Туризм. Путешествия. Путеводители (страница 5)

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

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

Secret Lisbon
Why is the Portuguese coat of arms set at an angle of 17 on the facade of Rossio station? Where in Portugal was The Magic Flute played for the first time and why did Mozart dedicate it to his master Cagliostro? What is the theory concerning the fifth dynasty of Portugal, traces of which are found in the street layout? Where can you find the most beautiful azulejos secreted around the city? Why and how did Lusitania become Portugal (Porto Graal), the place harbouring the legendary Holy Grail? Where can you find the Lisboan serial killer's head preserved in formalin? Why was the south doorway of the Jeronimos Monastery designed according to Hebrew Kabbalistic principles? What symbols are concealed within the Saint Vincent polytych at the Museum of Antique Arts? Who in fact are the Sebastianists, messianic in the style of Shiite Muslims, awaiting the return of the lost King Sebastian?

Since the Middle Ages Lisbon has been a favourite site for the development and application of the theories of alchemist kings, masonic ministers, occult poets, followers of hermeticism and the secret knowledge of the Knights Templar, who found refuge in Portugal after they were banned from the rest of Europe in the 14th century.

Vitor Manuel Adriao, acclaimed historian and philosopher, is heir to all this esoteric knowledge in Portugal. Here for the first time he reveals his incredible knowledge in this truly initiatory guide, with a mind-boggling interpretation of the arcana of a city which some consider is on the way to becoming the spiritual capital of Europe.

An exceptional guide.

Серия: Local Guides By Local People
Год: 2011
Производитель: Jonglez
Артикул: 368780
ISBN: 9782915807684
Автор: Adriao Manuela Vitor

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

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

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

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

Secret Paris
A priest who blesses animals, wine producing firement, a tree in a church, an inverted phallus at a famous entrance, an atomic bomb shelter under the Gare de l'Est, a real Breton lighthouse near Montparnasse, unsuspected traces of former brothels, a patron saint of motorists, royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard, the presentation of Christ's crown of thorns, a prehistoric merry-go-round, a sundial designed by Dali, war-wounded palm trees, bullet holes at the ministry, biblical plants in a priest's garden, a mysterious monument to freemasonry at the Champs-de-Mars, a solid gold sphere in parliament, a Chinese temple in a parking lot, the effect of the Bievre river on Parisian geography, a blockhouse in the Bois de Boulogne...

For those who thought they know Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible.

Серия: Local Guides By Local People
Год: 2010
Производитель: Jonglez
Артикул: 368782
ISBN: 9782915807172
Автор: Garance Jacques, Ratton Maud

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seville and Andalucia
Whether you want to tour the magical Moorish palace of Alhambra, learn the art of tapas bar hopping in Granada or spot wildlife at Parque Nacional de Donana, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Seville and Andalucia have to offer.



With undulating hills awash with olive trees, rugged mountain ranges and endless stretches of coastline, this beautiful country offers plenty of opportunity for adventure. Meanwhile, Seville's orange-scented plazas, filled with the bewitching sound of Spanish guitar, are the perfect place to slow down and savour a glass of sherry.



Our updated guide brings Seville and Andalucia to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations, which place you inside the region's iconic buildings and neighborhoods. Our updated 2022 travel guide brings Seville and Andalucia to life. DK Eyewitness Seville and Andalucia is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986721
ISBN: 9780241559345

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

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



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



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

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

Short Walks from Bogota. Journeys in the new Colombia
For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? And how is it rebuilding itself after decades of violence?

Writer and journalist Tom Feiling has journeyed throughout Colombia, down roads that were until recently too dangerous to travel, talking to people from former guerrilla fighters to nomadic tribesmen and millionaires. Vital, shocking, wry and never simplistic, Short Walks from Bogota unpicks the tangled fabric of Colombia to create a stunning work of reportage, history and travel writing.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889130
ISBN: 9780241959909
Автор: Feiling Tom

Short Walks in Beautiful Places. 100 Great British Routes
With information on transport links, facilities, local attractions and fun stuff for the kids, along with maps of each route, this is the perfect guide for exploring Britain's countryside and discovering your new favourite walk.



The National Trust cares for some of the most spectacular countryside in Britain. This guide features 100 walks from across the country, from the ancient majesty of Avebury's stone circle and the wonder of Giant's Causeway to the dramatic peaks towering about Lake windermere.



The walks are organised by region, making it easy to explore historical sites, spot wildlife and stunning views wherever you are. The routes are graded according to ease, from two to eight miles in length, to include family-friendly rambles across parkland, adventurous hikes and everything in between.



With information on transport links, facilities, local attractions and fun stuff for the kids, along with maps of each route, this is the perfect guide for exploring Britain's countryside and discovering your new favourite walk.
Год: 2020
Производитель: National Trust Books
Артикул: 899927
ISBN: 9781911657101

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

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



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



INCLUDES:

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



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

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

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

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

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

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



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



INCLUDES:



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

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

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

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

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

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

Sicily
- Discover ancient colonies;

- Wind through the wine routes;

- Laze on sun-kissed beaches.

Серия: Зеленые гиды
Год: 2009
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230644
ISBN: 978-1-906261-41-2

Singapore
For people who want to see more:

- Sights and attractions rated by the Michelin star system;

- Walking and driving tours;

- 2 large Singapore maps and 7 detailed local maps;

- Address Book - places to eat, drink, stay and relax for every budget.

Stroll in the orchid gardens. Join the wild on Night Safari. Track the colonial past.

