Ergebnis für "jane" in Reiseliteratur & Erläuterungen

Jan Kammann unterrichtet Englisch und Geographie in einer internationalen Vorbereitungsklasse in Hamburg. Im Klassenraum kommen Schüler aus über zwanzig Nationen zusammen - aus Lebenswelten, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Eines Tages ist ihm klar: Er will mehr über ihre Herkunft wissen und kennenlernen, was für sie bis vor Kurzem ihre Heimat war. Kammann nimmt sich ein Sabbatjahr und zieht los; im Gepäck jede Menge Tipps, Adressen und Reiseempfehlungen seiner Schüler.

Después de un divorcio traumático seguido de un desengaño amoroso y en plena crisis emocional y espiritual, Elizabeth Gilbert decide empezar de nuevo y emprende un largo viaje que la llevará sucesivamente a Italia, la India e Indonesia, tres escalas geográficas que se corresponden con otras tantas etapas de búsqueda interior.

Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's memoir is a hilarious and harrowing journey—a modern heart of darkness filled with Communist operatives, backpackers, and pancakes. They were young, brilliant, and bold. They set out to conquer the world. But the world had other plans for them...

Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five years, Elizabeth Pisani recently traveled 26,000 miles around the archipelago in search of the links that bind this impossibly disparate nation. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous volcano, and takes tea with a corpse. Along the way, she observes Big Men with child brides, debates corruption and cannibalism, and ponders "sticky" traditions that cannot be erased.

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.

In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore 14 of the world’s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer’s eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.

The Chateau D'Or, or The Castle of Gold, looked gloomy and gray from the train rattling through the French countryside from Paris to Marseilles. How did it get its grand name? Stories and legends abound, but this is just one as related by two interested travelers. Also included are two shorter stories, Norah and Kitty Craig - Summary by LynneT

UNKNOWN ROADS – der Podcast über außergewöhnliche Reisen und Geschichten. Hier geht es um besondere Orte, ungewöhnliche Arten des Reisens und die Erlebnisse, die man nur abseits der bekannten Wege findet.

Nachhaltigkeit mit Zukunft: Wie man wirklich umweltbewusst leben kann. Zwei Hühner, eine Ente und ein paar Pflanzen: Viel mehr hat Corentin de Chatelperron nicht im Gepäck, als er für vier Monate auf eine schwimmende Bambusplattform in Thailand zieht. Sein Ziel: Mit kreativen Low-Tech-Lösungen eine eigene Biosphäre schaffen und als Selbstversorger leben. Völlig autonom, ohne Supermärkte, Konservennahrung oder fließendes Wasser. In seinem Buch Living for Future lässt der Franzose seine Leser an dem außergewöhnlichen Experiment teilhaben.

What’s happening in Italy this month — and what’s actually worth your time. Each episode is a curated round-up of festivals, events, and seasonal moments across Italy, from major national highlights to local traditions most visitors never find. Produced by Dolcevia.com an independent Italy travel publication, founded in 2001 — this is a more selective, editorial view of the country, built on experience rather than algorithms. Travel slower. See better. Choose well.

You don't have to be rich to travel the world. Jan Yager shares 80 ways that you can make it happen—60 are free and 20 involve some financial investment. Whether you want to go to just one country besides your many countries and even around the world, this inspiring book by the award-wining, best-selling self-help expert Jan Yager—whose books include Help Yourself Now—is a great place to start making your global travel dreams come true.

The Passport Jane Podcast features inspiring conversations with women around the world, including journalists, best-selling authors, interior designers, artists, real estate investors, visionaries, and adventurers. Exploring the expat life, a life of travel, wanderlust, and the desire to thrive globally, this weekly series will inspire listeners to live courageously on their own journey. Jane Byrd talks to women who not only took the leap of faith to live abroad but also live confidently in pursuit of their dreams. Settle in, buckle up—Jane can’t wait to spend the next hour with you as we ...

In pulsating polluted Kathmandu, and an idyllic village at the foot of the Himalayas, "Doctor Jane" and her engineer husband, Simon, hope to make a difference: Jane to fulfill her vision to heal and advocate for the poor, Simon to avert floods that threaten to devastate the country every monsoon. As they acclimatize and begin to absorb something of an accepting Nepali view of life, they find sanity, compassion, and joy with baby David, who in England was little more than an interesting medical case.

Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of...

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of midlife, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on. After a week of squabbles, the group splinters, and the real adventure begins. In vivid, witty style, she recounts her battles with loneliness, hallucinations of being joined by Steve Martin, as well as picturesque villages and even the fair-haired man.

In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. "Show me a mother who says she has a good or great relationship with her daughter," Jane Christmas writes, "and I'll show you a daughter who is in therapy trying to understand how it all went so horribly wrong." To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, Christmas takes her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria....

A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake. Instead of retreating after being deported from Mexico, or beaten up in Guatemala, he travels to the Caribbean where he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him about the "natural mystic", a magical tradition that had travelled to the Caribbean centuries earlier with the slavery trade.

Luoghi, opere e misteri: nelle Fiandre con uno dei grandi maestri della pittura fiamminga. Un podcast di VISITFLANDERS.Artista geniale, pittore di corte, diplomatico o spia à la James Bond: chi era davvero Jan van Eyck? Forse tutto questo e molto di più. Insieme all'autore del meraviglioso Polittico dell'Agnello Mistico faremo un viaggio alla scoperta delle sue opere e delle città delle Fiandre nelle quali ha lavorato durante il tardo Medioevo lasciando un segno profondo sulla storia dell'arte. Città, come Bruges e Ghent, che hanno deciso di dedicare il 2020 e il 2021 alla celebrazione ...

Carol Ardman traveled to Tangier in 1970 to tend her broken heart and - she hoped - find Jane Bowles, whose writing had literally saved her. Instead she found Paul Bowles at a time when he was as lonely and searching as she was. The two began an unconventional love affair that roiled Tangier's incestuous expat community and transformed Ardman's life. Her sumptuously detailed portrait of their relationship is as intimate - and as satisfying - as it gets.

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