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An account of an exploration of the rich beauty of Baroque and Rococo. Starting in Italy visit Torino, Milano, Verona and Venezia. Enjoy the Prater in Wien and the exquisite beauty of Sankt Poelten.Relax at the sundrenched banks of the Mainz in Frankenland.Author: Huub...

Tourism is an inherently social phenomenon. Tourists travel with others and experience places and cultures through interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar others. This volume presents a thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour...

Booming Mainland Chinese outbound travel is one of the most exciting phenomena in the world tourism industry's recent history. From 2000 to 2010, Chinese outbound travel increased at a compounded annual rate of 18.5 percent, and it is forecasted that by 2020 China will...

Lives hold promise and promises. Keeping one promise might mean breaking another, for life is anything but simple. I had promised myself I would not go back to England - or, if I did, I would stay there. I did not want to pull...

"Margaret Clark's poetry is a joy. I loved Frayed Edges, her first book, and I read it in one sitting, such was my delight! In this marvellous new collection, Clark continues her insightful foray into the experiences of a life well-spent. Her excellent use...

A collection of lively recollections about the author's life in Port Adelaide and travels through Australia, mixing warm humour with sharp observations. The author is an acclaimed poet and non-fiction writer, and editor of the Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets series.Author: Brenda EldridgeISBN-10: 1740278984ISBN-13: 9781740278980Publisher:...

Many of us have envied couples who pack up and set off on the ultimate road trip - but not everyone! Due to a sad history of car travel in her youth, the author is less than enthusiastic when her husband suggests they do...

A unique, intimate and moving pilgrimage on an island that Maria Andreas describes with emotion, humour and tenderness. She fell in love with this "big pebble" a while ago. Nearly three decades. She stayed there a long time, learned its language, its history and...

Author Kurt Koontz freely admits that he is not wholly guided by his spirit when he first begins to dabble in yoga. An outdoor adventurer, he enjoys the challenging physicality of the exercise, which leads him to try several different types of yoga, seeking...

The Route (shown dotted red on the map) star ts and finishes in Cardiff, the capital of Wales and follows, in an anti-clockwise direction, the Wales - England border (including a shor t length of highway in England), the main coastal strips of Nor...

Fighting boredom and depression with a craving to head South from her New England home, she leaves her grown children and sets upon a back-packing journey, hitch-hiking sailboats from the Carribean to South America. In Cartagena she meets a street urchin and takes him...

Intuition glides through skies on a voyage from darkness to light. The novel, told through individual poetry and free form pieces, is an introspective journey through the cycles of change and confronting periods of uncertainty, documenting every success and failure through the tumultuous process...

An open space journal for surfriders and beach lovers, to remember life's adventures and waves.Author: Amy KirkpatrickISBN-10: 1716975018ISBN-13: 9781716975011Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2020Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Gyaneshwar Purgaus was becoming increasingly disillusioned with his job as a nurse when he decided to do the unthinkable: hitchhike from England to India. It took courage and determination to give up everything and venture into the unknown, but once he gave up his...

This is my story about growing up in Illinois during World War II. A story during the greatest era ever, when men and women made the ultimate sacrifices of all time. This is a story about how an uneducated high school drop-out elevated himself...

After Lola and her son, Kareem, decide to skip Estes National Park while on an adventure together, they make their way into Kansas. Lola, who plans to continue on to Topeka, hopes that this time, nothing will happen that prompts her to quickly change...

Travel. It's how we learn. It's how we survive. Whether we y, sail, or trek, travel begs us to experience the planet throughthe minds of its inhabitants via their art, their facility withlanguage or science or just plain living. Travel's urge, then, is based...

Author names not noted above: Sir Francis Drake, Francis Petty, Walter Biggs, Edward Hayes, Sir Walter Raleigh Editor name not noted above: Philip Nichols Translator names not noted above: G.C. Macaulay, Thomas Gordon Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics,"...

...Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only...

Black and White and Read All Over tells the story of the life of Norman Leonard Coates Junior, known other than for Legal Requirements as Len Coates, who was born on 24 April 1939 in the mining village of Cambois in Northumberland. The book...

This story is about a retired man who, looking for a hobby, gets introduced to cowboy action shooting. It traces his training sessions by an experienced shooter, with whom he enters into a romantic relationship. They traveled to different cowboy shooting locations and started...

"Barbara and Margaret were speakers at our yearly international conference at City Montessori School, the largest school in the world. We enjoyed their presence and we look forward to seeing them again" Shishir Srivastava, Head of International Relations, CMS, India-------------------------------------"From Japan I came to...

Portrait of a Servant of God is a devotional book based on the life of Theodore Bubeck and the letters he wrote to his family over a period of thirty years. Ted and his wife were pioneer missionary church planters from 1928 to 1960...

Beginning life in Northern Ireland, Marianne grew up in London during the fun-filled '60's. After working in beautiful Bermuda she became a naval wife and travelled extensively between New Zealand, England, Australia and Europe. Overcoming breast cancer 30 years ago she was determined to...

