What Makes the French So French?Decrypting French ideas about land, food, privacy and language, this book encompasses observations and anecdotes, political analysis and reflection to uncover links between the Fre...9999903400059Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Ju...
Editors Varis
jueves, 20 de noviembre de 2025
A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World 'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan 'Marries the intrigue of Europe's most powerful royal courts with the globe-trotting thrill of adventure and discovery' Sunday...9999903398103Andrea di Robilant
Atlantic Books
lunes, 17 de noviembre de 2025
A Journey Through Modern CubaFor a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, ...9999903396666Stephen Smith
Abacus
miércoles, 5 de noviembre de 2025
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnand The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippiis Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of 'the great Father of Wa...9999903396451Twain, Mark
Editors Varis
martes, 4 de noviembre de 2025
It needed twenty-three vessels and seven months to transport Gavin Young by slow boat from Piraeus to Canton - seven months crowded with adventure, excitement and colour. His accou...9999903396185Gavin Young
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1983, c1981.
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
Travels into America's Future"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--Chicago Tribune"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . ....9999903395799Robert D. Kaplan
Vintage
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
Gavin Young continues his life-long fascination with travel and his love of the sea in this magical evocation of the world of Joseph Conrad. Conrad's career as a sailor provided th...9999903395782Young, Gavin C.
Editors Varis
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
An evocation of Venice which uses vivid prose, humour and irony to present a personal portrait of an eccentric city. The Sunday Times calls it "'one of the most diverse and diverti...9999903395768Morris, James
Faber & Faber
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
A Guide to Taking Better PicturesThis is an essential resource for any photographer who has ever tried to shoot the Eiffel Tower at sunset or capture a Mexican fireworks display and has been left with a set of dis...9999903395560I?Anson, Richard
Lonely Planet Publications
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
The City in Art and LiteratureWriters have described New York City since the harbor was discovered in 1524. Artists have captured its every sparkle and shadow. In New York, New York, paintings, prints, photogra...9999903395621Metropolitan Museum of Ar...
Editors Varis
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
Michael Palin tackles the full length of the Himalaya in this terrific number one bestseller. Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains...9999903393474Palin, Michael
PHOENIX
miércoles, 29 de octubre de 2025
An Anthology of Women TravellersDiving to the bed of the Timor sea, reaching the summit of Annapurna, encountering a madman in the Amazon jungle, suffering shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, hiking the Al...9999903393405Jane Robinson
Oxford University Press, USA
miércoles, 29 de octubre de 2025
Walking in the Pyrenees, twenty years ago, Matthew Parris and his sister came upon a magnificent medieval house. It had crests and a date 1559 chiselled into the stone: its walls a...9999903389910Matthew Parris
Viking
jueves, 23 de octubre de 2025
A Mountain Walk Across EuropeAlone and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarks on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen-month journey along the chain of mountains which stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre t...9999903389552Nicholas Crane
Editors Varis
sábado, 18 de octubre de 2025
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