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Finally returning from the horrors of World War I, James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow their dream of touring the South Pacific. A fascinating non-fiction account of two americans meeting with life in French Polynesia in the late 1910s, "Faery Lands of the South Seas" is classic adventure travel at its best.

Among the many books about the Polar regions there is none quite like this, dealing with the gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle.The subject is always interesting, for few regions have been the scene of more persistent effort and exciting adventure and unexpected gains from the unknown, particularly in the earlier days when the endeavour to find the northern passages to the east and west led to the beginning of our foreign trade.It is often asked, "What is the use of further Arctic discovery?" No one knows. Nor did any one know the use of most discoveries before they were made.When Eric landed in Greenland he was not in search of cryolite for aluminium. When Cabral sailed to Porto Seguro he knew nothing of the incandescent gas-mantle. When Oersted looped the live wire round the magnetic needle he was not bent on founding electrical engineering. And when Linnus noticed the sleep of plants he had no intention of providing a substitute for a clock in high latitudes where, though vithe sunshine is continuous during the summer, the plants within the Circle sleep as in the night time, their sleeping leaves telling the traveller that midnight is at hand.Men have made up their minds to reach the Pole, and thither they will go. What they will find when they get there may not promise to be much, but what they have found round about it has been enough to influence considerably the history of the world.W. J. G.

Chasing Hornbills charts Simon Fenton s further adventures in Senegal. Now a father, and expanding his business interests to include a taxi firm and a restaurant, he continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations that made Squirting Milk at Chameleons such a compelling and entertaining read. But as his understanding of Senegalese life and culture grows, so do questions about his future. Will the Accidental African settle permanently in his adopted home, or will he give up and return to his old familiar life?

A tour round the South American continent, which was completed in so short a time as five months, may not appear to deserve any special record; yet I am led to hope that this little book may serve to induce others to visit a region so abounding in sources of enjoyment and interest. There is no part of the world where, in the same short space of time, a traveller can view so many varied and impressive aspects of nature; while he whose attention is mainly given to the progress and development of the social condition of mankind will find in the condition of the numerous states of the continent, and the manners and habits of the many different races that inhabit it, abundant material to engage his attention and excite his interest.Although, as the title implies, the aim of my journey was mainly directed to the new aspects of nature, organic and inorganic, which South America superabundantly presents to the stranger, I have not thought it without interest to give in these pages theviii impressions as to the social and political condition of the different regions which I visited, suggested to an unprejudiced visitor by the daily incidents of a travellers life.Those who may be tempted to undertake a tour in South America will find that by a judicious choice of route, according to the season selected for travelling, they may visit all the accessible parts of the continent with perfect ease, and with no more risk of injury to health, or of bodily discomfort, than they incur in a summer excursion in Europe. The chief precaution to be observed is to make the visit to Brazil fall in the cool and dry season, extending from mid-May to September. It may also be well to mention that, while the cost of passage and expenses on board, for a journey of about 18,400 miles by sea, somewhat exceeded 170, my expenses during about ten weeks on land, without any attempt at economy, did not exceed 100.

When Mark Twain was seventeen he went back to the home of his boyhood resolved to become a pilot on the Mississippi. How he learnt the river he has told us in Life on the Mississippi, wherein his adventures, his experiences, and his impressions while he was a cub-pilot are recorded with a combination of precise veracity and abundant humor which makes the earlier chapters of that marvelous book a most masterly fragment of autobiography. The life of a pilot was full of interest and excitement and opportunity, and what young Clemens saw and heard and divined during the years when he was going up and down the mighty river we may read in these pages.

"A Tramp Abroad" is one of Mark Twains famous travel books, describing the events of a journey to Europe with his fictional friend Harris. They start their journey in Germany, travel through Switzerland and the Eastern part of France and touch cities in Northern Italy as well as some well-known mountains in the Alps. Twains humor is exceedingly fit to tell of many funny situations that the both of them encounter.

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Tim Robinsons epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone rocks, which have already haunted generations of Irish writers, takes the form of a clockwise journey around the coast. Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.

