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Amalfi to Rome

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This guide leads you in a drive from the Amalfi Coast, starting from Salerno and touching Vietri sul Mare, Cetara, Erchie, Minori, Ravello, Amalfi, the Emerald Grotto, Furore, Positano to arrive in Sorrento. It continue then to Pompeii, Naples, the Gulf of Gaeta and the Castelli Romani to arrive in Rome. It includes color photos and descriptions of the attractions of all the localities touched. It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains active links to the web sites of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at the location described. There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review.

Montségur

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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Riom d'autrefois

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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Slow Travels: Exploring America's History Along U.S. Highways: Virginia

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This installment in our Slow Travels series explores the Commonwealth of Virginia and its history, beginning with the first permanent English settlement in the colonies. U.S. Highways 17 and 60 crisscross the colonial history of Virginia’s Tidewater region. The historic sites of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown are explored by both. U.S. Highway 50 starts from the Nation’s Capitol, a route which skirts the Civil War history of Manassas before ascending the northern Blue Ridge and Winchester. U.S. Highway 15 travels the length of Virginia’s Piedmont, from the banks of the Potomac River to the North Carolina State Line. The Shenandoah Valley hosts the route of U.S. Highway 11, which travels its length before crossing the Roanoke Valley towards the panhandle and Tennessee. Finally, U.S. Highway 52 skirts the panhandle, crossing from North Carolina to West Virginia.

Madrid (Spain) - Wink Travel Guide

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Madrid is Spain's capital and largest city, with 3.3 million citizens. A total of 6.5 million people live in the autonomous community of the same name (Comunidad de Madrid). The city has an impressive cultural and architectural heritage, which includes grand avenues, plazas, buildings and monuments, and world-class art galleries and museums. Madrid is also renowned for gastronomic delights and nightlife lasting up until dawn.Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

Eat & Run - Manger pour gagner

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Dans ce récit passionnant, Scott Jurek, l'un des personnages principaux deBorn to Run, raconte d'où il vient et comment, grâce à son régime végétarien, il devient un grand champion du trail et de la course à pied. Un livre plein de conseils et de recettes pour mieux courir !Enfant chétif et peu enclin aux pratiques sportives, Scott Jurek est parvenu à se transformer en athlète d'exception. Une mutation rendue possible grâce à un mental hors norme et en suivant un régime alimentaire rigoureux.Il retrace sa carrière exceptionnelle de champion végétarien pour en faire une source d'inspiration à l'attention de tous les autres coureurs. De son enfance passée à chasser et à pêcher dans un Meadwest où la viande est à l'honneur à chaque repas, à son immersion progressive dans l'ultra-marathon et le végétarisme, Scott Jurek témoigne du pouvoir infini de la volonté et fait voler en éclats les idées reçues en matière de diététique sportive.Avec ses récits de courses épiques, ses conseils pratiques et ses recettes personnelles, il offre à tous une source de motivation et nous ouvre en passant de nouveaux horizons culinaires.

Guida alla Berlino ribelle

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Fin dagli anni '20 del secolo scorso Berlino si è guadagnata la fama di città ribelle e trasgressiva. Dai caffè e cabaret della Repubblica di Weimar alle provocazioni dei dadaisti, dagli squatter degli anni '80-'90 alla scena della musica elettronica, la capitale tedesca ha saputo offrire un terreno fertile a ogni forma di capriccio e controcultura. Neanche il regime nazista e il Muro sono riusciti a sopire lo spirito anarchico della città, che ha dato prova del suo carattere sovversivo anche prima del '900. A Berlino personalità del calibro di Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Edvard Munch, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, David Bowie e tanti altri hanno trovato il clima ideale per esprimere il loro genio indomabile.

La Russie en 1839

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BnF collection ebooks - "Depuis deux jours j'ai vu beaucoup de choses : d'abord la mosquée tatare. Le culte des vainqueurs est aujourd'hui toléré dans un coin de la capitale des vaincus ; encore ne l'est-il qu'à condition de laisser aux chrétiens la libre entrée du sanctuaire mahométan."

