Novedades del último mes en ebooks de guías de viaje

La ruta que revela la esencia más auténtica de las Highlands.La North Coast 500 es un viaje épico de 800 km por la costa norte de Escocia, que lleva a los viajeros a través de paisajes sobrecogedores, castillos historicos y encantadoras aldeas costeras. Este recorrido, que serpentea por las impresionantes Highlands, ofrece una autentica inmersion en la historia, la cultura y la naturaleza escocesas. Desde acantilados impresionantes hasta playas desiertas, la ruta promete una aventura inolvidable para quienes busquen descubrir lo mas salvaje de Escocia.

La guía definitiva para recorrer el Camino FrancésCamino de Santiago, el segundo título de la nueva colección de Lonely Planet "Rutas legendarias", es la guía definitiva para embarcarte en una de las grandes aventuras del mundo: un recorrido que te acerca a la cultura, la historia y los paisajes que encontraras en el Camino. Dejate inspirar con ideas y consejos de planificacion de la mano de nuestros expertos, que han recorrido cada paso para descubrir experiencias unicas que tu tambien puedes hacer tuyas. Prueba la mejor tortilla de patatas que hayas comido en Valdelafuente, despierta con el canto de los monjes al amanecer en Roncesvalles y pide un pacharan como copa de despedida antes de dejar Navarra.

Túneles, pasadizos y leyendas de la ciudad bajo tus piesDaniela Améstica te invita a recorrer el inframundo santiaguino, donde cada esquina guarda un misterio. Descubre los túneles que conectan edificios emblematicos como La Moneda, la Catedral de Santiago, el Portal Fernandez Concha, el Instituto Nacional y el Teatro Municipal. Atrevete a explorar los subterraneos del cerro Santa Lucia, los pasadizos del Paseo Phillips que unieron la presidencia con la historia y los secretos del barrio Republica, donde la masoneria, la dictadura y la arquitectura Belle Epoque se entrelazan bajo tierra.Entre relatos de conserjes, historiadores, sacerdotes y vecinos, este libro revela hallazgos arqueologicos, leyendas de tuneles jesuitas, pasadizos sanitarios y hasta historias de amor y tragedia que han quedado atrapadas bajo el cemento de la ciudad. Desde el Centro hasta el Cementerio General, pasando por la Universidad de Los Lagos, el Ex Congreso Nacional y el Instituto Psiquiatrico, cada capitulo es una invitacion a mirar Santiago desde una perspectiva insolita y fascinante.Santiago subterraneo es mucho mas que un recorrido patrimonial: es una aventura entre la realidad y el mito, donde la oscuridad revela la memoria y el asombro espera en cada recodo.

This travelogue chronicles a walking tour through central and southern Europe, filled with humorous observations and exaggerations. The author skewers the pretensions of tourists and the idiosyncrasies of European culture, from German opera to Swiss mountain climbing. Interspersed with folklore and tall tales, the narrative is a rambling and delightful mix of fact and fiction. It captures the bemusement of an American abroad, navigating the quirks of the Old World.

This humorous travel narrative follows a group of American tourists on a "Great Pleasure Excursion" to Europe and the Holy Land aboard a retired Civil War vessel. The author pokes fun at the reverence for Old World history, contrasting the romantic expectations of the travelers with the gritty reality they encounter. It challenges the standard reverential travelogues of the time, offering a fresh and irreverent perspective on the Grand Tour. The book established the authors reputation as a premier humorist.

A group of American pilgrims embarks on a cruise to the Holy Land, but their reverence is constantly checked by the narrators skepticism and wit. The author mocks the "Old Masters" of art, complains about the dirt and beggars, and refuses to be awed by history just because the guidebooks say he should. The book revolutionized travel writing by replacing awe with honest, often grumpy, observation. It is a hilarious clash between New World attitude and Old World tradition.

This memoir captures the romance and rigor of the authors youth as a "cub" pilot learning the intricate, shifting currents of the Mississippi River. He describes the river not just as a body of water, but as a living, formidable character that demands respect and mastery. The latter part of the book recounts a return trip, lamenting the loss of the steamboat era to the railroads. It is a nostalgic and vivid history of a vanished American way of life.

Mark Twain narrates a fictionalized walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, filled with satirical observations on European customs and tourists. He struggles with the complexities of the German language, complains about opera, and recounts local legends with a humorous twist. The book is a loose collection of sketches that skewers the romanticism of travel literature. It captures the authors voice at its most relaxed and observant.

Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922.The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers experiences in wartime Cornwall (St Columb Major), vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney.Australian journalist Robert Darroch in several articles in the late 1970s, and a 1981 book entitled D.H. Lawrence in Australia claimed that Lawrence based Kangaroo on real people and events he witnessed in Australia.The extent to which this is true remains a matter of controversy particularly by Joseph Davis in his 1989 "D.H. Lawrence at Thirroul"(Collins, Sydney). Davis is sympathetic to the view that "Kangaroo" may be based on real events but argues that it is impossible that Lawrence had time to meet clandestine political leaders in Sydney when he was too busy writing his novel in Thirroul.

Gravel Rides Loch Lomond & The Trossachs showcases 15 of the best gravel bike rides across the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park and west into Argyll. From 15 to 177 kilometres in length and covering a variety of terrain, there is something for every gravel cyclist.Immerse yourself in the Gravelfoyle trails around Aberfoyle, the heart of Scottish gravel riding; sample sections of the West Highland Way and John Muir Way, two of Scotlands Great Trails; and take on coastal adventures on Mull, while scanning the skies for Scotlands eagles. Also included is a coast-to-coast challenge, cycling west from the Firth of Forth across the Central Belt into the national park.Researched, ridden and written by Bikepacking Scotlands Markus Stitz, the routes feature clear and easy-to-use Ordnance Survey maps; easy-to-follow directions; details of distance, timings and difficulty gradings; stunning action photography; refreshment stops and local knowledge; and a detailed appendix. Also included is a link to downloadable GPX files.

