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Ten minutes of news from America's national parks, and what it looks like from inside the ranger's hat. Hosted by Mark Tezel, a retired National Park Service ranger with nearly forty years on the job.

If you're a travel advisor, this show will help you go from selling $150,000 in travel to actually making $150,000 selling travel. I'm Ali Raymer, award-winning agent and founder of Peace & Pearl Travel Co. I know firsthand that this journey is not easy, so I created The Travel Advisor Show to explore how you can bridge the gap. Each episode, I'll be sitting down in-studio with the best advisors in the industry to unpack the secrets of their success. If you're serious about growing your travel business and only have time to listen to one show, make it this one.

Le pagine di LoveImmobiliare Magazine, lette ad alta voce. In questa serie le rubriche dei luoghi: Altrove, In cucina da Moreno, Origini e percorsi, Ritorno a casa, Sguardi sull'Altopiano, Tra natura e spirito. Leggono Carlotta Melegari, direttrice della rivista, e gli autori che firmano i propri testi. Gli articoli per esteso, con le immagini, su loveimmobiliare.com

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Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country's longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, Tony and Nadya ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-infested swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea.

Was passiert, wenn ein Engländer, ausgestattet mit einer großen Portion britischen Humors, sein Herz und die Zügel in die Hand nimmt und sich mit einem französischen Esel auf heiliges spanisches Terrain begibt? Genau, der Esel ist störrisch, der Weg nach Santiago de Compostela lang, und Tim Moore findet in seinem Pilgerführer aus dem 12. Jahrhundert auch nicht immer die passenden Tipps. Dafür findet er etwas anderes: den Weg in sein eigenes Herz.

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed west face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June of 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into base camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead.

SHORTLISTED FOR TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 INSPIRE GLOBAL MEDIA AWARDS A FINANCIAL TIMES READERS BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new...

For most travellers, and all merchants, the road from China to India lies as it has lain for centuries, through Singkiang along that ancient Silk Road which is the most romantic and culturally the most important trade route in the history of the world. In 1935 Peter Fleming set out to travel that route, from Peking to Kashmir. It was a journey which swept him and his companion 3500 miles across the roof of the world. It took them seven months to complete the journey.

Sur les rives de l’Amazone, la jungle s’étend indéfiniment et partout le danger guette. À l’aube du XXe siècle le colonel Fawcett s’enfonce dans cet enfer vert, en quête d’un mystérieux royaume, d’une civilisation riche et oubliée. Prêt à tout risquer pour entrer dans...

En cada capítulo del podcast queremos mostrarte diferentes elementos de Córdoba, una ciudad mágica. Desde sus noticias, gastronomía, historia y todo lo que Córdoba supone en esa mezcla única de sus tres culturas. Déjate enamorar por una ciudad especial y disfruta de su feria, sus patios y su infinidad de acontecimientos. Disfruta de Córdoba desde nuetros apartamentos turísticos en una casa típica cordobesa en el centro de la ciudad. Nos gusta vivir y disfrutar Córdoba. Únete a nosotros y disfruta de las fiestas, la gastronomía, la historia, los monumentos y todo el sabor de ...

Chris Newens, an award-winning food writer and long-time resident of the historic slaughterhouse quartier Villette, takes us on a delightful gastronomic journey around Paris' twenty spiralling arrondissements, seeking out, sampling and attempting to recreate a dish that represents each as it is today. From Congolese catfish in the 18th to Middle Eastern falafels in the 4th, to the charcuterie served at the libertine nightclubs of Pigalle in the 9th, Newens lifts the lid on the city's ever-changing, defining and irresistible food culture.

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences...

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had...

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.” —Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts Little Princes is the epic story...

Sean Mallen was ecstatic when he unexpectedly got the chance he’d always craved: to be a London-based foreign correspondent. Except: his tearful wife and six-year-old daughter hated the idea of uprooting their lives and moving to another country. Falling for London is the hilarious and touching story of how he convinced them to go, how they learned to live in and love that wondrous but challenging city, and how his dream came true in ways he could have never expected.

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Join me on a journey of speaking to the closest people in my life and talking everything camping, mental health and life lessons.Alot can be learnt from running a small youtube channel, the nitty gritty of all the things i have experienced along the way, both good and bad, may be able to help you and your experiences.I want to share the funniest, fondest and deepest experiences i have had exploring the youtube camping world, both good and bad.I think anyone can relate to alot of the subjects i will speak about.So please, enjoy with a beer or coffee...Can you relate?

Growing up a 90-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism.