Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Early Modern Exchanges
Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures, 1550-1750
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ - probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume - exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the embroidery on her gown are typically English; but her head-dress and slippers are decidedly exotic,...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and Eastward to Tartary, relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a youth through the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up and the other tourists are gone, so the damp, cold weather takes him back...
by Claudio Magris
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys
A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings...
by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
*Quicksilver *begins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions...
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Women have been writing about their travels for generations, putting a uniquely feminine slant on life on the road and the people and places they encounter along the way. The third entry in Travelers’ Tales acclaimed annual series, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008 presents exciting, uplifting,...
by Sven Lindqvist
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In the first half of the twentieth centruy, European writers plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams. What did they hope to find? And what was really there?
In Desert Divers - part travel book, part literary history and part confession - Sven...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful,...
The Way of Wanderlust
The Best Travel Writing of Don George
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines, newspapers, and websites around the globe and have won more awards than almost any other travel writer alive, yet his...
by John Lloyd Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
4 works of John Lloyd Stephens American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805-1852)
This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of John Lloyd Stephens. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Incidents of Travel in Greece,...
Colombia
A Rosen-Cooney Travel Story—No Passports Required: Bogota, the Coffee Zone, Cartagena, and Tayrona National Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The country of Colombia, emerging from the fog of its violent past, has been shedding its reputation as a dangerous place. For travel, it is still a little on the edge, with many of the countrys sites as yet undiscovered by tourists. In this travelogue, author Alexandra Rosen shares her experiences...
An Imam in Paris
Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In the 1820s, Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most...
The Dune's Twisted Edge
Journeys in the Levant
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
“How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once known with mingled affection and wariness as Levantine?”...
by John L. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Few explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But Stephen's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In this work, and in his other masterpiece Incidents...
The Bad Side of Books
Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist...