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Smile of the Midsummer Night
A Picture of Sweden
Av Lars Gustafsson, Agneta Blomqvist
Inbunden, 2015
156 kr
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Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist have written a personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the south their journey leads them all the way up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to the Laponian area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is the idyllic fjord in Bohuslan, in the …
Hidden Bhutan
Entering the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon
Av Martin Uitz
Häftad, 2012
147 kr
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In 2006, "Time magazine" listed the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, as one of the 100 'leaders and revolutionaries' who are changing our world today. Yet it was only in the 1960s that the first road linking "The Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon" with India was opened, and since 1974 only a …
Rilke's Venice
The City in Eleven Walks
Häftad, 2019
144 kr
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The sights and sounds of Venice provoked and enthralled the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, luring him back again and again to the city in which he found the decaying shipyards and back alleys as enchanting as the iconic landmarks.Throughout Rilke’s ten visits to Venice, whether staying in a …
Sailing by Starlight
In Search of Treasure Island
Av Alex Capus
Häftad, 2013
122 kr
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Alex Capus follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson's last years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in Stevenson's life: his decision to settle in Samoa, where the climate was poison for his already diseased …
China
An Introduction to the Culture and People
Häftad, 2012
118 kr
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It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in their hearts? Or that white is their colour of mourning? This guide to …
Whales Know
A Journey through Mexican California
Av Pino Cacucci
Inbunden, 2014
150 kr
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Following in the footsteps of John Steinbeck, Cacucci travels through endless expanses of desert, salt mountains and rows of cacti with thorns so sharp that they can impale thirsty birds... Written with humour and heart, this is an insight into an ecosystem under threat and he describes the …
Liquid Continent
Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul
Häftad, 2015
179 kr
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Combining history and travel narrative, Nicholas Woodsworth journeys around the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, the sea which gave birth to Western civilisation. This sea, he says, should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa, but as a continent in its own right, a …
Journey into Russia
Av Jens Mühling
Häftad, 2015
156 kr
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Ten years ago journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer whose job it was to sell stories to TV stations in Germany but who always maintained that 'The true stories are more unbelievable than anything I could invent.' Ever since, Jens Muhling has been travelling through Russia …
Istanbul
City of Forgetting and Remembering
Häftad, 2016
145 kr
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Starting with a wild taxi ride into town from Ataturk airport, Tillinghast takes his readers on a voyage of discovery through the storied city of Istanbul, known in Byzantine times as the 'Queen of Cities' and to the Ottoman Turks as the 'Abode of Felicity'. As comfortable talking about the …
Tasting Spain
A Culinary Tour
Häftad, 2016
140 kr
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Whether it is in Madrid's cafe s or in Barcelona's fish markets, van den Brinks takes you on a trip through Spain where tasting and smelling are the key occupations. You will see the shop windows in Madrid displaying pig's trotters, the famous Serrano ham, or typical Spanish sweet cakes. You will …
Road to Santiago
Walking the Way of St James
Av Rene Freund
Häftad, 2016
165 kr
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Every year, thousands of people make the pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, honouring a centuries-old Christian tradition by walking the Way of St James. The Road to Santiago is one man’s incredible story of walking almost a thousand miles to experience it for himself. …
Morocco
In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars
Häftad, 2016
147 kr
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While much of the Middle East is now engulfed in conflict and repression, Morocco remains a curious anomaly: peaceful and open to the West, it has provided refuge for artists and writers for generations, and it remains an exotic destination for many curious travelers. The country has been …
Seeking Provence
Old Myths, New Paths
Häftad, 2016
144 kr
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A region steeped in fable and myth, Provence is a cultural crossroads of European history. A source of inspiration to artists, poets, and troubadours, it is now an enviable refuge for the wealthy and fashionable. Nicholas Woodsworth, who was born in Ottawa, Canada, married into a Provencal family …
Budapest
City of Music
Häftad, 2017
133 kr
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Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in spite of Hungary s central geographical and cultural position within Europe. And with that, a deep …
Umbria
The Heart of Italy
Häftad, 2017
133 kr
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The town of Foligno in Umbria lies in the geographical centre of Italy and for generations local patriotism has it as ‘lu centru de lu munnu’, the centre of the world. But centrality has not necessarily conferred powerhouse status. On the contrary, Umbria’s centrality is more that of the hole in …
