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I had thought for some time that there must be something funny about Germany because, except for hard-drinking types at the Munich beer festival,I had never heard of anybody going there for a holiday. This was, in my view, the first of two advantages. There are...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-03-03
ePub
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Of immense significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC.
Covering all the main sites both in the city of Jerusalem and throughout the Holy Land and including over 150 high quality site plans,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-02-28
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Of immense significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC.
Covering all the main sites both in the city of Jerusalem and throughout the Holy Land and including over 150 high quality site plans,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-02-28
ePub
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The Guide to Creative Montréal offers ten self-guided tours through Montréal's buzzing arts scene to help you discover the city's vigorous creative side.
These carefully crafted itineraries help you see the city on foot, discovering or rediscovering neighbourhoods and...
Editeur :
Ulysse
Parution :
2008-02-16
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Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too.
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Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-01-08
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The Ulysses Authentic Québec guide provides a visual and informative overview of the stunning landscapes, fascinating attractions and fun activities that are offered in the extraordinary Québec regions of Lanaudière and Mauricie, both of which are located near the...
Editeur :
Ulysse
Parution :
2007-10-26
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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-10-25
ePub
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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-10-25
ePub
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A reference guide to those must-see places all over the globe. The book covers 501 must-visit destinations, ranging from remote hideaways and tropical islands to bustling cities, breathtaking monuments and stunning landscapes across the world. Stunning photography...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2007-10-15
Collection :
501 Series
ePub
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Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate evolution of a people struggling to survive. With personal stories that...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2007-10-15
ePub
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In September 2005, Alex Kapranos began writing about what he ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. The writing is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as the unusual flavours he tastes on the road. Whether it’s munching...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-10-04
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An indispensable resource for the perfect island getaway.This reader-friendly guide to the beauty and wonder of the nation's 50th state features everything you need to know before visiting Oahu, Maui, the Big Island, Kauai, Molokai, and Lana'i. Includes one-island and...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2007-10-02
ePub
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The "gritty and riveting" story of naturalist Craig Childs's epic journey through the desert canyons of the American Southwest (The Oregonian). Are you prepared for a perilous journey into the wild?This taut, intensely dramatic narrative immerses...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2007-09-03
ePub
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Inspired by a temple astrologer (who had accurately predicted his marriage and the birth of his two daughters), the writer and broadcaster Michael Wood travelled on a magical journey through south-east India.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-08-02
ePub
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'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna TrollopeOne summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2007-07-12
ePub
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In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope.Since the Summer of Love, the countries that offered so much to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-07-05
ePub
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In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-07-05
ePub
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The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-06-19
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'First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and out Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, white wine and raven haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2007-06-12
ePub
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Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh is best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms – sporting and non-sporting – go far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In his new book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dún Síon to Croke Park,Micheál brings...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-05-31
ePub
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