other timeless venues and atmospheres...

Beyond the traditional Parisian restaurant, the French capital is full of wonderful unusual places.

Серия: Eaten and Drinking Off The Beaten Track
Год: 2009
Производитель: Jonglez
Артикул: 368769
ISBN: 9782915807479
Автор: Garance Jacques, Rivoal Stephanie

Gaudi And Modernism In Barcelona
The city of Barcelona is considered the essence of Modernism, and certainly it is where the movement left the greatest number of its architectural jewels, many of them widely known. There are, however, pertaining to this historical period other less well-known works that are authentic gems, highly evocative and attractive. This book proposes a discovery of this other Modernist treasure - works that shine with a light of their own, encrusted in the estimable legacy of this artistic movement.

"Caudi and Modernism in Barcelona" is the third volume in a collection dealing with this artistic current that spread throughout Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, leaving its indelible mark on all areas of aesthetic manifestation. As with the previous volumes, this work is an indispensable tool for visitors with the curiosity and desire to discover more about this movement that brought a new way of understanding architecture and the arts in general. Over 150 colour photographs produced for this book and maps that pinpoint the locations lead readers out of the centre of Barcelona, guiding them through other areas of the city to seek out buildings that form an inherent part of the legacy of Modernist architecture. Moreover, the book includes two special sections dedicated to stained glass and furnishings. These two chapters are a tribute to the excellence of the artists and craftsmen who complement the great names of Modernist architecture, and who with their work contributed to the diffusion and great splendour of a unique movement in the history of architecture and art.
Год: 2002
Производитель: Loft
Артикул: 329156
ISBN: 978-84-89439-87-0
Автор: Garcia Raul

The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales
Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary, Gerald records the day-to-day events of the mission, alongside lively accounts of local miracles, folklore and religious relics such as Saint Patrick's Horn, and eloquent descriptions of natural scenery that includes the rugged promontory of St David's and the vast snow-covered panoramas of Snowdonia. The landscape is evoked in further detail in The Description, which chronicles the everyday lives of the Welsh people with skill and affection. Witty and gently humorous throughout, these works provide a unique view into the medieval world.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2004
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886566
ISBN: 9780140443394
Автор: Gerald of Wales

Cuba. A Literary Guide for Travellers
Cuba with its flamboyant style and rich culture, has provided the inspiration and setting for literature for decades. It has always been one of the most compelling places in the world, though perhaps never more so than now. Following Raul Castro's resignation as President in 2018, the era of Castroism has come to an end, and the US-Cuba rapprochement has opened the country to a generation of Americans whose only previous exposure was through film and literature. The coming years will undoubtedly bring significant changes to a country that has in many ways been frozen in time.



Cuba: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded traveller (either in person or in an armchair) on a vivid and illuminating journey, retracing the footsteps of writers and artists who have lived and worked in, or been inspired by, the history and landscape of Cuba. This literary guide challenges some firmly-held Western assumptions about the country, and shines a light on one of the richest and most deeply embedded literary cultures in the world.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 922757
ISBN: 9781788314992
Автор: Gonzalez Mike

The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide
Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon.



With Tristan's help, you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is a glorious exploration of the rediscovered art of natural navigation.



The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide is a user-friendly, practical book and the beautiful illustrations are a useful tool to help travellers on their instrument-free journey.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Virgin books
Артикул: 890316
ISBN: 9780753539859
Автор: Gooley Tristan

The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to look for.



Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs for you to enjoy the wonders of the outdoors from your living room.



This top ten bestseller is the result of Tristan Gooley's two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of outdoor clues and signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.



As well as the most comprehensive guide to natural navigation for walkers ever compiled, it also contains clues for weather forecasting, tracking, city walks, coast walks, night walks and dozens of other areas.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Sceptre
Артикул: 956269
ISBN: 9781444780109
Автор: Gooley Tristan

Journey without Maps
Graham Greene's incredible journey to an unchartered land.



The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.



Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing.



With a Foreword by Tim Butcher and an Introduction by Paul Theroux



'One of the best travel books this century' Independent
Год: 2020
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 884654
ISBN: 9780099282235
Автор: Greene Graham

Wild. An Elemental Journey
Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It is by turns funny, touching and harrowing, and offers a poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands. Wild won the inaugural Orion Book Award for 2007 and was shortlisted for the Orwell prize and for the World Book Day award.
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886730
ISBN: 9780141006444
Автор: Griffiths Jay

Short Walks in Northumbria. Guide to 20 local walks
A practical little walk guide to Northumbria endorsed by the Ramblers. All of the 20 walks are 5 miles or under in length and can easily be completed in less than 3 hours. Clear Ordnance Survey maps show the route, along with easy-to-follow walk descriptions.



Northumbria offers diverse landscapes: the scenic North Sea Coast with its diverse wildlife, the bare moorland landscape of the Cheviot Hills and the historical interest of Hadrian's Wall lying along the Whin Sill. Many of the walks are located within the Northumberland National Park and the Northumberland Coast which is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.



This guide, produced in co-operation with the Ramblers and featuring Ordnance Survey mapping, is the perfect way to get out and enjoy the stunning scenery.



This compact little guide contains walks, all of which are 5 miles or under, which are ideal for an afternoon stroll.



INCLUDES:

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



Each walk has a detailed 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.

There are interesting facts about the things you'll see along the route.

All the books include general information on walking and also the general area covered by the guide.

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

Серия: Collins Maps
Год: 2017
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 897357
ISBN: 9780008101589
Автор: Hallewell Richard

The Granite Kingdom. A Cornish Journey
A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region.



A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates, smugglers and evocatively named saints, somehow separate from the rest of our island...



Few regions of Britain are as holidayed in, as well-loved or as mythologized as Cornwall. From the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote peninsula of Penwith via the wilderness of Bodmin Moor and coastal villages where tourism and fishing find an uneasy coexistence Tim Hannigan undertakes a zigzagging journey on foot across Britain's westernmost region to discover how the real Cornwall, its landscapes, histories, communities and sense of identity, intersect with the many projections and tropes that writers, artists and others have placed upon it.



Combining landscape and nature writing with deep cultural inquiry, The Granite Kingdom is a probing but highly accessible tour of one of Britain's most popular regions, juxtaposing history, myth, folklore and literary representation with the geographical and social reality of contemporary Cornwall.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Head of Zeus
Артикул: 963860
ISBN: 9781801108843
Автор: Hannigan Tim

Abandoned Places. Where time has stopped
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting in decay.



Stories, facts and photographs of 60 beautiful and eerie abandoned places from throughout the world. Time has stopped and nature is taking resident in these places mainly due to natural disasters, war or economic reasons.



Places include:



Severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Six Flags Jazzland has been abandoned since. Several of the rides still stand, a testimony to the resilience of New Orleans.

Shicheng in China has been under water for 53 years since the Xin'an River Hydro Plant flooded the area. The city was founded 1, 300 years ago.

Chernobyl was totally abandoned after the nearby nuclear disaster in 1986. Due to radiation, it has been left untouched ever since the incident and will be for many thousands of years into the future. Nature now rules the city in what resembles an apocalyptic movie.

Poveglia is an island in the Venetian Lagoon which under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte became a dumping ground for plague victims and later an asylum for the mentally ill.

Plymouth was the capital of the island of Montserrat. The town was overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions starting in 1995 and was abandoned.

