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...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

Ramond de Vrede departs by train the 6th of July 2011 from Maastricht to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France.

7th of July 2011 he starts his biggest hike ever. Approximately 800 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to finish in Santiago de Compostella.

Pilgrimage. Getting back to your own self. Getting insight in what you want in life and more important what not. Modern pilgrimage offers this all. He used his notes of his journal so you can relive this journey with him.

As computer professional you ...

Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship.

It is a memoir of exquisite bea...