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Along the Samurais Route, with its 9 maps and more than 200 ºphotographs, invites the reader to go on a journey into the geography and history of Japan.Dare to travel the Land of the Rising Sun with the help of an experienced martial artist who will act as a guide, while recounting the incredible experiences of his journey.Following the life of the famous warrior Miyamoto Musashi, the author will discover the iconic places of samurai culture and its most deeply rooted traditions.This book is a journey back in time where he shares his experiences in sacred places such as temples, shrines, castles, museums, cemeteries, forests, battlefields, and even the climb of mythical Mount Fuji.This inspirational adventure, which started as a dream and took many years to prepare, places the reader, both neophyte and experienced, closer to the culture of this mysterious country.

O mundo, dizem, é um livro. E um livro também pode conter o mundo.GRANDE PRÉMIO DE LITERATURA DE VIAGENS MARIA ONDINA BRAGA, ATRIBUÍDO PELA ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DE ESCRITORES.Partindo das suas muita

El escalador y alpinista extremo Thomas Huber se mueve desde hace décadas al borde del abismo. Ha logrado grandes éxitos en primeras ascensiones y en rutas espectaculares, ha sufrido derrotas, sobrevivido a graves accidentes y a la enfermedad. Ha vivido siempre al limite, y ha hecho de sus fracasos una virtud, resurgido varias veces de sus cenizas. En este libro nos habla de su infancia al pie de los Alpes, de la energia de sus primeros pasos, de la pasion, de la hermandad, de la valentia y de las dudas. Es la historia de uno de los alpinistas mas famosos de nuestra epoca y un canto a la libertad.

Este volumen trata de dibujar un mapa estratégico que sirva de guía para el acercamiento a la literatura de viajes producida en el Medievo y Renacimiento europeos: libros verídicos (cruzadas, peregrinaciones, embajadas, misiones, viajes comerciales, expediciones belicas), viajes seudo-historicos o ficcionalizados, geografias y mapas comentados, cosmografia alegorica, secciones enciclopedicas, mundos imaginados, bestiarios?El libro propone una aproximacion interdisciplinar a una region de la cultura en el pasado tan fascinante como todavia inexplorada: "Mares, sueños, vuelos y paraisos", "El viaje a Jerusalen y a los lugares sagrados: cruzada y peregrinacion", "Libros de maravillas" y "Espacios narrativos". A la vez, sugiere una reflexion actual sobre el viaje antiguo -mas que nunca vigente, ¿viaje solo de ida y vuelta?- desde el Mediterraneo a Oriente.

Restores Dr Howard Somervell to his rightful place in the story of Himalayan exploration an unsung pioneer whose courage, compassion, and heroism shaped the foundations of high-altitude mountaineering... Hoyland writes with rare authority, empathy and insight, delivering a vital and beautifully told biography. Sir Chris BoningtonThe pioneers who attempted the first climbs of Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924 knew nothing about the mountain other than its height. They had to learn the hard way about the lack of oxygen, the jet-stream winds, the illnesses of altitude, and the vital importance of the Sherpas. They fought cerebral oedema, frostbite, hypothermia, and raging thirst in the cold, thin air. They had to find a route, avoid avalanches, and work out what to do when confronted by an insurmountable rock climb at extreme altitude. Many of them died.Howard Somervell was Mallorys closest friend on the mountain during those groundbreaking first ascents. An exceptionally gifted man, his life takes us far beyond the mountain: he had a double first from Cambridge, was a talented artist and an accomplished musician. He served as a surgeon at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War and was one of the foremost alpinists of the day when he was invited to join the 1922 expedition. After Everest, he was awarded an Olympic gold medal for Alpinism in 1924. But in India, he will be remembered as a surgeon who dedicated the remainder of his life to healing the sick.Those early climbers showed the way. Somervell took part in the first attempt to climb the mountain, and his oxygen-free height record in 1924 stood for over 50 years. This is his climb.

During a golden age of science, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Many enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today.The Noble Quest, previously Sightseers & Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History, features a new introduction that considers the growing catastrophic trend in species extinction today. The nine important individuals featured in the book encompass early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and the last of the field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell. All faced great adventures and hardship as they undertook their groundbreaking work, which makes for great armchair travel today.

