Travel & Tourism

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild....

William Dalrymple's highly praised and greatly entertaining account of his 1986 trip made while a student at Cambridge which retraced Marco Polo's route across land from Jerusalem to Xanadu....

Globe-trotting journalist Pallavi Aiyar moves to Japan and takes an in-depth look at the island country including its culinary, sanitary, and floral idiosyncrasies....

One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s....

Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land....

Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

The Mountains Are High is a beautifully written, candid memoir about how reevaluating what is really important and taking a leap of faith to reach it can genuinely transform your life.

In 1948, Lama Anagarika Govinda made an unforgettable journey into Tibet before its invasion by the Chinese....

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms....

A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants....

This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed.​...

Secrets of Divine Love is the #1 international bestselling book on Islam that draws upon spiritual secrets of the Qur’an, ancient mystical poetry, and stories from the world’s greatest prophets and spiritual masters to help you reignite your faith....

Muotitoimittaja ja kirjailija Mirva Saukkolan matkakokemuksissa on sopivasti eleganssia, menneen maailman tuntua ja reilusti luksusta...

An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour....

The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya....

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path....

When he set out to visit all of the planet’s countries by age thirty-five, compulsive goal-seeker Chris Guillebeau never imagined that his journey’s biggest revelation would be how many people like himself exist—each pursuing a challenging quest....

A celebration of 25 years of Provençal living - of lessons learned and changes observed - with his final book, Peter Mayle has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home, marked by his signature warmth, wit, and humor....

In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying....

Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni's quest to retrace the trail of Rama's fabled travels during his years in exile began with their trying to locate Chitrakoot on the map and realizing that they had little idea where it might be....

Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life....

Kirjailija on kollegoineen lähtenyt junamatkalle läpi Euroopan. Hänen pysähdyspaikkoinaan ovat 20 eurooppalaista kaupunkia, joiden...

In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy. This collection contains 11 of his most celebrated and memorable essays....

The Mountains Are High is a beautifully written, candid memoir about how reevaluating what is really important and taking a leap of faith to reach it can genuinely transform your life. As one of the ‘new migrants' tells Alec when he arrives: it is easy to change your environment, far more difficult to change your mind.

Heute ist Jil Eileen Füngeling eine bekannte Reise-Influencerin mit über 350.000 Followern auf Instagram. Doch das war nicht immer so. Sie wächst in einem kleinen Dorf, in der Nähe von Köln auf. Nach einigen schlechten Erfahrungen, die ihr Herz bluten lassen, beschließt Jil der schmerzhaften Situation zu entfliehen. Bewaffnet mit zwei Backpacks, einer Portion Mut und jeder Menge Abenteuerlust, zieht die damals 22-jährige Jil los, um die Welt zu entdecken. Was soll schon passieren?

With the help of some of our more disreputable friends, each an argumentative and unreliable expert in his or her own dodgy field, we'll explain why some streets have genders, why only two Londoners got to meet Dracula, how a department store and a prison played tricks on your mind, when a theatre got stranded in the past, how a building vanished in plain sight, what excited Charlotte Brontë about the city and where the devils hide in London.

Fürst Pückler war eine der schillerndsten Gestalten des 19. Jahrhunderts: Er war Aristokrat und Publizist, Abenteurer und Frauenheld, Landschaftsgärtner und Reiseschriftsteller, der für Eindrücke und Erlebnisse so aufgeschlossen war wie nur wenige seiner Zeitgenossen. 1835 startete er seine Reise in den Orient, die fast fünf Jahre dauern und ihn nach Algier, Tunis, Ägypten, Sudan, Jerusalem, Syrien und Konstantinopel führen sollte. Heinz Klevenow, Christian Rode und Günter Witte lesen aus seinen Berichten, die so lebendig sind wie die Reise selbst.

Genießen Sie eine Reise durch ein italienisches Dorf. Sie beginnen in einem Restaurant, wo Sie eine kleine Erfrischung zu sich nehmen können. Dann besuchen Sie eine Kirche während des Gottesdienstes. Sie verlassen die Kirche und machen einen Spaziergang durch den örtlichen Stadtpark neben einem Kloster, wo Sie die Mönche singen hören. Lassen Sie Ihrem Fernweh freien Lauf und spüren Sie die Urlaubsstimmung.

