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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 349 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-553-38310-2
EAN 9780553383102
By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing is as easy as it seems.
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While the eyes of the world are focused upon attempts to scale Mount Everest, two young men - once members of the world's climbing elite, subsequently forced into premature retirement after the failure of a secret military operation in the Alps during World War II - have become outcasts of mountaineering society. Until, that is, ...
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A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels "Snow and "My Name Is Red. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303973-0
EAN 9780143039730
Now with a new introduction by David Rieff, The Lawless Roads is the result of Graham Greene's expedition to Mexico in the late 1930s to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, places where all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303972-3
EAN 9780143039723
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of ...
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This is an account of the author's trip round the Mediterranean. In this modern version of the "Grand Tour", Theroux chooses the difficult route, taking in such adventures as avoiding the crossfire of Croatia, witnessing the near anarchy of Albania, and seeing Israel in a state of siege.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028129-3
EAN 9780140281293
Over Hill and Dale is the second volume in Gervase Phinn's bestselling Dales series. 'Miss, who's that funny man at the back of the classroom? So begins school-inspector Gervase Phinn's second year among the frankly spoken pupils and teachers of North Yorkshire - the sight of Gervase with his notebook and pen provokes unexpected reactions ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-005410-1
EAN 9780140054101
A journalist for the London Sunday Times, Simon vividly recounts his four-year journey, by motorcycle, around the world, offering incisive observations about the people, places, and customs of four continents.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945929-3
EAN 9780099459293
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-977111-1
EAN 9780099771111
This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas.In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6726-1
EAN 9780719567261
When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put their best feet forward.For he ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 321 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-1-59017-165-3
EAN 9781590171653
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-4868-3
EAN 9780712348683
Peter Whitfield's latest work, "Cities of the World" is a fascinating and original look at the world's greatest cities, as he traces their historic form and special character through the city maps and panoramic views produced over the centuries. Illustrating the classical city-state, the medieval fortress, the baroque capital and the industrial metropolis, the images ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-586-08707-7
EAN 9780586087077
Imprisoned in India by the British when WWII was declared, Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer escaped, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, he became the tutor and friend of the present Dalai Lama in this classic of adventure literature. Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102386-1
EAN 9780141023861
A profound influence on medieval Europe's view of the wider world, this thirteenth-century account of a Venetian merchant's amazing experiences in the court of the great Mongol leader, Kubilai Khan, remains one of the most fascinating tales of exploration ever written.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-976991-0
EAN 9780099769910
The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth of Australia seeking to find ...
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After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the world almost forgot that Istanbul existed. The city into which I was born was poorer, shabbier, and more isolated than it had ever been its two-thousand-year history. For me it has always been a city of ruins and of end-of-empire melancholy. I've spent my life either battling with this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6691-2
EAN 9780719566912
This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143946-4
EAN 9780141439464
I was not only travelling out of my country in latitude and longitude, but out of myself in diet, associates, and consideration'In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds by embarking on a journey through the Cévennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The ...
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