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With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local author, it is never too late to visit Indiana. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other travel books.

本書は、1950年代から60年代にかけて、新聞記者として世界各地を巡った著者の"旅のエッセイ"集です。それは……ドイツが西と東に分かれていたころ。ベトナムのハノイに米軍の爆撃機が来襲していたころ。アメリカが、まだ人種差別を克服できずにいたころ。ソビエト連邦という「東」の大国があったころ……。旅人の目に映った、そんな時代の世界の素顔が25編のエッセイに綴られています。遺跡の町アテネの広場で、キリマンジャロのふもとのロッジで、サハラ砂漠の満天の星の下で、夕月が見下ろすカサブランカの市場で、ヒマラヤを望むネパールの丘で、コーヒーの香りとともに刻まれる旅の記憶、いくつもの出会い。珠玉のエッセイを、小野田英一さんの朗読でお楽しみください。(c)株式会社ＡＩＲ

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local...

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an 1100-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe and built her back up again. At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. After her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea: vague, outlandish, and full of promise.

I feel it a great honor to be the bearer of this message to the world; but I do not claim any special privilege, nor do I claim any spiritual quality that makes me any different from my fellow men. I alone was not wholly responsible - as I now know - having been spiritually helped and guided throughout all these years of probation. It was not until one night when a mysterious Visitor appeared to me that I knew what my real mission was.

Greater Than a Tourist—Chile by Author Alejandra Urrutia offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit Chile.

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had...

Marco Polo (1254-1324), is probably the most famous Westerner who traveled on the "Silk Road." His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He traveled the whole of China and returned to tell the tale, which became one of the world's greatest travelogues.

Drive . . . and grow rich! The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed...

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes; the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto...

Travel Like a Local is a series of travel guidebooks written by local experts to help travelers explore new places like an insider. Travel Like a Local Melbourne, Victoria, Australia by Tiffany Bazart offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the coffee capital Down Under. From learning about the culture and customs to finding the best restaurants and attractions, these guidebooks provide comprehensive information to ensure a hassle-free unforgettable journey.

Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, seeks the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine - and more than a few Greek men - Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and its exotic yet strangely familiar language.

The Beacon Bike is the inspirational tale of one man's quest to fulfil the promise he made to himself as a small child, nestled in the bed of an attic room while the glow of Dungeness lighthouse flashed past his window - a comforting, ever-present companion. It is also a loving tribute to the...

Greater Than a Tourist: South Dakota by Max Hunhoff offers an inside scoop on the Midwest treasure of South Dakota. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other smaller print travel books. Experience cultural, culinary delights, and attractions with the guidance of a Local.

A memoir of homecoming—Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.

When Stephen Bodio was a young boy in the early '50s, he saw an image in National Geographic that became forever etched in his mind: It was a photograph of a Kazakh nomad, dressed in a long coat and wearing a fur hat, holding a huge tame eagle on his fist. And a lifelong fascination with Central Asia was born.

Practical, fun and effective. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by millions. You'll be speaking Italian fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been...

Greater than a Tourist- Taiwan by author Emily Lindholm offers the inside scoop on traveling to Taiwan. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

大学卒業前、御山人が青春18きっぷ片手に、一人で行った東北旅行。 困難に満ちた道程を経てたどり着いたのは、多賀城・アラハバキ神社。 かつて「東北に朝廷に対抗する古代王国があった」とする内容で、 偽書騒動を巻き起こしたアラハバキ神とは何なのか?改めてその謎を掘り下げる。 ○手足の長い「まつろわぬ民」の荒ぶる魂 ○陸羽東線沿線にも篤く信仰されるアラハバキ神社が ○国譲りに納得出来ず?!三河の荒ぶる大国主命 ○怨み荒ぶるのは大陸的か それを鎮めて習合した日本の信仰 卒業旅行二日目は、冬の奥羽山脈を越え、秋田県へ。 後三年の役の古戦場で、腰まで雪に埋もれつつ訪ねたのは、 蘇我氏に滅ぼされた古代豪族・物部氏の末裔が守って来た唐松神社。 そこに満ちた数々の謎に挑む。 ●堀を巡らした三角錐の石積みの上に建つ社殿 ●神社の古文書には、物部氏の祖神が鳥海山に降臨し、出羽こそ物部の故郷と ●仏教を拒否して追われた神道を奉じる物部の「物」とは物の怪の「物」 ●「まつろわぬ民」と血縁を持ち、「韓をまつろわせた」物部氏 そして、「まつろう」「まつろわぬ」ことの現代的解釈や意義をも問います。 流行に「まつろう」ことなく、孤高の旅の中で見出したものとは。 語り:高橋御山人 聞き役:盛池雄峰