Resultados para "En América Penguin" en Viajes y turismo

A través de trece episodios, Colson Whitehead traza un recorrido visual por las calles de la ciudad, pero también por su propia memoria: qué se siente al contemplar Manhattan por primera vez, cómo Nueva York desplaza a sus habitantes de la soledad al calor del gentío... A ritmo de jazz, el autor utiliza distintas voces narrativas con la intención de transmitirnos con total fidelidad la banda sonora de este lugar, que es a la vez variada y fluida.

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had...

Las memorias del etnólogo Martín von Hildebrand, quien ha dedicado su vida a trabajar por las comunidades indígenas del Amazonas, sus derechos y la conservación de sus territorios. MARTIN VON HILDEBRAND es reconocido a nivel mundial por su activismo en pro de la Amazonia y sus grupos indígenas, labor por la que ha sido merecedor de varios premios nacionales e internacionales, entre otros, el Right Livelihood Award, conocido como el Premio Nobel Alternativo.

En este libro pionero de 1979, Paul Theroux relata su periplo de seis meses por el continente americano en ferrocarril. La aventura comienza en un tren de cercanías de Boston y acaba cuando un viejo expreso llega a la ciudad de Esquel, en plena Patagonia argentina. Entremedias, el autor cruza México, se interna en América Central, visita Machu Picchu o se toma unos días de descanso en Buenos Aires en compañía de Jorge Luis Borges.

A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced “Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of...

"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude...

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for...

It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend, Dee, head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's. Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs.