Книги жанра отдых / туризм
From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times, discover the people, places and events that built a country. A concise but comprehensive guide to English history and how England has come to be what it is today.Key events, people and places include:• The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings• 1066, Battle of Hastings• Richard 1 and The Crusades• Henry VIII, Thomas More, The Spanish Armada, …
The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu (‘one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years’ – Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns (‘the best travel book I have ever read’ – George Mackay Brown).In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire B…
“Don’t even think about setting foot in a tent without this book. It shows just how stylish outdoor life can be.” Jodie KiddWith celebrity contributions from cool campers Hugh-Fearnley Whittingstall, Jodie Kidd, Alex James, Mitch Tonks, Emily Eavis, Kim Wilde, Kevin McCloud, Tom Norrington Davies, Rafaella Barker, and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones.Before you have nightmares about being trapped in a field…
Галина Шефер, автор этого путеводителя, – журналист сайта о путешествиях «Дороги мира», автор канала на Яндекс.Дзен https://zen.yandex.ru/turisttochka. Все маршруты проверены автором лично. Путеводитель рассчитан на самостоятельных путешественников, готовых познакомиться с уникальным регионом, богатым историей, культурой, природными объектами. Кавказские Минеральные Воды – особо охраняемый эколого…
Эта книга своеобразный прекрасно иллюстрированный путеводитель, представляющий наиболее посещаемые туристами города-заповедники и малые города маршрута «Золотое кольцо». Города Золотого кольца – это знаменитые культурно-исторические памятники и архитектурные шедевры, монастыри, храмы и крепости, красоты природы и другие достопримечательности. Читатель найдет в книге не только яркие иллюстрации и у…
Один из самых удивительных регионов нашей огромной страны – Карелия. Место, способное приятно удивить любителей природы, поклонников экстремального туризма, знатоков истории, людей, интересующихся этнографией, верующих. Путеводитель рассчитан на путешественников, готовых познакомиться с Карелией. В книге вы найдете описания маршрутов самых интересных прогулок по городам и заповедным, но доступным …
Эта книга открывает страны Латинской Америки изнутри, подробно рассказывая о самых потаенных особенностях Мексики, Гондураса, Сальвадора, Гватемалы, Никарагуа, Колумбии, Панамы, Коста-Рики, Кубы, Венесуэлы и Ямайки. Все грани традиций и обычаев, способных удивить Грингос – в одном путешествии, взявшим свое начало в США и окончившимся на острове свободы Кубе. «Путешествие оказалось долгим, насыщен…
Немецкий разговорник содержит типичные модели фраз и выражений по широкому кругу тем. Немецкий текст снабжен практической транскрипцией, передающей звуки немецкого языка средствами русской графики. Разговорник предназначен для российских граждан, выезжающих за границу.
Guide and Conversations in Croatian I realized this guide wanting to provide not just information about the historical places and the beauties of an unknown Split, but also the linguistic tools necessary to fully enjoy a trip and to know what to say in every situation. I hope I realized a guide useful to the traveler, curious not only about new to him places but also about learning the language. H…
Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson’s adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles.Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of the B…
Ching-He Huang is one of the brightest stars in modern Chinese cooking in the UK. Each week in her new BBC2 series she re-invents the nation's favourite Chinese dishes, modernising them with fresh, easy to buy ingredients, and offering simple practical tips and techniques. These are brought together in this beautiful book to accompany the series.Drawing on the experiences of top chefs, her family …
Recommended for colour tablets only. This ebook is not suitable for reading on black and white eink devices. All content downloaded to device, making maps and text available at all times.The Peak District, with its gentle limestone White Peak and the wilder more dramatic gritstone Dark Peak, offer some superb walking areas.This guide, produced in co-operation with the Ramblers and featuring Ordnan…
One man’s journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa.As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it and do some of the journey on foot.When he himself was a young man, Thesiger led an expedition to e…
A wry and extremely witty travelogue exploring all things Irish (and Oirish).'With Spike Milligan-ish humour, Bradford investigates the Irish psyche: at times he comes close to adding a new mythology of his own.’ Time Out'If you know who Shane MacGowan is, you may well love this bizarre, funny, brash, telling-it-like-it-is book. If you don't, then it will expand your cultural range' Sunday Times'A…
Now available in ebook format. ‘Motel Nirvana’ is Melanie McGrath’s first published book.A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.‘Motel Nirvana’ won the 1996 John Llewellyn R…