A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains gathers Isabella Birds 1873 letters from the Colorado Territory into an epistolary travelogue of striking immediacy. Crossing high-country ranches, mining camps, and the open valley of Estes Park, she records harsh weather, rough hospitality, and fledgling frontier economies; her ascent of Longs Peak with the enigmatic Mountain Jim is a classic set piece. The prose is supple and exact, blending natural history with social observation, and stands within Victorian scientific travel writing even as it tests gender norms and demythologizes the American West. Birdan English clergymans daughter whose chronic ailments were eased by rigorous travelwrote these letters to her sister Henrietta, whose light editing preserved their candor. A seasoned traveler before Colorado (Hawaii) and after (Japan, Persia, Tibet), she later became the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. The saddle as medicine, Anglican conscience, and empirical habit shape the books restless precision. This book rewards readers of environmental history, western American literature, and gender studies, as well as admirers of unsentimental adventure. Expect period attitudes, but also a singular intelligence testing the limits of mobility, observation, and self-reliance. Few accounts make the nineteenth-century Rockies feel so lived-in.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Following the Equator chronicles Twains 189596 circumnavigation of the Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand, India and Ceylon, Mauritius, and South Africa, marrying nimble reportage to satiric sting. Composed amid lateVictorian imperial expansion, it extends The Innocents Abroad yet darkens it. Shipboard diaries, ethnographic sketches, and comic setpieces are threaded with the mordant epigrams of "Puddnhead Wilsons New Calendar," yielding a braid in which humor unsettles. Twain probes indenture, missionary zeal, racial hierarchy, and penal legacies with an eye for the absurd and the cruelly ordinary. Samuel L. Clemensalready celebrated as Mark Twainundertook the tour to repay debts from his failed publishing house and the Paige typesetter, only to be struck, while abroad, by news of Susys death. The shock honed his skepticism and pity. From notebooks and the lecture platform he fashioned prose that blends ledgerbook exactitude with a performers timing, anticipating his public antiimperialism. Readers of travel writing, postcolonial history, and American literature will find this a bracing companion: vivid in scene, aphoristic in insight, ethically restless. Choose it for laughter with conscience, and keep it for the clarity with which it unsettles certainties.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Old Road is Hilaire Bellocs topographical meditation on the Pilgrims Way from Winchester to Canterbury, reconstructed through walking, charters, placenames, and the lie of the land. Part travelogue, part antiquarian inquiry, it reads the route as a palimpsest of prehistoric track, Roman alignment, and medieval pilgrimage. In brisk, epigrammatic prose, often accompanied by Bellocs maps, the book joins Edwardian debates over origins, access, and the disruptions of enclosure and rail. BellocFrench-born, English-educated at Balliol, a celebrated walker since The Path to Rometreated roads as the grammar of civilization. His Catholic historical imagination and draughtsmans habit of verification shape every page: archives are tested against hedgerows, ridgeways, and fords, and modern evasions of continuity are challenged by what his feet and eye record. Scholars of medieval pilgrimage, historical geographers, walkers planning the WinchesterCanterbury traverse, and readers of robust prose will find lasting value here. The Old Road offers a vivid argument for reading England underfootpart guide, part polemic, and wholly attentive to how paths store memorymaking it an indispensable, provocative companion for study and for the road.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1791, Bartrams Travels surveys the Carolinas, Georgia, and East and West Florida, fusing precise natural history with soaring descriptive prose. Along the St. Johns River, the Alachua Savanna, and the Okefenokee, Bartram records flora and fauna in Linnaean terms, while rendering light, weather, and motion with proto-Romantic intensity. The narrative moves from measurements and seasonal notes to attentive accounts of Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole life, establishing a formative American blend of science, travel narrative, and early environmental writing that later resonated with British Romanticism. William Bartram, a Philadelphia Quaker and son of renowned botanist John Bartram, combined training in illustration and field botany with a pacifist ethic of observation. Backed by the London physician John Fothergill, he traveled the Southeast from 1773 to 1777 collecting specimens, seeds, and drawings. Encounters with Indigenous guides, plantations, and fragile borderlands on the eve of revolution shaped his balanced voiceempirical yet reverent, skeptical of conquest, and keen to register local knowledge. Scholars and general readers will value this classic for its integrative method and ethical poise. Read it for taxonomy enlivened by vision, for Indigenous encounters handled with tact, and for a still-urgent meditation on place.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1777, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (Vol. 1 and 2) distills Cooks 1772-1775 circumnavigation in HMS Resolution (with Furneauxs Adventure initially in company). In spare, data-rich prose he records multiple crossings of the Antarctic Circle, the collapse of Terra Australis, and visits to Tahiti, Tonga, Easter Island, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, and South Georgia, interleaving precise latitudes, thermometric readings, charts, and restrained ethnographic notice. Yorkshire-born and forged in Whitby colliers and Newfoundland surveys, Cook united seamanship with cartographic and astronomical skill. Under Admiralty and Royal Society mandate, and alongside astronomer William Wales and the naturalists J. R. and G. Forster, he tested the southern-continent hypothesis while refining scurvy prevention, chronometry, and navigation; the books plain style and calibrated measurements reflect that Enlightenment discipline. Scholars and curious readers alike will prize these volumes as a lucid primary source where observation, method, and ethical restraint guide discovery. Consult them for superb charts and plates, climatological and oceanic notes, and nuanced accounts of Pacific encounters; read them to understand how empirical travel writing remade geography at the limits of the known.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A personal view of the worlds happiest country from an accidental expat in FinlandTim Bird arrived in Finland by accident in the early Eighties. More than forty years on, he is still there. He has watched the transformation of his adopted homeland from semi-detached member of the Soviet bloc to modern European nation that tops the rankings, year after year, as the happiest country in the world.Does it deserve that status? Do the Finns, known for their hard drinking, their sisu (grit) and their passion for heavy metal, recognise that description of themselves? Telling the story of his own path to Finnish citizenship while also delving into the writings of a 19th-century British traveller, Bird interrogates the claim made on Finlands behalf.In this clear-sighted but never cynical sideways look at the land of the sauna, the Northern Lights and the Moomins, Bird spotlights the Nordic nations distinctive culture, landscape and language. As he helps us understand the Finnish notion of contentment, are there life-lessons for the rest of us?

A few months before the Russia-Ukraine war started, Patrick rode a motorcycle from Moscow to the Caucasus. Across the Cossack Plains to Mount Elbrus, where he swapped the motorcycle for a snow scooter. From the Orthodox-Christian Russia in the Moscow area to the Muslim South and finally to Sochi at the Black Sea coast. Before that trip he tested Covid19 rules in various European countries, causing Patrick to re-name the place Coronistan. He also updated some of his earlier travel stories: Earthquake Italy, a wedding in New Zealand, riding with Vikings in Georgia, searching for Vultures in the Spanish Pyrenees, burning insence in Shanghai, sweating away in Englands Lake District and enjoying high roads and tunnels in Switzerland. The many people Patrick meets make the stories come alive. Hop on board for an enjoyable journey across the landscapes and history of many countries from the comfort of your settee. Travel is Food for Thought so youll get plenty of that in this book.