Travel & Tourism

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather....

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

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations....

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....

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....

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....

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....

The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

The Animal Dialogues tells of Craig Childs' own chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others....

A witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in an audiobook that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen.... 

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did....

This is the audiobook millions of Rick Steves fans have been waiting for....

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

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections....

Taking listeners beyond the stereotypical images of windmills, clogs, and tulips, this audio guide helps visitors understand the complex layers of identity in this small, densely populated country on Europe's northwestern seaboard....

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer....

Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....

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....

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed....

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....

Revised and updated, and with each page alive with facts, history and inspiration, Be More Japan unlocks the secrets behind modern Japanese living - whether you're eating sushi in London or enjoying the cherry blossoms in San Francisco. And if you're dreaming of a future trip to Japan, this book will get you closer to your destination before you've even departed.

Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned traveler, this comprehensive guidebook is packed with everything you need to make the most out of your Amsterdam adventure!

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.

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.

Gehen Sie auf Reisen! Diese Geräuschkulisse folgt einer Zugfahrt vom Bahnsteig bis zum Zielort. Reisen Sie ohne Verspätung und machen Sie es sich in Ihrem Abteil bequem. Das rhythmische Brummen des Zuges ist perfekt, um die Augen zu schließen und sich zu entspannen.

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.

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.

Was ist ein Foreigner? Bedeutet dieser Begriff schlicht Ausländer, oder steckt da mehr dahinter? Warum werden alte Menschen in Indien mehr geachtet als im Westen? Wie steht es um die Korruption in der indischen Gesellschaft? Warum sind die Lautsprecher bei Veranstaltungen jeder Art in Indien immer so unerträglich laut aufgedreht? Wie steht es überhaupt und besonders heute (2017) mit der Kinderarbeit in Indien? Diese und viele andere Fragen hat der seit 14 Jahren durch Indien reisende Autor Indern gestellt und deren Antworten in dieses kleine (Hör-)Buch gesetzt, um dort Brücken der Verständigung zu schlagen, wo diese fehlen.

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.