Серия: Зеленые гиды
Год: 2009
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230653
ISBN: 978-1-906261-53-5

Ski Hotel
Can it get much better than relaxing in a comfortable, modern hotel after a long day on the ski slopes? Whether you're a beginner learning on the bunny slope, an ex-Olympian re-living his glory days, or a non-skier who enjoys sipping rum toddies in the lodge, you'll find the perfect place for a winter get-away in this comprehensive, beautifully Illustrated book. Designed to suit every taste, Ski Hotels serves as an illustrated guide to the best resorts in Europe and North America. Includes an introduction and informative captions.

Haike Falkenberg graduated with degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Munster in Germany. She is currently employed by Loft Publication in Barcelona and has edited several books on architecture and interior design.
Год: 2003
Производитель: te Neues
Артикул: 246851
ISBN: 3-8238-4543-8

Skyfaringю A Journey With a Pilot
Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice. When you descended towards a city, and arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak.



In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying, on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers, armchair and otherwise, all too easily take for granted: the transcendent joy of motion, and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 886055
ISBN: 9780099589853
Автор: Vanhoenacker Mark

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



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



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

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



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



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



Campsites (seasonal opening)

Information Centres

Hotels/B&Bs

Youth Hostels

Public Houses

Shops

Restaurants

Cafes (seasonal opening)

Petrol Stations



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



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



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

South From Granada
Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the bestselling Driving Over Lemons, in Penguin Modern Classics.



Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and characters. Fascinating details emerge, from cheap brothels to archaeological remains, along with visits from Brenan's friends from the Bloomsbury group - Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf among them. Knowledgeable, elegant and sympathetic, this is a rich account of Spain's vanished past.



Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) was an English writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887333
ISBN: 9780141189321
Автор: Brenan Gerald

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



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



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



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



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

*Information Centres

*Visitor Centres

*Hotels/B&Bs

*Youth Hostels

*Campsites (seasonal opening)

*Public Houses

*Shops

*Restaurants

*Cafes (seasonal opening)

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

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



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



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

South. The Endurance Expedition
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton, the expedition's leader, decided on the only course that might just save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia.



South tells the story both of the whole astonishing expedition and of Shackleton's journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of navigation ever recorded.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 973674
ISBN: 9780241251096
Автор: Shackleton Ernest

Sovietistan. A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage



Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since then?



In the Kyrgyzstani villages Erika Fatland meets victims of the widely known tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets Chinese shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea and she witnesses the fall of a dictator. She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, German Menonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani plains 200 years ago. During her travels, she observes how ancient customs clash with gas production and she witnesses the underlying conflicts between ethnic Russians and the majority in a country that is slowly building its future in Nationalist colours.



In these countries, that used to be the furthest border of the Soviet Union, life follows another pace of time. Amidst the treasures of Samarkand and the bleakness of Soviet architecture, Erika Fatland moves with her openness towards the people and the landscapes around her. A rare and unforgettable travelogue.
Год: 2019
Производитель: MacLehose Press
Артикул: 977194
ISBN: 9780857057747
Автор: Fatland Erika

Spain
Discover the rich cultural and artistic heritage behind the sun, sea and sand traditionally associated with Spain. This captivating land of contrasts has something to offer everyone, whether skiing in the Pyrenees, museum-hopping in Madrid, sun-worshipping in the Canary Islands or dancing the flamenco in Andalusia.

Серия: Зеленые гиды
Год: 2007
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230658
ISBN: 978-1-906261-22-1

Spain
From the golden beaches on the Mediterranean coast to the wild peaks of the Pyrenees, Spain's varied landscape is a treasure trove for outdoor enthusiasts. But its cities are just as enticing. Discover architectural wonders, Roman ruins, captivating museums and, to top it all off, a tantalizing cuisine complemented by world-class wine.



Our updated guide brings Spain to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the country's iconic buildings and neighborhoods. Whether you want to explore Granada's spectacular Alhambra palace, watch swirling flamenco dancers in Seville or walk through the lush countryside on the epic Camino de Santiago, DK Eyewitness Spain is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986723
ISBN: 9780241559369

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

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

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

St Petersburg
The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this fascinating and cultural city.

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this fascinating and cultural city.

Explore imperial palaces, visit unique museums and stunning churches or stroll across the city's bridges: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of St Petersburg with this indispensable travel guide.

Inside DK Eyewitness Travel Guide St Petersburg:

- Over 20 colour maps, plus a pull-out map of the city and transport map, help you navigate with ease

- Simple layout makes it easy to find the information you need

- Comprehensive tours and itineraries of St Petersburg, designed for every interest and budget

- Illustrations and floorplans show the inside of St Isaac's Cathedral, the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Winter Palace and more

- Colour photographs of St Petersburg's palaces, bazaars, ornate architecture, churches and many more

- Historical and cultural context gives you a richer travel experience: learn about Russia's political history, annual festivals, beliefs and traditions

- Detailed chapters, with area maps, cover Vasilevskiy Island, Petrogradskaya, Palace Embankment, Gostinyy Dvor, Sennaya Ploshchad and further afield

- Essential travel tips: our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop and sightsee, plus visa and health information, and a useful phrasebook

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide St Petersburg is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you get the most from your visit to Russia's cultural capital.

"No other guide whets your appetite quite like this one" - The Independent

Want to explore more of Russia? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Russia.

About DK Eyewitness Travel: DK's highly visual Eyewitness guides show you what others only tell you, with easy-to-read maps, tips, and tours to inform and enrich your holiday. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2018
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 793252
ISBN: 9780241310489

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

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

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

St. Petersburg. City plan of centre. 1:15000
Подробная карта центра С.-Петербурга на английском языке с аксонометрическими рисунками главных памятников архитектуры. Показаны объекты культуры, социальные доминанты; полностью отражена сеть улиц. Дополнительно: Панорама-рисунок исторического центра; сведения о музеях, театрах, памятниках архитектуры и др.; перечень названий улиц, схема метро.

