Travel genre books (119)
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House of Stone : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Culture and institutions.
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How to Feed a Dictator : Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szablowski EN
PolandDescription:
“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow? Traveling across four continents, ... continue
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I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jančar EN
SloveniaDescription:
"I Saw Her That Night is a tragic love story set amid the atrocities of World War II in Slovenia" --
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I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti EN
PalestineDescription:
Palestinian poet Barghouti relates his homecoming to Ramallah after 30 years in exile, offering a moving account of what it means to be a Palestinian today. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
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In bocca al lupo by Mick Herron IT
EnglandDescription:
Se un tempo sei stato una spia, sarai una spia per sempre. Vale per Jackson Lamb e i suoi uomini, i Brocchi o Slow Horses, agenti che si sono rovinati commettendo errori in servizio o cedendo a un vizio di troppo, e che l’Intelligence ha dovuto allontanare senza però riuscire mai a metterli a riposo. E vale per Dickie Bow. Un vecchio leone, per giunta cresciuto allo “Zoo” di Berlino durante la Guerra fredda. Un’ombra capace di infiltrarsi ovunque, di stare alle calcagna del suo obiettivo per mesi e carpirne i segreti. Almeno finché non viene trovato morto su un autobus vicino a Oxford. Jackson... continue
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In Morocco by Wharton, Edith EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
First published in 1919, this detailed account of the author's journey through Morocco following World War I shares Wharton's observations on local customs and lifestyles, Moroccan history, cities, and more. Reprint.
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In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne EN
FranceDescription:
A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of The Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of his Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. In Search of the Castaways (French: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit. 'The Children of Captain Grant') is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, t... continue
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In The Name Of The Father by Immanuel Mifsud EN
MaltaDescription:
At the age of nineteen they handed you a rifle with a bayonet and dressed you up in a uniform ... and somehow, you managed to get your hands on a little, dark brown notebook and a pen. After the funeral, a grieving son starts reading the diary his dead father had kept during the Second World War. As he turns each page, searching for a trace of the man he remembers, a portrait of an individual unfolds; a figure made both strange and familiar through the handwritten observations, the yearnings and the confessions. Immanuel Mifsud tells a moving story of pain, warfare, and the things that connect... continue
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned th... continue