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  • Wild Coast

    de John Gimlette ...
    Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an ... Leer más

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  • At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

    Travels Through Paraguay

    de John Gimlette ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.”Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book–equal parts ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Gardens of Mars

    Madagascar, an Island Story

    de John Gimlette ...
    A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar.'A beautifully written depiction of the history of this beguiling island' Literary Review'Courageous, exploratory, humane and with a wry sense of humour' Spectator'A feat of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Elephant Complex

    Travels in Sri Lanka

    de John Gimlette ...
    No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling curiosity for the inside story. This time, he travels to Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging ... Leer más

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  • Panther Soup

    Travels Through Europe in War and Peace

    de John Gimlette ...
    Beautifully blending contemporary travel writing and military history, John Gimlette travels across Europe in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944-45. In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe with his guide Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-old Bostonian who had landed in Marseille in the midst of World War II with his tank destroyer ... Leer más

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    The Garden of Mars

    Madagascar, an Island Story

    de John Gimlette ...
    Narrado por Mark Elstob ...

    Completo

    13 hora 10 minutos

    A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world's fourth island: Madagascar.An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar but it's too big, too eccentric, and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet its road ... Leer más

    $17.58 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • DuMont Reiseabenteuer Leseprobe 2014

    de Gerald Drißner, Rolf Neuhaus, Colin Thubron, Gavin Francis, John Gimlette, Peter Hessler, Rob Lilwall ...
    Series series
    Die neuen DuMont Reiseabenteuer 2014:Vorab als Leseprobe erhältlich.Die neuen DuMont Reiseabenteuer beginnen dort, wo die Nachrichten aufhören: Sie zeigen aus erster Hand das wirkliche Leben und die Welt, die hinter den Daten, Fakten oder Schlagzeilen liegt. Die Autoren dieser frisch erzählten Reiseimpressionen sind Auslandskorrespondenten, hochkarätige Journalisten und international renommierte ... Leer más

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  • Journey to Guyana

    de Margaret Bacon ...
    When the author's husband, a civil engineer, told her they were going to Guyana. she replied: "Wonderful. I've always wanted to go to Africa", a self-critical comment she quotes to indicate how little is known about the countryShe spent two years there in Georgetown on the narrow coastal trip where 750,000 lived - (while she was there), with 30,000 in the rest of the 83,000 square mile. She made ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Visit Sunny Chernobyl

    And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

    de Andew Blackwell ...
    For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Headhunters on My Doorstep

    A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

    de J. Maarten Troost ...
    Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals.Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lunatic Express

    Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes

    de Carl Hoffman ...
    Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs.Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lower River

    de Paul Theroux ...
    “[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can’t help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.”—Entertainment WeeklyWhen he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro