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The Mourning Map is a travel podcast where I walk into the world's most beautiful cities and ask the one question nobody puts on the tourist map — what happened here, and who paid for it?Every episode I explore a real place, uncover its hidden history, decode the grief that got buried underneath the beauty — and refuse to move on until it's been properly felt.Because grief is not just personal. It lives in the ground beneath our feet. In the architecture. In the festivals nobody fully understands anymore. In the stories that never made it onto the monument.I'm Kiran and I'm here to shine ...

An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside China. - Summary by Steve Cullen

Lady Juliana is the daughter of the Earl of Courtland. She receives a marriage proposal from a wealthy Duke but much to the horror of her father she elopes to Gretna Green a Scottish soldier Henry Douglas. She is disowned and Douglas is dismissed. The couple journey to Glenfern in Scotland and reside with the Douglas family. Juliana is shocked by the difference in lifestyles. Despite all kind-hearted attempts from Henry’s fussing spinster aunts, Miss Grizzy, Miss Jackie and Miss Nicky, Lady Juliana makes no attempt to accept her new life in Scotland and events take some interesting turns. - ...

Everything from upland fieldwork, coonhound night hunts, and retriever training to vanlife, outdoor adventure, gear reviews, and the folks keeping the sporting dog tradition alive—all in one spot! On The Hunting Dog Roadshow: A Van, A Man, And His Dogs, Mike Reed leaves his hunting camp in the Mississippi Delta and travels North America sharing stories of vanlife and the hunting dog world. For hunters, dog lovers, and anyone drawn to the open road, this show brings you inside the lifestyle behind great hunting dogs and memorable road trip adventures.

Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of the anxious traveller, where panic strikes in the most serene situations, where each time you're convinced that the symptoms are in fact physical and your lungs or heart will stop working, and the only relief is a paramedic telling you that you won't die...

You know when you’re in a Football City. The murals, the billboards, the graffiti, the colours on the bars and pubs. No two football cities are the same. That cross on the club badge, commemorating a 1st century fisherman martyr (Ajax). The ‘cemetery’ of graves dedicated to the club’s...

In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse was struggling. Once the vanguard leader, the Parisian avant-garde now considered him passé. His important early collectors had stopped buying his work and were fully championing Picasso, and he had exhibited little in the last few years. In the face of Cubism...

On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this...

A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute...

Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s. Fleming spent seven months with the "object of investigating the Communist situation in South China" at a time when, as far as he knew, "no previous journey had been made to the anti-communist front by a foreigner", and on its publication in 1934, One's Company won widespread critical acclaim.

“Open-hearted and buoyant, the book weaves together her hands-on experiences in Europe and introduces us to a rich cast of people who make, sell and care about these traditions.” —Jenny Linford, author of The Missing Ingredient In this delightful tour of France, England, and Italy, YouTube...

In Hope and Glory, Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events of the century we have just left behind that have shaped the look and character of modern Britain. From the death of Victoria to the demise of New Labour, he takes a single event from each decade of the 20th century that offers up a defining moment in our history and then goes in search of its legacy today.

As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner. Walking Backwards is a return to 10 cities and what happened there. Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or wandering endlessly through Mantua searching for a non-existent hotel on a street that's fallen off the map, Mark Frutkin is a master at rediscovering the magic at the heart of all travel.

Livingstone's first book revolutionized the way European readers saw Africa and made him a hero in England. He returned again to the Zambesi with his brother Charles and others, this time with more equipment and funds. Again he faced hippopotami, crocodiles, impossible terrain, and disease, but his greatest enemies on this trip prove to be human. The British eventually lost faith in the expedition, but Livingstone proved in the end to have had tremendous foresight.

Reisen auf den legendären Hippie-Trails der 60er und 70er Jahre Zweite erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage! Waren die Globetrotter der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, unterwegs auf dem Landweg von Mitteleuropa nach Marokko, Kreta, via Istanbul und Kabul nach Indien und Thailand wirklich, wie oft behauptet, die Pioniere des modernen Massentourismus? Welchen Legenden folgten diese Rucksack-Reisenden, die mit ihren Touren selbst die Legende vom Hippie-Trail begründeten?

In France, Johnson is like an alien from another planet. Everything is strange to him. His goal is to speak French without going to prison, drive without being squashed like a bug, dance the tango without losing his marriage, and belt out a tune with a world-class jazz combo without being booed off the stage. Repeatedly, the author fearlessly steps into harm's way. He joins a summer acting troop and witnesses the French version of sexual liberation.

Bucht von Saint-Paul, Quebec, Kanada. Spätsommer, fünf Uhr morgens. Über dem Sankt Lorenzstrom liegt dichter Nebel. Ein unsichtbares Schiff arbeitet sich langsam gegen die Strömung vor. Nur das tiefe Wummern der Schiffsmotoren und der periodische Klang des Nebelhorns erfüllen den Raum und lassen die Weite der Landschaft hörbar werden. Das Echo dauert mehr als sieben Sekunden. Aus dieser Aufnahmesituation entwickelt sich das Feature.

On this very special new series host Georgina Brown talks to the craftspeople of adventure, the explorers and scientists, writers and filmmakers who live and breathe adventure every day in every way. We find out what makes them tick, what adventure means to them, and how we can bring that spark of adventure into our own lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you a woman in your late 30s, 40s, 50s who feels like your life needs a major reinvention, but you’re feeling stuck and unsure where to start? (And maybe worried that the life you really want is a little too “unconventional” and it’s a little too late to pursue it?)Welcome to the She Reinvented podcast!---In my own quest to reinvent and redesign all aspects of my life (after a major burnout in my 40s), I’m talking to women who transformed their own lives - well over the age of 35. ---From quitting their job and moving to another country, divorcing and starting over, rekindling ...