Klassiska reseskildringar

"Jag hade en farm i Afrika vid foten av berget Ngong." Så inleder Karen Blixen berättelsen om sina 17 år i Kenya, de år som skulle bli de viktigaste och mest omvälvande i hennes liv. Det var här hon upplevde sina lyckligaste ögonblick me...

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"Ovanligt välskrivna och kloka reportage om livet och samhället i Amerika... Att sedan bli påmind om en stark begåvad kvinna är alltid en stor inspiration." Cecilia Persson, BTJ "En lika modig som rolig bok!" Bella Stenberg, Gö...

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Detta är en hyllning till forna tiders järnvägar, som förr öppnade och band samman länder, men som nu har lagts ner och inte längre används. Genom fantastiska fotografier tar Försvunna järnvägar läsaren med på svunna tiders tågresor, till katedral...

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In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking cu...

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Med detta reste jag från Upsala stad d. 12 Maj 1732, som var en fredag, kl. 11 f. m., då jag var 25 år gammal på ett halvt dygn när. Nu begynte hela marken fägna sig och le, nu kommer sköna Flora och sover hos Febus... Lapplandsresan var Linnés ge...

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Around 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of Harper's Weekly Gazette, a journal dedicated to the wine and spirit trade. In order to provide his readers with the history and descriptions of the whisky-making process, Barnard decided to visit all di...

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Geografen Axel Hamberg (1863-1933) gjorde ingen skillnad på vetenskap, forskning och fjällvandring. Vid sidan av sin vetenskapliga gärning lade han grunden vår tids fjällturism, inte minst genom den klassiska guideboken Sarekfjällen (1922), kallad...

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The text of the Periplous or 'circumnavigation' that survives under the name of 'Skylax of Karyanda' is in fact by an unknown author of the 4th century BC. It describes the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, naming hundreds of towns with g...

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Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from Conrad's The Heart of Darkness - Kurtz's injunction to 'Exterminate All...

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Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition incl...

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Unique perspective: Until 1893, Mary Kingsley led a secluded life in Victorian England. At age 30 however, Kingsley defied convention and arranged a trip to west Africa to collect botanical samples for a book left unfinished by her father. Such a ...

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The Sierra Club founder and eminent conservationist narrates a memorable Alaskan travelogue. Muir's observations range from the geology of Glacier Bay to the history and culture of the Chinook people.

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Introduced by Graham White. The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. This collection, includin...

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Arthur Conan Doyle was not just the creator of the world's greatest detective, he was also an intrepid global traveler - and travel writer. His descriptions of the journeys he made and the adventures he embarked upon - from the Arctic to the Alps,...

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A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years 'Oh journey upon journey, my life is a brief moment, and I cannot hope that we will meet again' Roaming over mountains and along perilous shore...

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A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in...

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Evliya Celebi was the 17th century's most diligent, adventurous, and honest recorder, whose puckish wit and humor are laced throughout his ten-volume masterpiece. This brand new translation brings Evliya sparklingly back to life. "Well worth ...

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The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet B...

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"Ölands strand hade vi knappt rört, förrän vi märkte, att detta land var helt annorlunda än de andra av Sveriges provinser" Carl Linneus manuskript till den Öländska och Gotländska resan publicerades ursprungligen 1745. Här möter vi Linn...

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'Her remarkable intellectual abilities and masculine demeanour make Persian Pictures, her first publication on an Eastern subject , all the more interesting.' - Geoffrey NashWhen Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she ...

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WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. Markham was taken...

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Mellan åren 1647 och 1656 befann sig Nils Mattsson Kiöping på resa i Asien och Afrika. Vid hemkomsten blev han den förste att på svenska skildra den exotiska, stundtals magiska värld han mött bortom det klassiska Europas gränser. Kiöping hade vist...

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The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed are wonderfully vivid and perceptive descriptions of two great Italian cities, told through their history and art, revealing Mary McCarthy to be one of literature's greatest travelling companions. Here sh...

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Henry Walter Bates and his co-naturalist Alfred Russet Wallace embarked together in 1848 on an expedition to the forests of the Amazon in search of plants and animals that would help solve the problems of the origin of species. Wallace returned to...

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Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist's scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. An intrepid explo...

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'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light' Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian co...

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In 1763, Tobias Smollett set sail from Folkestone to Boulogne. He would not return to England for two years, during which time he travelled extensively - and in a notoriously ill-tempered fashion - through much of France and Italy. Smollett, seeme...

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When he was almost sixty years old, worried that he might have lost touch with the sights, the sounds and the essence of America's people, Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel. He was accompanied by his French poodle, Charl...

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This new paperback edition is a compact abridgement of the comprehensive two volumes of journals written by Fridtjof Nansen during his daring crossing of Greenland. At the time, no one had ever succeeded in or even seriously thought about penetrat...

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