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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top ­safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry ­elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals: herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a pride of hungry lions!

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood.

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the 10 best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city".

In June 1960, Alzada Kistner and her husband, David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to face numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded.

A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild. At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in...

Every traveler once in his life dreams of traveling to the mountains. In fact, the real adventure of a traveler begins with his first encounter with the mountains itself, and no less. Often though, you do not come to know what hides in the inner layers of a place in just one small encounter. Life has mysterious ways to reveal itself, and the same goes for the experiences in the mountains, Uttarakhand Diaries is about halting here and experiencing the vivid moments in these mystical mountains. It is a vivid collection of myriad experiences the author gathered in these spectacular mountains ...

सफर.. मंज़िल.. और रास्ते.. अक्सर यह हमें उन चीज़ोँ से रूबरू करवाते है जो हमें किताबी ज्ञान से कभी नहीं मिल पाया है, तो आइए हम आपको ले चलते है एक नए सफर पे जिसके रास्ते सीधे नहीं - टेढ़े मेढ़े हैं I इन्ही टेढ़े मेढ़े रास्तों पर होस्ट केशव ...

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also...

旅の思い出は、奪われることのない宝。時は明治、鉄道開通に揺れる滋賀県草津の村長・南信太郎は駅の開業に尽くし、立売り弁当販売を始める。

A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced “Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of...

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a "beautiful man-horse", Rachael realized that small-town France could hardly be more different to Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neighbors sometimes came to blows and under no circumstances would anyone wear active wear in public. Muddling through in terrible French pushed Rachael's family to their limits. Some days, everybody cried and ate their feelings with croissants. But the town of Sommières embraced these ragtag Australians.

A Small Intro of Bijapur in Karnataka,India and its coverage of Tourism Locations by World Travel Consortium, Hyderabad - India

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a...

Learn Tamil with Fexingo — the easy way to learn Tamil through warm stories, natural conversations, and slow news. A friendly Tamil-learning podcast hosted by Lucas and Luna. Every episode is a short, digestible lesson built around real-world Tamil you can use right away — perfect for absolute beginners who want to start speaking Tamil with confidence. Expect: beginner Tamil lessons, slow Tamil stories, everyday Tamil conversations, slow news in Tamil, travel phrases, and tons of repetition so it sticks. New episodes added regularly. Follow Fexingo to keep learning Tamil. #LearnTamil #...

Das andere Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist das unbekannte und geheimnisvolle, skurrile, missverständliche und irritierende. Augenzwinkernd und sorgfältig recherchiert entfaltet Wolf Schmidt hier ein neues Bild des Nordostens mit überraschenden Bezügen zum Rest der Welt. Heimatkunde einmal ganz anders. Was hat zum Beispiel der Ort Benzin mit dem Treibstoff zu tun, was Wedekinds Hure mit Ludwigs Lust und wieso gab es Bluetooth an der Ostsee schon vor über 1.000 Jahren? Wie ist genau der Zusammenhang zwischen Fischdose und Archäologie, Maikäfer und Pommern oder Pommes und Pommern? Eine ...

Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language: the places her family stopped and worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lore of their people. But his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers. In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of Britain's Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places.

Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in this audiobook that accompanies his journey for the BBC1 series.

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, it is claimed by myth to be the source of the universe created from cosmic waters and the mind of Brahma. Its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. His trek around the great mountain, revered by multitudinous others, awakes an inner landscape of solitude....

In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder and transcendent joy of motion and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.