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  • Lagunas y vegetación acuática del Ecuador Continental
    Berenice Vallejo Solano / Esteban Terneus Jácome / Mateo Gómez de la Torre
    Lagunas y vegetación acuática del Ecuador continental, un atractivo de ciencia y ecoturismo, de Esteban Terneus Jácome junto con Mateo Gómez de la Torre y Berenice Vallejo, es una obra ambiciosa yde amplio alcance: ambiciosa en cuanto a su concepto de sistematizar la catalogación de la vegetación acuática de los cuerpos de agua en las tres regiones del Ecuador continental (Sier...
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    58,23 €

  • When Your Heart Says Go
    Judy Reeves
    Nearing fifty and grieving the death of her husband, Judy Reeves sells everything, buys an around-the-world airline ticket, and sets off on a solo journey. Months of solitude and loneliness in foreign countries challenge her to examine her old ideas and explore her heart’s deepest longings as she searches for who she might become in her new life. ...
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    14,02 €

  • Appalachian Trail
    Jeff Santos
    Descubra a emocionante jornada de um brasileiro destemido que se lançou em uma incrível odisséia pelos Estados Unidos. EmAppalachian Trail: Cruzando os Estados Unidos a Pé , você será transportado para a fascinante aventura de um homem determinado que percorreu, a pé, os 3540 quilômetros desafiadores desta lendária trilha, atravessando 14 estados americanos.Prepare-se para se m...
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    21,62 €

  • Myanmar se Madagascar
    Abasara Beuria / Mihir Patnaik
    This a collection of travel stories by the author while he was posted in different countries of the world during his Indian Foreign Serice career. Originally written in Odia, the book has been translated in Hindi by Mihir Patnaik. ...
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    20,24 €

  • One Man’s Europe
    Gordon Nicholas
    Written in 1970, this unique travelogue looks back on an enigmatic Englishman’s travels through post-war Europe, as both author and continent search for identity. The most pleasant and inspiring of travel companions, Gordon gives us period photographs, and contemporary View-Master images as he attempts to answer the age-old question 'Why do we travel?' Whether he is writing abo...
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    30,49 €

  • Wanderlust
    Karen Gershowitz
    In this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she’s visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to the unconventional people she’s met, and weird-and often wonderful—food she’s tasted, transporting readers deep into the richness of other cultures and inspiring them to set out o...
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    13,89 €

  • A Misfit In Moscow
    Ian T Proud
    British government pronouncements since Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been resolute yet self-congratulatory. The UK is leading the way among western allies in providing Ukraine with the support it needs.  Putin’s regime is globally isolated as never before. The Russian economy is crumbling under unprecedented sanctions. Let’s stick with the plan. Our strate...
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    11,73 €

  • How to Live
    Kelle Groom
    'At its simplest, this is the story of a restless search for a place to be- a way to live- after a series of devastating events. But there’s nothing simple about it. Kelle Groom has created a marvel: a haunted, haunting, beautifully sustained dream of a book.'-Joan Wickersham ...
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    19,09 €

  • Whispers from the Valley of the Yak
    Jacquelyn Lenox Tuxill
    Jackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China at thirty-eight with her aging parents and being stunned by a revelation about their past, she begins an unexpected quest-for forgiveness, self-fulfillment, and the authentic life...
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    13,99 €

  • Going Places
    Amanda Nitschke / Jason Fuerstenberg / Michelle Savage
    'Going Places encourages us all to think differently about what it means to travel. These authors have courageously confronted social norms and pushed past personal and physical limitations to soul-search their way across the globe.' -Deepa Purushothaman, Author of The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Redefine Power in Corporate America and Executive Fellow of Harva...
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    13,64 €

  • Paris
    Stephanie Larkin
    Step into the enchanting embrace of Paris as you embark on a captivating literary journey. A symphony of vivid stories awaits, painting a breathtaking portrayal of the timeless and romantic city. Lose yourself amidst the cobblestone streets, each one adorned with ornate buildings that bear witness to passions ignited and hearts broken.Beneath the iconic Eiffel Tower, budding ro...
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    24,47 €

