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Full title: Colección de viages y expediciónes à los campos de Buenos / Aires y a las costas de Patagonia / Editor: Pedro de Angelis

A leading travel journalists depicts and predicts the good, the bad, and the ugly about the future of travel and how we can transcend the complications of climate change, AI, and touristification in this latest addition to the FUTURES Series.In the future, tourists will strap on a VR headset that serves up information about the storefronts and cathedrals they pass, letting them "see Paris" without actually laying eyes on it. Instant-translation earbuds will mean well never have to learn the words Donde esta la biblioteca? and who needs a library or bookstore when Spanish-English dictionaries and guidebooks are obsolete?Meanwhile, thanks to AI, travelers will have an unprecedented fount of information at their disposal but how much of it can be trusted? And is it really "saving time" if AI bots are sending everyone to stand in line at already-overrun tourist spots?In the coming years, more cities and countries will take drastic measures to combat not only a flood of tourist but of a growing worldwide workforce of "location-independent professionals," enacting congestion pricing and car-free zones, and grounding budget airlines such as Ryanair (or "Ruinair," as climate activists have dubbed it) in favor of zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled train networks.In The Future of Travel, award-winning food and travel writer Daniel Maurer himself a veteran globetrotter will predict epic tugs-of-war between the travelers and the locals and what happens when technology allows entire new classes of travelers to move as far as they can, as much as they can.

Hes back! In this second instalment of Steven Froelichs Latin American odyssey, the Man Without a Plan lands in Belize, a country he knows nothing about. But Froelich has a talent for making himself at home wherever he is, amassing an impressive array of new friends in a short time some of whom can even match his penchant for being in a near-constant buzz from industrial-quantity drugs and drink.As ever, the cock-a-hoop characters Steven ingratiates himself with become his surrogate dysfunctional family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of feral kids led by the gleefully destructive Molokai soon have Steven wondering whether or not his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, binding him ever more tightly in a web of scams that threatens to leave him broke and stranded in this shabby paradise. Is his paranoia justifiable, or is that just the continuous cocaine use? His response is to agree to renting an SUV and embarking all together on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, fine hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail. Why do mechanics keep appearing every time the truck mysteriously fails? Why are his credit cards failing just as frequently? Whos zoomin who?Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully ignorant, Froelich is nevertheless observant and caring at heart and Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where theyre from or where theyre headed.Features twelve full-colour illustrations by Froelichs collaborator Oscar Zarate.

Fresh from a night in a Miami jail, Steven lands in Guatemala City, ready for riotous road trips fuelled by booze, cocaine and passionate curiosity about people from all walks of life.His guide? Antonio, a sweet-natured, streetwise hotel concierge who shepherds Steven through colonial Antigua, the volcanic shores of Lake Atitlan and the untamed beaches of Monterrico. Danger is never far off, but neither are laughs and theres plenty of both when Steven accompanies Antonio on a visit to his rural home village.Then theres Anabella, a glamourous, garrulous, middle-aged woman with whom Steven strikes up an unlikely friendship, accompanying her back to the capital with her family. There he mooches an open-ended stay in her gated community, which bristles with armed guards and famous eccentrics.Froelichs gonzo travelogue is a darkly hilarious, unapologetic plunge into beauty and madness, privilege and privation. With a raw, witty voice, Froelich explores the absurdities of the human condition, never letting truth get in the way of a good story.

Praise for The Path of Peace:A formidable achievement Rory StewartThoughtful [and] heartfeltObserverProfound [and] compellingSpectatorA noble endeavourNew StatesmanIn 2020, Anthony Seldon, inspired by a fallen World War I soldier who dreamed of a Via Sacra to commemorate the war dead and stand as a marker for the triumph of peace, set out on a 1,000km walk tracing the historic route of the Western Front. But there wasnt to be lasting peace, with the continent falling into an even more horrific war two decades later. In The Path of Light, Seldon walks the route from where World War I ended to Auschwitz, discovering the towns and people who resisted in the face of unbearable destruction, and ruminating on the Second World Wars legacy.

