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The American Scene - Henry James - The American Scene is a book of travel writing by Henry James about his trip through the United States in 1904-1905. Ten of the fourteen chapters of the book were published in the North American Review, Harpers and the Fortnightly Review in 1905 and 1906.

Who really looks after British interests abroad? Behind the pomp of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, another powerful force is busily but discreetly propping up the image of UK Plc. For 28 years, Julia was a diplomatic spouse, juggling a growing family while supporting the demands of one of the great Offices of State. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, she reveals the truth of the realities of life as an Ambassadors wife, ranging from food shortages to terrorist incidents to rubbing shoulders with the Queen, Mrs Thatcher and George Best - and rubbing knees with Mikhail Gorbachev. Light-hearted in style, The Ambassadors Wife Tale has a serious core message: that the diplomatic wife stands centre stage as the drama of world affairs unfolds.

«Originalidad, solidez y belleza, tres cualidades de la arquitectura literaria de Pedro Torrijos. El talento de un relator de historias fascinantes en las que querrásquedarte a vivir», Raquel Martos«

Viaje por Suecia, Dinamarca, Noruega, Islandia y las Islas Británicas ydescubre cómo vivían los vikingos a través de sus museos, restosarqueológicos, exposiciones, festivales y mercados. Coge tu mochila ypreparate para realizar un viaje alucinante al territorio que recorrieron losvikingos hace siglos de la mano de Manuel Velasco, incansable viajero que hapuesto rumbo al norte en numerosas ocasiones, para ver por si mismo aquelloque los libros cuentan y asi poder dar su vision personal de los hechos.Partiendo de la isla de Gotland en Suecia, continuaras hasta Noruega,Dinamarca e Islandia, pasando por las Islas Britanicas y terminando en Franciaen una region que paso a llamarse Normandia. Territorio Vikingo te ayudara adescubrir, gracias a su autor, este pueblo cuajado de leyendas y aventuras, suatractiva historia, sus curiosas costumbres, sus increibles viajes en suscaracteristicos barcos. Te mostrara a traves de multitud de fotos ydescripciones de los museos, festivales y lugares emblematicos el maravillosomundo de los vikingos.

El Tercer viaje para el descubrimiento de un paso por el Noroeste es la edición abreviada del diario de la aventura de Edward William Parry. Se edita con un capítulo dedicado a la observación y descripcion de los pueblos inuits, perteneciente al diario del segundo viaje, cuyo objetivo era igualmente la busqueda de un paso que comunicara el Artico con el Pacifico. Este tercer viaje del marino en el primer cuarto del siglo XIX, tiene el encanto de las aventuras elementales y la heroicidad de las gestas poco espectaculares, pues pese a los considerables peligros, el buen hacer de Parry evita muertes y desastres. Es un buen capitan y debe regresar al Artico. Lo hace con dos navios, el Fury y el Hecla, bien pertrechados. Parte con todas las bendiciones, para medirse de nuevo con el poder indomable de los hielos en todo su esplendor.

Tearing up the Silk Road is an irreverent travelogue that details a journey along the ancient trade routes from China to Istanbul, through Central Asia, Iran and the Caucasus. As Tom Coote struggles through the often arbitrary borders and bureaucracies of China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Turkey, it becomes apparent that the next generation will see themselves in a very different light to their predecessors. New forms of identity are emerging, founded more upon shared cultural preferences and aspirations, than on the remnants of tribal allegiance. While rushing through from East to West, Tom Coote meets, befriends and argues with an epic range of characters; from soldiers and monks to pilgrims, travellers and modern day silk-road traders. All are striving for something more and most dream of being somewhere else. By bus, train and battered car - through deserts, open plains and mountain ranges - Tom finds himself again and again at the front line of a desperate war for hearts and minds. Through rapidly expanding megacities, to ancient ruins, and far more recently created wastelands, it is the West that is winning the souls while the East grows ever stronger. The real clash of civilisations, however, seems set to be not between the East and the West, but between the few who have so much, and the masses now uniting to demand so much more.