Формат: 90х170 мм.

Формат разворота: 900х680 мм.

Масштаб: 1:15 000

Серия: Карта складная
Год: 2013
Производитель: КАРТА ЛТД
Артикул: 402315
ISBN: 978-5-7678-0027-8

Steeple Chasing. Around Britain by Church
Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles.



Award-winning writer Peter Ross sets out to tell their stories, and through them a story of Britain. Join him as he visits the unassuming Norfolk church which contains a disturbing secret, and London's mighty cathedrals with their histories of fire and love. Meet cats and bats, monks and druids, angels of oak and steel.



Steeple Chasing, though it sometimes strikes an elegiac note, is a song of praise. It celebrates churches for their beauty and meaning, and for the tales they tell. It is about people as much as place, flesh and bone not just flint and stone. From the painted hells of Surrey to the holy wells of Wales, consider this a travel book . . . with bells on.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 977207
ISBN: 9781472281920
Автор: Ross Peter

Step By Step
The inspiring memoir from TV traveller Simon Reeve's life of amazing adventures in over 120 countries and the most remote and extreme corners of the planet.



In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestselling memoir he describes how he has journeyed across epic landscapes, dodged bullets on frontlines, walked through minefields and been detained for spying by the KGB. His travels have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world.



In this revelatory account of his life Simon gives the full story behind some of his favourite expeditions, and traces his own inspiring personal journey back to leaving school without qualifications, teetering on a bridge, and then overcoming his challenges by climbing to a 'Lost Valley' and changing his life ... step by step.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 956193
ISBN: 9781473689121
Автор: Reeve Simon

Sub-Saharan Africa. Architectural Guide (7 volumes)
Despite the growing interest in Africa, the continent s built environment is still largely unfamiliar in many parts of the world. The seven volumes of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide form the first comprehensive overview of architecture south of the Sahara that does justice to the region s wealth of buildings. In 49 chapters, each focusing on one country, richly illustrated texts by more than 350 authors from Africa and across the globe come together to produce a superlative work.

On the basis of 850 selected buildings and over 200 thematic articles, the continent s building culture is elucidated and contextualised. The diverse contributions paint a multifaceted picture of Africa s architecture in the twenty-first century, a discipline shaped by traditional and colonial roots as well as today s global interconnections and challenges. An introductory volume on the history and theory of African architecture provides essential background knowledge.

Серия: Art Architecture
Год: 2021
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 823989
ISBN: 9783869224008

Switzerland
- Master the Matterhorn at Zermatt;

- Take a steam cruise on Lake Geneva;

- Hike the Swiss Alps.

Серия: Зеленые гиды
Год: 2009
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230671
ISBN: 978-1-906261-43-6

TASCHEN's Berlin. Hotels, Restaurants & Shops
Angelika Taschen has produced an insider's guide to the best of Berlin, with recommended hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars. Now everyone can experience the German capital like a true Berliner. The tastiest cuisine, the hippest, most intriguing stores, and the sleekest accommodations-they're all listed here. A pocket-sized street map of Berlin helps you find all the hotels, restaurants, and shops described in the book.

Highlights include hip nightspot Green Door, where one rings the doorbell to gain entrance; the silent movie star lifestyle at the Pension Funk; the Hotel de Rome in a converted 19th century bank; how to reserve your cabin at the Eastern Comfort Hostelboat on the River Spree; oriental delight at Edd's, the best Thai restaurant in Berlin (perhaps Germany); Barcomi's, a New York-style deli with delicious cakes and coffees; The Corner Berlin, a designer concept store to rival Paris's Colette; experimental store Bless, "publicizing artistic values through products"; and the must-see luxury department store, Quartier 206.

About the editor and author:

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

About the photographer:

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

Литература на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2010
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 235817
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1120-9
Автор: Taschen Angelika

TASCHEN's Favourite Hotels
Flip through this book and take a trip through 72 of the world s most enchanting, welcoming, and unforgettable hotels. Some are sleek and minimal, others charmingly plush and traditionally luxurious; whether you prefer a secluded rural retreat or the pulsing centre of the urban experience, you ll find a room or suite to your taste. However, what all these establishments share is personality, atmosphere, sophistication and a great location.

Similarly, though their rooms range from modest to extravagant, all of them represent excellent value, no matter which end of the price scale, from two to five star hotels. The eclectic mix includes the romantic hotel Spielweg in Germany s Black Forest, where everyone should spend Christmas once in their life; the secret jewel Ksar Char-Bagh in Marrakech; the Al Mamlouka in the middle of Damascus, and the most exquisite Spa hotel in Jordan, the Evason Ma In Hot Springs. Other highlights are the Shigar Fort Residence, a 400-year-old palace saved and restored by the Aga Khan Foundation in Northern Pakistan; a sensitively restored 1930 s colonial guest house, the Boddhi Tree Del Gusto in Phnom Penh, for less than 40 dollars a night; or the outstanding Corbusier-style beach villas in Kep, Cambodia, called Knai Bang Chatt resort. To get away from it all, there s Richard Gere s Bedford Post in upstate New York, or the Golden Rock Estate on the Caribbean island of Nevis, owned by American artist Brice Marden. Finally, nobody who has stayed there will ever forget the stunning Remota, surrounded by the mountains, lakes and glaciers of Chilean Patagonia.