Das neue Hörbuch von Katja Eichinger über den Sehnsuchtsort Côte d'Azur. Ultramarinblaues Meer, weiße Strandpromenaden, Palmen, Mimosen und ein einzigartiges Licht: die Côte d'Azur. Nirgends sonst ist die Dichte der Geschichten und der Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die sie verewigt haben, höher. Nietzsche war hier, Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, James Baldwin und die Rolling Stones. Ein Ort, an dem Extreme und Exzess, die Yachten und Bauten der Superreichen, die Glitterati und Easyjet-Touristen vor der unbeeindruckt bezaubernden Natur aufeinandertreffen.

There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.

Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly… What’s not to like? And it's all accessible right here, without the need for a flight or a big budget. From getting back to nature with a tent, some matches and a few litres of bottled water, to enjoying a pub dinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this book shows how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms.

At the age of sixty, and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on one last adventure: to drive solo from his home in the UK 18,000 miles and through twenty-five countries to Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa. This incredible journey, across Europe and down the full length of Africa, took the former British Army officer over twelve months. Along the way, he broke down five times, underwent one emergency evacuation, and took 3,650 prescription pills.

Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. By 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes, and this book, The Lost Paths, is the result. It is Jack Cornish's hope that The Lost Paths will show just how special these forgotten rights of way are, and how embedded each path is in the history of Britain.

Con una exquisita sensibilidad, Sinay narra un viaje que atraviesa Europa y Asia hasta Japón y, a la vez, retrata algunas de las relaciones amorosas que se dieron en las ciudades que visita, con su propia historia de amor como hilo conductor y con fragmentos sonoros captados por él mismo. Para Javier Sinay viajar no era una aspiración prioritaria. Sin embargo, un día de 2017 metió unas pocas cosas en una mochila y emprendió una travesía desmesurada. ¿El motivo? Una mujer llamada Higashi, su pareja, que pasaría todo ese año en Kioto dedicada a estudiar la ceremonia del té.

Catalogado como el youtuber de viajes más importante de Colombia, Juan Díaz presenta su audiolibro Inadaptados. Una reflexión profunda sobre distintas culturas, una crítica social a los sistemas de diferentes países y potencias mundiales, en un crudo viaje que dejará a sus oyentes una postura sobre la falsa idea que nos venden del mundo, el éxito, el romanticismo, la felicidad, el turismo y la búsqueda del propósito.

River of Lakes weaves together the biological, cultural, anthropological, archaeological, and ecological aspects of the St. Johns, capturing the essence of its remarkable history and intrinsic value as a natural wonder.

Ein Mann, ein Plan, ein Familienessen. Und eine Reise. Was tun, wenn der Geburtstag naht? Was tun, wenn die italienische Familie bekocht werden will und der Schwiegervater ein ausgewiesener Feinschmecker ist? Man(n) fragt bei den Besten nach! Zwischen Venedig und Triest stehen sie mit Rat und Tat zur Seite: der smarteste Barkeeper der Welt, die Königin der Cicchetti, der Kapitän der Sarde in saor, der Padrone der Pasta, die Winzerin der Wasser-Reben, der Frico-Feinschmecker, der Bändiger des Baccalà – und natürlich Pino aus der "Bar in Italien", der dem Autor beruhigend die Hand hält, wenn der Nervenzusammenbruch droht.

Der Regen wird wärmer Folge 04 – Sybil Head. Irland ist eine grüne Insel, dekoriert von bunten Haustüren, flankiert von Schafherden und jeder Menge Pubs. Junggesellen, die bereits das Verfallsdatum überschritten haben, präsentieren beim „Matchmaking-Heiratsmarkt“ ihre kaum vorhandenen Vorzüge. Elfenwesen tummeln sich mit Feen an Flüssen und das Guinness ist ein Quell ewiger Weisheit. Kein Wunder, dass Iren ihr Vermögen vertrinken und dabei melancholische Lieder singen, um von dieser Weisheit zu kosten. Allerdings braucht man Whiskey, um am Ende des Regenbogens einen vergrabenen Topf Gold zu finden.