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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-191858-3
EAN 9780091918583
Take a spellbinding journey around Wales to discover the tales buried deep in the country's history. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales visits the thirteen traditional Welsh counties and unearths the hidden gems that they each hold. Discover where history and legends happened; where people, ideas ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945932-3
EAN 9780099459323
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals is an astonishing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943722-2
EAN 9780099437222
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey.Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-019-1
EAN 9781846590191
A whole world seems to orbit within Nobody's Home. It's a world that looks familiar but strange. Dubravka Ugresic takes us on her whirligig travels through Europe, and across to the US, offering her insightful and unique perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. She wryly points out that while the Eastern bloc is gripped ...
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Encuadernación en tapa dura
PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-977-9
EAN 9781862079779
The Ends of the Earth is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic (edited by Elizabeth Kolbert) and the Antarctic (edited by Francis Spufford). Contributors include Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Haldor Laxness, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9920-7
EAN 9780749399207
V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 10,18 €
ISBN 978-0-00-720333-8
EAN 9780007203338
The new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of 'The Righteous Men', set against the backdrop of the world's bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night ...
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Rory Stewart's moving, sparsely poetic account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time, Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible, mountainous route once taken by the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-532560-7
EAN 9780195325607
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945928-6
EAN 9780099459286
Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. An inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer, Thubron's The Lost Heart of Asia is an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of a vast ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 373 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-7676-5
EAN 9781400076765
This spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers. Here are the letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a comic tale by Anthony Trollope in which two Englishmen mistake a Spanish duke ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949356-3
EAN 9780099493563
Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144155-9
EAN 9780141441559
In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In 'Sea and Sardinia', Lawrence brings to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102542-1
EAN 9780141025421
Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu left a vivid, informative, clever account of her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and courts which - even as her husband's career was falling apart - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102545-2
EAN 9780141025452
A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela - in the Llanos and on the Orinoco River - riding and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102552-0
EAN 9780141025520
Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from absurdity by his heroic, terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat to a whaling station on South Georgia. Through one of the greatest recorded feats of navigation and of leadership, he overcame almost impossible ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102533-9
EAN 9780141025339
So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But in addition such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102535-3
EAN 9780141025353
Much of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's matchless The Meadows of Gold has almost miraculously survived: a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. It is both a great monument to Islamic scholarship and a time capsule allowing us into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1232 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310490-2
EAN 9780143104902
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and ...
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