St Kilda a remote Scottish Island may have been permanently inhabited for at least two millennia, the population probably never exceeding 180. The entire population was evacuated in 1930.
Год: 2024
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 898214
ISBN: 9780008333331
Автор: Happer Richard

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

Architectural guide. Yerevan
Ереван и легендарный Арарат это символы, которые занимают особое место в армянской культуре, несмотря на то что столиц в истории Армении было множество и располагались они в самых разных городах, а библейская года сейчас находится на территории Турции. Природные катастрофы и геноцид 1915 года стали неотъемлемой частью идентичности армянского народа и армянской архитектуры.

Этот архитектурный путеводитель прослеживает историю Еревана, которая оставила свой след на рисунке улиц и облике этого многоликого города.

Армянский конструктивизм, национальные мотивы, классицизм, советский модернизм в издании рассмотрены архитектурные проекты самых разных направлений. Дополнительная экскурсия представит читателю необычный город Спитак, который был до основания разрушен землетрясением в 1988 году и перестроен заново как модель идеального советского города. Путеводитель, таким образом, ответит на вопросы о сущности и характере современного армянского города.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774855
ISBN: 9783869223575
Автор: Harutynyan Tigran

Round Ireland With A Fridge
'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'



A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet led to Tony Hawks having one of the most unforgettable experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty travelling-companion-cum-domestic-appliance, he found himself in the midst of a remarkable, inspirational and, at times, downright silly adventure.



In their month of madness, Tony and his fridge surfed together; entered a batchelor festival; and one of them had sex without the other knowing. The fridge got christened, and they even met the poorest king on Earth.



An absurd story of an extraordinary adventure, Round Ireland with a Fridge follows the fearless pair as they battle towards Dublin and a breathtaking finale that is moving, uplifting, and a fitting conclusion to the whole ridiculous affair.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 884479
ISBN: 9780091867775
Автор: Hawks Tony

Farewell Mr Puffin. A small boat voyage to Iceland
The writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney set sail from the east coast of England bound for Iceland, propelled by a desire to breathe the cool, clear air of the high latitudes, and to follow in the wake of generations of sailors who have made this often treacherous journey since the 13th century. In almost every harbour he tripped over maritime history and anecdote, and came face to face with his own past as he sailed north along his childhood coastline of east Yorkshire towards the Arctic Circle.



But there was one major thing missing from this voyage - the sight of puffins. They are remarkable birds, uplifting as a ray of sunshine after a storm. To see them and share their waters was also part of Heiney's ambition. Imagine then his disappointment when, first, no puffins appeared off the Farne Islands, then none to be seen on puffin hotspots like Orkney. When he failed to see puffins on Iceland, Heiney still held out the hope that he would see the 'joker of the seas'.



With inspiring travel writing, social and maritime history, and good-humoured reflections on his sailing journey, Heiney brings us this delightful book a love letter to the puffin, to Iceland and the north, and to the pure pleasure of being at sea.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Adlard Coles
Артикул: 922763
ISBN: 9781472990976
Автор: Heiney Paul

Fifth Avenue. From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park
A compact architectural history of Manhattan with six walks that guide readers along New York's most glamorous street.



Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park presents an in-depth exploration of architecture along one of the world's most iconic streets: New York City's fabled Fifth Avenue. Through six fact-filled walking tours, this accessible illustrated guide takes readers along the entire length of Fifth Avenue, studying its architecture block by block, building by building, offering the chance to discover exceptional and unusual structures across Greenwich Village, Midtown, the Upper East Side, and Harlem.



Heavily illustrated with more than 300 images and practical graphic maps that mark the stops along each route, Fifth Avenue spotlights hundreds of buildings, from familiar tourist destinations to lesser-known gems. Featured are, of course, major monuments including the Empire State Building, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral; luxurious shops such as Tiffany's, Cartier, and Bulgari; elegant hotels like the St. Regis and the Plaza; and the art treasures of Museum Mile on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Jewish Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York. Each of the walks offers a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of architectural styles, from the Beaux-Arts mansions of the turn of the twentieth century to the striking contemporary structures such as the glass flagship stores of Nike, Armani, and the towering One Vanderbilt. Highlights also include works by distinguished architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary leaders like Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels.



Written as both a fireside and curbside read, this new book is essential for the curious architecture lover touring the New York streets, as well as anyone looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the historic, social, and economic forces that shaped Fifth Avenue's growth and character.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Monacelli
Артикул: 945304
ISBN: 9781580936071
Автор: Hennessey Wiilliam J

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

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 Times. All Aboard! Remembering Britain s Railways
The perfect gift for every railway enthusiast.

The history of Britain's railways is a long and fascinating one, filled with stories of grand endeavours, noted figures and record-breaking feats. Julian Holland brings together a unique miscellany of intriguing tales and engaging trivia - the perfect collection for every railway enthusiast.



Stories range from Bulleid's 'Chinese Laundries', trainspotting trips in Wales and Scotland and Liverpool's 'Dockers' Umbrella' to railway artists and clergy, a railway-owned airline and railways that were never built.



Find out about

- The Royal Scot's 11, 000-mile journey in the USA and Canada

- A narrow gauge island railway in the middle of the Bristol Channel

- How the London & South Western Railway saved the British Empire

- Mallard's unbeaten world speed record of 1938

- How to fly by Great Western Railway from Cardiff to Plymouth

- The 75-mile network of narrow gauge railways on the Isle of Skye

- How another 4, 500 miles of railway escaped closure by Dr Beeching



All Aboard is a delightful miscellany for every railway enthusiast, filled with fascinating and obscure stories, facts and figures.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Times Books
Артикул: 898872
ISBN: 9780008467951
Автор: Holland Julian

The Times. Golden Years of Rail Travel
Celebrate the heyday of passenger rail travel around Britain with this beautiful Times railway book.

Take a journey back to the boom time for Britain s railways, through a unique collection of fascinating stories, photographs, posters and railway ephemera.



Leading railway author Julian Holland tells the story of an evocative period in Britain s railway history gone forever but never forgotten.



Explore a century of rail travel in Britain, covering three important periods:



Late 19th century to 1922. The zenith of Britain s railways, with 120 companies operating

1923 to 1947. Railway companies are grouped into the Big Four

1948 to 1994. Nationalization heralds the era of British Railways

The Golden Years of Rail Travel is the perfect gift for all rail enthusiasts.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Times Books
Артикул: 898148
ISBN: 9780008323752
Автор: Holland Julian

Britain s Heritage Railways. Discover more than 100 historic lines
Explore Britain's remaining historic lines with railway expert Julian Holland.

The essential guide to exploring Britain s last remaining historic lines, Britain s Heritage Railways is ideal for anyone planning or looking for a nostalgic railway trip. From bestselling railway author Julian Holland.



More than 100 locations, the majority steam operated, featured all over Britain. Highly illustrated with maps and old and new photographs.

