отдых / туризм
Квест «Москва». 10 маршрутов с приключениями
М. Г. Давыдова
Где спрятано золото московских масонов? Как пройти к библиотеке Ивана Грозного? На какой станции метро скрывается космический портал? Что будет, если остаться на ночь в Третьяковской галерее? Вместе с нашим квест-путеводителем вы пройдете 10...
Прогулки по Парижу
Евгения Абакумова
На страницах этой книги вы найдете описания интереснейших маршрутов по столице Франции. Совершите увлекательные прогулки, которые под силу каждому. Описанные экскурсионные маршруты по Парижу проведут вас по основным районам исторической части...
Дикая Россия. Альбом неизведанных мест нашей страны
Иван Дементиевский
«Дикая Россия» – это книга о любви к такой разной и такой красивой стране, к самым разным ее уголкам – от Камчатки и Курильских островов до Дагестана и Кольского полуострова. Удивительные пейзажи от фотографа, который совершенно особенно...
Россия. Лучшая страна в фотографиях
Владимир Медведев
Книга о любви к самой необычной стране, к ее удивительным просторам и пейзажам. Владимир Медведев совершенно особенно чувствует мир и природу, умеет найти необычный ракурс для каждого уголка нашей страны. Отправляйтесь в путешествие по России с...
Путешествия с Ангелом. Книга 3. Бретань-Париж
Евгений Анатольевич Кульков
Когда ты извлекаешь себя из жестких рамок определенности, все, что тебе нужно – довериться своему Ангелу. 2000 км по Франции с незримым помощником – как путешествовать без денег и обрести друзей. Приключения в пути, легенды и лайфхаки,...
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....
Пешком по Москве с Михаилом Жебраком
Михаил Жебрак
Эта книга своеобразный прекрасно иллюстрированный авторский путеводитель по столице России. Книга будет интересна и полезна жителям и гостям мегаполиса. Предлагаем пройтись по прекрасным улицам Москвы. Познакомиться с заповедными и знакомыми...
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...
Пошёл за ёжиками, а нашёл улитку
Сергей Пошевеля
Путевые очерки о путешествии по России. Формат дневника, в котором описана жизнь человека, его размышления и реакции на происходящее. Познание себя через познание мира и окружающего. Осознания законов природы и человека. Попытка разобраться в...
Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.Think you know Agatha Christie? Think...
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...
Chinese Food Made Easy: 100 simple, healthy recipes from easy-to-find ingredients
Ching-He Huang
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...
Unlocking French with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach
Paul Noble
Ever tried to learn French and found it too hard? Bestselling language coach Paul Noble has a quick and easy way to get you back on track with his unique tried-and-tested method.• Keeps things simple with three basic rules; don’t skip anything,...
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome…‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr's varied...
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...
Selling Your Father’s Bones: The Epic Fate of the American West
Brian Schofield
Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, ‘Selling Your Father's Bones’ is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is...
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 Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began
Adrian Levy
They have come in search of many things – nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that will suck them into an...
Dolce Vita Diaries: The Recipes
Cathy Rogers
A selection of delicious Italian recipes, inspired by one couple’s journey of a lifetimeIn 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...
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...
Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 4-6: The Stranger, The Hidden Child, The Drowning
Камилла Лэкберг
Discover the Queen of Scandi-crime Camilla Lackberg with these three thrillers – books 4, 5 and 6 in her 12 million copy international bestselling detective series, featuring Patrik Hedstr?m and Erica Falck.THE STRANGER: A series of tragic road...
Chinese Rules: Five Timeless Lessons for Succeeding in China
Tim Clissold
From the author of the acclaimed ‘Mr. China’ comes another rollicking adventure story – part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio – that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China.In the twenty-first century, the world has...
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...
Railway Day Trips: 160 classic train journeys around Britain
Julian Holland
Fully updated essential guide to exploring Britain by train, Railway Day Trips is ideal for anyone planning or looking for inspiration for a rail journey. From bestselling railway author Julian Holland.This pocket companion is perfect for both...
Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
James Lockhart Macdonald
Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen MacdonaldOf all the birds of the British...
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...
Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria
Charles Glass
‘Tribes With Flags’ is the gripping story of Charles Glass's dramatic journey through Greater Syria which provides background context to a troubled region once again in the headlines.Charles Glass began his journey through the former Arab...
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...
Bang in the Middle
Robert Shore
A book to put the Midlands back on the map.Everyone knows what they think of the North and South of England – the clich?s abound. But what about that big, anonymous stretch of land in between: the Midlands? Despite being home to around a third...
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...
Fifty Great Things to Come Out of the Midlands
Robert Shore
Celebrate the heart of Britain in this fun and informative mini-ebook.Rugby, Walkers Crisps, Conkers. These are just a handful of the many great things to have come out of the Midlands. In this celebratory list, journalist and loyal Midlander...
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...
