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Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe. Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home are a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastness of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business - and Michael sets off to discover them.

Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring powerful identities for people in ancient landscapes. What are their stories and secrets? How did people encounter birds over a thousand years ago? In The Cuckoo’s Lea, Michael J. Warren sets out on the trail of these ghosts. Captivated and guided by the secrets of place names, he finds their stories entangled with his own explorations of places through birds all across England.

In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as “the telling room”. Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets - usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese.

Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage. Together they travel across Europe to Portugal, but danger seems to follow them, as they are among the first on the scene when a beautiful young girl is found brutally raped and murdered on the hillside of Santiago de Compostela. Baldwin and Simon lend their investigative skills to the ensuing enquiry headed by the local pesquisidore, Munio.

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment?

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London’s commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. Here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage....

Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronted by ex-politician Michael Portillo, and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe using George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

In his latest voyage of discovery, Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a "new" Europe. He starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastness of the Sahara.

Brought to you by Penguin. Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the incredible story of one woman's solo journey across the Bay of Biscay, into the Mediterranean, and the unexpected joy of solitude, self-discovery and resilience __________ 'We have no idea how much resilience there is inside us until we have to draw on it...

Rom - die Ewige Stadt - gehört seit jeher zu den beliebtesten Reisezielen. Als einstige Hauptstadt des Römischen Reiches und Zentrum der Kirche, der ältesten seit der Antike bis heute unverändert bestehenden Institution, ist Rom in gewisser Weise der natürliche Ausgangs- und Mittelpunkt der europäischen Geschichte. Michael Sommer erzählt einen der faszinierendsten Ausschnitte aus dieser Geschichte: die Zeit, als die Kaiser in Rom residierten.

Brought to you by Penguin This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic...

Der Autor entführt Sie nach Venedig, der unvergleichlichen Lagunenstadt, in der u.a. das Carpaccio und der Bellini erfunden wurde...

In diesem Hörbuch wird Ihnen die schöne Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau vorgestellt und Ihnen ein Städtetrip somit fast unumgänglich gemacht. Freiburg ist die Stadt im Süden von Deutschland mit den meisten verzeichneten Sonnenstunden und hat viele interessante Fakten, die Ihnen hier nähergebracht werden und Sie neugierig darauf machen, selbst durch die kleinen Gassen zu schlendern und Freiburg auf eigene Faust zu erkunden.

"Deutsche Sagen und Legenden" ist ein literarischer Streifzug durch die Sagenwelt Deutschlands. Von Bayern ins Rheinland...

Die alte Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main, die Karl der Große im Jahre 794 n. Chr. erstmals in einer Urkunde erwähnte, ist reich an wundervollen Sagen und Legenden...

Die Gründungszeit der heutigen Großstadt geht zurück ins Jahr 945. Herzog Liudolf von Schwaben errichtete am Neckar ein Pferdegestüt...

Lange vor der heutigen Zeit lebten zauberhafte Wesen in der Hamburger Gegend und es geschahen seltsame Dinge, an die sich fast niemand mehr erinnert...

Ach war das ein Leben in Köln! Des Abends bettete man sich zur Ruh und wenn man sich am nächsten Tage erhob, fand man alles aufs Vortrefflichste gerichtet...