отдых / туризм
Как найти самый дешёвый авиабилет
Александр Николаевич Стрижанков
В наше время интернета все знают, что, чтобы купить авиабилет, не нужно идти в офис авиакомпании или авиакассу. Покупку можно совершить на сайте системы бронирования. Но удивительно, что далеко не все знают, где искать авиабилеты, а ещё больше...
Туристское страноведение. Южная Европа. Учебник для академического бакалавриата
Юрий Леонидович Кужель
В издании применен оригинальный подход к изучению темы страноведения с позиции отражения реалий в «путевых заметках» и литературных произведениях известных писателей и философов, что делает книгу познавательной и интересной для читателя....
Туристское страноведение. Центральная Европа. Учебник для академического бакалавриата
Юрий Леонидович Кужель
В книге рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с историей и современным состоянием туризма и гостеприимства в Германии, Австрии, Швейцарии, Польше, Чехии, которые принимают и отправляют главные мировые туристические потоки. Учебник знакомит с...
Гоа. Инструкция для тех, кто устал жить по инструкциям
Игорь Станович
Книга была написана по заказу издательства ЭКСМО и издавалась в серии "Где русскому жить хорошо". Изначальное название: "Гоа: для тех кто устал жить по инструкциям". Произведение относится к жанру культурология и рассказывает о индийском штате...
Atlantic Britain: The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship
Adam Nicolson
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...
On Rue Tatin: The Simple Pleasures of Life in a Small French Town
Susan Loomis
Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan Sun.The second house that Susan Hermann Loomis looked at in the small town of Louviers was perfect. Dilapidated,...
Ramble On: The story of our love for walking Britain
Синклер Маккей
A history of walking over the British countryside.Published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Ramblers’ Association, ‘Ramble On’ tells the story of how country walks were transformed from a small and often illegal pastime to the most...
Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh
Pamela Petro
The idiosyncratic and witty travelogue of a young Welsh-speaking woman who travels the globe in search of Welsh communities.Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed, and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever – in the post office, at...
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
Tiziano Terzani
Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and...
The Dolce Vita Diaries
Cathy Rogers
A deliciously different travelogueIn 2005, Cathy and Jason threw in successful careers as TV presenters and producers to become olive farmers in Italy. With their one year old daughter and Italian dictionary in tow, they found themselves in the...
Tuk-Tuk to the Road
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIMETwo girls, three wheels, one mission.If you've ever been to Bangkok you'll have most likely been catapulted through the streets in a tuk tuk, one of the city's ubiquitous three-wheeled taxis. With white...
Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo
The Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer...
Great British Railway Journeys Text Only
Michael Portillo
TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century...
Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time,...
This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City
John Rogers
Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking...
Short walks in the Peak District
Collins Maps
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...
Great Victorian Railway Journeys: How Modern Britain was Built by Victorian Steam Power
Karen Farrington
The perfect companion to Bradshaw’s guide book. Showcasing in colour all that is great about Bradshaw’s guide.Great British Railway Journeys has been a hugely successful TV programme, which is now into its third series on BBC2. Much as Michael...
Sitting Up With the Dead: A Storied Journey Through the American South
Pamela Petro
An enthralling, rollicking tour among the storytellers of the American Deep South.The story of the South is not finished. The southeastern states of America, the old Confederacy, bristle with storytellers who refuse to be silent. Many of the...
Tarte Tatin: More of La Belle Vie on Rue Tatin
Susan Loomis
Further adventures on life in a small French town from Susan Loomis, cookery book writer and author of ‘On Rue Tatin’.‘On Rue Tatin’ was a delightful discovery, and every reader asked for more. The life on Rue Tatin seemed like a dream...
A Gaijin's Guide to Japan: An alternative look at Japanese life, history and culture
Ben Stevens
An alternative look at Japanese life, history and cultureYour Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan? In this book Ben Stevens explores the serious and the...
A Merry Dance Around the World With Eric Newby
Eric Newby
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...
Around the World in 80 Years
Eric Newby
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...
City of Djinns
William Dalrymple
This is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters – from...
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby
Some of the maps in this title are best viewed on a tablet device.A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.It...
A Small Place in Italy
Eric Newby
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they...
A Traveller’s Life
Eric Newby
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush.Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the dark...
Departures and Arrivals
Eric Newby
More episodes from the life and travels of one of our most celebrated travel writers.This latest book demonstrates exactly why Newby has become a national treasure – his love of the unknown, the unusual and the totally absurd, combined with his...
Love and War in the Apennines
Eric Newby
Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', ‘Love and War in the Apennines’ is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the...
On The Couch
Fleur Britten
Couchsurfing? Surely a sofa would sink on the open sea?Couchsurfing is a global community of over a million people in 232 countries that offers couches, beds and body-sized horizontal surfaces via the internet for fellow members to bunk down on...
Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?
Tim Bradford
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...
Motel Nirvana
Melanie McGrath
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,...
Old Man on a Bike
Simon Gandolfi
A Septuagenarian OdysseySimon Gandolfi has never been one to grow old gracefully and following two heart attacks he decides not to rest up, as many might, but to ride the length of Hispanic America on a 125cc motorbike. And why not?His wife may...
On the Shores of the Mediterranean
Eric Newby
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...
Short walks in the Lake District
Collins Maps
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...
Short walks in the Yorkshire Dales
Collins Maps
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...
The Hungry Cyclist: Pedalling The Americas In Search Of The Perfect Meal
Tom Davies Kevill
Over 100,000 miles to cover, one man, one bike and one hungry stomach.Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on one of the most...
The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story
Pamela Petro
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...
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
Aidan Hartley
A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a...
Stephen Fry in America
Stephen Fry
Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour,...
Sea Room
Adam Nicolson
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own set of islands?20 years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. His father had answered a newspaper advertisement in the ‘30s. ‘Uninhabited islands for sale’, it said. ‘Outer Hebrides. 600...
Round Ireland in Low Gear
Eric Newby
'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...
Ruinair
Paul Kilduff
How to be treated like shite in 15 different countries…and still quite like it!Stung by a ten-hour delay and a not-so-bargain fare to Spain on his native 'low fares' airline, Dubliner Paul Kilduff plots revenge. Can Paul beat 'Ruinair' at their...
Short Walks in Cornwall
Collins Maps
Discover Cornwall like never before with Ramblers Short Walks in Cornwall.This practical e-guidebook contains 20 short walks in Cornwall, all of which are 5 miles or under, and are ideal for families and individuals young and old looking for...
Short Walks in Dorset
Collins Maps
Discover Dorset like never before with Ramblers Short Walks in Dorset.This practical e-guidebook contains 20 short walks in Dorset, all of which are 5 miles or under, and are ideal for families and individuals young and old looking for an...
Slowly Down the Ganges
Eric Newby
‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the...
Something Wholesale
Eric Newby
Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable...
The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt
Mary Russell
For the first time in ebook format.What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for...
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance
Philip Marsden
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.‘Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose...
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians
Philip Marsden
Ebook edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it....
The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey
Rupert Isaacson
A brilliantly written exploration – part travel writing, part personal quest – of Africa’s oldest and most famous populationThe Bushmen have long been mythologised and are firmly entrenched in the Western mind. But what is it about...