  • Circling Home
    Terry A. Repak
    Catching the travel bug at age twenty, Terry Repak longed to live overseas someday. She didn’t foresee spending fifteen years in countries like Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Switzerland; nor did she guess that living abroad would transform her and her family into global citizens and gift them with resilience, perspective, and a profound sense of home. ...
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    13,95 €

  • A Long Tangent
    M. John Fayhee
    WHEN M. JOHN FAYHEE first arrived in New Mexico’s rugged Gila Country, he was a naive 20-year-old who didn’t know a javelina from an enchilada. Much has changed in the intervening half century.In this meandering memoir, Fayhee, with his loyal dog Casey at his side, takes us through the heart of the Gila - once the stomping ground of Geronimo and Billy the Kid and home to the wo...
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    33,65 €

  • Wander Lust
    Bethany Platanella
    Warning: This book may result in the impulse buy of a one way plane ticket to anywhere.There I was, again, sitting in a boring, gray cubicle. Meddling through emails as I drank copious amounts of coffee, waiting for something, anything, exciting to happen. At 5:00pm I’d go home, eat dinner, watch TV, and wait for the weekend to meet friends for drinks. I was 24 and already bore...
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    11,09 €

  • The Adventures of Rategan
    Robin Benger
    After more than 100 documentaries in 65 countries over 40 years, Rategan calls it a day, laying down herein six of the strangest and richest things that happened to him.From the killing of Mozambique to the back alleys of Toronto, and many places in between, extraordinary stories from an extraordinary life.'A mix of Elmore Leonard and Don DeLillo. The scenes are tinged with the...
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    18,40 €

  • Diárias De Hotel
    Gilberto Candido
    Dezesseis anos atuando em hotelaria. Isso me rendeuboas e bem humoradas histórias para contar, numa dinâmica diagramação em formato de contos e microcontos. Aproveito o temahotelariapara levar mensagens e culturas extraídas da minha convivência com hóspedes e colegas que me acompanharam ao longo de minha jornada; e relevantes críticas, sempre acompanhadas de bom humor. Aproveit...
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    11,80 €

  • To Walk It Is To See It
    Kathy Elkind
    A memoir that shares what happens when Kathy Elkind, a curious woman about to enter the last third of her life, decides to take a long walk- 1,400 miles—across Europe with her husband of almost thirty years. Will her body and relationship make it to the end? ...
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    14,02 €

  • Finding My Hemingway
    Jeffrey Pipes Guice
    'Growing up in the internationally loved city of New Orleans, with all its delicious food, unique music, and its eccentric and sometimes backward culture, I realized early on that I wanted to get out and see the rest of the world.'Jeffrey Pipes Guice worked for years in New Orleans, Washington D.C., and New York City but still found time to journey worldwide. He traversed Europ...
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    36,22 €

  • Twilight in Italy (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    D. H. Lawrence
    In 1912 D. H. Lawrence eloped with Freida Weekley (née von Richthofen), and they lived for six months on the shores of Lake Garda in northern Italy. Twilight in Italy (1916), Lawrence’s first travel book, is a rich collection of essays, anecdotes, and studies of life that are filled with his sensory-rich, humorous, and deeply felt reflections on the landscapes and people of the...
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    7,38 €

  • Sea and Sardinia (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    D. H. Lawrence
    Sea and Sardinia is a penetrating study of a time and place as seen through the thoughts and expectations of one of the most candid, eloquent writers of the twentieth century. It chronicles the brief excursion from Taormina to Sardinia that Lawrence and his wife Frieda (affectionately known as Queen Bee) undertook in 1921. With stops in Cagliari, Mandas, Sorgono, and Nuoro, Law...
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    8,99 €

  • Mornings in Mexico (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    D. H. Lawrence
    Mornings in Mexico is the only collection among D. H. Lawrence’s travel writings that focuses on the North American Southwest. The eight essays that comprise the original volume were written between 1924 and 1925, when Lawrence was working on the novel The Plumed Serpent (1926). The first four essays are quintessential first-person narratives while the latter four describe indi...
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    5,27 €

