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Marco Polo (1254-1324), is probably the most famous Westerner who traveled on the "Silk Road." His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He traveled the whole of China and returned to tell the tale, which became one of the world's greatest travelogues.

This is the account of a unique journey – a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the characters and places, architecture and landscape all spring vividly to the listener's ear.

What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the...

Welcome to our World - En podcast om sexpositiv livsstil skapad av Nimo PartyWelcome to our World är podcasten som tar dig rakt in i hjärtat av den skandinaviska swingersvärlden. Podden är skapad av gänget bakom Nimo Party, som arrangerar några av norra Europas mest kända fester för människor med en sexpositiv livsstil. I podden snackas om allt som har med livsstilen att göra, från häftiga event, sexiga upplevelser, tips och trix för dig som är nyfiken på livsstilen, män med stora....personligheter... och mycket mer.Följ med på en upptäcksfärd som lämnar två garantier: Du...

ਸਾਡੀ ਪੌਡਕਾਸਟ ਲੜੀ, "ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਰਾਜਵੰਸ਼" ਵਿੱਚ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਅਮੀਰ ਅਤੇ ਦਿਲਚਸਪ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦੀ ਯਾਤਰਾ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਤਿਆਰ ਹੋ ਜਾਓ। ਸਾਡੀ 10-ਐਪੀਸੋਡ ਲੜੀ ਵਿੱਚ, ਅਸੀਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਸਾਰੇ ਰਾਜਵੰਸ਼ਾਂ ਦੀ ਡੂੰਘਾਈ ਨਾਲ ਖੋਜ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਵਿਭਿੰਨ ਅਤੇ ਜੀਵੰਤ ਖੇਤਰ 'ਤੇ ਰਾਜ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ, ...

Jordan B. Peterson, renowned psychologist andauthor, explains the importance of not wasting your life, how you should strive to be better every single day and how by fixing your life, you not only helpyourself but everyone you come in contact with.

A North Country Life is the story of author Sydney Lea’s powerful connection to his family, friends, and the northern outdoors. Loosely organized by the changing of seasons, different sections feature essays on such topics as childhood family fishing trips in the wilds of Maine, trophy fly-fishing the northern reaches of the Connecticut River, the opening day of turkey hunting season in Vermont, and getting lost in the deep woods while deer hunting. The essays are introspective and dramatic.

'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels . . . a wonderfully generous gift' - John de Falbe, Spectator In this scintillating audiobook, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for...

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina.

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth.

Pigafetta's book on Magellan’s travels is an engaging travel narrative honoring the legendary explorer. But it is much more: an accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation of the globe. Pifagetta describes the peoples, countries, goods, and even the languages that were spoken in every area.

Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the people who inhabit this region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in...

Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Élysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.

On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he’d just received to write his memoirs. Hopefully incognito. In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman’s plan to blend in went wonderfully awry.

Everything you want to know about France and more… in a free podcast. Janine Marsh, Editor of the Good Life France Magazine and website, award winning travel writer and author of several books about France, takes you to the heart of France, from French culture, history and heritage, gastronomy, wine, castles to monuments, fabulous destinations and much, much more – delivered with oodles of charm, a side of humour and a dash of unique French joie de vivre.

A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the bottom of the garden, you might think there is...

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.

Leipzig ist eine Stadt mit unzähligen Facetten: Musik und Kultur, Natur, Wasser und Freizeit, junge Kreativszene, versteckte Geheimtipps und beliebte Szenemeilen. Im Podcast „Willkommen in Leipzig“ kannst du hören, was es in unserer Stadt alles zu sehen gibt. Unsere beiden Moderatoren Aileen & Axel nehmen dich mit auf eine Reise in diese wundervolle Stadt.

A few years ago Lia & Jeremy quit their jobs, put their stuff in storage, & took off on a year-long honeymoon. (It was basically a disaster, but they had fun anyway.) Today, they travel and write about their ongoing (mis)adventures on their travel blog, PracticalWanderlust.com. On this bi-weekly podcast Lia and Jeremy share their most ridiculous travel stories and practical tips to help you avoid making all of their terrible, terrible mistakes - plus all of the weird history they've learned along the way!