Zurich (Switzerland) - Wink Travel Guide

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Zurich is Switzerland's biggest city and a cultural center of German-speaking Switzerland. Zurich is close to some excellent skiing resorts and many people headed for the Swiss Alps don't spend much time in Zurich itself, but you'd be missing a lot if you don't stay in Zurich for a couple of days at least.Zurich is home to ETH Zurich, one of the world's leading technical universities, which has produced a number of Nobel laureates and numerous innovations and due to Switzerland's long history of neutrality.Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

Tunis (Tunisia) - Wink Travel Guide

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There are quite a few must-see attractions, especially if you include the ruins of Carthage, which are easily accessed from here, and the Punic ports are interesting, too. Tunis is an interesting mix of new and old, including colonial French buildings. The souq and the medina are among the most authentic and hassle-free in North Africa.It is divided into the World Heritage Listed old city, known as the medina, and the new city, or ville nouvelle in French. Ave Habib Bourguiba is the large avenue running through the new city from the clock tower to the Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul. Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

Venice In Two, Three or More Days

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2019 edition This is a guide to Venice, for a visit lasting two, three or more days. There are extensive descriptions and photos of the attractions and to the Lagoon Islands of Murano, Burano, and Torcello. It is ideal for use on your smartphone, it contains active links to the websites of the train, navigation companies, and museums, so you can with a click from the guide check the latest schedule and even buy the tickets. It has also listing of many reviews for the best-recommended restaurants.

How To Be A Travel Writer

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Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel – whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity. You don’t have to make money to profit from travel writing. Sometimes, the richest rewards are in the currency of experience. How to be a Travel Writer reveals the varied possibilities that travel writing offers and inspires all travellers to take advantage of those opportunities. That’s where the journey begins – where it takes you is up to you. Let legendary travel writer Don George show you the way with his invaluable tips on: • The secrets of crafting a great travel story • How to conduct pre-trip and on-the-road research • Effective interviewing techniques • How to get your name in print (and money in your bank account) • Quirks of writing for newspapers, magazines, online and books • Extensive listings of writers’ resources and industry organisations • Interviews with established writers, editors and agents About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world’s leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category ‘Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.’ – New York Times ‘Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones.

Top 10 Sydney

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Overlooking one of the world's most spectacular harbours, Sydney is blessed with ocean beaches, lush tropical gardens, and a balmy climate that makes the great outdoors irresistible.Make the most of your trip to this dazzling city with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Sydney has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Sydney is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime. Inside DK Eyewitness Top 10 Sydney you will find: - Top 10 lists of Sydney's must-sees, including Sydney Opera House, Art Gallery NSW, Darling Harbour and Bondi Beach- Sydney's' most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping- Themed lists, including the best beaches, museums, art galleries, parks and gardens and much more- Easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week- A laminated pull-out map of Sydney, plus eight full-colour area mapsLooking for more on Australia's culture, history and attractions? Try our DK Eyewitness Australia.About DK Eyewitness: At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 1993.Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.

The View from the Hill

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Collected notes from avid walker Christopher Somerville’s treks through the British countryside.In Christopher Somerville’s workroom is a case of shelves that holds four hundred and fifty notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insects, beer glass rings, smears of plant juice, and gallons of sweat. Everything Somerville has written about walking the British countryside has had its origin in these little black and red books.During the lockdowns and enforced isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Somerville began to revisit this treasury of notes, spanning forty years of exploring on foot. The View from the Hill pulls together the best of his written collections, following the cycle of the seasons from a freezing January on the Severn Estuary to the sight of sunrise on Christmas morning from inside a prehistoric burial mound. In between are hundreds of walks to discover toads in a Cumbrian spring, trout in a Hampshire chalk stream, a lordly red stag at the autumn rut on the Isle of Mull, and three thousand geese at full gabble in the wintry Norfolk sky. Somerville’s writing enables readers to enjoy these magnificent walks without stirring from the comfort of home.

Extreme Cuisine

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"I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. So dig in. Enjoy… Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." —From the Foreword by Anthony Bourdain Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents—what they are eating may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines eating habits across the globe, showing once and for all that one man's road kill is another man's delicacy! "I've tried to make this book a guide to how the other half dines and why. Over a period of twenty-five years I've augmented my meat-and-potatoes upbringing in the United States to try a wide variety of regional specialties, from steamed water beetles, fried grasshoppers and ants, to sparrow, bison and crocodile. I've eaten deep-fried bull's testicles in Mexico, live shrimp sushi in Hawaii, mice cooked over an open wood fire in Thailand, pig stomach soup in Singapore, minced water buffalo and yak butter tea in Nepal, stir-fried dog tongue, and "five penis wine" in China." —From the introduction by Jerry Hopkins Dive headfirst into food culture from around the world. Join author Jerry Hopkins on a culinary and cultural tour as he explores foods that may seem bizarre, and often off-putting, to us. As he says, "What is considered repulsive to someone in one part of the world, in another part of the world is simply considered lunch." Part travelogue, part cultural commentary and history, and part cookbook (yes, really), with Extreme Cuisine anyone can become an adventurous eater—or at least learn what it's like to be one. Chapters include:MammalsReptiles & Water CreaturesBirdsInsects, Spiders & ScorpionsPlantsLeftovers