Historic lines include;

Bodmin & Wenford Railway two rural branch lines with a rich industrial history tucked away in Cornwall

West Somerset Railway the longest heritage railway in England with views of the Quantock Hills and the sea

Bluebell Railway a Victorian steam railway deep in rural Mid Sussex

North Norfolk Railway a delightful journey through heathland with views of the sea

Dean Forest Railway with a rich industrial history this heritage railway takes passengers into the ancient Forest of Dean

Ffestiniog Railway a steam operated Victorian narrow gauge slate railway clinging to steep hillsides

Wensleydale Railway a long heritage railway in the unspoilt Yorkshire Dales

Speyside Railway a Highland line with views of the Cairngorm Mountains
Год: 2022
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 898873
ISBN: 9780008467982
Автор: Holland Julian

Railway Day Trips. 160 classic train journeys around Britain
Fully updated essential guide to exploring Britain by train, Railway Day Trips is ideal for anyone planning or looking for inspiration for a rail journey. From bestselling railway author Julian Holland.



This pocket companion is perfect for both casual and seasoned rail travellers. Plan adventures, follow the changing landscape through the train window and discover fascinating destinations.



Each journey incorporates a location map, route diagram and descriptive text on its history and geography, plus some of the highlights awaiting you at each destination. High-quality photographs illustrate every route throughout the book.



Based on his extensive knowledge of British rail travel, the author reveals appealing quirks of the various routes and provides practical tips on how to make the most of your journey.



160 day trips from all over the country are featured, departing from major towns and cities and culminating at a variety of interesting destinations.



This 2nd edition includes 10 new routes:

Cambridge to Ipswich

Hereford to Newport

Cardiff to Ebbw Vale

Carmarthen to Fishguard

Manchester to Southport

Sheffield to Lincoln

Middlesbrough to Newcastle

Glasgow to Perth

Edinburgh to Tweedbank

Inverness to Wick
Год: 2017
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 897664
ISBN: 9780008223571
Автор: Holland Julian

Lost Railway Walks. Explore more than 100 of Britain s lost railways
More than 100 walks across the length and breadth of Britain s lost railway lines. Each walk includes a short history of the railway before it closed, a description of what can be seen along it today, practical details such as car parking, access by public transport, a detailed route map and historical and modern day photographs.



4, 500 miles of railway and 2, 000 stations were closed between 1963 and the mid-1970s. While many of these still remain hidden away in the undergrowth or have been lost to road improvements and urban or industrial development, a growing number continue to be slowly reopened both as recreational footpaths and cycleways and as wildlife corridors.



Some of our lost railways have also been incorporated into long distance paths, while they all form wildlife corridors in which butterflies, birds, small mammals and wild flowers flourish. They all provide a perfect setting to enjoy a day s walk in the countryside.



This extended second edition with 8 new routes including Canterbury to Whitstable, Witham to Maldon, Great Malvern to Ashchurch, Jarrow to Tanfield.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 898107
ISBN: 9780008319243
Автор: Holland Julian

The Times. The Joy of Railways
A beautiful treasury of railway memorabilia

Journey back to the 1950s and '60s with this nostalgic look at Britain's railways in their glory days. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a unique collection of photographs, train spotting notebooks and railway ephemera.



Packed with hundreds of photographs, trainspotting

notebooks and ephemera. This is a vivid recollection of

the whole atmosphere of the railways as the age of steam

ended and diesels were introduced.



Take a journey through each of the major regions, guided by bestselling author and railway expert, Julian Holland

Revel in the imagery of the mighty steam engines as they ran their final schedules

Savour some of the magic that trainspotters experienced during that glorious era
Год: 2020
Производитель: Times Books
Артикул: 898149
ISBN: 9780008323769
Автор: Holland Julian

Luxury Hotels Europe
This impressive volume showcases the finest golf resorts around the globe. All these hotels enjoy a unity of style that ties together interiors and exteriors. All corners of the earth and every type of setting are represented. This outstanding collection shows fine architecture and interiors set amidst lush, manicured greens and fairways. The book features golf resorts from Scotland where the game was invented, as well as from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Northern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Each resort is remarkable in its own right and will certainly please the avid golfer. But with their top-notch standards and settings, they are a delight for the non-golfer as well!

Text in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

Серия: Luxury Books
Год: 2007
Производитель: te Neues
Артикул: 246855
ISBN: 3-8238-4553-5
Автор: Holzberg Barbel, Bantle Frank, Finn Benjamib A

Wanderlust Himalaya. Hiking on Top of the World
The Himalaya. The legendary mountains, epic and mythical to all who are serious about hiking. Straddling Nepal, India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Bhutan, this area could fill a lifetime of wandering and transcendence.

In Wanderlust Himalaya, we guide you through breathtaking nature, diverse cultures, and various hikes across the whole region. Spectacular photography, informative maps, firsthand tips, and itineraries with an attractive mix of one-day, multiday, and long-distance trails offer everything you need to plan your own adventure or to dream from an armchair.



Wanderlust Himalaya lifts you to the top of the world.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Gestalten
Артикул: 901422
ISBN: 9783967040029
Автор: Honan Cam

Microadventures. Local Discoveries for Great Escapes
Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.



So what's a microadventure? It's close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed to refresh your life. A microadventure takes the spirit of a big adventure and squeezes it into a day or even a few hours.



The point of a microadventure is that you don't need lots of time and money to meet a new challenge. This practical guide is filled with ideas for microadventures - for you to experience on your own or with friends and family - and over 150 stunning photographs, plus tips and advice on safety and kit.



Whether it's sleeping on a hilltop or going for a wild swim, cycling a lap of the Isle of Wight or walking home for Christmas, it's time you discovered something new about yourself and the world outside your window. Adventure is everywhere, every day and it is up to us to find it.
Год: 2014
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 897274
ISBN: 9780007548033
Автор: Humphrey Alastair

Georgian London
Georgian London reveals their daily lives: quickie marriages outside Fleet Prison, clandestine visits to Covent Garden, the terror of serial killers and lawless highwaymen and days out at the Tower Zoo.



In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin.

Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers.

Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome.

This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today.

'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund

'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent

'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist

'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians

In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex - at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 890066
ISBN: 9780670920143
Автор: Inglis Lucy

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

The New York Times 36 Hours. USA & Canada
The ultimate travel guide to the USA and Canada.

To travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces with so many riches, from glittering cities to eccentric small towns and heart-stoppingly beautiful mountains and plains, how to experience as much as possible in limited time? The New York Times has the answer, offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly 36 Hours column for nearly two decades.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of the best-selling USA & Canada volume, TASCHEN presents the best itineraries from across the continent. You'll find marquee metropolises like New York, Montreal, and Los Angeles; world-famous natural wonders at Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon; the hidden charm of Rust Belt cities like Duluth and Detroit, as well as 33 new stories including Anchorage, the Berkshires, Boulder, and many more.

More than 5, 400 hours worth of insightful itineraries to make the most of your stay

Practical recommendations for more than 600 restaurants and 450 hotels

Comprehensive revisions to all 130 itineraries

New destinations including Downtown Miami, Oakland, Chattanooga, and more

Color-coded tabs for each region

Nearly 1, 000 photos

33 new stories

Detailed city-by-city maps that pinpoint every stop on your itinerary

From Antwerp to Zurich, trust Taschen's New York Times 36 Hours series with your next travel adventure.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 980695
ISBN: 9783836575324
Автор: Ireland Barbara

The New York Times Explorer. 100 Dream Trips Around the World
100 dream trips from the distinguished travel writers and photographers of The New York Times



Whether it s a culinary adventure in vibrant Mexico City, a historic and meditative train ride through Siberia, or a solo trip to Paris, get your bucket lists ready with the discoveries of Explorer a curated collection of 100 dream trips from the distinguished travel writers and photographers of The New York Times.



