Op zoek naar sporen van haar heeroom, die missionaris was in Congo, reist Lieve Joris in 1985 naar Zaïre. Haar tocht leidt naar het oude Congo van de paters in de brousse, maar ook naar het Zaïre van Mobutu: ze ontmoet vertrouwelingen en critici van de president en trekt de zwarte cité in waar de vermaarde ... more »

This language guide for five languages allows you to find about 900 samples of sentences for many typical situations during a journey. You will find each phrase in all five languages, always in the order English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. STOP BEING SPEECHLESS WHILE ABROAD! more »

Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beautymountains and hills and lakes and a bayand architecture that mirrors its history ... more »

When Joe and his girlfriend Joy decide to trade in their life on a cold Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand and siestas. Little did they expect their foreign fantasy to turn out to be about as exotic as Grimsby on a wet Monday morning ... more »

'At one moment you seem to be in the Lake District; then you could be on the moon; then you are in a wilderness; and then beside a Norwegian fjord.' When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged landscapes, and landladies who insisted on washing his shirts ... more »

This is the eBook version of the printed book. The Internet is an amazing travel tool, offering us everything we need--if we just know how and where to look. This book was created specifically for adults 50 and older who would like to take advantage of what the Internet has to offer. Even if you are ... more »

Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America's best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as ... more »

Michael Schmitt war das erste Mal Mitte der 80er Jahre als Tourist in Thailand. Fasziniert von der überwältigenden Natur und der lockeren Lebensart der Asiaten war er wie viele andere Thailandbesucher angesteckt von einem Virus, der über zwei Jahrzehnte hinweg ihn dazu veranlasste, immer wieder in ... more »

Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and always traveling at the wrong time of year. In Lost ... more »

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811) Navigateur et explorateur français more »

A dilapidated, rat-infested stone barn set amidst thirteen acres of overgrown woodland and unkempt pasture might not be many people's vision of a potential dream home. But for English couple Richard and his wife Al, the cavernous, oak-beamed building in a sleepy hamlet of the Limousin region of France ... more »

From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (the guerillas were using the track again today), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (the good news was that they were 'small bombs'), Wendy somehow manages to find herself ... more »