Resultados para "The Book" en Reportajes y artículos

Cruise ship crew have it hard. Cruise ship rock stars have it harder! Bruns is back to expose the high seas art world. In this hilarious sequel he vividly describes his ship life highs and lows, misadventures, mis-flirtations and, through it all, his astute insights into human nature.

Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly 100 countries as a backpacker, a documentary filmmaker, a travel writer, a photographer, and an art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses".

Ostensibly written by an English knight, The Book of Marvels and Travels claim to recount his experiences in Egypt, the Levant, India, and China. It describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and further into Asia, and the many weird and wonderful peoples and practices of the East. The author claims to have traveled in land populated by Amazons, dog-headed people, cannibals, one-footed tribes, and Pygmies.

After renovating a dilapidated Andalusian cottage and transforming it into a guest house, Robert and Sabina face a new set of challenges. As they continue to uncover the pros and pitfalls of hospitality, they realize that they need to do more to establish roots in their new community before they feel truly at home. During this transition period, they travel between Andalusia and the Middle East, in an effort to decide whether the idea of living among the olive groves is sustainable or whether they need to reconsider their life path and return to their old lives in the Gulf.

With their Andalusian guesthouse ready to welcome visitors, Robert and Sabina face new challenges. They battle through a snowy winter and face another year of drought. With few bookings, no water, and very little money left, they start looking back and doubt their decision to leave their cushy jobs in the Middle East for the harsh reality of life in the countryside. Was moving to Andalusia a big mistake?

The delightfully comic account of a British couple and their imported cats starting over in a new country continues in Bucket to Greece Volume 4. The atmosphere is tense in the Bucket household, with Barry and Cynthia, or specifically Cynthia and her vile mutant cat, having outstayed their welcome. The race is on for them to find somewhere to live before their imminent wedding. Harold's house has potential, but Barry needs Victor's help to take advantage of the obnoxious Brit.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local audiobook is for you. Raluca D. Florea offers the inside scoop on the most traditional food in Florence. Eat like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the food, people, and culture. By the time you finish this listen, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next culinary destination.

Driving terrified me; I hadn't done it in a decade. But if I could drive in India, I could drive anywhere. If I drive a tuk-tuk, I could drive anything. And if I said yes, I'd get to spend 10 days with her. Would that be enough time to find out who she was, what she wanted, and then convince her to abandon that and want me instead? There was only one way to find out.

All the basics for beginning cruise travelers as well veteran cruisers. Great tips on when to find the best bargains, how to stay safe and come back alive.

Adam Fletcher's life hates him.... That's how it feels since he lost his girlfriend of nine years, his confidence, hair, and home. But then he receives an email from a mysterious stranger offering him a free holiday of a lifetime. It's too good to be true. But then what does he have to lose? So he says yes. And then things gets strange....

Die junge Tierärztin Susanne Braun ist den deutschen Praxisalltag leid und entscheidet sich, ihren Traum zu leben: Sie kündigt, löst ihre Wohnung auf, macht mit dem Freund Schluss und geht auf die Fähre. Ziel: Ihre Herzensinsel Island, die sie schon als Schülerin besuchen durfte. Doch dort erwartet sie kein Urlaub, sondern ein mühsamer Neuanfang – im Beruf genauso wie in der Liebe.

When dark, sinister clouds loom, Victoria and Joe find themselves facing life-changing decisions. Happily, silver linings also abound in this, the fifth Old Fools chronicle. A fresh new face joins the cast of familiar characters but the return of a bad penny may be more than some can handle. What does the future hold for the Spanish village of El Hoyo and the two old fools?

Lost on Purpose is the nonfiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took leave of the real world to reinvent himself as a 21st-century mountain man. In October-November 2013, Patrick Taylor crossed the Rocky Mountains alone on foot. He passed through one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower 48 to reach and retrace the route of Lewis and Clark in the winter. The sacrifices - vocationally, financially, emotionally - are measured against the benefits by the author in a refreshingly honest, humorous, and inspirational fashion.

They shouldn't have tear gassed best-selling (bald) author Adam Fletcher. It ruined his supposedly normal holiday in Istanbul, made him curious, and began a quest to visit places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally go to. In this hilarious travel memoir, he'll enter a blizzard in China armed with only biscuits; pose as a scientist to sneak into Chernobyl; be chased by Croatian police boats en route to Liberland (the world's newest country); become a reluctant diving board star in a North Korean water park, and much more.

Forty-seven years ago, Michael discovered his soulmate Deborah on a dance floor in Keene, New Hampshire. It took her soul a few years and an around-the-world bike trek to fully reciprocate. Riding the Edge is the astonishing tale of the six-month odyssey that profoundly shaped the next 564 months of their lives together.

Award-winning memoirist Meg Stafford has an adventurous spirit, and this time she takes us along for the ride. When her daughters venture into terra incognita—one of them meditating in the Himalayas and the other negotiating with the Colombian military—Stafford decides to go too. In the process, she reflects on her own lifetime of wanderlust and what it means for a parent to love and to let go. Generous, insightful, and deeply funny, Stafford is the ideal tour guide for a journey as big as the world and as intimate as the human heart.

新潮文庫刊　北杜夫：著　『どくとるマンボウ航海記』（ISBN　4101131031）より表題作「どくとるマンボウ航海記」をオーディオブック化。　第５集では　海には数々の魔物が棲む／本の話から船乗りのこと／コロンボのカレー料理／帰ってきた燕とマンボウ／あとがき　までを約1時間あまりで朗読しました。 昭和30年代前半、水産庁の漁業調査船に船医として乗り込んだ若き精神科医・マンボウ先生の、世界漫遊５ヶ月間の珍道中。航海中の生活、アジア、アフリカ、ヨーロッパの寄港地で出くわす事件や珍事、人々との珍妙なやりとり。思わずふきだすエピソードや、豊かな教養に裏打ちされた卓抜な文明批評が、マンボウ先生独特の変な造語やユーモアたっぷりの文章で、縦横無尽に描き出されます。　青春のパワーと好奇心、型破りで自由な精神が横溢する抱腹絶倒旅行記の傑作！（C）新潮社（C）ことのは出版　　　「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

新潮文庫刊　北杜夫：著　『どくとるマンボウ航海記』（ISBN　4101131031）より 表題作「どくとるマンボウ航海記」をオーディオブック化。 第３集では　ポルトガルの古い港で／ドイツでは神妙に、そしてまた／小雪降るエラスムスの街／霧ふかいアントワープ　までを約1時間半で朗読しました。　昭和30年代前半、水産庁の漁業調査船に船医として乗り込んだ若き精神科医・マンボウ先生の、世界漫遊５ヶ月間の珍道中。航海中の生活、アジア、アフリカ、ヨーロッパの寄港地で出くわす事件や珍事、人々との珍妙なやりとり。思わずふきだすエピソードや、豊かな教養に裏打ちされた卓抜な文明批評が、マンボウ先生独特の変な造語やユーモアたっぷりの文章で、縦横無尽に描き出されます。　青春のパワーと好奇心、型破りで自由な精神が横溢する抱腹絶倒旅行記の傑作！　（C）新潮社（C）ことのは出版　「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and overdevelopment.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES NPR THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the...