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.

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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...

Writers' London guides the reader through homes, bookshops, pubs and cemeteries, in search of where literary greats loved and lost, drank and died.

The pictures in this book are also available as postcard, poster or stamp. Check out www.earthontheroad.com

All images © 2014 Artist Pepijn de Jonge

Ronald Wilfred Jansen visited Anne Frank’s home addresses in Frankfurt am Main, Aachen and Amsterdam; her hiding place the Secret Annex; and the Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps where Anne Frank was imprisoned. His book describes her history and the objects that today still remind us of the environment in which she lived.

His motivation for writing this book is that it was one of the last opportunities he would have to contact the people who knew Anne; th...

In Dating China, an excited 28-year-old Matilda goes to live in Shanghai and starts dating its culture, its language and its men. She makes friends with local women who help her navigate the Shanghai single life. Dishearteningly, Matilda finds herself dating men that are only interested in her because she is a laowai – a white faced foreigner – as well as men that are merely into the idea of having instant noodles – a metaphor for one night stands. She finds herself adapting to the cult...

Ronald Wilfred Jansen visited Anne Frank's home addresses in Frankfurt am Main, Aachen and Amsterdam; her hiding place the Secret Annex; and the Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps where Anne Frank was imprisoned. His book describes her history and the objects that today still remind us of the environment in which she lived.

His motivation for writing this book is that it was one of the last opportunities he would have to contact the people who knew Anne; thes...

Every Day until Antwerp is a literary travel journey about a walking trip from Amsterdam to Antwerp, along the railway line of the old Benelux train that by now has ceased to be. Determined not to go home at the end of a day’s walking but to camp on the land that up till then she had only known as an image seen through the train window, Jacqueline Schoemaker set off, pulling a tent and a sleeping bag in a shopping trolley behind her. She walked in this way from the city where she lives to t...

Bastiaan Brink decided to travel the world when he had to interrupt his life as a concert pianist due to an injury. For a year, he travelled the world in search of beauty and moments of higher consciousness. It became the kind of journey people refer to when they talk about their aspirations or look back on the highlights of their lives. In this book, he gives a compelling account of his adventures.

Brink expresses his experiences in such evocative terms that you get the impression you are th...