Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Viajes y turismo

Esiste una Roma che non compare in nessuna guida turistica, una città nella città fatta di inattesi frammenti di magia. Una Roma in cui la parola d'ordine è girovagare, dalla primavera all'inverno, sotto la pioggia e sotto il sole, con il naso all'insú o gli occhi ben piantati, in attesa di quelle scoperte che fermano il tempo e ripuliscono lo sguardo: il capolavoro meno visibile della storia dell'arte, una piazza affollata di poeti come un ascensore, l'elefantino del Bernini «con un obelisco sul groppone», il pavone che passeggia sulla Garbatella.

Some locales seem to come with their own soundtrack. Don Ho and his tiny bubbles provide the background music for Hawaii, Edith Piaf for Paris. The reggae of Bob Marley evokes Jamaica. The soundtrack for Alabama is without question provided by our troubled troubadour Hank Williams. The 2016 biography Hank by Mark Ribowsky paints a dark picture of the musician's short, alcoholic, drug-filled life: a life of loneliness and pain. He goes so far as to call Hank's life story "noir-ish"....

La Roma dei vagabondaggi di Lodoli non esiste in nessuna guida turistica: è una città di piccole "isole" che fanno capolino in una domenica di pioggia o in un pomeriggio di sole, e che soltanto un occhio spalancato può cogliere. Una piazza che è "un romanzo sociale a cielo aperto"; un prezioso quadro dimenticato in una chiesetta poco frequentata; un bar che la notte diventa un'odissea di solitudini, amori, vite che si incrociano; la statua piú brutta del Rinascimento mondiale, "un delirio di marmo, una figura sghemba, arricciata, indimenticabi.

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.

Gerald Asher, who served as Gourmet's wine editor for 30 years, has drawn together this selection of his essays, published in Gourmet and elsewhere, for the collective insight they give into why a wine should always be an expression of a place and a time. Guiding the reader through 27 diverse wine regions in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and California, he shows how every wine worth drinking is a reflection of its terroir - in the broadest sense of that untranslatable word.

This extraordinary travel book tells the true story of how in 1997 writer Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of the great scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) with his granddaughter Evelyn. Paterniti's improbable travelling companion is 84-year-old Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who not only removed Einstein's brain from his head during the autopsy but purloined it from Princeton Hospital also!

Amy Sedaris meets Woody Allen in an uproarious memoir of self discovery. In her critically acclaimed memoir Dork Whore, Iris Bahr finally lost her virginity in the summer between high school and Brown University. In this book, she’s ready for love a year later - but not much wiser. Through all of her uproarious capers, she tries to reconcile her craving for mindblowing sex with her desire for a meaningful relationship - all in an attempt to become an adult. Sort of.

Part documentary, part reality-television, the story of the Deadliest Catch’s Alaskan crab fishermen risking their lives in the Bering Sea to make a buck and feed their families has captivated the world. Giving the Finger follows the life of the spirited young captain who has emerged as one of the most talked-about figures on the show: Scott Campbell, Jr., who leads the crew of the Seabrooke. As this book - a prequel to Junior’s ascent to fame - shows, the trials of crabbing are not limited to living at sea and working the most dangerous job on the planet, but carry over to family and friends.

Dopo quattro lunghi viaggi in Vespa attraverso 134 paesi, dopo più di 250.000 chilometri in sella alle sue due ruote, nel 2004 Giorgio Bettinelli decide di iniziare una nuova vita in Cina. Compra una casa sulla riva sinistra del Mekong, si sposa. Sembra l'avvio di una stagione della vita più sedentaria, o almeno più tranquilla. E invece il demone del movimento è di nuovo in agguato.

En 2013, Lydiane St-Onge décide de quitter carrière et vie sédentaire pour devenir une voyageuse à temps plein. Le regard qu'elle pose sur le monde, son approche humaine et responsable, en plus de son enthousiasme contagieux, ont rapidement inspiré des milliers de personnes à suivre ses aventures sur les réseaux sociaux, sur son site web ainsi qu'à la télé.

A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 miles in 13 days and 10 hours, sleeping in short bursts wherever exhaustion took her.

Following in the tradition of Ghost Rider and Traveling Music, Rush drummer Neil Peart relates nearly four years of band tours, road trips, and personal discoveries in this introspective travelogue. From the ups and downs of a professional artist to the birth of a child, this revealing narrative recounts 22 adventures from rock's foremost drummer, biker enthusiast, husband, and father.

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.

By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature - and with one another. When the biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny, along with their friend Graham Burnett, a historian of science, lead twelve college students to a remote fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, they come upon a bay of dazzling beauty and richness.

Take a trip to old Japan with William Scott Wilson as he travels the ancient Kiso Road, a legendary route that remains much the same today as it was hundreds of years ago. The Kisoji, which runs through the Kiso Valley in the Japanese Alps, has been in use since at least 701 CE. In the 17th century, it was the route that the daimyo (warlords) used for their biennial trips - along with their samurai and porters - to the new capital of Edo (now Tokyo).

A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s 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.

James Brabazon is narrating this story of war, violence, and political intrigue. He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of the Liberian Civil War in 2002. Running with the infamous LURD rebels, he survived numerous deadly ambushes, the privations of dysentery and a dramatic two hundred-mile escape from Government troops through dense equatorial jungle. He even had a bounty put on his head.

Mit "Barfuß auf dem Sommerdeich" hat Katja Just viele Leserinnen und Leser für Hallig Hooge, das winzige Eiland mitten im Nordfriesischen Wattenmeer, begeistert. Die gebürtige Münchnerin, die seit fast zwanzig Jahren auf Hooge lebt und arbeitet, gilt vielen als "die Halligbotschafterin" und ist unermüdlich für ihre Wahlheimat im Einsatz. Klimawandel, Umweltverschmutzung und Strukturveränderungen in Landwirtschaft und Tourismus machen auch vor den Halligen nicht Halt.

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

Asghar Wajahat, who has made a fresh start in Hindi with his travelogues, likes to fashion himself as a social tourist. He does not simply write dry, matter-of-fact descriptions of the places he visits; instead he tries to capture the cultural diversity and colours that life in those places offers. In this way, Ashghar Wajahat makes the listeners join him in these journeys. In Ateet Ka Darwaza, he takes his listeners to the nomadic life in Jordan in Central Asia, the Marmaroash region of Romania-Hungary region in Europe, and in Mexico in South America.