Goethe: Journey of the Mind
Av Gabrielle Bersier, Nancy Boerner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
156 kr
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The German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often seen as the quintessential eighteenth-century tourist, though with the exception of a trip to Italy he hardly left his homeland. Compared to several of his peripatetic contemporaries, he took few actual journeys, and the list of European …
Borges in Sicily
Journey with a Blind Guide
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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When Alejandro Luque is given a book of photographs of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, he sets out with three friends to trace the great writer’s journey through Sicily.Discovering the locations of the original pictures, he begins to uncover the many stories that the island has to tell. …
Kafka's Prague
Häftad, 2019
162 kr
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Almost a century after his death, Kafka’s works continue to intrigue and haunt us, Kafkaesque becoming a byword for the unfathomable absurdity and bureaucracy of modern existence. And yet, for all their universal relevance Kafka’s writings are inextricably bound up with his native city, …
Dh Lawrence in Italy
Av Richard Owen
Häftad, 2020
120 kr
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November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next six months, Frieda will be fatally attracted …
Chaucer's Italy
Av Richard Owen
Inbunden, 2022
156 kr
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Chaucer enjoyed numerous international sojourns over the course of his eventful life, but there was one part of Europe that influenced his work like no other: Italy. Tracing Chaucer's journeys and his links to destinations such as Florence, Certaldo, Arqua, Pavia, and Milan, Richard Owen introduces …
Short History of Tokyo
Häftad, 2020
116 kr
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Tokyo, the ‘Eastern Capital’, has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Before then, it was Edo, a sprawling town by the bay. Earlier still, it was Edojuku, a medieval outpost overlooking farmlands. And, thousands of years ago, its mudflats and marshes were home to elephants, deer and …
Black Earth
A Journey through Ukraine
Av Jens Muhling
Häftad, 2022
154 kr
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'Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions that have left them with nothing. …
Serpent Coiled in Naples
Häftad, 2023
156 kr
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In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new ‘destination’ in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see the stories behind them remain largely hidden.In Marius Kociejowski’s portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things ― …
View from the Hill
Four Seasons in a Walker's Britain
Häftad, 2023
153 kr
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During the enforced idleness of the coronavirus pandemic, Christopher Somerville revisited the 450 notebooks whose pages contain the accumulated thoughts and experiences of a career spent exploring Britain on foot over four decades.The View from the Hill pulls together the cream of this unique …
Chaucer's Italy
Av Richard Owen
Häftad, 2023
154 kr
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Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of The Canterbury Tales might never have assumed his place as the 'father' …
Churchill's Britain
From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight
Av Peter Clark
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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Blenheim Palace, Chartwell, and the Cabinet War Rooms - all places synonymous with Winston Churchill. But there was much more to the great statesman than grand houses and government buildings.In Churchill's Britain, Peter Clark takes us the length and breadth of the British Isles. We visit the shop …
Thoughtlands
Walking in Writer's Suffolk
Inbunden, 2026
176 kr
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This is a book is about walking and writing; about walkers who wrote, and writers who walk. And because it is a book about walking and writing it is also a book about thinking, the circuit that exists between mind and feet, and about moving through a landscape that can be both physically in front …
Quantum of Happiness
Two Scottish Islands: the Isle of Lewis and South Uist
Inbunden, 2026
287 kr
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What happened a few thousand years ago no longer seems quite so far away in time. It is what islands induce in one, a sense of simultaneity, as well as the old penchant a fool might have for occupying several dimensions at once. And the people who inhabited those ancient places seem more and more …
Homer's Mediterranean
A Travel Companion
Inbunden, 2008
118 kr
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Geisthovel aims at discovering which countryside or rather the stories about it might have served as an inspiration for Homer. He gives a detailed and lively description of the individual steps of the "Odyssey", starting in troy and finishing in Ithaca. That way he includes the countries of Turkey, …
Mumbai To Mecca
A Pilgrimage to the Holy Sites of Islam
Häftad, 2017
111 kr
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Written in the tradition of the rihla – one of the oldest genres of classical Arabic literature – Mumbai to Mecca is a personal, reflective and enlightening description of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam.Donning the ihram, the traditional garb of the pilgrim Tojanow joined …
