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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.

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.

An enthralling, elegant, emotional account of a journey into exile, by the wonderful TeffiMoscow, 1918. Following the Revolution, people are leaving the city in droves - bound for the Black Sea, and from there to Europe and beyond. In late autumn, the celebrated writer Teffi is invited on a reading tour; having elegantly navigated the bureaucratic waters for her visa, she spends the winter travelling from Moscow to Kiev, and from there to Odessa and on to Novorossisk, first by train and then by ship. On the shores of the Black Sea, as Spring arrives, Teffi is advised to go abroad for a time, until things have settled down in Russia. She reluctantly agrees, not fully realising that this would be the beginning of her permanent exile from her beloved country.The great Teffis memoir of her last months in Russia is, for all its melancholy, marked by her characteristic wit, sense of irony and generosity of spirit. Her descriptions of her journey across two thousand miles of Russia, during which she encounters illness, hardship and sorrow in the company of a multitude of refugees, are almost unbearably moving at times - but also irresistibly vivid, and utterly unforgettable.Teffi (1872-1952) wrote poems, plays, stories, satires and feuilletons, and was renowned in Russia for her wit and powers of observation. Following her emigration in 1919 she settled in Paris, where she became a leading figure in the migr literary scene. Now her genius has been rediscovered by a new generation of readers, and she once again enjoys huge acclaim in Russia and across the world. Her short-story collection Subtly Worded is also published by Pushkin Press, and the non-fiction collection Rasputin and Other Ironies will also be published in May 2016.

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.

Who really looks after British interests abroad? Behind the pomp of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, another powerful force is busily but discreetly propping up the image of UK Plc. For 28 years, Julia was a diplomatic spouse, juggling a growing family while supporting the demands of one of the great Offices of State. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, she reveals the truth of the realities of life as an Ambassadors wife, ranging from food shortages to terrorist incidents to rubbing shoulders with the Queen, Mrs Thatcher and George Best - and rubbing knees with Mikhail Gorbachev. Light-hearted in style, The Ambassadors Wife Tale has a serious core message: that the diplomatic wife stands centre stage as the drama of world affairs unfolds.

This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975. It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkims independence after their fairytale wedding in 1963. As tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile, a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkims leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the worlds major powers jostled for regional supremacy during the early 1970s Sikkim and its ruling family never stood a chance. On the eve of declaring an Emergency across India, Indira Gandhi outwitted everyone to bring down the curtain on the 300 year-old Namgyal dynasty. Based on interviews and archive research, as well as a retracing of a journey the authors grandfather made in 1922, this is a thrilling, romantic and informative glimpse of a real-life Shangri-La. Clearly the most comprehensive account so far of Sikkims fall... a masterly skill in story-telling - Calcutta Telegraph

Thunder and Sunshine is the sequel to the best-selling Moods of Future Joys. At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys left England in August 2001 to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across in just over 1500 days, through five continents and 60 countries on a tiny budget of just 7,000.His journey, as well as a quest for adventure, helped to raise the profile of the charity Hope and Homes for Children. When scores of people have visited the Poles and 30,000 is needed to get up Everest, Alastair s expedition was refreshingly original. Alastair was alone on the road for four years, in countries few people visit, and enduring an 85 C temperature range. This was an expedition of self-belief and optimism rather than satellite hook-ups and lucrative sponsorship.Thunder & Sunshine is the story of Alastair s journey from South Africa back to Yorkshire, via the whole of the Americas, South to North, then Siberia in winter, Japan, and back through China, Central Asia and Europe.

On the cusp of middle age, Simon Fenton leaves Britain in search of adventure and finds Senegal, love, fatherhood, witch doctors a" and a piece of land that could make a perfect guest house, if only he knew how to build one. The Casamance is an undiscovered paradise where mystic Africa governs life, people walk to the beat of the djembe, when it rains it pours and the mangos are free. But the fact that his name translates to vampire and he has had a curse placed on him via the medium of eggs could mean Simons new life may not be so easy.