Títulos em Viagens e Turismo

The journey through life came to a T-junction. This is your invitation to pry into the diary, be the other tourist on the train, a voyeur at the accident, an eavesdropper on the argument. Two one-track minds merge with train-wreck results.

Singapore has been evolving at a blistering pace. Old Singapore is in danger of being left behind. As a result, active citizenry is taking off like never before with Singaporeans campaigning to save heritage sites such as Bukit Brown, Joo Chiat's HDB flats and Toa Payoh's Dragon Playground, with areas like Jalan Besar, Balestier and Tiong Bahru championed for their history. Nostalgia is spreading through the country.

Singapore got sexy and the country's best-selling author got jealous. After five years chasing echidnas and platypuses in Australia, Neil Humphreys returns to Singapore to see if the rumours are true. Like an old girlfriend getting a lusty makeover, the island transformed while Humphreys was away. Singapore is not just a sexier island, it's a different world.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt Japans mit diesem umfassenden Reiseführer, der Sie auf eine unvergessliche Reise durch die Geschichte, Kultur und Moderne dieses einzigartigen Landes mitnimmt.

The daredevil who leaped from a helicopter onto the back of a marlin and rode it rodeo-style. A staggering 3,001 bass caught in a single short summer season on Long Island. A grueling 37-hour fight with Pacific salmon. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! From crazy billfish quests to the scientist who hooked a grizzly, from "fish catches man" horror stories to those nutty catfish noodlers who grope into the murkiest holes bare-handed, her are fishing's most unpredictable and spectacular tales.

On 14 August 1943, a specially adapted Halifax bomber took off from RAF Tempsford, an SOE airbase in rural England. Their secret mission was to drop vital supplies to the French Resistance, deep in occupied France. But their plane crashed into a village near Annecy, killing all six of the crew and five civilians. Only Adam Hart's great-grandfather, Frank Griffiths, survived. Seventy-nine years later, Adam retraced that journey so that he could re-tell the story of the great escape and his emotional encounters with descendants of people who'd risked their lives to save Frank.

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Now with a new introduction by Robert Macfarlane and a new afterword by Jenny Odell, this masterpiece of nature writing by Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into “the high and holy places” of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world of spectacular cliffs, deep silences, and lakes so clear that they cannot be imagined. As she walks through clouds, endures blizzards, and watches the great spirals of eagles in flight, Shepherd comes to know something about the hidden life of this remarkable landscape—and also herself.

In pursuit of their dream of a simpler life amidst the natural beauty of Andalusia, Sabina and Robert embark on a life-changing journey from Abu Dhabi to the rugged landscapes of Spain. Drawn by the allure of whitewashed villages, red geraniums, and endless olive trees, they find their paradise—a quaint stone cottage nestled in a secluded mountain valley.

In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps, arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century, but here he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves back in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting. In Lone Wolf, Weymouth walks Slavc's path, examining the changes facing these wild corners of Europe.

Mama, ich und 713 Kilometer Tobias Schlegl geht den Jakobsweg, zusammen mit seiner 73-jährigen Mutter. Obwohl er kein Wanderfreund ist, nimmt er diese Reise auf sich, um ihr einen lang gehegten Wunsch zu erfüllen. Abseits von ihrer Mutterrolle weiß er wenig von ihr. Auf dem Camino stellt er Fragen, die ihm schon lange auf der Zunge liegen, und lernt sie ganz neu kennen. Schlegl erzählt von neu gewonnener Verbundenheit, der Aufarbeitung von Trauer – und Nächten in hellhörigen Schlafsälen und mit geteilter Bettdecke.

Caught pants down by a dance hostress in a Laotian nightclub; hitching a ride into battle with a chain-smoking pilot in a plane filled with cans of leaking kerosene; fielding cables that arrive in the dead of night from an editor screaming for urgent copy overnight…It's all in a day's work for the foreign correspondent, says author Dennis Bloodworth, who ought to know. He took it all in his stride during the more than 30 years that he spent as foreign correspondent of the London Observer.

This hilarious new book records the tongue-in-cheek journey of an expat in Singapore, told through vignettes, snapshots and Top 10 lists: "10 sure signs you're in a Singapore taxi"; "Things first-time visitors to Singapore say"; "10 signs you've overstayed"; "Politically-incorrect expat profiling by nationality"; and many more.

At the turn of the millennium, American-born Paige Parker and investment guru Jim Rogers spend three years—1,101 days to be exact—driving over six continents in their "sunburst yellow" coupe and trailer, ultimately setting a Guinness World Record. During the epic journey, Paige's world view is turned upside down, eventually leading her and her family to their ideal home in Singapore.

Un lungo viaggio da Mosca a Vladivostok sui treni della leggendaria Transiberiana per andare a vedere cosa c’è oltre gli Urali. Mentre le giornate scorrono pigramente a bordo del treno, sfilano dal finestrino le città siberiane sopravvissute alla seconda guerra mondiale. Soste di pochi giorni o poche ore diventano occasioni per entrare in contatto con culture e tradizioni affascinanti. E gli incontri si moltiplicano.

Chi ha tracciato i sentieri e le strade? I morti. Chi ha dato il nome ai paesi? I morti. Chi ha costruito le case e le chiese? I morti. Chi ha disegnato le forme dei campi registrate nel catasto? I morti. Chi ha stabilito leggi, regole di convivenza, usi quotidiani? I morti.Nei piccoli cimiteri di campagna e di paese, e ancora più nei poetici cimiteri abbandonati, lungo tutto l’Appennino, a volte i morti sembrano più presenti dei vivi.

La collana "Piccola filosofia di viaggio" invita Mario Ferraguti, scrittore, esploratore curioso, a raccontarci il mistero delle case abbandonate. Con lui ascoltiamo la loro voce, impariamo a riconoscerne i colori, i segni del tempo, i fantasmi della vita e l’assedio della natura.

La collana "Piccola filosofia di viaggio" invita Franco Michieli, geografo ed esploratore, a raccontare come perdersi e imboccare una strada imprevista sia un buon modo per rinnovarsi. Tutto cambia se si impara a leggere la natura. Non solo si recupera le capacità di orientamento, ma anche la dimensione spirituale che nasce da questa straordinaria esperienza.

Mit Bestsellerautor und Italienkenner Andreas Englisch auf den Spuren alter Pilgerrouten in die Heilige Stadt: packend erzählte Einblicke in die Geschichte Norditaliens und Abstecher zu den wichtigsten kulturellen Highlights sowie wenig bekannten Geheimtipps Ob Pilger oder Plünderer, Kaiser oder Bettelmönche, ob die Suche nach Macht, Reichtum, Erlösung oder Liebe – seit Jahrtausenden zieht es Menschen nach Rom. Viele ihrer Spuren finden sich noch heute an zahlreichen Orten in der Region zwischen den Alpen und dem Tiber.

In 1773, Boswell enticed his famous English friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland. Johnson was then in his mid sixties. The two travellers set out from Edinburgh and skirted the eastern and northeastern coasts of Scotland, passing through St Andrews, Aberdeen and Inverness. They then passed into the highlands and spent several weeks on various islands in the Hebrides, including Skye, Coll, and Mull. After a visit to Boswell's estate at Auchinleck, the travellers returned to Edinburgh.