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  • Wild Coast

    de John Gimlette ...
    Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

    Travels Through Paraguay

    de John Gimlette ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.”Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book–equal parts ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Gardens of Mars

    Madagascar, an Island Story

    de John Gimlette ...
    A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar.'A beautifully written depiction of the history of this beguiling island' Literary Review'Courageous, exploratory, humane and with a wry sense of humour' Spectator'A feat of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Elephant Complex

    Travels in Sri Lanka

    de John Gimlette ...
    No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling curiosity for the inside story. This time, he travels to Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Panther Soup

    Travels Through Europe in War and Peace

    de John Gimlette ...
    Beautifully blending contemporary travel writing and military history, John Gimlette travels across Europe in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944-45. In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe with his guide Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-old Bostonian who had landed in Marseille in the midst of World War II with his tank destroyer ... Leer más

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    The Garden of Mars

    Madagascar, an Island Story

    de John Gimlette ...
    Narrado por Mark Elstob ...

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    13 hora 10 minutos

    A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world's fourth island: Madagascar.An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar but it's too big, too eccentric, and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet its road ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • DuMont Reiseabenteuer Leseprobe 2014

    de Gerald Drißner, Rolf Neuhaus, Colin Thubron, Gavin Francis, John Gimlette, Peter Hessler, Rob Lilwall ...
    Series series
    Die neuen DuMont Reiseabenteuer 2014:Vorab als Leseprobe erhältlich.Die neuen DuMont Reiseabenteuer beginnen dort, wo die Nachrichten aufhören: Sie zeigen aus erster Hand das wirkliche Leben und die Welt, die hinter den Daten, Fakten oder Schlagzeilen liegt. Die Autoren dieser frisch erzählten Reiseimpressionen sind Auslandskorrespondenten, hochkarätige Journalisten und international renommierte ... Leer más

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  • The Lower River

    de Paul Theroux ...
    “[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can’t help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.”—Entertainment WeeklyWhen he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Blood River

    The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

    de Tim Butcher ...
    A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. M. Stanley in this "remarkable marriage of travelogue and history" (Max Hastings, author of Armageddon).When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000,. he quickly became obsessed with the Congo River and the idea of recreating H. M. Stanley's nineteenth-century journey along the nearly three-thousand-mile ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

    The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

    de Jason K. Stearns ...
    A “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s CongoAt the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Once Upon a Time in Russia

    The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder

    de Ben Mezrich ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian oligarchs that Booklist called “one more example of just how talented a storyteller [Mezrich] is.”Meet two larger-than-life Russians: former mathematician ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Empire of Deception

    The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

    de Dean Jobb ...
    It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upward of $400 million today—in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. This rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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