¿Hasta dónde llegarías por tu sueño? ¿Serías capaz de recorrer 16 000 kilómetros a caballo para perseguir un objetivo? Así fue como el cowboy brasileño Filipe Masetti Leite emprendió la épica aventura de partir desde Canada rumbo a Brasil, acompañado de sus tres caballos. Fueron mas de dos años, diez paises, innumerables historias y una certeza: nada volveria a ser como antes.Jinete de las Americas es el emotivo relato de una travesia tan inusual como extraordinaria, repleta de desafios, sorpresas y una inquebrantable fuerza de voluntad. La inolvidable aventura de Filipe se forja entre los peligros de los carteles de droga, la solidaridad admirable de personas y el amor incondicional de un cowboy por sus caballos.Gracias a personajes unicos y enseñanzas profundas, el lector se sentira inspirado a pensar fuera de lo convencional y luchar por sus sueños, por mas imposibles que parezcan.

O mundo, dizem, é um livro. E um livro também pode conter o mundo.GRANDE PRÉMIO DE LITERATURA DE VIAGENS MARIA ONDINA BRAGA, ATRIBUÍDO PELA ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DE ESCRITORES.Partindo das suas muita

Descubra a China como nunca antes! Este não é um guia turístico comum. É uma imersão profunda em uma das civilizações mais fascinantes do planeta – uma jornada pelas dinastias imperiais, metrópoles f

Descubra a China como nunca antes! Este não é um guia turístico comum. É uma imersão profunda em uma das civilizações mais fascinantes do planeta – uma jornada pelas dinastias imperiais, metrópoles f

Toddler on Tour: Viva España is a travelogue like no other! Its a new chapter in the world of travel writing and certainly not to be missed.Fall in love with sixteen-month-old Bronte on her travels as she ventures into the realms of the unknown, fuelled by milk, curiosity, and the profound mysteries of adult behaviour. Join her thrilling odyssey as she masters the art of walking, gains her stripes as an honorary member of the Barcelona Nudist Organisation, and plays fast and loose with the law as a food mule during the infamous Great Lunch Heist. All this and more, whilst growing new teeth and fulfilling her toughest role yet: supervising parents. As any toddler will tell you, that is no easy task.Its Spain, but not as you know it. So pop on your life jacket, make yourself comfy and its anchors aweigh as you set sail with this toddler buccaneer in Viva España, aboard this totally unique travelogue. From ancient ports to vibrant cities, discover the Iberian Peninsula through delightfully unconventional eyes that are guaranteed to make you smile.Viva España is the first of many books in the Toddler on Tour series. The eagerly awaited sequel charts Brontes continuing adventures as she journeys through the land of the Vikings and the majestic Fjords. It is titled Moving Fjord.

A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked Quite A Lot Of Hills where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are. Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether its a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one of Toms characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations. Toms lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.

Since the first Welch sailor set foot on Japanese shores in the seventeenth century to the present-day presence of high-tech Japanese companies in the Valleys, Wales and Japan are two nations with deeply entwined roots.Captured in this groundbreaking book is a chorus of modern-day Welsh migrants to Japan. There is Catharine who, in 1965, followed her Japanese husband to an out of kilter house in the seaside town of Zushi; Jac, the capitalist ski bum, who guides tourists through the bear-infested wilds of snowy Hokkaid, while on a volcanic island in the Seto Inland Sea, Simon clears jungle vines to develop his vegan farm.There are also actors, writers, teachers, an ex-bouncer turned martial artist, a filmmaker, a games localiser, and many more. There are even Japanese fans who promote Welsh culture in their homeland. Together they form a polyphonic group portrait based on oral-history techniques, mixing travel writing, character study and reportage, while proving an ear for natural speech.Fresh, engaging, with a strong sense of space and place, but above all, a knack for crafting a life story, this volume of documentary literature presents universal themes of work, adventure, reinvention and survival. Here are people discovering and negotiating the land, the life and the culture of Japan, and putting down transplantable roots.INCLUDES 45 B&W IMAGES

