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Mit zwei Söhnen, 5 und 8 Jahre alt, verlassen Susanne und Alexander Saade ihr gewohntes Leben, um für ein Jahr gemeinsam um die Welt zu reisen. Schon im Vorfeld lassen sie uns teilhaben an den Herausforderungen, die sich durch Arbeit, Kosten, Gesundheit, Schule und auch durch persönliche Ängste stellen. Die Route entwickeln sie erst nach und nach. Sie starten im südlichen Afrika, reisen durch Indien, Myanmar und Thailand. Über Singapur und Bali...
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Después de leer Inadaptados sentirás la necesidad de cuestionarlo todo, de no tragar entero, de debatir, de formarte una idea propia de la
realidad en diferentes aspectos de la vida, y de construir una postura sobre ella. En este crítico, pero inspirador viaje, con paradas en el sueño americano, la guerra, algunas verdades escondidas de África y una historia latina de esas que estremecen, entre muchas otras, Juan Díaz (PlanetaJuan) nos hará...
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Tras cinco años de viaje continuados saliendo desde Madagascar hasta Papúa Nueva Guinea y estableciendo al cabo de un año nuestro campo base para trabajar y seguir explorando en Filipinas, este primer libro cuenta la historia desde nuestra salida de Tenerife, nuestra casa hasta ese momento, hasta llegar a Filipinas después de un largo viaje por Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Tailandia y Malasia.
Habagat, vientos del suroeste. Parte...
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Mr Henderson's Railway as it is known, more formerly the Algeciras to Ronda line, was built at a time when Britain was a colonial power, her industry led the world and, as far as her industrialists, financiers and entrepreneurs were concerned, nothing was impossible.In an age when it was considered a privilege to be born British and everybody else was somewhere further down the ladder the British accomplished extraordinary feats. One such feat was...
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A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers. Dame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country's broad historical legacy - the Spanish conquest and Mexican revolution, the muralist...
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Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
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Travel Tales: Toilet Stories is all about taking care of your daily business as best you can - doing your daily duty, so to speak… finding and using toilets and the like - in your travels. No matter where you are traveling to, no matter what you are doing, and no matter who you are when Nature calls, you had better answer.Talking about your bathroom needs is, indeed, one of the top ten daily topics discussed by fellow travelers among one another...
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Travel Tales: Pickpockets & Other Thieves is the next book in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel stories of pickpocketing and theft in travel. If you are pickpocketed or robbed we hope you manage to escape in your travels with only minor consequences. This book is a collection of the fearful and potentially dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers on occasion, but mostly these will not happen to you. You'll read...
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The fortified wine known as Sherry can only be produced within an area known as the 'Sherry Triangle'. The triangle is bound by the three towns of Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlucar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa Maria, all in Cadiz province in Spain. A triangle formed by lines drawn between those towns encompasses an area of approximately 140 square kilometres. The history of Sherry is intimately entwined in the history of those towns and the area...
11) Culinary Tourism
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Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding...
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Omega Air employee Sabra Hunter is traveling again, this time with co-worker and Italian spitfire, Maya. A four-day getaway to Venice and Rome is all they wanted, a chance for some much needed apre summer-travel-rush dolce vita. The trip is also, they thought, a great way to escape ongoing workplace issues involving their dreaded supervisor, Richard Noggins. Visit Venice and enjoy the sights. See the canals up close; tour the Doges Prison where...
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Pittsburgh is ever-changing — once dusted with soot from the mills, parts of the city now gleam with the polish of new technologies and little remains of what had been there before. The essays and artwork in this anthology aim for the surprising, elusive stories that capture a Pittsburgh that is in transition. Contributors run the gamut from MacArthur-award winning photographer, LaToya Ruby Frazier to 15-year-old Nico Chiodi, the book's youngest...
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In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America‚Äs literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world. Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included here have won, or been shortlisted...
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Travel Tales: Hotels from HellIs a collection of travel stories of one of the most basic experiences and needs of travelers, namely, securing safe and secure lodging during their travels. Indeed, of the nearly 2,000 travelers whom I have interviewed over nearly five decades, I've collected and chronicled the phenomenal, the good, the wonderful, and the fascinating of all sorts of aspects of hotels and lodging of travelers' stays. I've recorded as...
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St. Louis is a fragmented place. It‚Äs physically dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences, but it‚Äs also a place where one‚Äs race, class, religion, and zip code may as well be cards in a rigged poker game, where the winners‚Ä prize is the ability to ignore the fact that the losers have drastically shorter life expectancies. But it can also be a city of warmth, love, and beauty‚Äïespecially in its contrasts. Edited by Ryan...
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Buffalo is a magical place to be and this anthology walks the reader through the decades. The newness of the city is electrifying and sits atop a glorious history of power, disappointment, artistic flair, racial injustice and spicy chicken wings—and Buffalo has the Niagara Falls in its backyard. Told through the eyes of more than 65 artists, writers, and residents, the essays will give readers a feel of the city, its good and bad sides, and...
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Travel Tales: Down Under - Australia & New Zealand Is a collection of travel stories of among the travel world's most favorite destinations. Without a doubt, Australia, New Zealand also known affectionately as Downunder), as well as nearby neighboring islands of the South Pacific are to be sure among my favorite destinations in the world to visit. The travel stories in this book about this area of the world are basically divided into a number of geographic...
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The year's top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
"These are stories about culture," writes J. Kenji López-Alt in his introduction. "About how food shapes people, neighborhoods, and history." This year's Best American Food Writing captures the food industry at a critical moment in history - from the confrontation of abusive kitchen culture,...
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year's finest writing about food and drink.
"Good food writing evokes the senses," writes Samin Nosrat, best-selling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and star of the Netflix adaptation of the book. "It makes us consider divergent viewpoints. It makes us hungry and motivates us to go out into the world in search of new experiences....
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