Серия: Архитектура и дизайн
Год: 2013
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 385683
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1970-0
Автор: Reiter Christiane

Taschen's London
Making The Most Of London

Still Swinging After All These Years

From Dickensian charm to modern cool, London has it all-and this guide will help you find it. With a selection of stylish hotels, from classic to designer; antique markets, vintage stores and the hippest boutiques; and all the best of the capital's restaurants, bars, tea rooms and pubs, Angelika Taschen's compact compendium is a must for the discerning traveller.

Highlights include Number Sixteen, a chic South Kensington hotel in a beautiful Victorian townhouse with romatic gardens; The Wolseley, a grand cafe and restaurant in a reconverted 1920s car showroom beautifully renovated by star designer David Collins; celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's restaurant and social project, Fifteen, where teenagers cook the meals; China Tang at The Dorchester, where stars go for delectable duck with plum sauce; historic London pub, The Grenadier, once frequented by the Duke of Wellington's troops; Dover Street Market, the multi-floor concept store founded in 2004 by Comme des Garcons; and Penhaligon's, purveyors of classic English fragrances since 1872.

About the editor:

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

About the photographer:

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

Texts by:

Christine Samuelian is a writer, editor, and media consultant based in London. She began her career as a news reporter in Toronto before moving to the UK in 1997, where she worked at Vogue, and Wallpaper* magazine. She has contributed to Conde Nast Traveller, US Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The Observer Magazine.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 218173
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1118-6
Автор: Samuelian Christine

Taschen's New York
Get the most out of New York

In New York, it's all about who you know. And now you're connected.

Angelika Taschen knows New York. She's been behind the velvet ropes, explored the secret, unmarked restaurants and beloved neighborhood delis, scoured Soho, Nolita and Tribeca's stylish stores, and scoped out hotels uptown and downtown, from sleek and chic to hidden charms. She provides an all-access pass to parts of New York even most locals don't know. Dictionary-style cutout tabs make it easy to flip through, and a pocket-sized map of Manhattan lists all the shops, hotels, and restaurants in the book. With this guide in hand, New York is yours for the taking.

Featuring the Maritime Hotel, a former sailors' dorm, now Chelsea's coolest hotel; Robert De Niro's Greenwich Hotel, with its authentic Japanese spa; the cheap but chic Pod Hotel. Learn how to get the best table at the Waverly Inn, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's exclusive salon for the glitterati; how to find Soho's hidden basement bar subMercer; the Shake Shack, for a terrific burger in the shade of Madison Square Park; Rao's, the Spanish Harlem Italian joint run by the Sopranos' actor who turned Madonna away; where to buy New York's best cheesecake; and Greenwich Letterpress, for hand-printed cards to send to envious friends who didn't make this fabulous New York trip!

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:

Poul Ober specializes in interiors, architecture, and travel, and has produced advertising and editorial photography for Williams-Sonoma, O At Home, House & Garden, and various architectural and interior design firms. He lives and works in New York. (www.poulober.com)

Texts by:

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

Издание на английском, французском и немецком языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 211493
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1116-2

Tbilisi. Architectural Guide
Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia, has attracted increasing international attention in recent years: Buildings play no small part in its reputation, as evidenced by the urban mega projects enacted by successive administrations, countless real estate adverts shilling surrealist investment properties, and the recent establishment of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial.



Architecture offers perhaps the best guide to the myriad contradictions of the city s history: Tbilisi is a Silk Road outpost with caravanserais newer than brownstone Brooklyn. The Orientalist landmarks that prompted many a traveller to invoke the Thousand and One Night were, in fact, usually built by members of a German minority emulating European trends. Today, touts may peddle tours of Brutalist Soviet ruins, but one would be hard-pressed to find clear examples of the style within city limits.



This book helps to unravel the different layers of this fascinating metropolis. It provides in-depth profiles of more than 120 buildings, themed guides to many others (sacred architecture, Art Nouveau, Constructivism), and essays contributed by local scholars.

Серия: Art Architecture
Год: 2023
Производитель: Dom Publishers
Артикул: 1009500
ISBN: 9783869226286
Автор: Wheeler Angela

Thailand
The long-standing Michelin Travel Guides are an ideal travel companion for travelers who really want to connect with the world. Get to know the local way of life through detailed background information on the country, people, and culture. Quickly identify the best places to visit using Michelin's star rating system. The best sites are highlighted on the sites map or you can follow a pre-planned driving tour.

Серия: Зеленые гиды
Год: 2007
Производитель: Michelin
Артикул: 230663
ISBN: 978-1-906261-02-3

Thailand`s Beaches and Islands
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand's Beaches and Islands is your ideal companion for exploring this diverse and fascinating part of the world. Thailand's glorious beaches stretch over 2, 000 miles of coastline, proving irresistible to lovers of beach-life and ocean sports.

Whether you're seeking a secluded getaway or the hottest party destinations, you'll find insider tips and reviews for best hotels, restaurants and bars, shopping and entertainment, beaches, markets, and festivals. Your options are listed area by area and include recommendations for all budgets.



DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand's Beaches and Islands also provides in-depth information on this region's breathtaking geographic diversity and rich cultural heritage. All of Thailand's extensive coastline is covered in this updated guide, from the Eastern Seaboard to Bangkok, the Upper and Lower Western Gulf coasts, the Deep South, and the Upper and Lower Andeman Coasts.



You won't miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Thailand' Beaches and Islands.

Серия: Eyewitness Travel
Год: 2016
Производитель: Dorling Kindersley
Артикул: 986642
ISBN: 9780241209691

The A-Z History of London
Beautifully presented, a perfect gift for history lovers.