The year is 1988.The Cold War is ending.Europe's near-abroad unlocks.... and a 30-year-old Londoner attempts a road trip from France to western Turkey in a vintage Bentley.This journey unfolds into a circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea.For his next expedition, the author plans to ride...

This is the second book by M.P. Prabhakaran on his world-trotting experience. The first one, Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum, was published three years ago. This book is devoted exclusively to the 30-day tour he undertook through 10 countries of Europe in the summer...

Exam board: Cambridge Assessment International Education Level: A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Reinforce and practise skills learned with step-by-step support from experts to help you achieve your maximum potential. - Improve your knowledge of geographical patterns, processes and...

The aim of this record of an individual's impressions of the recent Tibetan expedition is to convey some idea of the life we led in Tibet, the scenes through which we passed, and the strange people we fought and conquered. We killed several thousand...

The book is about the author's struggle and survival in a foreign country and establishes himself as a specialist clinician. Author has worked hard to raise the awareness of children and families' emotional and psychological needs and provide psychotherapeutic remedies along with medical remedies...

Woody enters a new dimension in his World as he travels on from Australia to New Zealand where his folks (the kids) join him. Their intention to travel via a family camper was somewhat tainted. They arrive during the Rugby World and were offered...

Author: Lois E. HunterISBN-10: 149909941XISBN-13: 9781499099416Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2017Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Graham Michael Barton is an Englishman retired on a tiny island of less than three thousand souls in the Philippines. Emponet Barton Beach Resort and 60 per cent of the homes on Higatangan Island, Biliran, were destroyed by Yolanda. Two weeks after the super...

The Author has a unique, artistic and romantic mind, with a special way of seeing and describing the world, and this time a very special way of travelling, with no plan, no map, no idea, therefore thinking what could possibly go wrong? He describes...

There are many books that detail the lone golfer's ever-failing battles with the golf course. While Fluffed Chips Shouldn't Count again shows how the courses, despite their different natures and settings, continue to triumph, it also shows there is much solace in the companionship...

With the globalization of business, American snack maker Boltz Foods is expanding into world markets and a naïve American businessman who's never traveled abroad is selected to lead the way. Pursued by a Japanese competitor bent on sabotage, this comic adventure weaves in and...

This book is a collection of inspirational travel stories that span seventeen years of travel by the author, including human interest stories of people she interviewed. In a special chapter of "Traveling Back in Time," it also includes stories of genealogy and legends. While...

Still Cruising the High Seas is a sequel to Danny Leone's first autobiographical travel escape Once Upon a Cruise. This story chronicles his experiences employed in an interim position at a second rate cruise line while his company was building new deluxe ships in...

In Memoirs of Globetrotters, I write about Asians who have made lives in other countries other than their own viz. America, England, Australia, Italy and Malaysians. Some have left their mother country from an early age following their families on diplomatic postings. I also...

"It Happened in Brazil: Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil II" is the English version of "Aconteceu no Brasil: Crônica de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano II." The book is a continuation of the first volume in the series published in 2012...

It is strange which incidents in a long life will stick in your mind and recall in detail when stimulated by pictures, smells, or word triggers that bring to mind the occasion. This book is a collection of such memories, each reflecting the emotions...

When author Ginny Brooks's grandson, Andrew, told her he was getting married in Santa Rosa, California, she and her husband, Phil, weren't sure they'd be able to attend. They lived in Reidsville, North Carolina, and Ginny didn't fly. Then they decided to make an...

In May, 1970 Jan's life as she knew it was turned upside down. Aged 27 and newly married, Jan was completely taken by surprise when her husband Mike announced he'd been posted to a then unheard of desert kingdom called Dubai for work. This...

An abrupt, core shaking, spiritual experience leads author Hector Jesus Arencibia, a successful real estate agent from Miami, Florida to suddenly abandon his life and travel the entire world on one way tickets. It is a search for his true self and to discover...

This is a book for young people thinking of travelling for the first time. Not your average guidebook to overseas travel. In it Ms Murray informally and honestly describes her experiences as a female backpacker in North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and South America.Author:...

Doing the London Walk invites you to share the joy of discovering London in a series of leisurely walks from Whitehall to Tower Hill, and from there into the streets and lanes of the historic city. You will meet a rich cavalcade of people...

Weekly letters from a leprosy hospital in the foothills of the Himalayas form the basis of this memo of an English family living in Nepal in the 1970s. Battling with language learning; bartering in the bazaar; tackling home schooling for two boys and helping...

Learning to Cry will have you traipsing through the bush of South Africa, living the opulent Orange County, California lifestyle and enjoying a pint in middle class England. The sudden loss of her father in the middle of Africa creates a stirring in the...

Author: B. S. HaydenISBN-10: 1479745677ISBN-13: 9781479745678Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2013Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

Author: Froylan TiscareñoISBN-10: 1479729965ISBN-13: 9781479729968Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2012Pages: 492Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

Author: Paul BouchardISBN-10: 1475937350ISBN-13: 9781475937350Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2012Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d