Packing away her tutu and pointe shoes and donning cycling shorts and yellow Lycra, professional dancer Polly Benge took the decision to follow her heart. She soon found herself ferociously pedaling up mountains in India, staring at the increasingly distant backside of her beloved Tim. But mere mountains were to be the least of her worries. Prior information about the unsmiling Border Officials, the surroundings of extreme poverty, the inadequacy of maps, the continual bouts of constipation, and the real danger of travelling through Assam may have persuaded her to stay at home. This was not the India of Raj palaces or holy Ghats but the dangerous and explosive region of the isolated northeast. Polly and Tim spent their nights huddled under mosquito nets in the middle of the jungle while outside barbarous militants hid from the Indian army, and by day they cycled through the intoxicating hills of Meghalaya and the tea gardens of Darjeeling and Assam. This expedition was to represent far more than a journey to find the perfect cup of tea; for Polly it was to be a test of stamina, self-belief, and most of all her love for Tim. If they could survive this, then she would leave her comfy world of dancing, friends, and family and move to New Zealand to be with him forever.

"And the desert has you - you and your splendid courage my queen of the desert - and my heart with you" Major Charles Doughty-Wylie Gertrude Bell CBE is rightly known as The Queen of the Desert and a new Hollywood film based on her life, featuring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson is due for release in 2015. A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria and beyond and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Despite the many achievements of her working life, sadly her personal life was marred by losing the great love of her life, Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. Hesperus selects the best of her travel writing in a unique new collection

Viajar.Viajar não é o mesmo que fazer turismo. Viajar pode ser notempo ou no espaço é uma questão de estado de alma.Eu, já há muito que viajo e que levo a viajar mesmo aqueles quenão podem sair de su

Sou engenheiro, aposentado e tive oportunidade de participar de muitas viagens nacionais e internacionais. Recentemente, ao encontrar um antigo diário de quase quatro décadas atrás, decidi transformá-lo em livro. O texto passa pelas inumeras pessoas que conheci, pelos lugares fascinantes por onde estive e pelas diversas aventuras que vivi, algumas das quais muito dificilmente podero ser repetidas por alguem nos dias de hoje. O mundo mudou, os lugares no so mais os mesmos, as pessoas so diferentes. Desejo que este livro sirva como exemplo de que a idade no e um fator limitante, podemos continuar vivendo e produzindo ao longo dos anos. Tive filhos, plantei arvores, e agora apresento meu primeiro livro. Espero que estas paginas tragam prazer ao eventual leitor, tanto quanto me trouxeram ao escreve-las.

Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.Sydney takes us on the citys journey from penal colony to world-class metropolis, as lively and charming as the city it describes. With characteristic exuberance and sparkling prose, Jan Morris guides us through the history, people and geography of a fascinating and colourful city. Jan Morriss collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Venice, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan 45,A Writers World and the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Sydney should be flattered. A great portrait painter has chosen it for her recent subject . . . Few writers - a handful of novelists apart - have got so far under the citys skin as Morris . . . Few Sydneysiders could match her knowledge of their citys history and its anecdotesThe TimesThe writing is, at times, like surfing: sentences rise like vast waves above which she rides, never overbalancing into gush . . . Jan Morris convincingly explains modern Sydney through its historyObserver

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands is a two-volume travel sketch of Harriet Beecher Stowe, written during her visit to Europe, in which she denotes her impressions from England, Scotland, France, Germany and few other countries. The book contains her diary entries and letters addressed to her children, her father and some other family members in which she chronicles her journey and exposes her impressions.