For the last century A-Z maps have been the trusted and reliable source of mapping for Londoners. As the face of London has changed so have the maps. History of Britain in Maps author, Philip Parker, outlines these changes.



Drawing on maps and photographs from the A to Z archives, Philip Parker reveals how the city has changed over the last one hundred years.



Did you know that Phyllis Pearsall walked 23, 000 street in order to create the first street atlas of London? The land to build Heathrow airport on was bought for ?15, 000 from the Vicar of Harmondsworth? There used to be S and NE London postcodes?



London s skyline has gone from Big Ben and Tower Bridge to include the Tate Modern and The Shard. Several ill-fated projects appeared on maps, including London Millennium Tower and The Sparkplug, which never quite made it into the city s skyline



A beautifully presented book and perfect gift for any map lover and historian.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898299
ISBN: 9780008351762
Автор: Parker Philip

The Accidental Adventurer
The weird and wonderful true story of a national treasure in the making



Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and ice-skated across Sweden. He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a Boeing 747 to dump ?100k of fuel before making an emergency landing in Sao Paolo, and frequently been mistaken for Prince William along the way.



So how did a cripplingly shy, geeky, perennially homesick boy end up doing all this? Ben's still not entirely sure himself, but this wonderful book tells his story and will strike a chord with anyone puzzling about life, and how to live it differently.



This is a book about defying expectations, conquering fears, battling laziness and, just occasionally, winning.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889599
ISBN: 9780552165785
Автор: Fogle Ben

The Amur River. Between Russia and China
In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3, 000 miles.



Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms the tense border between Russia and China. This is the most densely fortified frontier on Earth.



Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, Thubron makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, a whole, pivotal world has come alive.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 969927
ISBN: 9781529110890
Автор: Thubron Colin

The Arctic. Modern Guidebook
The Arctic. Modern Guidebook contains detailed information on tourist opportunities in the Arctic Russia - the most interesting routes and objects. Detailed information about the climatic, geographic and ethnographic features of the region, transport infrastructure are provided. The guidebook is supplied with plans-schemes of large settlements in the Arctic regions of Russia, illustrated with photographs of popular attractions and infographics. The new travel guide from PressPass covers all regions of the Arctic Russia. The book presents natural and historical sights, routes, provides information about the history of the region, culture and traditions of the indigenous people of the North.

Серия: Современный путеводитель
Год: 2020
Производитель: PressPass
Артикул: 809828
ISBN: 978-5-6044362-0-2

The Atlas of Abandoned Places
The globe is littered with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past.



A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never-launched space shuttles slowly crumble, left to rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the world s lost wonders in this atlas like no other.



With remarkable stories, bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken sites, The Atlas of Abandoned Places travels the world beneath the surface; the sites with stories to tell, the ones you won t find in any guidebook.



Award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your guide on a long-lost path, shining a light on the places that the world forgot.



Locations featured in the book include:



Europe: Maunsell Forts, Aldwych Station, Paris Catacombs, La Petite Ceinture, Craco, Teufelsberg, Beelitz-Heilstatten, Red Star Train Graveyard, Pyramiden, Salpa Line, Buzludzha Monument, Pripyat, Wolf s Lair, Project Riese, Sarajevo Bobsleigh Track, Albanian Bunkers, Rummu Quarry



The Americas & the Carribean: New Bedford Orpheum Theatre, City Hall Station, Bodie, The Boneyards of Western USA, Bannerman Castle, Palace of Sans Souci, Montserrat Exclusion Zone, Ciudad Perdida, Humberstone and Santa Laura, Uyuni Train Cemetery, Fordlandia



The Middle East & the Caucasus: Kayakoy, Burj Al Babas, Varosha, Tskaltubo, Palaces of Saddam



Asia: Ryugyong Hotel, Buran at Baikonur, Mo ynoq Ship Graveyard, Aniva Lighthouse, Ho Thuy Tien Waterpark, Fukushima Red Zone, Hashima



Oceania: Wittenoom, Wrecks of Homebush Bay, Port Arthur, MS World Discoverer, Second World Remains of Papua New Guinea



Africa: Shipwrecks of the Skeleton Coast, Kolmanskop, Mobutu s Gbadolite, Mos Espa, Sao Martinho dos Tigres
Год: 2022
Производитель: Mitchell Beazley
Артикул: 977266
ISBN: 9781784726928
Автор: Smith Oliver

The Atlas of Unusual Borders
A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities.

This beautifully designed book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands.



Numerous conflicts have left countries divided and often shattered. Remnants of countries can by design or accident be left behind as a legal anomaly in this complex world.



Most people believe that a country s borders are clearly defined: just lines that separate countries. Everything on one side of the line belongs to one country and everything on the other side belongs to another country. This might be the case most of the time, but there are unusual exceptions to this unwritten rule.



Examples include:

Campione d Italia where Italian residents have to travel 15km through Switzerland to reach the nearest available Italian territory

Tomb of Suleyman Shah which is a tiny Turkish enclave within Syria which was moved closer to Turkey when Lake Assad was created but still stayed in Syria

Pheasant Island which for half a year belongs to the Spanish city of Irun, and the remaining half, to its French twin-town, Hendaye

Canadian Stanstead and American Beebe Plain where the boundary line runs along the centre of the main street, so that the houses on one side of the street are in Canada and on the other in the United States



These and many more instances are captured in this fascinating book full of strange geographical intrigue.