In four volumes worth of adventures in one, the Times writers offer guidance, from the personal to the practical, along with a wealth of color photographs that capture the catch-your-breath awe of each destination. Motor past pink sands and bougainvillea in Bermuda with Andrew McCarthy, follow Virginia Woolf s footsteps through the English countryside with Francine Prose, or dare to pilot a boat through the Venice lagoon with Tony Perrottet.



NYT Explorer. 100 Trips Around the World takes travel beyond the obvious with adventures in exotic places and new perspectives in familiar ones, all based on the distinguished travel journalism of The New York Times. Each journey features a first-person narrative and postcard-perfect photography, capturing the unique personality of the destination as well as practical information to help get you on your way. Edited by Barbara Ireland, whose 36 Hours travel series has been a TASCHEN best seller, Explorer features color-coded tabs and a ribbon to bookmark your favorite stops in each region. It's the perfect companion for hardcore globetrotters as well as inspiration for curious armchair travelers.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 980692
ISBN: 9783836584173
Автор: Ireland Barbara

Scotland The Best The Islands
See Scotland s remarkable islands from a new perspective in this beautiful guide curated by celebrated Scotland the Best author, Peter Irvine.



Featuring images from acclaimed Scottish and international photographers accompanied by Pete s personal recommendations on where to sleep, eat and walk.



The ultimate journey around the magnificent Islands of Scotland.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 899050
ISBN: 9780008505288
Автор: Irvine Peter

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

Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station.



Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best railway stations. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories.



Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 973022
ISBN: 9780241979006
Автор: Jenkins Simon

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell s native Scotland in 1773, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell sJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Johnson offers a magisterial account of what was then a remote and rugged land, while Boswell throws further light on the friend and mentor whom he immortalized in his biography. Together, they make up a brilliant portrait of two very different and very remarkable men exploring a feudal world which was soon to pass away for ever.

Серия: Everyman`s Library Classics
Год: 2002
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 972783
ISBN: 9781857152531
Автор: Johnson Samuel, Boswell James

Tired of London, Tired of Life. One thing a day to do in London
As the late great Samuel Johnson opined, When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life



If you're not getting the most out of London, it is a sad truth that you have no one to blame but yourself. Author, Tom Jones started the Tired of London, Tired of Life blog in 2008, after he began to tire of London life. Doing the same thing day after day can get anyone down, but the city of London has an almost infinite number of things to see and do. The only problem is that it can be hard to find inspiration when we need it, as we only seem to stumble across things when we're not really looking. Tired of London, Tired of Life, is a month-by-month, fully illustrated guide to London, where you can choose from seasonally-appropriate things to do. It includes note sections so you can jot your own ideas as well, or your thoughts about the places you ve been to.

So grab your copy of Tired of London and your A to Z and step outside to a near unlimited selection of experiences and events stretched out before you in this truly remarkable city.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Virgin books
Артикул: 890319
ISBN: 9780753540329
Автор: Jones Tom

Mad Dogs and Englishmen. A year of things to see and do in England
A seasonal snapshot of things to do in England at any time of the year, come rain or come shine or rain.



'England is a country which requires more than a second look, an amazingly diverse place, offering almost-unlimited landscapes, culture and history, and a diversity of opportunities which is unrivalled anywhere else in the world.'



Tired of London, Tired of Life author Tom Jones, has come up with another gem. In Mad Dogs and Englishmen he presents us with a seasonal snapshot of things to do in England at any time of the year, come rain or come shine.



Using a mixture of unique seasonal events and interesting places to visit (all presented in attractive bite-sized entries), Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a browsable gift book aimed at those who are interested in getting to know their home country better as well as tourists seeking to make the most of their stay in England.



In more than 220 pages Tom Jones demonstrates the diversity of England as a country; presenting interesting, unusual and thought-provoking things to do which also enlighten the reader, and convey the message that England is a great place to live and explore all year round.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Virgin books
Артикул: 890324
ISBN: 9780753541746
Автор: Jones Tom

This is London
This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.



This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.



This is London as you've never seen it before.



Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2016

Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 2019
Год: 2016
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 903211
ISBN: 9781447276272
Автор: Judah Ben

Peterhof
Издание на английском языке.

Перелистывая страницы этого альбома, вы совершите путешествие по множеству памятных мест Петергофа, Стрельны, Ораниенбаума, побываете в их музеях и парках. Эта книга как овеществленная память, будет напоминать вам проведенные здесь дни и часы и одновременно снова приглашать в Петергоф, удивительное место, где словно спрессована вся история России прошедших трех столетий. Книга содержит краткие исторические сведения, познакомившись с которыми вы захотите расширить свои знания и найдете возможность вернуться.

К изданию прилагается подробная карта Петергофа с фотографиями и надписями на английском и русском языках. Размер карты в развернутом виде: 70 см х 48 см.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Золотой лев
Артикул: 540368
ISBN: 978-5-905985-32-4
Автор: Kalnitskaya Yelena

Travels with Herodotus
Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every encounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history, its thought, its people. And he reads Herodotus so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys - the first his assignment as a reporter, the second following Herodotus' expeditions.
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886798
ISBN: 9780141021140
Автор: Kapuscinski Ryszard

Architectural guide. Rome. Buildings and Projects
Древний Рим определил вектор развития европейской культуры и искусства на 2000 лет. В течение нескольких столетий этот город был истинной caput mundi столицей мира . Именно здесь берет начало западная традиция архитектуры. На сегодняшний день более 12 миллионов людей со всей планеты ежегодно приезжают в Вечный город, чтобы насладиться впечатляющими артефактами Римской империи и памятниками искусства и архитектуры времен итальянского Ренессанса и Барокко.

Этот путеводитель призывает читателей свернуть с проторенных маршрутов и открыть для себя скрытые архитектурные жемчужины Рима: менее известные, но экстраординарные здания, созданные во второй половине XX века. От культурных, образовательных, спортивных и многофункциональных центров до религиозных, жилых и инфраструктурных зданий в книге представлено 140 проектов, которые демонстрируют большое разнообразие современной архитектуры итальянской столицы. В специальной главе приведены концепции, находящиеся в стадии реализации или завершенные в недавнем прошлом, а также список тематических маршрутов, которых можно придерживаться, прогуливаясь по итальянской столице.

Язык издания: английский.

Серия: Art Architecture
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774824
ISBN: 9783869226606
Автор: Kavalirek Marina

Lost Japan. Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan
An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future.

Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his home.

But the book is not just a love letter. Haunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old, Kerr's book is part paean to that great country and culture, part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan's environmental and cultural destruction.

Winner of Japan's Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize, and now with a new preface.

Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 969409
ISBN: 9780141979748
Автор: Kerr Alex

Another Kyoto
Another Kyoto is an insider's meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan's most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on lore gleaned from artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Alex Kerr illuminates the simplest things - a temple gate, a wall, a sliding door - in a new way.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 931436
ISBN: 9780141988337
Автор: Kerr Alex, Sokol Kathy Arlyn

Shadow City. A Woman Walks Kabul
One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...



When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living.



Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, film-makers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3, 000-year-old city. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country, Khan watches the cycle of transformation begin again.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891571
ISBN: 9781784708023
Автор: Khan Taran N

London. Immigrant City
Is there a street in London which does not contain a story from the Empire? Immigrants made London; and they keep remaking it in a thousand different ways. Nazneen Khan-Ostrem has drawn a wonderful new map of a city that everyone thought they already knew.