Torna il giornalismo di viaggio. In pieno XXI secolo, il pianeta e ormai interamente mappato, misurato, fotografato e spiegato per filo e per segno. Trovare Terra Incognita, assaporare qualcosa che assomigli ad una scoperta, e impresa impossibile? Non per un giornalista duro e puro, che segue la scia dei grandi maestri del giornalismo letterario, da Robert D. Kaplan a Evelyn Vaugh, passando per Dominique Lapierre e perfino per Sir Winston Churchill. Polifemo vive ad Est e un invito al viaggio, a far parte di una cronaca che guida per mano il lettore a conoscere gli angoli meno esplorati dei confini dell"Europa, alla ricerca di imperi e di frontiere apparentemente dimenticati, ma la cui eredita dimostra il contrario. In realta, man mano che se seguono le tracce, si scoprono decisamente vibranti. Dotato solo di libri di storia e di un quaderno per gli appunti, Daniel Pinilla ci propone di riscoprire le origini e di intuire il futuro del Vicino Oriente, questa indefinita regione geografica dove si sono passati il testimone civilta e barbarie. Le tracce di unni, mongoli, bizantini, ottomani e sovietici diventano riconoscibili in un racconto giornalistico al cento per cento, narrato al tempo presente, agile, educativo e divertente. Confini di guerra, paesi non riconosciuti dalla Comunita Internazionale, lingue parlate da poche centinaia di persone, piramidi, campi profughi, cimiteri di popolazioni scomparse, la stessa patria del grande Ulisse, campi di battaglia molto recenti... Chi, dopo aver letto questo libro, non sente limpellente desiderio di partire alla scoperta del mondo e perche non ha sangue nelle vene.

This carefully crafted ebook: "PENELOPES PROGRESS The Complete Series: Penelopes English Experiences, Penelopes Experiences in Scotland, Penelopes Irish Experiences & Penelopes Postscripts" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Penelope Hamilton is a young American lady, who travels abroad to Europe with two of her friends, Francesca and Salemina. Salemina is a classy woman, sophisticated and open to world, while Francesca is inflexibly, almost aggressively American. Together these ladies discover the British Isles, experiencing differences of England, Scotland and Ireland, and going through few adventures of their own, including romances, affairs and a marriage. For the final adventure, they cross to the main land and find their selves in the hills of Switzerland and in the sunny Venice.Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator and author of childrens stories, most notably the classic childrens novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor.Table of Contents:Penelopes English ExperiencesPenelopes Experiences in ScotlandPenelopes Irish ExperiencesPenelopes Postscripts

The great Victorian William Morris was fascinated by Iceland, which inspired him to write one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw travels in his footsteps, combining excerpts from his Icelandic writings with her own response to the country.

Sheep, hills and inbreds. The typical image of rural Wales is hardly flattering. So why is a little market town in the Welsh Marches attracting waves of newcomers? Hay-on-Wye is hardly typical. Nestled under the Black Mountains, its home to 20 second-hand bookshops and the UKs largest literary festival. Yet is that the sum of its appeal? From an old pottery workshop under a castle tump, Oliver Balch embarks on an entertaining expedition of his new home to find out who and what makes it tick. In his signature reportage style, his investigations take him to the weekly market with the Merry Widows and down the pub with the local old boys. He meets with ex-hippies up in the hills and visits a self-appointed King in his palace. Oliver Balch avoids romanticising the British countryside in favour of an honest and vividly told sketches of real life on the Welsh borders. An unusual portrait of a very unusual place.

Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardians migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley travelled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Europe. This is Kingsleys unparalleled account of who these voyagers are. Its about why they keep coming, and how they do it. Its about the smugglers who help them on their way, and the coastguards who rescue them at the other end. The volunteers that feed them, the hoteliers that house them, and the border guards trying to keep them out. And the politicians looking the other way.The New Odyssey is a work of original, bold reporting written with a perfect mix of compassion and authority by the journalist who knows the subject better than any other.

Following the spirit of the worlds longest coastal driving route, Paul Clements sets out to discover the real west of Ireland. Along the way he encounters memorable characters living on the Atlantic edge and presents a unique portrait of their lives. We meet the last man standing on a remote Galway island, listen to the banter at Puck Fair, and hear from a descendant of the original sixteenth-century wild Atlantic woman. Tagging along on his meandering journey is the swashbuckling presence of the Celtic sea god, Manannan Mac Lir. For his first travel book in 1991, Paul hitchhiked the same route. Now retracing his steps along the Wild Atlantic Way this time by car and bike, on horseback and on foot he looks at how Ireland has changed and realises everyone still has a story to tell. Laced with wry humour and endless curiosity, this is a distinctive mix of travel writing, social history and nature. Also by this author: The Height of Nonsense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip Praise for this author: "Stacks of free copies should be sent to all our tourist desks abroad." The Irish Times. "For sheer pleasure, nothing I read beat Paul ClementsThe Height of Nonsense." The Observer. "A compulsive, educational, laugh-out-loud read." Sunday Independent. "A fascinating journey around the hidden corners of Ireland." BBC Radio

Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britains highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by a hardened team of writers, poets and urban cartographers, each one scaling a smaller mountain within the city - from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m) - until the accumulative climb exceeds the height of Ben Nevis.Also available as an eBook here.The essays and stories in Mount London unpeel Londons history, geography and psychogeography, reimagining the city as mountainous terrain and exploring what its like to move through the urban landscape. Ascents of Londons natural peaks are offset by expeditions to the artificial mountains of the city - the Shard (306m), the chimneys of Battersea Power Station (103m) - and the search for ghost hills in the back streets of Whitechapel and Finsbury.Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city. With contributions by Iain Sinclair, Helen Mort, Joe Dunthorne, Sarah Butler, Inua Ellams, Bradley Garrett and many more.

Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Youngs account memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in what is his most famous book. The sequel, Slow Boats Home, is also reissued in Faber Finds.

History A Of Six Weeks Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni is a travel narrative, that Mary Shelley has published in 1817. It describes two journeys that Shelley undertook with Percy Bysshe Shelley and her stepsister Claire. The first journey led them all across Europe in 1814, the second one to the Lake Geneva two years later.

In the depths of winter, Jeremy James began a horseback ride from central Turkey to his hometown in Wales, a journey which was to take him eight and a half months. First he had to find his horse, an unlikely old and weary Arab stallion who eventually rose to the challenge with equal spirit to that of his new master. With uncertain mastery of their route, the two of them crossed rivers and mountains to reach the Greek border. Here their close bond had to break and Jeremy was forced to buy Maria, an unbroken filly who he then rode to the Italian border and changed her for Gonzo, who took him on the idyllic stretch through Umbria and Tuscany. Crossing the Alps together, they rode through late-summer France to reach their destination, Wales, in November. Jeremy writes with humour and sensitivity about the people and places this journey takes him, but it is his bond with his horses that makes the thread which binds the narrative and infuses the whole adventure.

In this, the sequel to Slow Boats to China (also reissued in Faber Finds), Gavin Young tells, with equal panache, of his return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa.I am decidedly envious of Gavin Young and his Slow Boats Home, successor to his highly entertaining Slow Boats to China . . . a fascinating, memorable book. Eric Newby, GuardianLike Slow Boats to China this is likely to become a classic of travel. Francis King, Spectator

Una zona de oscuridad es un clásico fundamental de la literatura de viajes, probablemente el libro más elegante y apasionado que se haya escrito sobre la India.Una zona de oscuridad es el primer libro del premio Nobel V.S. Naipaul sobre la tierra de sus antepasados, fruto de su primer viaje al subcontinente indio en 1964. Desde el caos de Bombay a la belleza inmarcesible de Cachemira, de una sagrada cueva helada en el Himalaya a un templo abandonado en Madras, Naipaul descubre una asombrosa variedad de tipos humanos, modestos funcionarios publicos y criados arrogantes; un sinuoso santon y un fascinado estadounidense en busca de la fe. Naipaul tambien expone su reaccion personal y distinta al paralizante sistema de castas, a la aparentemente serena aceptacion de la pobreza y la miseria, y el conflicto entre el deseo de autodeterminacion y la nostalgia por la dominacion britanica.En Una zona de oscuridad forma, junto a India, tras un millon de motines (DeBolsillo 2011) e India: una civilizacion herida, su aclamada trilogia sobre la India.Mi India no era como la de los ingleses o los britanicos. Mi India estaba llena de dolor. Unos sesenta años antes mis antepasados habian hecho el larguisimo viaje desde India hasta el Caribe, de al menos seis semanas, y aunque apenas se hablaba de ello cuando yo era pequeño, a medida que fui haciendome mayor empezo a preocuparme cada vez mas. De modo que, a pesar de ser escritor, yo no iba a la India de Forster o de Kipling. Iba a una India que solamente existia en mi cabeza...La critica ha dicho... La literatura de viajes de Naipaul, inteligente y subjetiva, conforma una narracion directa del choque de civilizaciones.The New York TimesEsto es la India. No conozco otro libro que consiga capturar con tanta precision esta locura... Brillante. John Wain, The ObserverSus dotes de narrador son espectaculares... Uno regresa con placer a las revelaciones que se van desvelando a un tiempo sobre la India y sobre el.The Times (London)Escriba en el genero que escriba, Naipaul es un maestro.The New York Review of Books

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In Walking Away Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britains south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finsh.From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit weve come to expect of one of Britains best loved and most popular writers.