International Cartographic conference 2021 overall winner of the atlas category and shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Collins
Артикул: 898300
ISBN: 9780008351779
Автор: Nikolic Zoran

The Bells of Old Tokyo. Travels in Japanese Time
This mesmerising cultural history explores the neighbourhoods where [Tokyo's] bells once rang, and captures the essence of a place where time's innate elasticity seems to be woven into the place's very fabric. As our own locked-down days squeeze and elongate, Tokyo time feels strangely familiar.' - Daily Telegraph



For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the time. In her remarkable book, Anna Sherman tells of her search for the bells of Edo, exploring the city of Tokyo and its inhabitants and the individual and particular relationship of Japanese culture - and the Japanese language - to time, tradition, memory, impermanence and history.



Through Sherman's journeys around the city and her friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, The Bells of Old Tokyo presents a series of hauntingly memorable voices in the labyrinth that is the metropolis of the Japanese capital: An aristocrat plays in the sea of ashes left by the Allied firebombing of 1945. A scientist builds the most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in five billion years. A sculptor eats his father's ashes while the head of the house of Tokugawa reflects on the destruction of his grandfather's city ('A lost thing is lost. To chase it leads to darkness').



The result is a book that not only engages with the striking otherness of Japanese culture like no other, but that also marks the arrival of a dazzling new writer as she presents an absorbing and alluring meditation on life through an exploration of a great city and its people.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 902748
ISBN: 9781529000498
Автор: Sherman Anna

The Broken Road. From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III ' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.
Год: 2014
Производитель: John Murray
Артикул: 977313
ISBN: 9781848547544
Автор: Fermor Patrick Leigh

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



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



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

The Climb
In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit twenty-three men and women, including the expedition leaders, were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disorientated, out of oxygen and depleted of supplied, the climbers struggled to find their way to safety.



Experienced high-altitude guide Anatoli Boukreev led an exhausted and terrified group of climbers back to safety before going back out into the blizzard to help others stranded on the mountain. Rescuing a number of people from certain death, he emerged a hero.



The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev is an honest and gripping account of true endurance and contains interviews with most of the surviving climbers, medical personnel, Sherpa guides, and families of the dead who experienced the tragedy.



This edition also includes the transcript of the Mountain Madness debriefing, recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston de Walt's response to Jon Krakauer.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 902861
ISBN: 9781509867998
Автор: Boukreev Anatoli, DeWalt G. Weston

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



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

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

The Discovery of France
Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .



France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively recent and - historically speaking - quite misleading. In order to discover the 'real' past of France, Graham Robb realized it was not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows. The Discovery of France, illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, is the result of Robb's 14, 000 mile journey across France on a bicycle.



Winner of both the Duff Cooper and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje prizes, The Discovery of France is a modern non-fiction classic, a literary exploration of a remarkable nation. From maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it reveals a France few will recognize.

Серия: Picador Classic
Год: 2016
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 903098
ISBN: 9781509803484
Автор: Robb Graham

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



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

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

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

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

Test in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian

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

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



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



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

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

The Gran Tour. Travels with my Elders
One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap.



When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over.



Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last.



A series of coach holidays ensued - from Scarborough to St Ives, Killarney to Lake Como - during which Ben attempts to shake off his thirty-something blues by getting old as soon as possible.
Год: 2024
Производитель: Icon Books
Артикул: 954292
ISBN: 9781785787041
Автор: Aitken Ben

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

The Great Flood. Travels Through a Sodden Landscape
Flooding has always threatened the rainy, wind-swept islands of the United Kingdom, but it is becoming more frequent and more severe. Combining travel writing and reportage with readings of history, literature and myth, Edward Platt explores the way floods have shaped the physical landscape of Britain and left their mark on its inhabitants.



During the course of two years, which coincided with the record-breaking floods of the winter of 2013-14, Platt travelled around the country, visiting places that had flooded and meeting the people affected. He visited flooded villages and towns and expanses of marsh and Fen threatened by the winter storms, and travelled along the edge of the drowned plain that used to connect Britain to continental Europe. He met people struggling to stop their houses falling into the sea and others whose homes had been engulfed. He investigated disasters natural and man-made, and heard about the conflicting attitudes towards those charged with preventing them.



The Great Flood dramatizes the experience of being flooded and considers what will happen as the planet warms and the waters rise, illuminating the reality behind the statistics and headlines that we all too often ignore.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 903422
ISBN: 9780330420280
Автор: Platt Edward

The Great Railway Bazaar. By Train Through Asia
The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel.



The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. For us now, as much as for Theroux then, to visit the lands of The Great Railway Bazaar is an encounter with all that is truly foreign and exotic - and with what we have since lost.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886938
ISBN: 9780141038841
Автор: Theroux Paul

The Greek Islands
Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.



White-washed houses drenched in pink bougainvillea; dazzling seascapes and rugged coastlines; colourful harbours in quaint fishing villages; shady olive and cypress groves; terraces bathed in the Aegean sun The Greek islands conjure up a treasure-chest of images but nobody brings them to life as vividly as the legendary travel writer Lawrence Durrell.



It was during his youth in Corfu which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals, later filmed as The Durrells In Corfu that his love affair with the Mediterranean began. Now, in this glorious tour of the Greek islands, he weaves evocative descriptions of these idyllic landscapes with insights into their ancient history, and shares luminous personal memories of his time in the local communities. No traveller to Greece or admirer of Durrell s magic should miss it.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 953961
ISBN: 9780571362417
Автор: Durrell Lawrence

The Green Road Into The Trees
In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all his own.



Walking right across England, along ancient trackways and green grass roads, Hugh explores the way the country was and the way it is today: the legends, literature and natural world that define us, and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our history; what he calls the unicorn disappearing into the trees .