Sous les cendres souffle le vivant : À vélo des Vosges à Erevan

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Le récit d’un voyage à vélo à travers l’Europe et le Moyen-Orient !En juin 2022, alors que le monde émerge des ombres de la pandémie et que l'Europe se trouve à l'orée de la guerre, Adrien Biassin prend une décision radicale : partir à vélo, sans destination précise, en quête d'une vérité plus profonde sur la manière d'aimer ce monde. Cette aventure imprévue est une exploration de l'humanité dans ses zones de chaos et de beauté.Durant cette traversée des Balkans, du Caucase, de la mer Noire et de l'Asie Mineure, le narrateur s'immerge dans les tumultes géopolitiques et sociaux tout en poursuivant un chemin personnel, empreint de poésie et de réflexion philosophique.

Basel (Switzerland) - Wink Travel Guide

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One of Switzerland's underrated tourist destinations, Basel has a beautiful medieval old town centre, a fascinating carnival, and several world class art museums built by architects like Renzo Piano, Mario Botta and Herzog and De Meuron.Basel is also rich in architecture old and new, with a Romanesque Munster (cathedral), a Renaissance Rathaus (town hall), and various examples of high quality contemporary architecture, including more buildings by Herzog and De Meuron, Richard Meier, Diener and Diener, and various others.Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

Valencia (Spain) - Wink Travel Guide

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It is Spain’s third-largest city and, after Barcelona, the most significant cultural centre along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It is the capital of the autonomous Valencian Community, and is known for tourism and cuisine. In March visitors flock to the city for the annual UNESCO-listed Falles celebration, but the city is worth visiting at other times of year for its paella, ultramodern architecture, and good beaches.Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

Viajeros

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«Es muy probable que la literatura nazca, en gran medida, del viaje, del relato que el nómada compartía alrededor del fuego. El relato del viajero está seguramente en el origen de la ficción narrativa», dice Marta Salís en la presentación de esta antología. Fuente tan antigua como inagotable de epopeyas, novelas, poemas y cuentos, la experiencia del viaje -aventurarse y conocer- es la materia de los sesenta y cinco relatos aquí reunidos, que cubren un arco temporal de casi tres siglos de la tradición occidental. Sea cual sea el medio de locomoción –en burro, en barco, en tren, en globo, en nave espacial-, o su motivo y propósito –exploración, conquista, placer, trabajo, necesidad, liberación-, rara vez el viaje abandona su dimensión simbólica: desde antiguo se presenta como una alegoría de la vida humana y ha sido por tanto, un pretexto, una especie de escenario móvil, para plantear dilemas de identidad, tribulaciones psíquicas, conflictos sociales, valores culturales en entredicho, visiones políticas… De Jonathan Swift a Alan Hollinghurst, Viajeros ofrece una rica variedad de tratamientos y puntos de vista, de la mano de autores como Voltaire, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, Guy de Maupassant, Antón P. Chéjov, Edith Wharton, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Katherine Mansfield, Isaak E. Bábel, Johannes V. Jensen, Cesare Pavese, Jane y Paul Bowles, Flannery O’Connor, Langston Hughes, Juan Rulfo, Margaret Drabble y Clarice Lispector, entre muchos otros.

Most Dangerous Parks

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Most Dangerous Parks explores the often-overlooked risks present within national parks, revealing that these natural paradises can also harbor significant dangers. It highlights how increasing park visitation, coupled with environmental instability, creates a complex challenge for both visitors and park management.The book delves into the science, ecology, and history of national parks, explaining key concepts in accessible language to help readers understand the balance between enjoying nature and respecting its power. For example, many are unaware of the geothermal dangers lurking beneath Yellowstone's picturesque landscape or the sudden threat of flash floods in seemingly tranquil canyons.The book examines environmental hazards like volcanic activity, extreme weather, and unstable terrain, alongside wildlife encounters with predators and venomous creatures. It progresses from an introduction to the concept of risk to detailed discussions of specific dangers, including human factors and management strategies.Through incident reports, scientific research, and case studies, Most Dangerous Parks provides a practical perspective, offering actionable advice for safer and more informed visits. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding these risks to ensure human safety and the preservation of these vulnerable ecosystems, advocating for a more cautious approach to nature travel.

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