Un libro sobre libros, viaje y paisaje, a medio camino entre el diario y el ensayo literario, bañado por la maravillosa luz del Mediterráneo italiano.En este nuevo relato viajero, el escritor Javier Reverte ha seguido un camino que nos lleva a las ciudades de Venecia y Trieste y que concluye con un recorrido por la isla de Sicilia. Y no solo nos aproxima a la historia de los lugares que visita, sino que lo hace de la mano de cuatro escritores que habitaron en esos escenarios y que escribieron sobre ellos: Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Rainer Maria Rilke y Giuseppe de Lampedusa, cuatro autores geniales que retrataron con crudeza, o con humor desgarrado, o amargura, o ensoñacion, o nostalgia, una epoca tragica y luminosa de la peripecia humana.Cronica de viajes y ensayo literario al mismo tiempo, Suite italiana es un libro singular, de una deslumbrante rareza, en el que resuenan los ecos de grandes batallas junto a poemas de hondo lirismo, en donde se huelen aromas de melancolia y se escuchan risas sonoras, en donde late la mas profunda de las preocupaciones del hombre: el sentido de la vida y de la muerte.Sospecho que los novelistas y poetas, en contadas ocasiones, han amado tanto la literatura, y la han necesitado de tal manera, como en esos dias no muy lejanos en que la fe en la humanidad se vio sumida en el desconcierto, empujada por el cañoneo demoledor de las dos terribles guerras mundiales. Ellos intentaron salvar el anhelo de belleza mientras la Historia se mecia en brazos de la muerte y anegaba de sangre las trincheras de Europa.Este libro trata de escritores, pero tambien de viajes, pues me apasiona seguir las huellas de las grandes obras y de sus autores. Trata de artistas que lucharon por descorrer las cortinas de la existencia humana, adentrandose en lo desconocido; y de caminos bajo los pies que me llevaron a los lugares en donde crecieron sus biografias y nacieron sus logros.Mientras hablo sobre ello y recuerdo esas creaciones y esos vagabundeos, suenan tambores de nostalgia en mi corazon. Por lo leido y lo andado. Javier ReverteLa critica ha dicho... Me maravilla ver lo sencillo que es Javier, la forma en que cubre con una patina de normalidad las historias hondisimas que cuenta. El modo en que destila lo interesante, lo curioso, lo inspirador que pueda haber en una vivencia y lo traslada a su charla o a sus libros. Esto es lo que ha generado que miles de lectores sean fieles a este curtido viajero que se considera mas lector que escritor y que habla de la literatura como un hecho intimo. [...] En su nuevo libro, Suite italiana, recorre el pais de Dante y de la pizza con un equipaje de cuatro libros y, entre historias literarias y la vida sobre el terreno, consigue emocionarnos. Asis G. Ayerbe, LibrujulaJavier Reverte es sinonimo de viaje. Del tipo de viaje concebido como un producto de artesania emocional, donde cada detalle adquiere una dimension intima y el tiempo se dilata casi hasta detenerse, deslumbrando al viajero con el espejismo de esa inmortalidad perdida de la niñez. Samuel A. Pilar, RTVE

Amanece en Gardaya, una ciudad perdida en medio de la inmensidad del Sahara. En la penumbra de un cuarto de hospital, Anaïs observa el cuerpo inerte de Tomás, su novio, que lleva tres días en coma. M

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Tim Robinsons epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone rocks, which have already haunted generations of Irish writers, takes the form of a clockwise journey around the coast. Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.

The papers brought together in this volume have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muirs life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation. The Utah and Nevada sketches, and the two San Gabriel papers, were contributed, in the form of letters, to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin toward the end of the seventies. Written in the field, they preserve the freshness of the authors first impressions of those regions.

On the cusp of middle age, Simon Fenton leaves Britain in search of adventure and finds Senegal, love, fatherhood, witch doctors a" and a piece of land that could make a perfect guest house, if only he knew how to build one. The Casamance is an undiscovered paradise where mystic Africa governs life, people walk to the beat of the djembe, when it rains it pours and the mangos are free. But the fact that his name translates to vampire and he has had a curse placed on him via the medium of eggs could mean Simons new life may not be so easy.

In the 1860s, Captain Thomas Montgomerie trained natives to be surveyors, and had them explore the region covertly. These men, known as pundits, were disguised as lamas (holy men). This book talks about these servants of the Raj who managed to map the Himalayas and Tibet, helping the British to consolidate their rule in the Indian sub-continent.

Lose yourself in the definitive collection of glorious travel sketchesby our centurys best loved voyager and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.Depicts the brio of Durrells existence with intoxicating vividness.New York TimesMuch more than just a chronicle of his travels ... Reveals Durrells honesty, outspokenness, warmth, and extreme sensitivity to people and to the beauty of nature ... Unusual and fascinating.Library JournalExcellent, vigorous, exciting, unselfconscious, with a lively, original vocabulary ... Shot through with strength and vitality.TLSFrom the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece, and spent the rest of his life wandering the world. He traveled not to sight-see but to live, and made homes in Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, and Argentina. Each time he landed, he rooted himself deep into the native soil, taking in not just the sights and sounds of his new land, but the essential character of the country. In this definitive collection of glorious letters and essays, Durrell exhibits the power of poetic observation that made his travel writing so extraordinary.

Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spains pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half the world . . .Passionate, evocative and beautifully written, Spain is a companion to the country: its people, its history - and its character. First published in 1964 and no less compelling today, Jan Morriss classic work is back in print, bringing Spain, its glory and its tragedy, vividly to life. Jan Morriss collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Venice, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan 45, A Writers World and the Pax Britannica Trilogy.Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.The most evocative book ever written about Spain.Independent