A rare and beautiful bookTLSOriginal and stimulatingIrish TimesInto the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a surrealist painter, Colquhouns travels around the island are guided by her artists eye and her feeling for the world beyond our own, as well as her spikily humorous view of the people she meets. We encounter faeries and pagan rituals, ruined churches and Celtic splendour, rowdy bohemians and Anglo-Irish landowners fallen on hard times, as the author carouses through Dublin and tramps the hills of Connemara in this classic travelogue.Richly visual and full of sly wit, this is an account of Ireland as only Colquhoun could see it, a land where myth and magic meet wind and rain, and the song of the secret kingdom is heard on city streets.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was born in British India and brought up in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s, gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism. She began visiting Cornwall during the Second World War, and eventually moved there, continuing to write, paint, and pursue the study of the occult until her death. As well as The Crying of the Wind: Ireland, she is the author of The Living Stones: Cornwall and the novel Goose of Hermogenes, also available from Pushkin Press.

Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied from awe and wonder to fear and loathing, from spiritual longing to peaceful acceptance. As he explores our high places, Ian Crofton conjures up those who have been there before: Neolithic axe-makers, mass trespassers, shepherds, quarrymen, botanists, poets and pioneering cragsmen and women among them. At the same time, he is ever attuned to the present moment a flash of bright moss in a bog, the swoop of an eagle above a skyline, a winter sun sinking into a sea of cloud. Following an arc from the gentle Downs of southern England to the wild peaks of Scotlands far north, Upland combines personal experiences with a keen curiosity about the history and nature of mountain landscapes, and the people who once worked and wandered among them. The result is a meditation on the enduring yet ever-changing hills, on the transience of human experience, and on the shifts and twists of time itself. Locations included: Chilterns (following The Ridgeway) Malverns Snowdon Peak District Pennines Lake District Ben Nevis The Cuillin, Skye Assynt (Suilven) Cairngorms

In "Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field," Henry W. Fischer offers a compelling exploration of the American literary landscape through the prism of travel. This engaging narrative interweaves biographical sketches and personal anecdotes, set against the richly detailed backdrop of 19th-century Europe. Fischers literary style is a harmonious blend of eloquence and humor, reflecting Twains wit and Fields playful spirit. Through vivid descriptions and incisive observations, the book captures the essence of the cultural exchanges that occurred during this transformative period, providing readers with a deep appreciation for both authors contributions to American literature. Henry W. Fischer, a scholar with a profound interest in the literary figures of his time, has dedicated his career to examining the intricate relationships between writers and their contexts. His extensive research and passion for Twain and Fields works illuminate the reasons behind their existential wanderlust, highlighting how travel enriched their narratives and perspectives. Fischers background in comparative literature and American studies infuses his writing with an informed perspective, revealing the layers of meaning behind the travels of these iconic authors. This book is a must-read for literary enthusiasts, historians, and travelers alike. Fischers accessible prose and insightful analysis not only entertain but also deepen our understanding of Twain and Fields legacies, making it an invaluable addition to any literary collection. Immerse yourself in this delightful journey and discover the world through the eyes of two remarkable writers.

Poucos lugares na Terra so to envoltos em lendas quanto o Himalaia. Erika Fatland nos leva a cadeia de montanhas mais alta do planeta, permitindo-nos descobrir seu povo, as milhares de culturas, o esplendor de suas paisagens, mas tambem a historia pouco conhecida por tras de alguns dos conflitos mais sangrentos de hoje e de ontem. Partindo da China e atravessando o Paquisto, a India, o Buto, o Nepal e o Tibete, a escritora norueguesa segue um itinerario, fascinante e cheio de surpresas, onde no so apenas os picos majestosos e os horizontes infinitos que dominam a cena, mas homens e mulheres em carne e osso, cujos testemunhos ela coleta, descrevendo as pequenas vidas que pululam entre essas montanhas to altas quanto gigantes.