  • A Travelling Gentleman
    Alain Joseph Mbarushimana
    Here we learn about a pleasant trip our good author made to Mexico, an eye-opening visit to Toronto, and some interesting adventures in Rwanda. The reader will find some of the misadventures hilarious - they can laugh if they want to, even shed tears, but when it was happening to our good author, he was clearly not having fun. All he wanted was to kayak in the Gulf of Mexico, m...
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    18,88 €

  • Around the World in 349 Days
    Jeff Harrison
    A transcription of Western Australian youth’s 1975 diary tracking his journey as he circumnavigates the globe over 349 consecutive days.His international journey begins with a ship’s passage from Melbourne, through the Panama Canal, to England, then hitchhiking and local public transport through Europe and North Africa. He returns home via the ’Hippie Trail’, rambling overland ...
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    14,00 €

  • Energy Crisis
    Philippa Holloway
    Energy Crisis explores a personal health crisis within an examination of the energy production issues affecting North Wales and Anglesey. It is set over the space of a single summer, and framed by an attempt to try rock climbing. Within this structure, Philippa Holloway deftly address Solar Power, Wind Power, Tidal Power, Nuclear Power, and Fossil Fuels by weaving them into a d...
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    10,74 €

  • Dubai, Abu Dhabi & The 5 Other Emirates You Didn’t Know About
    Nadine C Duncan / Nadine C. Duncan
    Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the rest of the United Arab Emirate have become popular travel, work, and 'Blaxit' destinations. Whether it was a new job opportunity, a glitch fare, or simply a new adventure, it felt like everyone started packing their bags and heading to the Middle East. As inviting as it is to just pick up and go, the UAE is the kind of place you should do your homewor...
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    16,95 €

  • Time in Africa
    David Price
    Time in Africa: Flying and Fun from 1963 to 1983 covers 20 amazing years of David Price’s life as a pilot, working primarily in Africa. Although filled with personal adventures and humorous anecdotes, Time in Africa is much more than an autobiography. It is also an amazing glimpse of a time in aviation before computerized flight controls and when some older planes were still ma...
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    24,96 €

  • Vier Monate auf den Marquesas-Inseln
    Herman Melville
    „ Mehr als drei Jahre sind verflossen, seitdem sich die Ereignisse zugetragen, die ich in diesen Bänden erzähle. Die Zwischenzeit mit Ausnahme der letzten paar Monate habe ich meist auf dem weiten schwankenden Meere zugebracht. Seeleute sind heutzutage die einzigen Menschen, die irgend abenteuerliche Dinge erleben; und Vieles, was Ofenhockern fremdartig und romantisch erscheine...
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    15,78 €

  • Illustrations Of The Scenery On The Line Of The Whitby And Pickering Railway, In The North Eastern Part Of Yorkshire
    Henry Belcher / Thomas Clark
    Take a journey through the stunning landscapes of North Yorkshire with ’Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway in the North Eastern Part of Yorkshire’. With its vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, this book is a feast for the eyes and a testament to the natural beauty of the region. A must-read for anyone who loves Yorkshire, tr...
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    33,70 €

  • Voyages De Benjamin De Tudelle Autour Du Monde, Commencé L’an 1173, De Jean Du Plan Carpin En Tartarie, Du Frère Ascelin Et De Ses Compagnons Vers La Tartarie [tiré Des Mémoires De Frère Simon De Sain
    Jean du Plan Carpin
    Dans ce livre, l’auteur raconte les aventures de Benjamin de Tudelle, un voyageur juif du XIIe siècle. Il décrit les terres, les peuples, les religions et les coutumes qu’il a rencontrés lors de son voyage à travers le monde. Un livre passionnant pour les amateurs de voyages et de cultures étrangères.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is ...
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    42,35 €

  • Voyages De Montesquieu, Volume 1...
    Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (baro...
    Découvrez les voyages fascinants de Montesquieu, une des figures majeures du Siècle des Lumières. Dans ce premier volume, Charles de Secondat Montesquieu nous emmène dans des mondes lointains et passionnants.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in...
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    41,50 €