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Embark on a captivating journey with Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad, an audiobook that chronicles the author's travel adventures through Europe and the Holy Land. Twain's sharp wit and keen observations provide a humorous and insightful commentary on the places he visits, the people he encounters, and the cultural clashes he witnesses. This audiobook is a delightful blend of travelogue, satire, and social commentary, offering a unique perspective on the 19th-century world and the human condition.

At 47, Mark Greenside, a glass-is-half-empty native New Yorker living in California, unwillingly went to Brittany, and to his great amazement and surprise fell in love with the place and its people. Then, because love makes you crazy and do crazy things, he borrowed money from his mom and bought a 120‑year‑old farmhouse in Plobien, a village of 500 people.

Mark Steel is back with two more series of his award-winning show, in which he explores nine weird and wonderful places around the UK and beyond. After thoroughly researching each town's history, people and idiosyncrasies, he goes on to write and perform a tailor-made evening of stand-up for the residents.

Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all, when can he touch the tomatoes?

Endlich in modernisierter Fassung: Die amüsanten Skizzen des selbst ernannten "amerikanischen Vandalen" von seinen Reisen durch die Alte Welt in aktueller Auswahl...

Kloster Chorin, zurecht als Perle der norddeutschen Backsteingotik bezeichnet, gilt als bedeutendste und bekannteste Ruine der Zisterzienser, "Trümmer, die kaum Trümmer sind", wie Fontane meint. Dafür sprechen auch die bekannt gewordenen alljährlich stattfindenden Sommerkonzerte mit weltberühmten Orchestern und Solisten.

In Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, the process of capturing the island nation on film is revealed. Mark Spano invites the listener to follow him on his journey to celebrate the real Sicily, and to change the public perception of his family's homeland.

This collection of 42 first-person accounts about backpacking in Europe will awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for those who have. Romance, surprise, discovery, and wisdom all bubble through these authors’ riveting pieces.

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.

Vier "Gebilde von Menschenhand", so Fontane, bereichern die Ufer des Schwielowsees. Caputh und Petzow gehören dazu... und zusammen "wie Buda-Pest oder wie Köln und Deutz... Schönheit der Lage ist beiden gemeinsam", meinte der Dichter, billigt aber dem Paretzer ländlichen Ensemble Überlegenheit zu. So hat Lenné geschickt eine Bucht des Schwielowsees, den heutigen Haussee, in seine Landschaftsgestaltung einbezogen.