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Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her.

Called a “chronicler of a world on the move” by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time when one in seven people has left their birthplace, while a pandemic dictates the direst season of rupture in humankind’s remembering. Her new essay collection, Bright Unbearable Reality, comprises 11 essays set on four continents—roving everywhere from Oklahoma to Azerbaijan—and united by a common thread of communion and longing.

இன்றைக்கு 83 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னால் முதன்முதலாக 'மரகதத் தீவு' என்று வர்ணிக்கப்படும் இலங்கைக்கு அமரர் கல்கி பயணம் செய்த அனுபவங்களை "கண்டேன் இலங்கையை" எனும் தலைப்பிலான பயணக்கட்டுரைத் தொகுப்பாக வெளியானது.

Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.

Inseguendo i propri sogni di bambino, Walter Bonatti è diventato un personaggio leggendario, il simbolo stesso dell'avventura. Perché nelle sue sfide si è spinto sempre un po' più in là, ed è andato tanto avanti da riuscire ancora oggi a dirci qualcosa di nuovo. Erano i sogni a guidarlo, e lui ha passato la vita a realizzarli.

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections.

De niño huyó del seminario y diez años después de la Academia Naval. En ese momento se embarca como polizonte en Marsella y viaja al Extremo Oriente, para iniciar una vuelta al mundo y una vida irrepetible en el siglo XXI. Fue asistente de un arqueólogo alemán en el Cuzco; persiguió el tesoro de los Khmer en Angkor Wat, Cambodia; extrajo perlas en zonas prohibidas de Sarawak del Borneo; trabajó en el negocio del tungsteno en la bahía de Hudson; y finalmente al final de los años 40 del siglo pasado, buscó diamantes en la Amazonía venezolana.

Questa non è una guida turistica, non è la mappa per un percorso spirituale né vuole esserlo, questa è la storia di un'avventura. La cronaca onesta di un Cammino che troppo spesso viene idealizzato su youtube e dai racconti di lo ha fatto, un'esperienza bellissima ma anche faticosa e impegnativa.

Un personale alfabeto affettivo in cui Serena Dandini ci accompagna dalla A di Arrondissement alla Z di Zinc attraversando la G di Gare, la I di Impressionisti e la V di Verne, alla scoperta della città più romantica del mondo. Una passeggiata vivace e imprevedibile per la sua città preferita, dove le passioni dell’autrice ci svelano a ogni angolo suggestioni, storie, personaggi indimenticabili e posti segreti da visitare di persona alla prima occasione o semplicemente sognare adagiati sul divano di casa.

In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott went back to the huge frozen wasteland of the Antarctic with the intention of reaching the South Pole, by a long and terribly arduous trek across the ice. On finally reaching the pole, Scott and his comrades were devastated to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. With temperatures of minus 30, they began their slow journey back to their base.

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.

We follow in the footsteps of the intrepid British traveller as they explore the far-flung shores of the world in the company of some of the world’s finest chroniclers, including Charles Darwin, Kenneth Williams, James Boswell, Freya Stark, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Fanny Trollope, Mungo Park, Nancy Mitford, Wilfred Thesiger, Horace Walpole, Evelyn Waugh and many others, in this entertaining collection of travellers’ tales.

Join us on a fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last 400 years in the company of some of its most illustrious chroniclers, including Jane Austen, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Francis Kilvert, Celia Fiennes, Chips Channon, Fanny Burney and many others, told entirely in their own words.

Amid a series of road trips across West Texas, Darden Smith—Austin-based musician, author, and creative—found himself writing songs at the wheel and taking Polaroid photographs of the stark and ghostly terrain. Inspired by the spirit of the landscape, Smith scribbled his observations in a notebook and found new life in old lyrics—and between the prose, the music, and the Polaroid images he captured with his camera, Western Skies came vividly to life. This beautifully designed and collectible book combines everything Smith captured and created during his travels.

Welchen Plan zur Rettung der Meere hat eine Tiefseeforscherin nach 7000 Stunden unter Wasser? Bietet Gentechnik einen Ausweg, die Welt zu ernähren? Helfen Speere und Social Media gegen die Ausbeutung indigener Gebiete in Ecuador? Geschichten wie diese machen die GEO-Reporter und -Reporterinnen erfahrbar. Bei ihren Reisen in die entlegensten Winkel der Welt verknüpfen sie Abenteuer, Wissen und gesellschaftliche Themen miteinander. In packenden Reportagen berichten sie in diesem Podcast von gewagten Recherchen, dramatischen Situationen und berührenden Begegnungen.

The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing.

Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home.

This is a book about faith, about adventure, about living with my heart open and letting go of the fear of being myself. In June 2016 I decided to sell my house of 22 years and leave my comfort zone. I had no idea where I would go next, but slowly the Camino de Santiago showed itself and I decided, with no rucksack or hiking experience, to start. In the first part of this story, I left England and flew to Seville and travelled on to Granada, where I stayed first in a treehouse and then a cave…before I picked up my rucksack and headed north on the Camino.

Take a trip through the Peach State! Learn about Georgia's history, weather, geography, people, and more in this book that's all about our fourth state.

How does a middle-aged wife, mother, and FBI agent pursue her dream of hiking 2,200 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Mount Katahdin, Maine? Sticks Harsha balances her trekking ambitions against the responsibilities of daily life by hiking the Appalachian Trail in sections, one piece at a time. Across a thirteen-year odyssey, Sticks discovers the best of America: the stunning beauty and diversity of nature, the quaintness of small towns, the quirkiness of fellow hikers, and, above all, the generosity of strangers.