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A taste of Tanzania
2021 || Hardcover || Axel Janssens e.a. || Untold Images Ziano BVBA
Avalon, Roses of England
Celtic Roots Forever
2022 || Hardcover || Barbara Bahtiar || Brave New Books
Barbara Bahtiar explores her Celtic Roots by taking us on a journey to the Isle of Avalon using guided meditations and beautiful images. Over the years she has gathered beautiful Avalon lady’s around her, working together in Avalon workshops to meditate on the blessings of Avalon. The meditations in this book are the fruits and blossoms of the Avalon workshops at Bougainville, Center for Intuition tland enlivens our hearts and souls. Poems about red roses and white roses alternate with cher...
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I am not a Magician
Living and working in Vladimir Putin's Russia
2022 || Paperback || Gary R. Hays || Brave New Books
Living ten minutes from Red Square and the Kremlin and working for a Russian company, life is anything but dull. Vladimir Putin returns to reclaim the Presidency; the White Ribbon protestors fight against his comeback, election fraud and the riot police; our oligarchs try and keep their oil company out of state control; Mikhail the driver tries to keep his job but do as little work as possible; Olya and Angela want stability and to survive; Denis is trying to get his career back on track; whi...
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Hidden Japan
2023 || Paperback || Alex Kerr || Veltman Distributie Import Books
"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York Times
In Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Japan he makes a journey of rediscovery to find the wonders that still remain.
Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, Hidden Japan records Kerr's travels ...
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Cappuccino in Curaçao
trip to paradise ... ?
2023 || Paperback || Anika Redhed || Perky Paper Publishers
How much fun is it to live in Curaçao? Why do residents put a baseball bat on their nightstand? Who can you trust and most importantly, who can't you trust? In Cappuccino in Curaçao, Anika Redhed takes you on an exciting journey past sweltering beaches and dangerous parking lots, slavery monuments and turtles, ice-cold drinks and bloody-hot nights. Join the adventure and learn more about this diverse island than you ever wanted to know.
Travel Writing
The New Critical Idiom
2011 || Paperback || Carl Thompson || Taylor & Francis
An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson:introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present dayexplores the autobiographical dimensions of the formlooks at both men and women's travel writing, surveying ...
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Joe's Travels
2023 || Paperback || Alan Duckworth || Bookmundo
A collection of walks and holidays taken with Joe Wharton and others. Some of these have been published previously, notably the account of the Ribble Way.
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Route 66 Europe
2023 || Paperback || Anika Redhed || Perky Paper Publishers
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And Then She Fell in Love / druk 1
the adventures of a globetrotting grandma
Paperback || Lady Midleton || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Marilyn was barely 17 when she got married and moved to England, leaving the comfort of her home in The Netherlands. She lived there for almost 18 years with her husband Nathan and their two daughters, Sabrina and Fiona. After 32 years, not being able to stand living in a loveless marriage surrounded with deception, lies and innuendoes any longer; she left Nathan, thus ending her marriage. Marilyn did however continue working with Nathan in their business for another three years before finall...
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Beauty and Conflict
A Flying Pharmacist in Congo
Paperback || Jordy Van Enkhuizen || Brave New Books
In Beauty and Conflict, Jordy van Enkhuizen describes the splendours of Congo and its people, while at the same time recounting the various struggles he came across during his work with a non-governmental organisation in the beautiful, but troubled northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In his gripping account as a pharmacist flying between different rural areas in 2016, he makes detailed observations on the state of affairs in the heart of Africa and intriguingly explains how humanit...