Títulos em Europa

The Venice I Know is not your typical travel guide. With an emphasis on actual issues facing the Venetian people today, Margie Miklas delivers an illuminating and honest look at Venice, a real place where everyday people live and work. In her characteristic conversational, storytelling approach, she shares essential insider details about accommodations, food, transportation, shopping, artisan experiences, and iconic sights in the city of romance.

In summer 2006, 20-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents' dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the "Wannabe Backpackers" persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn 30. The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan.

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship.

This collection of 42 first-person accounts about backpacking in Europe will awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for those who have. Romance, surprise, discovery, and wisdom all bubble through these authors’ riveting pieces.

Alles vermessen, entdeckt, bekannt - gibt es in Deutschland überhaupt noch Plätze zum Staunen und Wundern? Die Geographin und Journalistin Pia Volk hat sich zwischen Wattenmeer und Allgäu, zwischen dem Frankfurter Mainufer und dem Sorbenland umgesehen und ist dabei auf lauter seltsame und seltsamste Orte gestoßen: eine Eiche mit eigener Adresse, ein fortgespültes Atlantis in der Nordsee, ein Kronleuchter in der Kölner Kanalisation, die letzte noch erhaltene Grenzschleuse für sowjetzonale Agenten.

Un guide culturel audio pour les curieux, les amateurs d'histoire et les voyageurs. Le parfait kit de découverte d'une région et de sa culture, à écouter depuis votre canapé, en voiture ou à l'hôtel ! Plongez dans le passé de la "vallée des rois" et découvrez les châteaux de la Loire, célèbres dans le monde entier : Chambord, Blois ou encore Chenonceau ne sont que les figures de proue d'une constellation d'édifices remarquables dont même les moins connus réservent leur lot de merveilles.

Why not Annapurna or Machu Pichu? Why always the "same old" Camino? A question carried with an almost sigh, a question often asked of Sharon. Many learners seek a teacher to support and stretch them in their learning, and for Sharon, there is no fiercer or more forthright teacher than the Camino de Santiago. A teacher that calls its learners to walk lightly in their judgements, opinions, and assumptions, yet firmly in their flexibility, curiosity, and wonder, while stepping the practical path between Saint Jean Pied de Port and Santiago de Compostela.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Northern Ireland. Greater Than a Tourist - Northern Ireland by author Naomi Reid offers the inside scoop on Northern Ireland for tourists by a local. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Rattled by fears, that she is losing not just keys, but her job, looks - even a sweetheart - Gail rashly announces that she will go alone to Paris, a dream postponed for 40 years. So begins the journey through France of an optimistic, infinitely curious, 62 year woman, who seeks to ransom her self-confidence and learn how to age. Deftly weaving scenic description with sketches of feisty Frenchwomen and flashbacks of older women she has admired, Gail draws wisdom from people and places that have gracefully endured the passing years.

Bettina Tietjen steht auf Camping. Direkt, bodenständig, einfach. Bereits als Jugendliche hat sie gern den Schlafsack ausgerollt und schwört bis heute auf die Freiheit unterm Sternenhimmel - von der Ostsee bis zum Mittelmeer. Hauptsache, der Wind ruckelt schön am Wohnmobil, morgens blubbert die bordeigene Espressomaschine und beim Abwasch erzählen wildfremde Mitcamper aus ihrem Leben. Bettina Tietjens Camping-Geschichten handeln von Menschen, von Landschaften und von skurrilen Erlebnissen zwischen Klohäuschen und Traumstränden. Humorvoll. Kurzweilig. Selbstironisch.

Warren Steelgrave cared deeply for her and swears to avenge her death and clear his name. Warren untangles a web of deceit, at first benign, then grown malignant by greed and evil. Professional criminals have become involved with international spies and mafia accomplices. Steelgrave’s sworn vengeance and “willingness” to find justice has put him and his loved ones in grave danger.