Since the first Welch sailor set foot on Japanese shores in the seventeenth century to the present-day presence of high-tech Japanese companies in the Valleys, Wales and Japan are two nations with deeply entwined roots.Captured in this groundbreaking book is a chorus of modern-day Welsh migrants to Japan. There is Catharine who, in 1965, followed her Japanese husband to an out of kilter house in the seaside town of Zushi; Jac, the capitalist ski bum, who guides tourists through the bear-infested wilds of snowy Hokkaid, while on a volcanic island in the Seto Inland Sea, Simon clears jungle vines to develop his vegan farm.There are also actors, writers, teachers, an ex-bouncer turned martial artist, a filmmaker, a games localiser, and many more. There are even Japanese fans who promote Welsh culture in their homeland. Together they form a polyphonic group portrait based on oral-history techniques, mixing travel writing, character study and reportage, while proving an ear for natural speech.Fresh, engaging, with a strong sense of space and place, but above all, a knack for crafting a life story, this volume of documentary literature presents universal themes of work, adventure, reinvention and survival. Here are people discovering and negotiating the land, the life and the culture of Japan, and putting down transplantable roots.INCLUDES 45 B&W IMAGES

* LoveReadings Best Books of the Year 2025From the author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking ___ Can one new mother rediscover a path back to the hills and to freedom?Left me itching to lace up my boots and follow the call of the path. Laura Pashby, author of Chasing Fog___ In the wake of the complete upheaval of becoming a mother, walker Kerri Andrews finds herself carrying the idea that maybe the hills are no longer for her. Yet, what she soon discovers are tales of mother-walkers that have long been neglected or hidden away. And with it a sense that there may be a way back into the mountains for her too. So Kerri begins small, joined on walks on beaches and in cities by women who have also experienced profound changes to their sense of themselves and their bodies. And as Kerris journeys become increasingly ambitious the valleys and peaks of her past beckoning it becomes clear that these wild places could be hers once more. That there may indeed be a way back to the mountains, and to freedom. ___ Bold, brave Helen Jukes, author of Mother AnimalPowerful and unflinchingly honest Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept

In this, the sequel to Slow Boats to China (also reissued in Faber Finds), Gavin Young tells, with equal panache, of his return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa.I am decidedly envious of Gavin Young and his Slow Boats Home, successor to his highly entertaining Slow Boats to China . . . a fascinating, memorable book. Eric Newby, GuardianLike Slow Boats to China this is likely to become a classic of travel. Francis King, Spectator

This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975. It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkims independence after their fairytale wedding in 1963. As tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile, a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkims leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the worlds major powers jostled for regional supremacy during the early 1970s Sikkim and its ruling family never stood a chance. On the eve of declaring an Emergency across India, Indira Gandhi outwitted everyone to bring down the curtain on the 300 year-old Namgyal dynasty. Based on interviews and archive research, as well as a retracing of a journey the authors grandfather made in 1922, this is a thrilling, romantic and informative glimpse of a real-life Shangri-La. Clearly the most comprehensive account so far of Sikkims fall... a masterly skill in story-telling - Calcutta Telegraph

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance. Caught in the chaos of splintered wood, buckled metalwork and tangled rigging lay Shackletons dream of being the first man to complete the crossing of Antarctica. Shackleton would not live to make a second attempt but his dream endured.Shackletons Dream tells for the first time the story of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. Forty years after the loss of Endurance, they set out to succeed where Shackleton had so heroically failed. Using tracked vehicles and converted farm tractors in place of Shackletons man-hauled sledges, they faced a colossal challenge: a perilous 2,000-mile journey across the most demanding landscape on the planet.This epic adventure saw two giants of twentieth-century exploration pitted not only against Nature at her most hostile, but also against each other. Planned as a historic (and scientific) continental crossing, the expedition would eventually develop into a dramatic Race to the South Pole a contest as controversial as that of Scott and Amundsen more than four decades earlier.

