Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way. Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...

"Nuestra India" invita a explorar un territorio sorprendente desde la experiencia personal gestada durante largos años de vida, de acompañar a miles de personas por ese continente de contrastes que movilizan el alma, pinceladas de culturas antiguas entrelazadas con mitos y leyendas, extasiarse ante la visión de los monumentos magníficos e indagar el por qué del carisma que genera un sentimiento de espiritualidad. En estas páginas late la historia,...

Drawing upon his own travel experiences and those of others, Keith Forrester interrelates travel writing, tourism and serious commentary to produce an account of the delights, challenges and excitement of visiting old and new India. Banyan Tree Adventures: Travels in India is not the usual travelogue or tourist guide to India. It is a book that not only discusses the Indian experiences and views of non-domestic travelers in their explorations and...

Guy Taillefer est journaliste et éditorialiste à la section internationale du Devoir depuis la fin des années 1990. Il a passé cinq années en Inde o il a pu constater le dynamisme politique et l'énergie délirante de cette démocratie plus grande que nature. Dans ces chroniques au ton personnel et parfois incisif, il rend compte, entre autres choses, de l'avancée de la condition des femmes, de la grande liberté d'expression des Indiens et...

"Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"-- "Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a master traveler and observer. The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most...

'Mrs. Merrydale went off with Lieutenant Maxwell, leaving her children under the care of the servants, until her husband came to take them away. Mrs. Hastings, who used to bore us about the duties of a wife, carried off that silly boy Stammersleigh. These elopements led to two actions in H.M. Supreme Court of Calcutta...' Born in Australia in 1816, John Lang-novelist, newspaper editor and barrister, now best known for having defended the Rani of Jhansi...

"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored,...

Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India-a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve in the colonial administration for eight years before abruptly leaving the company under a cloud and disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to...

What we know today as Chandni Chowk was once, a part of one of the greatest cities of the world-the imperial city established by the Mughal emperor Shahjahan in the seventeenth century, and named after him-Shahjahanabad. This is the story of how the city came to be established, its grandeur as the capital of an empire at its peak, and its important role in shaping the language and culture of North India. It is also the story of the many tribulations...

"Voices in the Night" is a 1900 historical novel by Flora Annie Steel. Flora Annie Steel (1847 — 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. Steel's historical novel "Voices in the Night" offers the reader a glimpse into colonial India that is typical of her fiction, weaving a delicate story to the backdrop of British imperialism in an exotic...