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Welcomed with open arms, derided as a pig-ignorant tourist and occasionally mocked mercilessly for his trouble, Ben Fogle visited the last flag-flying outposts of the British Empire.With caution, dignity and a spare pair of pants thrown to the wind, he set out to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-08-05
ePub
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In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also...
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Penguin
Parution :
2004-07-29
ePub
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Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million pound overdraft on his boat, the Norlantean, which is why he has to go out...
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Penguin
Parution :
2004-06-03
ePub
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In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother,...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2004-04-05
ePub
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The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean to visit the far-flung islands that are all that...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2003-06-05
ePub
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Alone - though he was just married - and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarked on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen-month journey along the chain of mountains which stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul. His aim was to explore Europe's last mountain...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2003-04-24
ePub
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'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John MortimerWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his travels with an intense curiosity. His frank descriptions cover...
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Penguin
Parution :
2000-10-26
ePub
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Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being...
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Penguin
Parution :
1998-02-26
ePub
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The Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive read in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1997-11-06
ePub
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India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of ‘stories’ which explore Calcutta, from the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad (probably...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1992-09-14
ePub
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In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1987-04-30
ePub
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After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1979-11-22
ePub
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The Flying Carpet is the airplane in which the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, Jr., follow a royal road to romance in the air.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-01-03
epub sans DRM
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Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful career as a professor of politics and economics at Queen’s University in Kingston. In 1908 Adam Shortt relocated his family...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-01-05
Collection :
Life Writing
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Fleeing the increasing pressure to settle down, a restless young man heeds the call of the road and sets out on a meandering four-month bus trip from Dawson, Yukon, to Key West, Florida. Continental Drifter is the record of that journey.Although a journalist by...
Editeur :
Signature Editions
Parution :
2012-04-17
epub sans DRM
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