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Книга о том, как отчаянный марафонец продумывает и осуществляет совсем не простое путешествие по двум континентам на самом обыкновенном велосипеде. Запланированные 9 месяцев вылились во все 11, виной чему – внештатные ситуации и, как следствие, задержки в пути. Но это неважно, главное – другое: миссия выполнена!
| Автор | Евгений Почаев |
| Жанр | Путешествия и туризм, Спорт / фитнес, Отдых / туризм |
Книжка составлена из заметок, которые публиковались в журнале Yachting Monthly. Окунитесь в любой из 200 советов в этой книге, чтобы сделать из себя настоящего яхтсмена. Откройте для себя практические навыки, которые вы не найдете больше нигде. Каждый совет иллюстрируется и полезен всем, от абсолютного новичка до опытного морехода. Книга удобна для чартерного путешествия и нацелена на широкую аудиторию любителей яхтинга и водномоторного спорта, которые хотели бы получить или повысить свои навыки...
| Автор | Том Канлиф |
| Жанр | Зарубежная прикладная литература, Хобби / увлечения, Отдых / туризм |
| Год | 2017 |
Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity.William Shawcross in the Literary Review praised Terzani for ‘his beautifully written adventure story… a voyage of self-discovery… He sees fortune-tellers, soothsayers, astrologers,...
| Автор | Tiziano Terzani |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
An alternative look at Japanese life, history and cultureYour Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan? In this book Ben Stevens explores the serious and the frivolous, the history and the obsessions of a fascinating nation.Taking an A-Z walk through Japanese culture, A Gaijin's Guide To Japan looks at everything from akachochin bars to chikan (the weird blokes who touch you up on trains), geisha, inari...
| Автор | Ben Stevens |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, ‘A Merry Dance around the World’ is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure.A collection of writing from eleven books by Britain's best-loved travel writer, A Merry Dance around the World is the culmination of a lifetime's adventures, from the birth of Eric Newby in 1919 at the 'ghastly hour' of 3.45am, to Herculean cycling escapades in his seventies through the wiles of the Irish winter. An astonishing catalogue of disasters...
| Автор | Eric Newby |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
Some of the maps in this title are best viewed on a tablet device.A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable – CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? – setting in motion a legendary...
| Автор | Eric Newby |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this fulfilment would not come easy. The dream materialised in the form of I Castagni ('The Chestnuts'), a small, decrepit farmhouse with no roof, an abandoned septic tank and its own indigenous wildlife reluctant to...
| Автор | Eric Newby |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
The text in this ebook is fixed to preserve the layout of the book and it is not possible to enlarge the font size. It may be unsuitable for eink readers and mobile phones and we recommend you download a sample to your device before purchase.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods, a rare and intimate look at Colonial Beach, Virginia.Rich in narrative history and local colour, A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers, a...
| Автор | Sherryl Woods |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Отдых / туризм, Искусство фотографии |
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush.Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the dark streets of Barnes and the chaotic jungles of Harrods, and progressed to solo, school-bound adventures around the slums of darkest Hammersmith. His interest piqued, Newby's wanderlust snowballed, and his adventures multiplied, as he navigated the London...
| Автор | Eric Newby |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician’s unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his ‘one last chance’ to learn about the great literature he’d neglected in his youth – and, even more, a final opportunity to...
| Автор | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Секс и семейная психология, Стихи и поэзия, Отдых / туризм |
An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers.Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul’s School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside resorts as Frinton. In 1938 he persuaded his father to have him apprenticed to the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu and, with camera in tow, sailed in the last Grain Race from Australia to Europe by...
| Автор | Eric Newby |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson’s adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles.Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles: Cornwall to Scilly, over to Pembrokeshire and the west of Ireland, to the Hebrides and...
| Автор | Adam Nicolson |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
A book to put the Midlands back on the map.Everyone knows what they think of the North and South of England – the clichés abound. But what about that big, anonymous stretch of land in between: the Midlands? Despite being home to around a third of the English population, it’s a region that seems to have neither purpose nor identity. In this humorous exploration, the author – a Midlander exiled in London – sets off on a tour of the country’s belly in order to piece together his Midland heritage....
| Автор | Robert Shore |
| Жанр | Историческая литература, Отдых / туризм |
A Ballymaloe-trained chef, songwriter and musical right-hand-man to the legends of Irish song takes us back stage and into the kitchens of a bohemian, international and surprisingly foodie group of Irish household names, including members of the Dubliners, Sharon Shannon, Stockton’s Wing, The Fureys and De Dannan.Story-led and full of anecdotes, Mike Hanrahan tells the tales behind the music of the 1970s and 80s in Ireland and cooks up the favourite dishes of its most-loved singers.From memories...
| Автор | Mike Hanrahan |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Кулинария, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежные любовные романы, Отдых / туризм |
Guide and Conversations in Croatian I realized this guide wanting to provide not just information about the historical places and the beauties of an unknown Split, but also the linguistic tools necessary to fully enjoy a trip and to know what to say in every situation. I hope I realized a guide useful to the traveler, curious not only about new to him places but also about learning the language. Have a pleasant journey! PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
| Автор | Sanja Pokrajac |
| Жанр | Зарубежная образовательная литература, Прочая образовательная литература, Отдых / туризм |
Dedicado a Belgrado: Tomé un poco de tus años y letra por letra comencé a unir los mundos. Sanja. El primer libro guía completamente escrito en caracteres cirílicos y latinos. Es una guía de los lugares históricos y de entretenimiento, de conversaciones extensas, de pronunciación y gramática simplificadas para entender mejor el idioma, pero también la escritura oficial serbia, el cirílico. El gran novelista y pintor serbio, Momo Kapor dijo de Belgrado: ”Belgrado no está en Belgrado, porque...
| Автор | Sanja Pokrajac |
| Жанр | Иностранные языки, Отдых / туризм |
A romantic and adventurous journey to the hidden islands and lagoons beyond Papua New Guinea and north of Australia.East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown paradise islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas. They were perhaps the last inhabited place on earth to be explored by Europeans, and even today many remain largely unspoilt, despite the former presence of German, British and even Australian colonial rulers.Michael Moran, a...
| Автор | Michael Moran |
| Жанр | Отдых / туризм |
Discover the Queen of Scandi-crime Camilla Lackberg with these three thrillers – books 4, 5 and 6 in her 12 million copy international bestselling detective series, featuring Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck.THE STRANGER: A series of tragic road accidents and the murder of a reality TV contestant mark the end to a quiet winter for Detective Patrik Hedström.THE HIDDEN CHILD: The discovery of a Nazi medal in her late mother’s belongings leads Erica Falck to dig into her family’s past, and drag a...
| Автор | Камилла Лэкберг |
| Жанр | Зарубежная современная проза, Отдых / туризм |