In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommels Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchills War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches of Normandy or in the jungles of Burma but amid the blizzards and glaciers of the Antarctic.Originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British sovereignty in the face of incursions by neutral Argentina.As well as setting in train a sequence of events that would eventually culminate in the Falklands War, the British bases secretly established in 1944 would go on to play a vital part in the Cold War and lay the foundations for one of the most important and enduring government-sponsored programmes of scientific research in the polar regions: the British Antarctic Survey.Based upon contemporary sources, including official reports and the diaries and letters of the participants, Operation Tabarin tells for the first time the story of this, the only Antarctic expedition to be launched by any of the combatant nations during the Second World War and one of the most curious episodes in what Ernest Shackleton called the white warfare of the south.

Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captains Scotts giant worker and his invaluable assistant. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s the Discovery expedition of 1901 and the Terra Nova expedition in 1910 distinguishing himself on both. In 1903, with Scott, Edgar made the first long and arduous sortie onto the Plateau of Victoria Land. The journey highlighted Edgars common sense, strength, courage, wit and unflappability. Thus it came as no surprise when, in 1911, Edgar was chosen by Scott to be one of the five men to go on the final attempt at the South Pole. Tragically the Welsh Giant was the first to die on the ill-fated return, and posthumously Edgar was blamed in some quarters for causing the deaths of the whole party. It was suggested that his failure was due to his relative lack of education, which made him less able to endure the conditions than his well-educated companions. Isobel Williams repudiates this shameful suggestion and redresses the balance of attention paid to the upper and lower-deck members of Scotts famous expeditions.

Laventelipellon laidalla kokoaa matkatarinat elamysten Euroopaksi. Kirjan sivuilla paasetviolettina huojuvan pellon laidalle ja kavelemaan vesiputouksentakana kulkevaa polkua. Eurooppa on kattava kavalkadituhansien vuosien takaista kulttuurihistoriaa, palmurantoja japilviin kurkottavia vuoristoja, ilmeikkaita kaupunkeja ja kylia.Matkustaminen vie elamysten aarelle. Elamys on moniaistinen jamerkittava kokemus, joka voi jopa muuttaa maailmankuvaa. Sen eitarvitse olla kallis tai vaikeasti saavutettava. Elamyksessa aistit ovatauki uudelle, koskettavalle ja ennen kokemattomalle. Kirjassamatkustetaan mahdollisimman paljon hitaasti maata tai mertapitkin lempihetkiin Euroopassa.

Víktor Shklovski —hoy ya considerado un clásico de la literatura rusa— reconstruye en la presente obra las extraordinarias aventuras de Marco Polo.Nacido en el seno de una familia de ricos mercaderes

«En Venecia, el pasado y el presente se entretejen de forma curiosa, los venecianos no se han recuperado del todo de la pérdida de la gloria, quizá no la hayan aceptado siquiera, de modo que en el fo

*Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023*40 años de periodismo narrativocondensadosenunaobra magistral;Lacrónicareafirma aCaparróscomouna de las vocesimprescindibles de laliteraturaennuestroidioma. Martin Caparros representa la fuerza del periodismo que se hace en español.Pepa Bueno, directora de El PaisLacronica seria un grandes exitos de Caparros, una compilacion de sus mejores cronicas, si no fuera porque alli, ademas, el autor cuenta su historia en el periodismo y reflexiona sobre como escribe lo que escribe, como piensa lo que piensa, como se hace lo que hace. Entre recuerdos de su primer jefe, Rodolfo Walsh, y de su ultimo maestro, Tomas Eloy Martinez, Caparros da una leccion de escritura de la no ficcion que las facultades de periodismo de España y America Latina ahora emplean para enseñar esta materia.Todo lo que usted siempre -o nunca- quiso saber sobre Lacronica, ese extraño genero del periodismo que empezo a poner por escrito el continente americano y tiene el don de permitirse la duda, brilla en esta obra que, casi sin querer, se volvio ineludible.La critica ha dicho:Este libro reune una sorprendente muestra de la practica de la cronica, articulado a modo de cronica del cronista, ya que no es solo un compendio de piezas selectas, sino un recorrido por la responsabilidad de la propia mirada y la adiccion a la escritura. Francisco Solano, Babelia, El PaisLacronica es uno de los libros con los que mas he disfrutado de los ultimos tiempos. Martin Caparros habla con una lucidez asombrosa, y esos pasajes que le dan coherencia y vertebracion al volumen resultan definitivos para saber en que consiste escribir cronica y que papel ha jugado esa disciplina en la literatura en castellano. Nadal Suau, El EspañolSobreÑamerica:El autor argentino despliega en Ñamerica el retrato coral de un continente marcado por los topicos literarios, el maniqueismo historico y la desigualdad economica. Andrea Aguilar, Babelia, El PaisMartin Caparros lo ha vuelto a hacer. En Ñamerica entrecruza cronica periodistica, ensayo, poesia... Y sale lo que se parece mucho a un hito literario sobre America Latina y sus circunstancias. Edu Galan, ZendaUn ensayo abrumador y fascinante que persigue glosar un continente y a sus 420 millones de habitantes. Daniel Arjona, El Confidencial

