Travel & Tourism

I Am Here is a courageous memoir that traces one woman’s journey through displacement, betrayal, silence, and survival. Spanning continents and generations, the book moves from childhood migrations to Liberia and Israel into the deeply personal terrain of family fracture, abuse, and unspoken...

Welcome to the wild, wacky and wonderful world of outback Aussie festivals! Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled far and wide to capture the true stories behind Australia's most unconventional festivals. You'll meet the larrikin locals, dedicated organisers and competitive spirits who turn cockroaches into champions, guinea pigs into thoroughbreds and dunnies into racing machines.

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval...

Read by the author. From bestselling author, paranormal investigator, and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni, Cuisine to Kill For intertwines the macabre with the culinary to uncover some of history’s most gruesome true crime stories and the ghosts they left behind. Whether set in a haunted...

A philosophical guide to the joys of travel and adventure. In this collection of twenty essays, The School of Life applies their signature mix of philosophy, practicality, and wit to the act of travel. We pursue travel as a means to make ourselves happy-so why do we often find ourselves bored, anxious, or lonely when on a trip? This is a guidebook not to geographical locations, but to the philosophy of travel itself.

Explore the extraordinary legacy of W.B. Yeats through a collection that brings together his finest poetry, personal reflections, and writings on Ireland's literary revival. Known for his romantic and lyrical style of poetry, Yeats's work was often inspired by Irish myths, spiritualism, love, longing and loss. His later work became more modernist in style, challenging poetic conventions and shifting to a political focus. This audiobook edition is expertly read by Aidan Kelly.

On Everdene Sands, a row of beach huts holds the secrets of the families who own them - secrets of unrequited love, plain old-fashioned lust, childhood dreams and long-forgotten hopes... 'FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach hut on the spectacular Everdene Sands. "The Shack" has been...

Comment vivre ? Les kilomètres s’accumulaient inexorablement sur la route tracée au cœur du pays de l’épinette noire. Je sortais du tableau Krieghoff troué de notre mémoire collective, avec l’envie de réécrire à ma manière le récit de la vie réelle. La roue avant de mon vélo fendait l’avenir.

Lange war es nur ein Traum, dann packt Nicola Haardt ihr Fahrrad und fährt los - immer gen Osten. Ihr Ziel ist der Baikalsee, mehr als 6.000 km Luftlinie von ihrer Heimat entfernt. Ihr Weg führt sie durch Europa über den Ural bis nach Sibirien und Zentralasien. Ein halbes Jahr lang radelt...

Berlin, die Stadt der Moderne, schläft nie. Sie ist das deutsche Epizentrum neuzeitlicher Errungenschaften. Medien, Wissenschaft, Politik alles rotiert hier auf Weltniveau. Solche Superlativen machen vergessen, dass hinter der Hektik ein historisches Vermächtnis liegt. Dieses Hörbuch gibt den...

MEIN KüstenWEG Es ist nicht ihre erste Pilgerreise, doch diesmal ist Mady Host 4 Wochen allein auf dem Jakobsweg unterwegs. Aber so wirklich allein mit sich selbst ist man selten auf den bekannten Pilgerrouten nach Santiago de Compostela. Auf dem Küstenweg erwandert Mady ihre Freiheit. Aus dem...

What do you do when your car breaks down during a pandemic, nobody will fix it, and you end up buying a carpenter's van with no windows, no experience, and absolutely no idea what you're doing? If you're Andy, you convert it into a campervan. You install a diesel heater, carpet the walls, put a...

Winner of the 2020 Michael Jacobs Prize; shortlisted for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award 'A treasure chest full of rare and exquisitely rendered stories' JON LEE ANDERSON 'The best book you are likely to read on Cuba for ages’ SPECTATOR A brilliantly unconventional and riveting...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most books about architecture teach you how to see buildings. This book teaches you how to see cities. Below the Surface: Berlin's U2 - Hidden Architecture* is an immersive journey beneath Berlin's streets, revealing an invisible layer of the city that...

Ga mee op een epische voettocht naar Rome, de eeuwige stad, vol avonturen en onvergetelijke ervaringen. Ontdek kloosters, proef nieuwe gerechten, trotseer natuurgeweld en ontmoet bijzondere mensen.