She travels around the city, meeting the very people who have created a truly unique metropolis, and shows how London's incredible development is directly attributable to the many different groups of immigrants who arrived after the Second World War, in part due to the Nationality Act of 1948. Her book reveals the historical, cultural and political changes within those communities which have fundamentally transformed the city, and which have rarely been considered alongside each other.



Nazneen Khan-Ostrem has a cosmopolitan background herself, being a British, Muslim, Asian woman, born in Nairobi and raised in the UK and Norway, which has helped her in unravelling the city's rich immigrant history and its constant ongoing evolution.



Drawing on London's rich literature and its musical heritage, she has created an intricate portrait of a strikingly multi-faceted metropolis. Based on extensive research, particularly into aspects not generally covered in the wide array of existing books on the city, London manages to capture the city's enticing complexity and its ruthless vitality.



This celebration of London's diverse immigrant communities is timely in the light of the societal fault lines exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit. It is a sensitive and insightful book that has a great deal to say to Londoners as well as to Britain as a whole.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Robinson
Артикул: 976781
ISBN: 9781472145710
Автор: Khan-Ostrem Nazneen

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

Travels in West Africa. Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons
A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.



Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However, on the death of her parents, she undertook an extraordinary decision: with no prior knowledge of the region, she set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological interests and collect botanical specimens. Her subsequent book, published in 1897, is a testament to understatement and humour - few explorers made less of the hardships and dangers experienced while travelling (including unaccompanied treks through dangerous jungles and encounters with deadly animals). Travels in West Africa would challenge (as well as reinforce) contemporary Victorian prejudices about Africa, and also made invaluable contributions to the fields of botany and anthropology. Above all, however, it has stood the test of time as a gripping, classic travel narrative by a woman whose sense of adventure and fascination with Africa transformed her whole life.



This Penguin edition includes a fascinating introduction by Dr Toby Green examining Victorian attitudes to Africa, along with explanatory notes by Lynnette Turner.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888009
ISBN: 9780141439426
Автор: Kingsley Mary

Travel. Easy tips for the eco-friendly traveller
Explore the world and satisfy your wanderlust in the most eco-friendly way.



How can we lessen our impact on the world without giving up the things we love? This series of easy-to-follow guides show that positive change is possible without radical changes to your everyday life.



Sustainable tourism doesn't have to mean vowing to never take another flight or spending holidays camping in your back garden. This short expert guide from eco-travel journalist Juliet Kinsman, takes you through every step of planning your trip, from booking to boarding, and arms you with everything you need to know for a lower-impact getaway.



Whether it's explaining how to know which plane to take (yes, some are greener than others) or how to avoid the mini toiletries trap; this book shows that you can save the planet and still live life to the full.

Серия: The Green Edit
Год: 2020
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 890873
ISBN: 9781529107852
Автор: Kinsman Juliet

The Saint Petersburg Alphabet. The informal guidebook
Sofia Kolovskaya is an author, comic book writer and creator of the VK public page One day One sketch, with her own vision of St. Petersburg's sights and attractions. Following a successful exhibition in the cultural space Loft Project ETAGI, her works from The Saint Petersburg Alphabet series developed into this guidebook.

- Where in Saint Petersburg can polar lights be seen?

- Which places are a must-see for graphic novel and comic book lovers?

- How does a flea market work?

- Where can I taste the delicious Lemon Pie cocktail?

Unique Saint Petersburg, hand-drawn by Sofia Kolovskaya, is a heartwarming stroll through both strange and familiar places.

Серия: Неформальный путеводитель
Год: 2022
Производитель: Питер
Артикул: 824022
ISBN: 978-5-00116-650-4
Автор: Kolovskaya Sofia

Michel the Giant. An African in Greenland
The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle



Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tete-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession - he was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.



A book of rich and immersive travel writing, Michel the Giant invites the reader to journey alongside an audacious Kpomassie as he makes his way from the equator to the bitter cold of the artic and settles into life with the Inuit peoples, adapting to their foods and customs. Part memoir, part anthropological observation this captivating narrative teems with nuanced observations on community, belonging and the universality of human experience.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888940
ISBN: 9780241554531
Автор: Kpomassie Tete-Michel

Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.



In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence. Just four months later, Chris was found dead. An SOS note was taped to his makeshift home, an abandoned bus.



In piecing together the final travels of this extraordinary young man's life, Jon Krakauer writes about the heart of the wilderness, its terribly beauty and its relentless harshness. Into the Wild is a modern classic of travel writing, and a riveting exploration of what drives some of us to risk more than we can afford to lose.

Серия: Picador Classic
Год: 2018
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 902832
ISBN: 9781509877010
Автор: Krakauer Jon

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

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

D. H. Lawrence and Italy
In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.

Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina, Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization. And Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art, the record of "a dying man drinking from the founts of a civilization dedicated to life."

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2007
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 973144
ISBN: 9780141441559
Автор: Lawrence David Herbert

Sea and Sardinia
Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response to a new landscape and people and his uncanny ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his other travel writings the book is also a shrewd inquiry into the political and social values of an era which saw the rise of communism and fascism.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 1999
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887083
ISBN: 9780141180762
Автор: Lawrence David Herbert

I Can't Stay Long
'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'



When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. This enchanting collection of his 'first loves and obsessions' brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie; reflections on life, love and death, such as a moving report from the tragic Welsh village of Aberfan; and evocative travel writings on Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies, amongst others, before they were transformed by mass tourism. Together they capture a world that is lost forever.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 969277
ISBN: 9780241237175
Автор: Lee Laurie

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

London Pop-Up
A selection of London's most iconic monuments, landmarks, and architectural wonders unfold in seven pop-ups contained in a charming pint-sized package making it an easy impulse purchase. Easy to tuck in a bag or a pocket, this book is truly the perfect souvenir or gift for tourists as well as anyone who wants to share their love of London.

Each spread delivers an iconic building or monument accompanied by a two page spread of text provifing the historical background and cultural significance of the structure depicted by the pop-up. The package is designed with a retro feel featuring vintage style street maps as backgrounds for the pop-ups and other graphic elements that make this an elegant, charming gift or souvenir.

Represented as pop-ups are a range of traditional and contemporary London iconic sites known the world over and which nearly every visitor to the British capital wants to experience: Buckingham Palace, Westminster, the London Eye, Tate Modern, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Shard, and the Tower Bridge.

Artist Dominique Ehrhard has conceived a one of a kind work that will delight all ages.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Rizzoli
Артикул: 795388
ISBN: 9780789336873
Автор: Lemasson Anne-Florence

Tourists. How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vagabondizing, to hasten to the Continent '



In 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars and the European continent opened up once again to British tourists. The nineteenth century was to be an age driven by steam technology, mass-industrialisation and movement, and, in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middle-classes flocked to Europe to see the sights.



In Tourists, the voices of these travellers puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed are brought vividly to life. From the discomfort of the stagecoach to the 'self-contained pleasure palace' of the beach resort, Lucy Lethbridge brilliantly examines two centuries of tourists' experience. Among a range of disparate characters, we meet the commercial titans of Victorian tourism, Albert Smith, Henry Gaze and Thomas Cook, as well as their successor, Vladimir Raitz, the creator of the modern beach holiday.



