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With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this is an adventure not to be missed, by Britain's best-loved travel guide, and father of the genre.'Why don't you start in Naples and go clockwise round the Mediterranean instead of dashing off in all dire…
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 Lake District contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in Britain with superb walking areas.This guide, produced in co-operation with the Ramblers and featuring Ordnance Survey mapping, is the perfect …
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 Yorkshire Dales with its picturesque dales, ancient farmhouses and villages offer some superb country walking.This guide, produced in co-operation with the Ramblers and featuring Ordnance Survey mapping, is th…
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.In the years following the devastations of the first world war, a brilliant, young American couple, Kingsley and Lucy Porter, travelled to south-west France to document the abbeys and basil…
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice.To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time to explore Ireland by mountain bike. More astonishing still, he managed to persuade Wanda, his long-s…
A romantic and adventurous journey to the hidden islands and lagoons beyond Papua New Guinea and north of Australia.East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown paradise islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas. They were perhaps the last inhabited place on earth to be explored by Europeans, and even today many remain largely unspoilt, despi…
A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks. Join Tim Bradford as he explores the lost rivers of London.Over the last hundred and fifty years, most of the tributaries of the Thames have been buried under concrete and brick. Now Tim Bradford takes us on a series of walks along the routes of these forgotten rivers and shows us t…
Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed ‘Among the Mountains’, searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery .Once upon a time when Buenos Aires was still a tiny village, there existed an almost magical sub-tropical paradise in the lost heart of South America – Old Paraguay. In 1537 a group of Europeans founded Asuncion on the banks o…
Это саммари – сокращенная версия книги «Опыт путешественника в костюме: секреты, лайфхаки, истории» Павла Макарова. Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры. Путешествовать любят многие, но мало кто знает, как это делать дешево и безопасно. Как найти ночлег в путешествии со скидкой до 90 %? Как выгодно взять в аренду автомобиль? Как с помощью пары кликов мышки получить более выгодные вариан…
Escape to Notting Hill this Christmas… From the bestselling author of Covent Garden in the Snow, this is the most romantic and charming book you’ll read this Christmas… A Notting Hill nativity… what could go wrong? Viola Smith plays the viola in an orchestra (yes really!) but this year she's been asked to stretch her musical talents to organising Notting Hill's local nativity. Nate Williams isn't …
Откройте эту книгу, и вы окажетесь среди холмов и виноградников и узнаете секреты прекрасной Флоренции, услышите шум ветра в оливах и увидите, как вспыхивает солнце в бокале кьянти. Тосканские бабушки расскажут вам сказки и поделятся семейными рецептами, а коты поведут на прогулку вокруг древнего борго. Но будьте осторожны: уже скользит тень Белой Дамы в коридорах замка, а флорентийское привидение…
Санкт-Петербург славится огромным количеством роскошных достопримечательностей: прекрасные дворцы, крепости, живописные сады и набережные, впечатляющие площади, театры и парки. Но есть в этом городе нечто особенное, что стало его уникальной визитной карточкой – это мосты. Мосты большие и маленькие, старые и новые, разводные и неразводные, стальные и деревянные. Кажется, что Петербург впитал в себ…
Наш мир поистине прекрасен и полон таких красот, которые даже сложно представить. Конечно же, чтобы их увидеть, нужно не сидеть на месте, а путешествовать. В каждом государстве на любом континенте можно открыть для себя что-то привлекательное и неизведанное. Хотя зачем ездить куда-то далеко, ведь мы живем в самой большой и невероятно красивой стране. Кроме того, можно посетить и бывшие республики …
A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, ‘A Merry Dance around the World’ is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure.A collection of writing from eleven books by Britain's best-loved travel writer, A Merry Dance around the World is the culmination of a lifetime's adventures, from the birth of Eric Newby in 1919 at the 'ghastly hour' of 3.45am, to Herculean cycling escapa…
An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers.Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul’s School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside resorts as Frinton. In 1938 he persuaded his father to have him apprenticed to the four-masted Finni…