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A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic - survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else - until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations - a form of communication extremely rare in nature.

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first...

Nueva York. Esto es la Guía Oficial de Holiday FM de Nueva York. Conocida la "Gran Manzana" y "La ciudad que nunca duerme", Nueva York es una ciudad de superlativos: el más alto de los edificios, las mejores tiendas, el lugar más emocionante en los Estados Unidos para la cultura, los negocios, la arquitectura y la vida nocturna.

Matt and Karen experienced the trip of a lifetime with 14 friends and a crew of 10 while traveling in wooden dories down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Dories, Ho! is a story of their adventure and discovery. While not intended to be a traditional guidebook, anyone contemplating a river trip through the Grand Canyon will benefit from this firsthand account. Listeners will feel as if they've traveled with the authors on their journey to and through Grand Canyon National Park.

L'Appalachian Trail, che dalla Georgia al Maine taglia quattordici stati americani snodandosi per oltre 3400 chilometri, è il capostipite di tutti i sentieri a lunga percorrenza e dimora di una delle più grandiose foreste della zona temperata del globo. All'età di quarantaquattro anni Bill Bryson, in compagnia dell'amico Stephen Katz, decisamente sovrappeso e fuori forma, si cimenta nell'impresa di percorrere il leggendario sentiero. Nessuno di loro ha la minima cognizione delle norme elementari di sopravvivenza nella natura selvaggia.

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection." --Lorrie Moore A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two...

This is a first-hand look at a city that people can't seem to stop talking about. It's a guidebook of sorts, but not to restaurants and sightseeing. Instead, Alexander Barrett is your friendly guide to the quirky characters and atmosphere of Portland, Oregon, and how fun, beautiful, and ridiculous it can be. With its approachable, often hilarious tone, this book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about bikes, beards, beers, rain, and everything else important about the city you've heard you should like. The expanded second edition of this popular book is sure to delight!

Wagemut und Wissbegier, ein feines Beobachtungs- und Differenzierungsvermögen und vor allem die unbändige Lust an immer neuen Begegnungen machten Alexander von Humboldt vor 200 Jahren zu einem epochalen Weltentdecker. Auf seiner Reise in die amerikanischen Tropen von 1799 bis 1804 hielt der preußische Kosmopolit eine Vielzahl Physiognomien fest und sah die Welt, wie sie vor ihm noch keiner gesehen hatte. Das "Buch der Begegnungen" versammelt die empathischsten Zeugnisse aus den "Amerikanischen Reisetagebüchern" und zeigt einen verständigen Geist ohne Berührungsängste.

With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch. In Try Not to Suck, ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's life and career, delving behind the scenes and dissecting that mystique which makes Maddon so popular with players and analysts alike.

The Rio Grande is simultaneously one of the most watched and least understood rivers in the world. Some stretches of the Rio pass for endless miles through remote wilderness, boxed in by canyons hundreds of feet high and inhabited by only the hardiest animals and humans. That's why journalist Keith Bowden decided to become the first person to travel the entire length of the Rio as it forms the border between America and Mexico.

Ihr Sprachurlaub in New York. Die Stadt, die niemals schläft! Folgen Sie Ihren Ohren und machen Sie Entdeckungen in der Metropole der Individualisten: Pernell Thomas erzählt Geschichten vom Broadway, ein russischer Taxifahrer erinnert sich an seine erste Morgenschicht, und Vivek beschreibt seinen Lieblingsjazzclub.

Naturalist Joe Hutto’s latest adventures in wildlife observation take him to Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. Hutto is living in a tent at 12,000 feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant—and human needs can become a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Travel writer Porter Fox spent two years exploring its length by canoe, freighter, and car - and in Northland, he delivers the little-known history of the region and a riveting account of his travels. Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain's adventures; recounts the rise and fall of the iron, wheat, and timber industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and tracks America's fur traders through the Boundary Waters.

"W pepku Ameryki" to trzeci tom (po wczesniejszych "Atlantyk-Pacyfik" oraz "Królik i oceany") amerykanskiego tryptyku podrózniczego Melchiora Wankowicza pt. "W slady Kolumba", o którym sam pisal: "Trzy ksiazki, które wydaje, powstaly z ciaglej wlóczegi. Zamiast osla mialem rozklekotane auto, a zamiast jalmuzny - honoraria za odczyty w ogromnym zasiegu ladów Ameryki i Kanady". Jest to obraz Stanów Zjednoczonych lat 60.

Drugi tom amerykanskiego tryptyku podrózniczego pt.: "W slady Kolumba". Autor wraz z zona pedza po Stanach Zjednoczonych autem - czarnym, czterodrzwiowym De Soto - z którym to Wankowicz, niczym prawdziwy obywatel USA, jest zlaczony niemal organicznie - nazywa go swoim przyjacielem, a rozlaka z maszyna równa sie wrecz amputacji fizycznej. Sam autor tak pisal o cyklu: "Trzy ksiazki, które wydaje, powstaly z ciaglej wlóczegi. Zamiast osla mialem rozklekotane auto, a zamiast jalmuzny - honoraria za odczyty w ogromnym zasiegu ladów Ameryki i Kanady."

Pierwszy tom amerykanskiego tryptyku podrózniczego Melchiora Wankowicza pt. "W slady Kolumba". Autor opisuje dziesieciomiesieczna podróz po amerykanskich drogach i bezdrozach, która odbyl wraz z zona.

The California revealed here is not the stereotypical land of movie stars, sensational trials, or tourist snapshots, but instead a remarkable patchwork of out-of-the-way places and everyday people. Former Los Angeles Times columnist Charles Hillinger hones in on what makes each county unique, such as Johnny Heinold's First and Last Chance tavern in Alameda County where Jack London first began writing his stories.

Get ready to devour America. Adam Richman, the exuberant host of Travel Channel’s Man v. Food and Man v. Food Nation, has made it his business to root out unique dining experiences from coast to coast. Now, he zeroes in on some of his top-favorite cities - from Portland, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia - to share his uproariously entertaining food travel stories, top finds, and some invaluable (and hilarious) cautionary tales.

Many dream of dropping everything and just traveling around the world. It's a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs burning, all your possessions strapped to you and your bicycle - it doesn't paint a relaxing picture, but this is just what Pierre-Yves Tremblay did.

Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery-solving duo. Among the dead collected in The Big Easy floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina are three nude female bodies, all caught in the same brush tangle, none with water in their lungs. Broussard knows in his ample gut that this was not an act of God, and not the work of Katrina. But Broussard has perhaps the biggest challenge of his colorful career.