The growth of popular tourism introduced new markets in guidebooks, souvenirs, cuisine and health cures. It smoothed over class differences but also exacerbated them. It destroyed traditional cultures while at the same time preserving them.



From portable cameras to postcards and suntans, Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for home.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 983932
ISBN: 9781408856291
Автор: Lethbridge Lucy

Tristes Tropiques
Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2011
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887485
ISBN: 9780141197548
Автор: Levi-Strauss Claude

The Ladybird Book of London
"The Ladybird Book of London" is a gem from the Ladybird vintage archive. First published in 1961, this is a classic Ladybird hardback book, packed with information about Britain's capital. This new edition is exactly the same as the original, with a dust jacket and beautifully reproduced images.

The story of London, her sights and history, is illustrated with twenty-four beautiful full-page pictures. Starting from Trafalgar Square this book takes you through famous streets to see historic buildings, to learn something of the story of Britain's famous capital.

Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, the Tower, Guildhall and the City, Hampton Court and Kew Gardens, the Zoo and Madame Tussaud's - they are all here.

Серия: Ladybird Histories
Год: 2014
Производитель: Ladybird
Артикул: 467124
ISBN: 978-1-4093-1183-6
Автор: Lewesdon John

Nightwalking. Four Journeys into Britain After Dark
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the other way, tipped my cap, said hello. The animals do not expect us humans to be abroad in the dark, which is their time, when the world still belongs to them.



That was in winter. The screaming of a tawny owl echoed off the bare trees. For all of our street-lamp civilization, you can still hear the call of the wild. If, if, you go out after the decline of the day...



As the human world settles down each evening, nocturnal animals prepare to take back the countryside. Taking readers on four walks through the four seasons, acclaimed nature writer and farmer John Lewis-Stempel reveals a world bursting with life and normally hidden from view. Out beyond the cities, it is still possible to see the night sky full of stars, or witness a moonbow, an arch of white light in the heavens.



It is time for us to leave our lairs and go tramping. To join our fellow creatures of the night.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Doubleday
Артикул: 890463
ISBN: 9780857529114
Автор: Lewis-Stempel John

A Curious Guide to London
From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson's spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, A Curious Guide to London takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining tour of the city you think you know, unearthing the capital's secrets and commemorating its rich, colourful and unusual history.



Brimming with tales of London's forgotten past, its strangest traditions and its most eccentric inhabitants, this book celebrates the unique, the unusual and the unknown.



Perfect for tourists, day-trippers, commuters and the millions of people who call London home, this alternative guidebook will make you look at the city in a whole new light.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Bantam Press
Артикул: 890047
ISBN: 9780593073230
Автор: Leyland Simon

Путеводитель "Санкт- Петербург" на английском языке
Издание на английском языке.

Санкт-Петербург - один из крупнейших в мире мегаполисов с развитой наукой, промышленностью и другими присущими большим городам атрибутами. И одновременно это гигантская художественная сокровищница, где сосредоточены сотни уникальных памятников архитектуры и монументальной скульптуры. Помочь читателю удовлетворить любопытство и не упустить самого интересного - задача данного путеводителя.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Яркий Город
Артикул: 495212
ISBN: 5-9663-0028-3, 5-9663-0028-X, 5-9663-0028-Х
Автор: Lobanova T

Porto. Gateway to the World
One of the oldest cities in Europe, Porto is recognised the world over for its wonderful Port wine. Rising from the steep banks of the Douro (the river of gold) with picturesque pracas, churches and houses with colourfully tiled facades. Its ancient name Portucale forms the origin of the country Portugal. Today, Porto is a vibrant commercial and cultural centre that is proud of its historic links to the outside world.



An essential read from one of the world's foremost writers on Portugal, Porto: Gateway to the World uses the beautiful buildings and landmarks across the city to take the reader on a journey through its rich history, from its origins right up to the modern era.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 922019
ISBN: 9781448217922
Автор: Lochery Neill

Arctic Dreams
The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.



Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse animals and people. The stage to massive migrations by land, sea and air. The setting of epic exploratory voyages.



In crystalline prose, Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic: the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition for centuries.

Серия: Vintage Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885992
ISBN: 9780099583455
Автор: Lopez Barry

Horizon
From the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life.



Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's most remote regions - Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging and personal work. Spanning decades of travel, Horizon describes journeys to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galapagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.



Lopez also probes the history of humanity's quests and explorations, from prehistoric expeditions to today's ecotourism. He takes us to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, via friendships with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local residents, in a book that makes us see the world differently. It is the crowning achievement of one of the world's best travel writers.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 890943
ISBN: 9781529111248
Автор: Lopez Barry

At the Edge. Riding for My Life
The adrenalin-fuelled story of the stunt cyclist whose jaw-dropping adventures have racked up 200 million YouTube views



Danny MacAskill lives on the edge.



The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, Imaginate and Wee Day Out: nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale everything from mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills and millions of online hits.



It hasn't been an easy ride. Doubt, stress and the 'what if?' factor circle every trailblazing trick, which require imagination, fearlessness, groundbreaking techniques and an eye for a good camera angle. He has spent his life pushing the extremes; somehow, he's still around to tell the tale.



In this unflinching memoir of mayhem, Danny shares his anarchic childhood on the Isle of Skye and early days as a street trials rider, takes us behind the scenes of his training and videos, and reveals what it takes to go the next level - both mentally and physically.



Join Danny for a nerve-shredding ride. Just be sure to bring a crash helmet.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889255
ISBN: 9780241973264
Автор: MacAskill Danny

To Hell on a Bike. Riding Paris-Roubaix: The Toughest Race in Cycling
Paris-Roubaix. The Hell of the North. The ultimate monument in cycling's Classics. More than 150 miles across dusty or muddy roads, much of it puncture-inducing and bone-breaking cobblestones. Even professional riders blanche at the very mention of it. Tour de France winners (with the notable exception of Wiggins in 2014) make their excuses from it. So why on earth would an amateur even dare to attempt it?



In To Hell on a Bike, Iain MacGregor does just that and as he prepares for the ride of his life, he explores the history and culture of this extraordinary race. With insights from legends of the sport, trainers, mechanics and fellow writers, as well as those who have maintained the traditions of Paris-Roubaix since its inception over a century ago, it is the ultimate story of the ultimate cycling challenge.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889653
ISBN: 9780552171311
Автор: MacGregor Iain

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

Landmarks
Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather.



Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889188
ISBN: 9780241967874
Автор: Macfarlane Robert

The Old Ways. A Journey on Foot
Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886862
ISBN: 9780141030586
Автор: Macfarlane Robert

Pies and Prejudice. In search of the North
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.



The bestselling Pies and Prejudice is a hugely enjoyable journey around the north of England.
Год: 2008
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 884500
ISBN: 9780091910235
Автор: Maconie Stuart

Long Road from Jarrow. A journey through Britain then and now
Three and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and drill halls. Now we are nation of vaping and nail salons, pulled pork and salted caramel.



In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade.



Travelling down the country s spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the 30s with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks and of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable.



Maconie visits the great cities as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes and roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell and whose voices build a funny, complex and entertaining tale of Britain, then and now.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 891969
ISBN: 9781785030543
Автор: Maconie Stuart

The Pie at Night. In Search of the North at Play
Join Stuart Maconie as he clock off in the north of England



Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town and have a good time. After all, working and playing hard is its specialty, and Stuart Maconie is in search of what, exactly, this entails what it tells us about the North today.



Following tip offs and rumour, Stuart takes trip to forgotten corners and locals' haunts. From the tapas bars of Halifax to the caravan parks of Berwick Upon Tweed, from a Westhoughton bowling green to Manchester's curry mile, via dog tracks and art galleries, dance floors and high fells, Stuart compares the new and old North, with some surprising results.



The Pie at Night could be seen as a companion to the bestselling Pies and Prejudice, but it is not a sequel. After all, this is a new decade and the North is changing faster than ever. This is a revealing and digressive journey and a State of the North address, delivered from barstool, terrace, dress circle and hillside.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 884532
ISBN: 9780091933821
Автор: Maconie Stuart

The Full English. A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
What kind of country is England today?



What does it mean to be English?



Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties?



Join Stuart Maconie on an enlightening, entertaining journey through England, from Bristol's Banksy to Durham's beaches, from Cotswolds corduroy to Stoke's oatcakes.



As his guide, Maconie walks in the footsteps of J.B. Priestley's classic travelogue, English Journey, to explore our national identity and how it has evolved over the last century. On his way, Stuart takes inspiration from the people he meets at bus stops and train stations, cafes and corner shops.



Travelling the length of the land, Maconie explores the differences between city and town, north and south, and examines our past and present with affection and insight. Whether he s passing the boutique hotels of Manchester, the moors of Ilkley or the grand houses of Tynemouth, looking out over misty fens or urban skylines, he shines a light on the people who make these places and asks what the future holds for them. Along the way, he uncovers local heroes and secret histories over early breakfasts and last orders.



Through his journey, he lets us see our homes and habits, hopes and eccentricities with fresh eyes. The Full English challenges us to embrace the messy, shifting and diverse nature of England, and to ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be.
Год: 2023
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 986407
ISBN: 9780008498269
Автор: Maconie Stuart

In America. Travels with John Steinbeck
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.



Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck's home. Mile after mile, as he retraces Steinbeck's footsteps through the potato fields of Maine to the endless prairies of the Midwest and stumbles across glistening suburbs and boarded-up stores, Mak searches for the roots of America and what remains of the world Steinbeck describes. How has America changed in the last fifty years; what remains of the American dream; and what do Europe and America now have in common?
Год: 2015
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885938
ISBN: 9780099578734
Автор: Mak Geert

Forbidden Places
Head off to explore the filming location of 12 Monkeys, Michael Jackson's hometown turned ghost town, Berlin's 1936 Olympic Village, deconsecrated churches, forgotten castles, deserted train stations, prisons and mental asylums, a cemetery of rusted locomotives, abandoned steel factories, phantom metro stations, and more.

For 10 years, Sylvain Margaine has traveled the world in search of these forbidden and forgotten places. An exceptional photographic report.

Серия: Michelin Must See Guides
Год: 2012
Производитель: ABBYY
Артикул: 368768
ISBN: 9782915807820
Автор: Margaine Sylvain, Margaine David

Roadside America
The native genius of America's mid-era automobile culture

Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America's built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to quasipsychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades and drove more than 100, 000 miles documenting these fascinating and endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana.

This book brings together approximately 400 color photographs of Main Street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses, dinosaurs, giant figures and animals, and fantasy coastal resorts. In an age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American consumerism, stripping away idiosyncracy in favor of a bland homogeneity, Margolies's elegiac 30-year survey reminds us of a more innocent unpredictable and colorful past.

About the photographer:

John Margolies is an author, photographer, and lecturer on American architecture and design. For 30 years he has explored America's highways in search of unique architecture. Author of a dozen books, his photographs and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Domus and Architectural Record.

About the editor:

Cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America, and author of numerous books on architecture, pop culture, and the history of the West Coast, Los Angeles, and Hollywood. His unrivaled private collection of ephemera has been featured in museum exhibitions around the world and dozens of books.

About the author:

Phil Patton writes about car design for The New York Times and is a contributing editor to ID magazine. He was a consultant for Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design at the Phoenix Art Museum, and Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

About the contributing author:

C. Ford Peatross is director of the Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. He is the author of Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive (2008).

Литература на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2003
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 235823
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1173-5
Автор: Margolies John

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

Waypoints. A Journey on Foot
A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.



'An extraordinary, dreamlike journey through West Africa' Adharanand Finn



At the age of twenty-seven and afraid of falling into a life he doesn't want, Robert Martineau quits his office job, buys a flight to Accra and begins to walk. He walks 1, 000 miles through Ghana, Togo and Benin, to Ouidah, an ancient spiritual centre on the West African coast.



As he travels alone across rainforest, savannah and mountains, Martineau meets shamans, priests, historians, archaeologists and kings. Through the process of walking each day, and the lessons of those he encounters, Martineau starts to build connections with the natural world and the past - and, at last, to find the meaning he craves.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891614
ISBN: 9781784709921
Автор: Martineau Robert

Architectural Guide. Norway. Buildings and Projects from 2000 to 2020
The Architectural Guide Norway showcases 150 architectural objects realized in Norway in the period from 2000 to 2020. The geography of the buildings covers both the largest and most visited cities of the country Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and objects of the so-called Norwegian Scenic Routes, one of the most important infrastructure project to promote the breathtaking nature and its architecture.

Anna Martovitskaya s selection of projects demonstrates a wide range of artistic techniques, typologies and scales, but these are not only united by the country of origin, but also by their diversity. A much more important factor of unity is the approach of Norwegian architects to the challenges they face. No matter whether it is an everyday task (e.g. a pedestrian bridge, a viewing platform or a pavilion), a large office complex or a large urban development project, the focus is always on people and their relationship to nature.

While today many voices loudly promote the need to conserve resources, Norway consistently implements the principle of environmental protection, not only through the use of innovative technologies, but also by making the buildings themselves and the developed areas the epitome of human rationality and environmental friendliness.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774823
ISBN: 9783869220086
Автор: Martovitskaya Anna

Walk the Lines. The London Underground, Overground
An obsessive walks the entire London Underground system overground



The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way.



In a story packed with historical trivia, personal musings and eavesdropped conversations, Mark learns how to get the best gossip in the City, where to find a pint at 7am, and why the Bank of England won't let you join the M11 northbound at Junction 5. He has an East End cup of tea with the Krays' official biographer, discovers what cabbies mean by 'on the cotton', and meets the Archers star who was the voice of 'Mind the Gap'.



Over the course of several hundred miles, Mark contemplates London's contradictions as well as its charms. He gains insights into our fascination with maps and sees how walking changes our view of the world. Above all, in this love letter to a complicated friend, he celebrates the sights, sounds and soul of the greatest city on earth.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885764
ISBN: 9780099557937
Автор: Mason Mark

Riverman. An American Odyssey
Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank towns.



On his forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to spend the next twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the other. 'I can, and I will!' he said. And then, in 2014, he disappeared.



Not long before Conant's upturned canoe was found in a brackish North Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant by chance as he paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath set out to find the people whose lives, like his own, had been touched by their encounter with the great river wanderer. Along the way he meets eccentrics and ne'er-do-wells drawn straight from the pages of Mark Twain, a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting.