From coast-to-coast and through the heart of the countryside, he shows how older, forgotten cultures like the Celts, Saxons and Vikings lie much closer to the surface than we may think. It is a journey enriched and partly told by the characters he meets along the way. By taking it, Hugh casts unexpected light and humour on the way we live now.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Windmill Books
Артикул: 885765
ISBN: 9780099558392
Автор: Thomson Hugh

The Hermitage
- История

- Коллекции

- Интерьеры

- Планы

650 цветных иллюстраций.

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

The Hermitage in 1 hour. State Rooms. Masterpieces
If all the time you have available is one hour, that's fine. Specially for you we have worked out the best possible routes that will take you to the most famous works of culture and art in the collection of Russia's foremost museum.

In the HERMITAGE IN ONE HOUR series we invite you to take a variety of themed tours, such as:

- The State Rooms and Masterpieces of European Painting (14th-18th Centuries);

- 19th- and 20th-century Painting. The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists;

- The Art and Culture of the Ancient and Classical World;

- The Art of the East.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Арка
Артикул: 405838
ISBN: 978-5-91208-134-7
Автор: Neverov Oleg

The Hero's Way. Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4, 000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy's mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian Republic. After thirty-two exhausting days of skirmishes and adventures, only 250 survivors reached the Adriatic coast.



This hair-raising journey is brought vividly to life by bestselling author Tim Parks, who in the blazing summer of 2019, followed in Garibaldi's footsteps. A fascinating portrait of Italy past and present, The Hero's Way is a celebration of determination, creativity and desperate courage.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 890981
ISBN: 9781529112597
Автор: Parks Tim

The Hotel Book. Great Escapes Asia
Find your inner Zen: Enlightening destinations from India to Indonesia.

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

Among the gems waiting for you in Great Escapes Asia:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the editor:

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

About the author:

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

Издание на английском, немецком и французском языках.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 207047
ISBN: 978-3-8228-1913-5
Автор: Reiter Christiane

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

The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's humorous narrative of his own travels across Europe. It began life as a series of newspaper columns narrating the voyage of the USS Quaker City. The acclaimed travelogue brought worldwide fame to its author and featured his comical depictions of his encounters at the 1867 Paris Exhibition, his experiences along the Mediterranean Coast, and his journey through the Holy Land.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Arcturus
Артикул: 965406
ISBN: 9781788884006
Автор: Twain Mark

The January Man. A Year of Walking Britain
The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring his father to mind.



As he travels the country - from the winter floodlands of the River Severn to the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, the towering seabird cliffs on the Shetland Isle of Foula in June and the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest in autumn - he describes the history, wildlife, landscapes and people he encounters, down back lanes and old paths, in rain and fair weather.



This exquisitely written account of the British countryside not only inspires us to don our boots and explore the 140, 000 miles of footpaths across the British Isles, but also illustrates how, on long-distance walks, we can come to an understanding of ourselves and our fellow walkers.



Over the hills and along the byways, Christopher Somerville examines what moulded the men of his father's generation - so reticent about their wartime experiences, so self-effacing, upright and dutiful - as he searches for 'the man inside the man' that his own father really was.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 891276
ISBN: 9781784161248
Автор: Somerville Christopher

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

The Kinfolk Travel. Slower Ways to See the World
Explore the art of mindful travel with Kinfolk, the pioneers in "slow living, " their philosophy of simplicity, authenticity, intentionality and community. With nearly 450, 000 copies in print, the Kinfolk series has applied this philosophy to entertaining (The Kinfolk Table), interior design (The Kinfolk Home), and living with nature (The Kinfolk Garden). Now they have turned their attention to "slow travel, " offering readers a road map for planning trips that foster meaningful connections with local people and authentic experiences of local culture.



Go museum hopping in Tasmania, or birdwatching in London. Explore the burgeoning fashion community in Dakar. Take a bicycle tour through Idaho, or a train trip from Oslo to Bergen. Drawing on the magazine's global community of writers and photographers, Kinfolk Travel takes readers to over 20 location across five continents, with travel tips from locals, stunning images, and thoughtful essays.

Серия: Kinfolk
Год: 2021
Производитель: Artisan
Артикул: 939028
ISBN: 9781648290749
Автор: Burns John

The Kingdom by the Sea. A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020



Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain.



Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...'



After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading.
Год: 2001
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886288
ISBN: 9780140071818
Автор: Theroux Paul

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 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

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



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



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

The Last Train to Zona Verde. Overland from Cape Town to Angola
The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.



Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that his trip's pleasures are tempered by a growing sense that the Africa which so long ago helped form him has vanished, along with the hopes of many of its people. Yet after 2, 500 miles Theroux finds that though this will be his ultimate African adventure there are still surprises to be found by the traveller prepared to step off the beaten track.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886852
ISBN: 9780141029597
Автор: Theroux Paul

The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid. Travels Through my Childhood
From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.



Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around the house wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel round his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing evildoers (in his head) as The Thunderbolt Kid.



Using his childhood fantasy life as a springboard, Bill Bryson recreates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality. In a period that saw the inexorable rise of television, the opening of Disneyland, the testing of the atomic bomb, and the explosion of choice in everything from food to cars, Bill Bryson's days followed in reassuringly cosy succession, enlivened by modest triumphs and disasters.



Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, The Rise and Fall of the Thunderbolt Kid is a modern classic, full of Bill Bryson's inimitable, pitch-perfect observations.

Серия: Bryson
Год: 2015
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 891287
ISBN: 9781784161811
Автор: Bryson Bill

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

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

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

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

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

The Log from the Sea of Cortez
In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2000
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 968924
ISBN: 9780141186078
Автор: Steinbeck John

The Lost Continent. Travels in Small-Town America
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to



And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14, 000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land.



