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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-618-65894-7
EAN 9780618658947
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala ...
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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
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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
PVP: 14,50 €
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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