Travel : Adventure

Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Street Map and more. Museums hours and ticket info. Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. Plan the trip during airplane flight. Add Bookmarks. Text annotation and mark-up. Table of Contents. General: About | Tourist Center | Geography | Climate | Demography | Economy | Administration | Design and Infrastructure | Education | Sleep | Stay Safe. Maps: Paris Monuments | Greater Paris | Louvre | Axe Historique | RER | Arrondissements: 1er, 2e | 3e, 4e, 11e | 5e, 6e | 7e | 8e | 9e, 10e | 12e, 13e | Métro: West | East | France: Regions | Regions Detailed. Phrasebook: About | Intro | Phraselist. Transportation: Overview | Get in | Get around | Airports | Streets | Métro | RER | Tramways. Culture: Overview | Museums | Theaters & Performance Centers | Events | History | Nightlife. Landmarks: Buildings & Structures | Monuments | Churches | Areas & Squares | Streets | Parks | Bridges | Notable Hotels | Louvre. Eat & Drink: Eat | Parisian Cafe | Drink | Notable Restaurants & Bars. By Area: Arrondissements | Districts | Seine | Islands. more...

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Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this memoir reveals hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West - Bhutan. When Britta, a young physiotherapist, goes to work in a remote village hospital, her good intentions are put to the test amid monsoons, fleas and shocking conditions. more...

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Paul William Roberts' journeys through India span twenty years, and in Empire of the Soul, he creates a dazzling mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta; from the ashrams of holy men to a millionaire drug dealer's heavily guarded fortress on India's border with China, Roberts captures the lure of this enigmatic land - this empire of the soul. more...

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A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities—walking. This simple, omnipresent activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, personal memories, epic journeys, mystical revelations, and scandals. It’s a rich tradition that embraces such novelists as Charles Dickens and Paul Auster, musicians like Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan, and moviemakers from Buster Keaton to Werner Herzog. But it’s also a tradition that includes obsessives and eccentrics, such as the artist Mudman, who coats his body in mud and then walks the city streets; competitive pedestrians such as Captain Barclay, who walked one mile an hour for a thousand successive hours; and gang members who use the hidden language of the “Crip Walk” to spell out messages in the dirt with their scuffing. How we walk, where we walk, why we walk announces who and what we are. Geoff Nicholson is a master chronicler of the hidden subversive twists on a seemingly normal activity. He analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages. He finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. Here, he brings curiosity and genuine insight to a subject that often walks right past us. more...

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An illustrated city guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Street Map, Transportation Maps, and more. Museums hours and tickets info. Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway, during a flight. Add Bookmarks. Text annotation and mark-up. Table of Contents. Chapters | A-Z Index. General. Maps. Phrasebook. Transport. By Area. Attractions. Landmarks. Culture. Eat & Drink. Catalonia. Spain. Units Conversion. About and Navigation. General: About | Tourism | Geography | Climate | History | Government | Demographics | Sleep | Stay Safe. Maps: Streets | Metro | Trambesòs | Districts | Spain | Spain Detailed | Provinces | High Speed Railway. Phrasebooks: Catalan: About | Intro | Phraselist | Spanish: About | Intro | Phraselist. Transport: Get in | Get around | Public | Metro | Trambaix | Trambesòs | Funicular de Montjuïc | Rail. By Area: Geographical Areas | Districts | Streets | Plazas | Get Out. Attractions: Do | Buy | L''Aquarium | Beaches. Landmarks: Sites | Buildings & Structures | Churches | Towers | Parks | By Architects: Antoni Gaudí | Josep Puig i Cadafalch | Lluis Domènech i Montaner. Culture: Culture | Language | Events | Sports | Museums | Theaters. Eat & Drink: Catalan cuisine | Drink | Eat | Restaurants by Zones: Montjuïc & Poble Sec | Barceloneta & the Ports | Eixample | Gràcia | Raval | Zona Alta. Catalonia: Catalan Cuisine | Drink | Eat. Spain: About | History | Geography | Regions | Get in | Eat | See | Talk | Respect | Stay healthy. more...

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