Bryson s acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache and the book that first staked Bill Bryson s claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.

Серия: Bryson
Год: 2015
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 891286
ISBN: 9781784161804
Автор: Bryson Bill

The Lost World of the Kalahari
In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa.



Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life.
Год: 2002
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 884821
ISBN: 9780099428756
Автор: Van Der Post Laurens

The Malay Archipelago
Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradise, he makes discoveries about the workings of biology that have shaped our view of the world ever since.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887944
ISBN: 9780141394404
Автор: Wallace Alfred Russel

The Marvellous Republic of Komi
Удивительная Республика Коми

Проект реализован при поддержке Министерства культуры, туризма и архивного дела РК

Книга на английском языке. В ней собраны увлекательные, яркие, редкие сведения о Республике Коми, изложенные в лёгкой для восприятия форме, в сопровождении многочисленных фотографий. Это не просто перевод книги-бестселлера "Удивительная Республика Коми", а новое издание, дополненное и переработанное с учётом потребностей иноязычных читателей. Издание может служить достойным и необычным подарком, "книгой на память" для гостей республики, деловых партнёров и друзей республики из других стран, а также для всех, кто преподаёт или изучает английский язык, кому необходимы интересные сведения о Республике Коми для разнопланового общения на английском языке.

VIP отделка флоком и тиснением делает книгу невероятно изысканным полезным подарком для англоговорящих гостей региона.

Серия: Книги о РК на английском
Год: 2020
Производитель: Коми республиканская типография
Артикул: 988497
ISBN: 978-5-7934-0847-9
Автор: Мельникова Наталья Владимировна

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



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



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

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

The 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 36 Hours. World. 150 Cities from Abu Dhabi to Zurich
One volume, 150 cities from Abu Dhabi to Zurich



Weekend trips to any city, from Sao Paulo to Seoul to Sydney, can often be daunting, with too much to do and too little time. Enter 36 Hours World, a roundup of 150 cities across six continents, each tailored for a memorable and feasible 36-hour stay. Gathered from the eponymous New York Times column, this updated edition is dedicated entirely to cities: capital, coastal, cosmopolitan, and everything in between, with 26 new stories not published in previous volumes.



The Times s contributors are your guides foreign correspondents, travel writers, food writers, and photojournalists who bring together insider knowledge and in-depth research, providing fresh insight to even the most frequently visited metropolises. Whether it s a comedy club in downtown Chicago, a long-tail boat tour on Bangkok s Chao Phraya River, or a cable car ride up to Dubrovnik s Mount Srd, the must-know facts and inspiration can all be found in this A-to-Z collection of urban adventures.

150 international cities

Practical recommendations for nearly 600 restaurants and 350 hotels

A thumb index for quick navigation and ribbon to bookmark your next adventure

More than 800 photos

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

All stories have been updated and adapted by Barbara Ireland, a veteran Times travel editor
Год: 2019
Производитель: Taschen
Артикул: 980696
ISBN: 9783836575331

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

The Old Patagonian Express. By Train Through the Americas
Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre contains a new preface by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.



'The journey, not the arrival, matters'



The Old Patagonian Expresstells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to 'the end of the line'.



Paul Edward Theroux (b. 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, born in Medford, Massachusetts. Among his best known works of travel-writing are The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), The Old Patagonian Express (1979), and Riding the Iron Rooster (1985). Theroux has published numerous works of fiction, some of which have been adapted into films, including The Mosquito Coast (1981), a 1986 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Theroux is the father of British documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux, and the uncle of American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887329
ISBN: 9780141189154
Автор: Theroux Paul

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

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 Pillars of Hercules. A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other - but taking the long way round.



His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes him through Spain, the French Riviera, Italy, Greece, Istanbul and beyond. He travels by any means necessary - including dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. And he encounters bullfights, bazaars and British tourists, discovers pockets of humanity in war-torn Slovenia and Croatia, is astounded by the urban developments on the Costa del Sol and marvels at the ancient wonders of Delphi.



Told with Theroux's inimitable wit and style, this lively and eventful tour evokes the essence of Mediterranean life.
Год: 1996
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886352
ISBN: 9780140245332
Автор: Theroux Paul

The Places In Between
The Places In Between is Rory Stewart's moving account of his death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan in January 2002. Now with illustrations and an afterword.



Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the Mogul Emperor, Babur the Great, Stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditions. Only with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 955380
ISBN: 9781447271062
Автор: Stewart Rory

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. GUIDE
"On 17 (29) August 1898, the scene in the former Carriage Yard near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Volkhonka was unusually animated. Members of the royal family had just arrived. Professors and students of Moscow University, artists, young ladies from the Alexandro-Mariinsky Institute, government officials, and members of the City Duma, the nobility and the merchantry had taken their places on two specially installed stands. On one stand the Moscow intelligentsia was congregated: ladies in white dresses and hats, gentlemen in dark morning suits. The other stand was resplendent with frothy lace and the aiguillettes of military uniforms. The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone for a new Moscow museum, created on public funds, the Museum of Fine Arts named in honour of Emperor Alexander III and attached to the Imperial Moscow University."

Серия: Путеводитель по музею
Год: 2008
Производитель: Игра слов
Артикул: 193831
ISBN: 978-5-91521-013-3
Автор: Тяжелов В. Н

The Road to Little Dribbling. More Notes from a Small Island
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed.



Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesn t altogether recognize any more. Yet, despite Britain s occasional failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home. And not just because of the cream teas, a noble history, and an extra day off at Christmas.



Once again, with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst about Britain today.

Серия: Bryson
Год: 2016
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 889959
ISBN: 9780552779838
Автор: Bryson Bill