Category Archives: Travel Guides
Italian Wines 2017
Italian Wines is the English-language version of Gambero Rosso`s Vini d`Italia, the world`s best-selling guide to Italian wine, now in its 30th edition. It is the result of a year`s work by over 60 tasters, coordinated by three curators. They travel around the entire country to taste 45,000 wines, only half of which make it
Italian Wines: 2018
Italian Wines is the English-language version of Gambero Rosso`s Vini d`Italia, the world`s best-selling guide to Italian wine, now in its 31st edition. It is the result of a year`s work by over 60 tasters, coordinated by three curators. They travel around the entire country to taste 45,000 wines, only half of which make it
Italian Wines 2015
More than seventy tasters have travelled around Italy to source the very best wines. The tastings – all blind – took place in consortiums and local chambers of commerce and were supported by experts in the field, sommeliers and trade buyers. The guide is completely accessible, organised in a simple, clear and functional way. Sections
Here Is New York
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan?with the reader arm-in-arm?remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary
The Fire Never Dies
In these wide-ranging tales from a life on the road, Vietnam vet and “adventure eater” Richard Sterling takes the reader deep into the heart of cultures from Asia to Africa to North America. Whether he is breaking bread with a murderer in the Baja desert or enjoying a shipboard dalliance with a mysterious new acquaintance
Tibet
The stories range from delightful and funny to cautionary and inspiring, and provide readers with a road map that deepens and enriches their travels.Enjoy riveting tales by world-renowned writers. One author witnesses an ancient sky burial; another works as an extra on a Chinese movie set. One of the essays describes a visit to the
Italy Travellers` Tales
About this seriesBased upon the idea that the best advice is the advice of fellow travellers this series of books collects together writings from various authors. Some are well known, others are just ordinary travellers, but all connected with travel in a certain place.
America
The tales in this collection present a uniqu e portrait of the United States through the eyes of a host o f renowned travellers that includes Bill Bryson, Jim Harriso n, E. Annie Proulx and Jan Morris. `
Food A Taste Of The Road
What`s it like to be there? Travelers` Tales gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Delightful, funny, cautionary, or inspiring, there`s no better road map than the experiences of others for deepening and enriching one`s travels. An essential part of travel planning, these award-winning Travelers` Tales Guides have sold more
Adventures in Wine
What`s it like to be there? Travelers` Tales gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Delightful, funny, cautionary, or inspiring, there`s no better road map than the experiences of others for deepening and enriching one`s travels. An essential part of travel planning, these award-winning Travelers` Tales Guides have sold more
Japan – A Traveller`s Literary Companion
This collection guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. Although frequently misunderstood as a homogenous nation, Japan is a land of tremendous linguistic, geographical and cultural diversity. Hino Keizo leads the reader through Tokyo`s mazes in “Jacob`s Tokyo Ladder”. Nakagami Kenji explores the ghostly, mythology-laden backwoods of Kumano. Atoda Takashi takes us to
Trader Horn
What`s it like to be there? Travelers` Tales gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Delightful, funny, cautionary, or inspiring, there`s no better road map than the experiences of others for deepening and enriching one`s travels. An essential part of travel planning, these award-winning Travelers` Tales Guides have sold more
Brazil – A Traveler`s Literary Companion
From the wild carnivales of Rio de Janeiro to the wild depths of the Amazon jungle, Brazil`s best writers guide you along Brazil`s literary landscape. Brazil is the largest and arguably the most dynamic country in South America. Here is a collection of forty stories drawn from all corners of that vast land: the Amazon,
Motorcycle Journeys through the southwest
In this new, updated edition, motojournalist Marty Berke shows the way to the best scenic, curving roads the great American Southwest has to offer. From favourite belt-notching rides like Pikes Peak Highway, the Million Dollar Highway, and Route 66, to small no-name two-lane delights that lead to places like Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyon National
Hong Kong Travelers` Tales
It`s winter. The holidays are over. For those living in areas where it`s still snowing, and even where it`s just cold or rainy, it`s the time of year when magazines, newspapers, radio, and television are tantalizing us with ads of warm beaches, sunshine, relaxation, water sports, and foo-foo drinks with little umbrellas sticking out of
Romance Traveller`s Tales
Travelers` Tales Love & Romance is a collection of literary essays — all true stories — of love, lust, and romance encountered while traveling. They range from a tender story of how travel kept the spark in a 50-year marriage, to one woman`s story of becoming engaged to a Figi Island tribesman, to the tale
Gutsy Mamas
In only three months, Travelors` Tales Gutsy Women has gone to its second printing. Its popularity has inspired award-winning editor/author Marybeth Bond, mother of two, to make her next book Travelers` Tales Gutsy Mamas, a book of tips and wisdom for mothers traveling with their children. Look for Gutsy Mamas this summer.
Mother`s World – Journey`s of the Heart
Mother`s World illuminates what it means to be a mother on the road, and aims to dispels the notion that motherhood and travel are incompatible. `
Danger! True Stories of Trouble & Survival
From the safety of a deep leather chair, several stories of danger and survival by such notable authors, such as Sebastian Junger and Claire Tristram, tell of struggling with life, death, and their sanity.