Riverman is the story of a restless soul who was as troubled as he was charismatic, a contemporary folk hero who slips the moorings of ordinary civilised life to tap into what Thoreau called 'a yearning toward all wildness.' It is also a riveting portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long forgotten waterways.
Год: 2022
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 897659
ISBN: 9780008221126
Автор: McGrath Ben

The Hotel Book. 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

shrine to 60s-70s kitch: a California inn where Liberace would have felt right at home

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 o rustic ski resort in Sundance

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

a gorgeous lodge in Hawaii

sleek, minimalist "boutique hotel" in New Orleans's French Quarter

regal Italianate villa in rural Massachusetts

deluxe wigwams in Arizona's Navajo County

lakefront sanctuary in New York's Adirondack Mountains o 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.

Издание на английском, немецком и французском языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 207056
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4057-2
Автор: McLane Daisann

Inside Qatar. Hidden Stories from the World's Richest Nation
Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts.



Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded princes, manual labourers and domestic workers, its teachers and policemen, culture vultures and thrill seekers.



This is the real Qatar in all its extremes - crushingly unequal and not just a little outrageous, but also diverse, riotous, pulsing with innovation and life.
Год: 2024
Производитель: Icon Books
Артикул: 954289
ISBN: 9781785788215
Автор: McManus John

Neither Nowt Nor Summat
A glorious ramble around Yorkshire from one of our best loved poets



I'm going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I'm going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don't want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn't. I'm going to confirm or deny the cliches, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t' before every word they use...



If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He's regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, and southerners comment archly on his 'fruity Yorkshire brogue'. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, making him, as he puts it, only 'half tyke'. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough?



To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber and four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain's most distinct county and its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire and, of course, who knocks up the knocker up?
Год: 2016
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 884590
ISBN: 9780091959968
Автор: McMillan Ian

Moon. Architectural Guide
Architecture on the moon is no longer a naive fantasy dreamt up by space-flight pioneers. In fact, various building typologies for lunar architecture have emerged in recent years. Their prototypes are being tested in hostile regions on Earth and are waiting to be deployed on the moon.

This book's publication marks the 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. It examines all artefacts that we have sent to the moon, from bizarre technologies to habitation modules for astronauts. This architectural guide thus offers a full retrospective of the history of lunar missions, from the space race during the Cold War through to the missions being prepared by China, India, and Israel in the present day. All of these are considered under the rubric of architecture. At the same time, efforts to commercialise space travel have come to the fore in recent years. New players have entered the stage, competing to utilise the moon's vast and untouched resources.

This book also presents essays by and interviews with space experts, including a discussion with Galina Balashova, renowned architect of the Soviet space programme, and a piece by Alexander Glushko, son of Valentin Glushko, legendary head engineer of the Soviet space programme. Brian Harvey, Gurbir Singh, and Olga Bannova provide an insight into current and future developments in lunar architecture, writing on China, India, and the US, respectively.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 823959
ISBN: 9783869226705
Автор: Meuser Paul

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

Architectural guide. Tokyo
Уходящая корнями в традиции древнего зодчества, а сегодня ультрасовременная и высокотехнологичная архитектура японской столицы очаровывает путешественников и исследователей со всего мира. Новый путеводитель по Токио - незаменимый компаньон для тех, кто стремится исследовать один из крупнейших и наиболее сложных городов в мире, столицу летних Олимпийских игр 2020 года. Почти 300 знаковых зданий Токио, построенных после 1945 года, представлены в книге информативными текстами и богато проиллюстрированы. Планы и указатели дополняют этот путеводитель, а удобные карты позволяют легко найти здания, несмотря на головокружительные темпы трансформации города. От сверкающего неоновыми огнями перекрестка в районе Сибуя до оригинальных сооружений из деревянных балок: этот путеводитель по Токио демонстрирует все богатство его необычайной архитектуры.

Язык издания: английский.

Серия: Art Architecture
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774852
ISBN: 9783869224855
Автор: Meyer Ulf

Architectural guide. Helsinki
Хельсинки является особым архитектурным центром между Востоком и Западом. Влияние соседнего Санкт-Петербурга столь же ощутимо, как и влияние европейского неоклассицизма начала девятнадцатого века. Хельсинки магнит для ценителей скандинавского дизайна и финской архитектуры, известных во всем мире. Этот путеводитель (второе расширенное издание) представляет важнейшие примеры современной архитектуры Хельсинки с 1917 года и до наших дней.

Язык издания: английский.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 774847
ISBN: 9783869224831
Автор: Meyer Ulf

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

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

Where My Feet Fall. Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories
Where can a walk take you?

It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking.



In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. I ve always hated walking, Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. It isn t a walking city, Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Island, Will Self hopes to avoid landmines. In a forest north of Berlin, Jessica J. Lee gets soaked, then lost. And pacing around Delhi, Keshava Guha is interrupted by a husky. During the pandemic of 2020, he writes, looking back. He was the only thing I hugged.



These are stories to dip into, from all walks of life. Together they capture the magic and opportunity that can arrive when you put one foot in front of the other.



This collection features Tim Parks, Kamila Shamsie, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Irenosen Okojie, Ingrid Persaud, AL Kennedy, Cynan Jones, Sally Bayley, Joanna Kavenna, Kathleen Rooney, Richard Ford, Harland Miller, Keshava Guha, Agnes Poirier, Josephine Rowe, Sinead Gleeson, Pico Iyer, Patrick Gale and Jessica J. Lee.
Год: 2022
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 898649
ISBN: 9780008414115
Автор: Minshull Duncan

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold. Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail
Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9, 000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.



Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.



Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse - at a time of ratcheting East-West tension.



After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Yellow Jersey Press
Артикул: 931433
ISBN: 9780224100212
Автор: Moore Tim

You Are Awful (But I Like You). Travels Through Unloved Britain
A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain



Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry?



Could you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell?



Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil?



In You are Awful, Tim Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to - our most miserable towns, shonkiest hotels, scariest pubs, and silliest sea zoos...



But as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds he finds himself oddly smitten, and the result is a rousing, nostalgic celebration of mad, bad But I Like You Britain.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885650
ISBN: 9780099546931
Автор: Moore Tim

Vuelta Skelter. Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain
Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours.



Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4, 409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic.



What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads, of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 931446
ISBN: 9781529113792
Автор: Moore Tim

Spanish Steps
Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.



Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela.



Over 500 miles of extreme weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch.
Год: 2005
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885006
ISBN: 9780099471943
Автор: Moore Tim

French Revolutions. Cycling the Tour de France
Self-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the Tour de France. All 3, 630km of it.



A few weeks before the actual Tour de France, British writer Tim Moore sets out to cycle the course and offers a laugh-out-loud funny and highly entertaining account of how the great ride would feel when embarked on by an amateur. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and being chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Yellow Jersey Press
Артикул: 931427
ISBN: 9780224092111
Автор: Moore Tim

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain. A Handbook for Visitors to the Years 1660-1700
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.



If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London; bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II - the civil wars are over and a magnificent new era has begun.



But what would it really be like to live in Restoration Britain? Where would you stay and what would you eat? How much should you pay for one of those elaborate wigs? Should you trust a physician who advises you to drink fresh cow's urine to cure your gout? Why are boys made to smoke in school? And why are you unlikely to get a fair trial in court?



The third volume in the series of Ian Mortimer's bestselling Time Traveller's Guides answers these crucial questions and encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life. This unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world.

Серия: Ian Mortimer s Time Traveller s Guides
Год: 2018
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 829575
ISBN: 9780099593393
Автор: Mortimer Ian