310円 In 'Van Orenburg naar Samarkand' biedt Vasilii Vasil'evich Vereshchagin een fascinerend inzicht in zijn reizen door Centraal-Azië, waarbij hij de cultureel rijke en soms tumultueuze ontmoetingen tussen verschillende bevolkingsgroepen beschrijft. De literaire stijl is doordrenkt met realisme en ee...

2,519円 ***Shortlisted for the 2023 STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR*** ***A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2022*** "Enchanting" Independent "Fatland distinguishes herself from the stereotypes" Guardian "Fatland is a sensitive and insightful chronicler of quotidian lives and a compelling narrato...

1,300円 "El camino cruel" es el mejor relato de una escritora y aventurera extraordinaria: Ella Maillart. Cuenta un viaje memorable realizado en los albores de la II Guerra Mundial con destino a Kabul y en compañía de la escritora y arqueóloga Annemarie Schwarzenbach, uno de los personajes más fascinante...

2,400円 Francis Younghusband apenas tenía veinte años cuando partió en busca del "verdadero espíritu del Himalaya". Escrito cuarenta años después, este relato cuenta las dos expediciones que realizó entre 1886 y 1889 y que le valieron la Medalla de Oro de la Royal Geographic Society. La primera le llevó ...

1,200円 Francis Younghusband was barely twenty years old when he set out in search of "the true spirit of the Himalayas". Written forty years later, this book takes a retrospective look at the two expeditions he made between 1886 and 1889 for which the Royal Geographic Society awarded him its Gold Medal....

1,600円 Este libro contiene el relato de un viaje personal del geógrafo y alpinista español Eduardo Martínez de Pisón por los grandes paisajes de Asia Central, siguiendo el hilo de las corrientes culturales que pasaron por la antigua Ruta de la Seda y se asentaron entre montañas y desiertos. Es un relato...

650円 Where in the world can you find snake wine, war souvenirs, steaming bowls of pho and iced coffee right next to each other? You guessed it, Vietnam, Southeast Asia’s up and coming coastal beauty. Vietnam’s white sandy beaches are enough to rival those in Thailand and it is quickly becoming the nex...

650円 A nation composed of over 18,000 islands spanning a distance equal to that between San Francisco and New York City, Indonesia is a world in itself. Bustling modern cities and tony beach resorts co-exist with ancient temples and iconic indigenous fauna such as Komodo Dragons, Java rhinos, and fore...

2,000円 Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale il diciassettenne Hisao Kimura parte volontario per la Mongolia Interna, allora sotto il dominio giapponese, spinto più dal senso di avventura che dall'ideologia imperialista. Lì si appassiona allo stile di vita dei nomadi mongoli e ne apprende alla perfezione l...

1,761円 The Gifts of a Glimpse. There are countries in the world you may never get the chance to see. For the longest time, Nepal was one such land. Fascinating yet bewildering, frenetic as well as soul-soothing, inspiring grandeur matched with challenging misfortune are just a few of the paradoxes of a ...

2,122円 INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand 'Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.' In 1912, Ella R. Christie - a veteran Scottish traveller who had made expeditions to Kashmir, Tibet, Malaya, Borneo, ...

1,800円 Usbekistan, das sind prächtige Moscheen und Paläste, Basare voller Seiden, Teppiche und Karawanenzauber. Oasenstädte wie Samarkand bieten als Stationen der legendären Seidenstraße bis heute ebendies. Ansonsten wird dieses Kernland Zentralasiens immer noch als Durchgangsgebiet auf halbem Weg zwisc...