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Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but also a startling, moving story of danger and betrayal.

En otoño de 1927, Erika y Klaus Mann comenzaron un viaje alrededor del mundo. Durante más de nueve meses recorrieron Estados Unidos y visitaron Hawai, Japón, Corea y la Unión Soviética. Se encontraron con personalidades famosas, de Greta Garbo a Emil Jannings, y descubrieron muchas cosas desconocidas. A su vuelta, ambos hermanos escribieron un relato divertido y lleno de anecdotas sobre sus experiencias.

Para viajar hoy a cualquier parte del mundo podemos optar por muchos medios de transportes, sin embargo para viajar al pasado –en espera de que inventen la máquina del tiempo– nos quedan muy pocas po

Libro editado por Tentadero EdicionesEn 2001, el periodista Arcadi Espada remontó el Ebro para levantar acta de un paisaje. Sus crónicas arrancan en el fangal del delta y concluyen, después de 31 días de escritura a contracorriente, en el pico de los Tres Mares. Cinco años despues de aquella peripecia vital y literaria, el viajero vuelve sus pasos hacia Levante para encararse con el reverso del rio. Primera etapa: el canal de Cherta, kilometro cero del malogrado trasvase.Cuaderno de viajes, recetario ilustrado, diario extimo Ebro/Orbe constituye un fresco audaz y temperamental de la España de nuestros dias; una geniuda cronica-rio que se desenvuelve con identico aplomo en la quietud y en la turbulencia. Ilustrado con fotografias de Juan Peiro.

Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument both to his resilience and to the Bedu who guided him and who emerge as the book's real heroes.Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

UK only release. 132: Seize the Days is a wake-up call to raise awareness about the number of non-work days we actually have each year. This fun and interactive book encourages readers to assess what they?re doing with their own free time, and offers ideas, tips and suggestions to help them to the most of it. Whether it be 4 minutes or 4 months, 132: Seize the Days offers inspiration to explore every moment. From unwinding, to travelling or learning a new skill, this book really will help you to seize the days!

Reunidos por primera vez en español, Londres recoge los textos que el autor americano dedicó a la capital británica, . Con un estilo inimitable y la precisión de un fino observador, James desliza su

Allí donde acabn las fronteras naturales de Europa y oriente se funde con occidente, se alzan las oscuras montañas del Cáucaso, una tierra rodeada de leyendas y profundas tradiciones, de altas montañas y remotos pueblos, de venganzas ancestrales y guerras fratcidas que se resiste a desaparecer.En El Caucaso, entre leyendas y Kalashnikov, Marc Morte relata un recorrido por las tres republicas independientes de Georgia, Armenia y Azerbaiyan. A traves de ciudades devastadas por las guerras, pueblos de montaña olvidados, historias de gentes anonimas, y reflexiones politicas va descubriendose lentamente el alma inquebrantable del Caucaso, todo ello entremezclado con situaciones hilarantes: desde absurdas conversaciones con personas que hablan con extraterrestres a interrogatorios de la ex KGB, pasando por visitas a huespedes de hoteles abandonados, o encuentros con chechenos borrachos que rompen el silencio de la noche con sus Kalashnikov.