En este hermoso diario, mi querido amigo Paco Monedero nos traslada a una de sus grandes gestas, las siete cumbres en los siete continentes, y lo hace desde la humildad y la naturalidad que le caracterizan, de una manera cercana y muy personal. Gracias, Paco, por tu valentia y determinacion en las situaciones extremas, por tu apoyo incondicional. Espero que nunca decaiga nuestra pasion por lo desconocido. Con estas palabras presenta el himalayista Alex Txikon el libro de Paco Monedero, Diario de las Siete Cumbres. Las cumbres mas altas de cada uno de los continentes y las mas cercanas a los polos componen lo que desde hace tiempo se conoce como The Seven Summits o Las Siete Cumbres, un reto que ha completado el montañero segoviano Paco Monedero. Recorremos de su mano las Selvas de Papua, Katmandu, Alaska, la Antartida subimos al Aconcagua, Everest, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Denali, la Piramide de Carstenz y al Monte Vinson. Precedido de un conciso prologo de Fernando Garrido, nos contara como afronta los problemas y vicisitudes que le acontecen en cada una de ellas.

En este extraordinario reportaje narrativo, Kapka Kassabova regresa a Bulgaria, desde donde emigro como nina veinticinco anos antes, para explorar la frontera que comparte con Turquia y Grecia. Entonces, se decia que la esta zona era un punto de cruce mas facil hacia el bloque occidental que el muro de Berlin y estaba repleta de soldados y espias. Hoy en dia, este paisaje densamente boscoso ya no esta fuertemente militarizado, pero si marcado por su pasado.En Frontera, Kassabova emprende un viaje a traves de un rincon oculto del continente y se encuentra con los pobladores de esta triple frontera: bulgaros, turcos, griegos, gitanos, musulmanes de los Balcanes y la ultima ola de refugiados que huyen de Siria. Descubre una region que ha sido moldeada por las sucesivas fuerzas de la Historia: por sus propias crisis migratorias pasadas, por el comunismo, por la ocupacion nazi, por el Imperio Otomano y, aun mas, por un antiguo legado de mitos y leyendas.Mientras la autora explora esta enigmatica region junto a guardias y cazatesoros, empresarios, refugiados y contrabandistas, traza las fronteras fisicas y psicologicas que cruzan sus aldeas y montanas, e indaga en las historias que revelaran sus secretos.

Aúpa Pou. Una vida encordados es un libro de aventuras. Ellos mismos lo definen así en el prólogo, puesto que consideran que su vida ha sido y es una aventura continua en la que han viajado por todo el mundo y han conocido a infinidad de personas extraordinarias. De esa vida y esas aventuras nos hablan en este libro. Tambien de como cambio su vida en el año 2000, cuando decidieron que su pasion, la montaña, tambien seria su modo de vida. En esa decision tuvo mucho que ver la repeticion por parte de Iker de Accion Directa y el proyecto 7 paredes 7 continentes, una aventura de cinco años de duracion en la que recorrieron el mundo mientras escalaban paredes. Quedan patentes cuales son los amores de los Pou cuando hablamos de montañas y paredes: los Pirineos, los Picos de Europa, con el Picu Urriellu como exponente, y Mallorca, cuna del psicoblock.