The story of being let loose upon the world, making each day count, and traveling to 19 countries in 94 days. Room to Roam is a book examining the changing trajectory of a 26-year old’s life from stagnation out of college, dreaming of a world where each day is lived to its fullest, and culminating with an adventure of a lifetime. With a desire to break the stereotypes of “backpacking Europe”, the journey across the continent gets laid as basic as can be, taking the paths less traveled and living as cheaply as possible without sacrificing experiences and scenery.

Eat like a Local - Malta by author Danielle Eloise offers the inside scoop on food in Malta. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist.

Join the author and his wife as they travel Britain and Europe in search of Ancient Rome and Greece. "Scratch the soil of Britain and Europe, and you will find Rome."

Rom. Was verbinden Sie mit dieser Stadt? Denken Sie, Rom, das ist doch die Ewige Stadt? Die Stadt, die gefühlt schon immer da war? Die Sie damals schon im Lateinunterricht fasziniert und begleitet hat? Ist Rom für Sie die Stadt, in der die alten Römer über das Forum Romanum flanierten und Gladiatoren erbitterte Kämpfe im Kolosseum ausfochten? Möchten Sie die Stadt kennenlernen, in der die großen Kaiser wie Caesar oder Augustus regierten und träumen Sie davon, eines Tages auf den Spuren von Romulus und Remus, den Gründervätern Roms, zu wandeln? Oder denken Sie: Rom?

Christmas in Iceland is special. Ask any Icelander and they will tell you. It is a time of year when everything pulsates with vibrant activity, and the nation delights in those festive traditions that make them a tribe. Music is all around, friends gather, restaurants are filled with people partaking of festive Yuletide offerings, authors are out and about reading from their new works. Everything pulsates with a vibrant, happy energy. There is even a word for the gleeful excitement one feels when waiting for Christmas — jólaskap, literally “Christmas mood”.

Rivers, canals, and many glorious waterways are championed and admired at every opportunity. Sadly, not so the humble ditch, yet they are the all-important capillaries supplying the veins of our far more visual watercourses. In no way a dry riverbed of hard facts, A Year in a Ditch is informative and a source of knowledge to anyone interested in exploring the delights and habitat created by ditches, many of which are absolutely vital to the success of some of the rarest flora and fauna.

In "NOSTALGIA" begleiten wir den Erzähler auf seiner Reise von Deutschland an die etruskische Küste, ans toskanische Meer. Dort wo auch das zauberhafte Dorf steht, wo er sich zuhause fühlt wie kaum sonst irgendwo auf der Welt. Die immerwährende Sehnsucht nach dem tiefblauen Meer, dem Glück nachspüren im samtenen Abendwind, bei einem besonders guten Glas Wein, unter dem Dach eines intensiven Sternenhimmels. Der Genuss der wundervollen Küche. Und im Einklang zu sein mit den Düften und Klängen, die nur der Süden zu geben vermag. Um all das geht es in diesem Hörbuch.

When faced with an empty nest, Kari decides to spread her wings. Giving up a job she loves, she sets off to walk across a whole country. A big one. A contemporary take on an ancient experience, Pilgrim is an entertaining and moving memoir of Kari’s 900-kilometer walk to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In classic pilgrim fashion, she meets and befriends an array of companions along the way, from all walks of life, united by a common sincerity of purpose. Battling through sun and snow, mud and mountains, blisters and bedbugs, her real destination turns out to be "deep peace".

Are Kalvø è cresciuto in un paesino da fiaba nel Nordovest della Norvegia, circondato da fiordi e montagne e visitato da milioni di persone provenienti da tutto il mondo. Eppure lui non è un uomo da "aria aperta»" e, una volta trasferitosi in città, non si è più guardato indietro. Ma questo non è mai stato un problema. Almeno fino a qualche anno fa, quando si è ritrovato senza più un amico perché andavano tutti in gita tra i monti, come ogni buon scandinavo che si rispetti.