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Roby, italiana 39enne che abita a Londra, ha da troppo tempo le batterie emotive scariche. Single da tre secoli e mezzo, col desiderio di maternità, incontra uomini messi uno peggio dell’altro. Ha da poco scoperto che il suo migliore amico le ha celato un doloroso segreto, e pure dagli altri amici, in realtà, si sente capita poco. Soprattutto, Roby sente di essere chiamata a fare altro, ma non sa neanche lei bene cosa. Così, stanca di quell’essere bloccata su vari fronti, decide di partire da sola all’avventura per tre mesi. Sri Lanka, India e Nepal, un mese in ognuno.

Ian Edwards, a physiotherapist, and his partner, Anne (a midwife), set out in 1983 to work in Russian occupied Afghanistan. Communication lines in and out of the country are poor in those days. He is under the impression that he will work in a rehabilitation unit with an orthopaedic surgeon. Instead, upon arrival, he finds out that he is in charge of the first physiotherapy training program and school in the country - a program and school that don't yet exist. After four years of hard work, Ian is burnt out and returns to Australia in ill health.

Super Cheap Maldives is a travel guide for people seeking cold-hard facts to enjoy the biggest Maldives adventure on the smallest budget. Our plans and Maldives’ fascinating history, culture, and underwater world will blow your mind, not your budget. Instantly discover everything you need for a luxurious trip to Maldives on a backpackers budget.

Essays, observations and stories about Pattaya and Thailand - humorous, satiric, observational.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local author, it is never too late to visit Sapporo. 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.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Eat like a Local is for you. Eat like a Local Bangkok, by author Dana Konotop, will offer the inside scoop on the best places to eat in Bangkok, Thailand. Culinary tourism is an import aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.

Learn about the unique blend of culture, tradition, music, and food from this part of South India. More focus on the Palghat (also known as Palakkad) Brahmins (Iyers, specific to that location context), a community known for their unique traits and social contribution. This community is known for their ancient wisdom passed on into next generations by elders in the family. Their customs and traditions in clothing, food preparations, marriage, and even in death. Some parts of these are exclusive to Palghat Iyers.

Vincent Ebrahim, star of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Kumars At No. 42, explores his ancestral home visiting Mumbai, Gujarat, Delhi, Agra, West Bengal, Darjeeling, Kolkata and the Himalayas in this varied and vivid audio diary.

Durante un soggiorno in Indonesia Giorgio Bettinelli riceve in regalo una vecchia Vespa. Fino ad allora non aveva mai guidato un veicolo a due ruote. Dopo il suo "apprendistato scooteristico" attraverso l'Indonesia, decide di tornare in Italia per intraprendere un viaggio da Roma a Saigon, con la sua ormai inseparabile Vespa. Percorre 24000 chilometri, attraverso 10 paesi. Ciascun capitolo dell'audiolibro è ambientato in una delle diverse nazioni e narra di strade in pessime condizioni, di paesi "difficili" o tormentati da conflitti e guerriglie interne,

Tessa Keswick first travelled to China in 1982 and immediately fell in love with its history, culture and landscape. Over the next 30 years, she travelled extensively in China, visiting its temples and landmarks, the sites of its most famous battles and the birthplaces of its best-known poets and philosophers. She also witnessed China's transformation, as hundreds of millions were lifted out of poverty and the country emerged as an economic superpower in waiting.

Driving terrified me; I hadn't done it in a decade. But if I could drive in India, I could drive anywhere. If I drive a tuk-tuk, I could drive anything. And if I said yes, I'd get to spend 10 days with her. Would that be enough time to find out who she was, what she wanted, and then convince her to abandon that and want me instead? There was only one way to find out.

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.

Vietnam is one of the most fascinating destinations in Southeast Asia. Having emerged from two decades of war, it is has undergone a period of rapid and far-reaching change, and its people have their eyes fixed firmly on the horizon. Culture Smart! Vietnam is for those who want to learn about the traditional values, sensibility, and modern way of life of the Vietnamese. It explains deep-seated attitudes and describes some of the social, economic, and cultural changes now underway.

Adventurer Sylvain Tesson has led a restless life, riding across Central Asia on horseback, freeclimbing the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, and traversing the Himalayas by foot. But while recovering from an accident that left him in a coma, and nursing his wounds from a lost love, he found himself domesticated, his lust for life draining with each moment spent staring at a screen. An expedition to the mountains of Tibet, in search of the famously elusive snow leopard, presented itself as a cure.

An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed - where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns - by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans.

From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in breadth, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse.

En este audiolibro Jorge nos relata siete pequeños viajes a islas de difícil acceso de los siete continentes.

El quinto viaje llevó a Jorge Sánchez hasta las Terres Australes Françaises, en la Antártida. En el buque de la armada francesa Marion Dufresne; viajó a la isla Rodrigues (la isla de los solitarios), Crozet (la isla de los Albatros de cejas negras), Kerguelen (la isla de los leopardos de mar), Saint Paul (la isla del volcán apagado) y Ámsterdam (la isla descubierta por Elcano).

Las “Siete Hermanas”: Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram y Arunachal Pradesh, son siete estados indios conflictivos rodeados por Bangla-Desh, Myanmar, Bhután y Tibet. El intrépido Jorge tuvo que burlar los controles militares indios para penetrar en esos lugares prohibidos.

A compilation of strategies and hard-earned lessons to ease any English teacher or traveler into life in a Chinese city, as well as a few stories that reveal the nature of the beast. There are so many things to understand about Chinese cities and their different cultures, and this book is meant to focus on encouraging travelers to enjoy all of the benefits of living in China, even those that come in disguise.