Klassiska reseskildringar

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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**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's T...

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'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC History From Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first steps on the moon, discover the 100 moments that defined humanity and shaped our ...

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'Evliya elebi was the widest-eyed, most intensely curious and prolific travel writer the Ottoman world ever produced. A learned and perceptive gentleman-observer from courtly Istanbul at the height of its power, Evilya's work records and...

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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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'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post 'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' Guardian At the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Albe...

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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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År 1924 gav sig den tyske författaren Alfred Döblin ut på resa i Polen. Orsaken var pogromerna året innan. Följden blev en litterär skildring av judiskt gatuliv i en mängd städer, med sidor befolkade av rabbiner, gatuhandlare, skolpojkar, barberar...

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'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny...

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Min son på galejan är en humoristisk reseskildring, skriven av skeppsprästen Jacob Wallenberg på Ostindieskeppet Finland. På titelbladet står: »Min Son på Galejan, Eller en Ostindisk Resa, Innehållande Allehanda Bläckhorns-Kram, Samlade på Skeppet...

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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 Ja...

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Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions o...

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With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was play...

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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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In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,&...

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The account of the most famous explorer of all time in his own words.

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The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a sin...

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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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A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, aft...

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'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary Supplement When the great traveller-reporter Ry...

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the...

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'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.' So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a...

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Travelling by dahabiah, a well-appointed sailing craft peculiar to the Nile, and armed with sketch-book and measuring tape, Amelia Edwards carefully recorded all she saw of the temples, graves, and monuments - even discovering a buried chapel of h...

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In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments...

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Med ett stipendium från Svenska Akademien kunde Karin Boye 1938 förverkliga en gammal dröm, att resa till Grekland. Under resan skrev hon en målerisk och personlig dagbok, som hittills endast har utgivits som reproducerad, något svårtydd handskrif...

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**TOP TEN BESTSELLER** 'I would rather read Colin Thubron than any other travel writer alive' John Simpson Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalay...

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Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking rac...

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'My life's done a somersault,' wrote acclaimed modernist writer Mrio de Andrade. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, he finally embarked on a three-month odyssey up the great river and into the wild heart of his native Brazil wi...

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"Den 26 september 1832 var en stor, en betydelsefull dag för det svenska folket, det var då som Göta Kanal öppnades i hela sin längd för segelfarten, och som århundradets tanke och dröm realiserades, i det att uti slussen vid Mem det första f...

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