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This book, one of Mark Twain's first, is a hilarious, sometimes biting account of the author's travels through France, Italy, Greece, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, and Egypt. His wry observations pepper the narrative with humor, while at the same time making pertinent comments on the human condition.

Brought to you by Penguin. Michael Palin’s latest adventure sees him exploring one of the most fascinatingly complex and contradictory countries on earth: the Philippines. It’s a popular tourist destination, but also a place of extreme poverty for many. It’s a nation where religious...

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Remarkable. If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned, courageous and pragmatic as Jonathan Slaght' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Gripping' Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale Primorye, a remote forested region near to where...

Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a 22-month, 52-country motorcycle odyssey in his best-selling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies.

Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls "the Indiana Jones of finance". Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers’s global motorcycle journey/investing trip.

Benvenuti! Ich bin Laura und ich nehme euch mit an den schönsten See der Welt. Ich lebe im malerischen Lazise e kenne den Gardasee nicht nur als Urlaubsziel, sondern als meine Heimat. In diesem Podcast erfahrt ihr alles, was ihr für euren perfekten Aufenthalt wissen müsst: von den versteckten kulinarischen Highlights über die besten Wanderwege bis hin zu exklusiven Tipps, die in keinem Reiseführer stehen. Www.dolcitalia360.it

A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 miles in 13 days and 10 hours, sleeping in short bursts wherever exhaustion took her.

Urlaubsgeschichten zum Bleiben ist ein Reise-Podcast von Niederösterreich Tourismus mit Autorin und Podcasterin Christl Clear. Sie besucht Lieblingsplätze, taucht in Natur, Kultur und Geschichte ein und trifft Menschen, die mit Leidenschaft Gastgeber:innen der Selected Stays sind. Selected Stays sind handverlesene Unterkünfte in Niederösterreich, die für Qualität, Nachhaltigkeit und außergewöhnliche Urlaubserlebnisse stehen: Vom Rückzugsort in der Natur bis zum stilvollen Stadthotel mit kulturellem Flair. In jeder Episode nimmt euch Christl mit an einen neuen Ort, spricht mit ...

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in 80 days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg.

Der Podcast handelt vom Leben, dem Universum und dem ganzen Rest.

Dieser musikalisch-literarische Ausflug fängt die Atmosphäre Dresdens zur Goethezeit ein - in der Mischung aus Reisebriefen, Gedichten, Tagebuchauszügen und Anekdoten, verwoben mit den gefühlvollen Kompositionen Frank Fröhlichs für Gitarre, Flöte, Cello, Harfe und Klavier, um die Vielfalt und Schönheit des in Gedanken zu bereisenden Ortes sinnlich einzufangen.

Across Islands and Oceans is the memoir of 25 year-old James Baldwin and his epic two-year, solo circumnavigation in Atom, his trusty but aging 28-foot sailboat.

In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded, and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners during early encounters with Africa. For 13 years - the worst in Zimbabwe's volatile history - this intrepid Australian woman lived in the Hwange bush fighting for the lives of these elephants, forming an extraordinary and life-changing bond with them.

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas... IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen...

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.

Zwischen Berggipfel und Heilstollen, Bei einem Gesundheitsurlaub in der Region für jede und jeden was dabei. Immer im Fokus steht dabei die Landschaft der Region und die diversen Möglichkeiten, sich in ihr zu bewegen – mal langsam und mal schnell. Die fünf Stationen und damit Podcastfolgen unserer Gesundheitsreise führen uns deswegen an die erholsamsten Orte der Region, an denen wir gleichermaßen aktiv werden und zur Ruhe kommen. Die Suche nach Gesundheit beginnt für uns bei den Krimmler Wasserfällen, deren Wassertropfen, die sogenannten Nano-Aerosole, bei Atemwegserkrankungen wie ...

Feuerstein reist wieder: durch Thailand, Birma, New York und ins Eismeer. Aber diesmal ist alles anders. Thailand kennt er seit Jahrzehnten besser als seine Westentasche (er trägt keine Westen), in New York hat er eine ganze Ehe lang gewohnt, und die beiden Reisen auf dem Wasser wurden komplett von anderen Leuten organisiert (mit Ausnahme der Seekrankheit, die aus Feuersteins Innerem kam).

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin, and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the world.

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost...

Willkommen in der Kulturhauptstadt 2010! Nicht nur in diesem Jahr wird man in den Medien über die Metropole am Bosporus viel zu berichten und erzählen wissen...