Travel and holiday Books

This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes:...

Core values of society, health and wellbeing impact today on all aspects of our lives, and have also increasingly influenced patterns of tourism consumption and production. In this context wellness has developed into a significant dimension of tourism in...

This book provides a holistic, explicit and detailed introduction to the relationship of poverty and tourism development within the context of developing countries. The book is divided into three distinct sections, progressing from an evaluation of the...

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. It considers questions such as:do travellers leave their religion at home when they are touring - and what happens if not? what are the relationships between...

Certain types of tourism, such as volunteer tourism and student travel, have long been associated with global citizenship. To travel and to experience other societies and other cultures is linked with a cosmopolitan outlook, and also with the capacity to...

The rise of political instability and terrorism necessitates a reassessment of various tourism policy issues. This book focuses upon evaluating the impact of terrorist political conflicts and other types of instability on the tourism sector and considers...

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about...

One day I was riding around McKinney looking at the beautiful neighborhoods and came upon Adriatica Village under construction, It didn't look liked much, but it looked unique and different with cobblestone Streets and slated roofs (old European...

Through this book I have tried my level best to divert people's attention towards these wonderful structures which, though in ruins now, were once magnificent. This book is an attempt to describe the grandeur and beauty of these ancient monuments. I have...

Una guida di viaggio che attraversa i principali stati del sud della Cina, lo Yunnan, l'Hunan, il Guangxi, con una puntata nell'isola di Taiwan anche attraverso alcuni itinerari poco conosciuti e meno turistici. Una raccolta di emozioni, storie,...

A personal, and not at all interesting, walker's lexicon from Ambulatory Atavism via Nugatory Nutrition and Two True to Zen Zoom. "Pretentious twaddle" The Huntingdon Hound. "I enjoy walking. I didn't enjoy this." Bill Swanton, Walking In Wales. You...

Una breve guida di viaggio in Laos e Cambogia, fatta soprattutto di impressioni, sensazioni ed immagini. Un percorso sotto cieli lontani ad inseguire e a ricercare come al solito la scoperta e la comprensione dell'altro, ma questa volta con un motivo in...

Un viaggio in un paese tenero e difficile al tempo stesso, in cui si può capitare per caso. Io ho cercato di parlare con la gente, più che lasciarmi andare al fascino dei luoghi. Così persone e posti, Saly, Mbour, S. Louis, si sono sovrapposti e hanno...

Matt Pointon's account of his 2015 visit to the north eastern corner of the DPRK, better known to the world as North Korea, perhaps the most isolated and unconnected nation on earth.

L'autore, ormai alla sua quarta esperienza editoriale, continua la serie delle sue "false guide di viaggio". Una scusa, certo, per raccontare impressioni e punti di vista, per cercare di capire dove stanno andando i paesi ed i popoli che visita, al di là...

The Tightwad Economist has a lust for discovery and adventure. Incited by the preaching of the Messiah of Travel, the call of Africa is ineluctable. Not the clichéd chic safaris and animal spotting tours of travel brochures. Tightwad sets off hitching...

Abbiamo esplorato 150 km di sentieri, mulattiere, strade forestali, tracce più o meno visibili di cacciatori e pescatori. Per capire cosa è rimasto, dopo mezzo secolo di abbandono, dell'antica viabilità di un tempo lungo il fiume Avisio.

Raven's Apprentice is a compelling true story from the west coast of B.C. that launches you into the world of Raven and our interconnectedness with all living things."Suddenly, without warning, they spun on a fin and started charging the boat. My thrill...

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons' lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Michael John Law investigates how something that previously...

This is a true story of a young Canadian man who has psychosis and is commanded by voices to start travelling. His mental health deteriorates as he travels. He ends up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He somehow manages to meet with a group of Cossacks whom he finds...

Tourism and Degrowth develops a conceptual framework and research agenda for exploring the relationship between tourism and degrowth. Rapid and uneven expansion of tourism as a response to the 2008 economic crisis has proceeded in parallel with the rise...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski jest pierwszym polskim pisarzem, naukowcem, aktywist

There's a reason this place is called Phoenix. We talk about awakening, awareness and other terms in healing, they've become quite the buzz words (along with "woke,") but, for me, what I would call my awakening was a momentary death of ego and a rebirth...

A personally written guidebook about life, history and art in Florence, one of the world's most fascinating cities.

Borders and frontiers seem interchangeable but in fact they are separate entities. In Contention City To Stalingrad the author explores both physical borders in some less visited parts of the world from South Lebanon to the North West Frontier of...

An account of Matt Pointon's 2002 journey to Seoul and Indonesia.

Il volume racchiude una raccolta di descrizioni di antiche tradizioni popolari siciliane tratte dai diari di viaggio dai grandi viaggiatori che hanno visitato la Sicilia durante il Grand Tour e oltre. Testimoni oculari di grande spessore come Goethe,...

Racconto il mio pensiero, quindi, i miei sentimenti, le esperienze che ho accumulato in questi anni intorno al mondo e che ho cercato di raccontare al meglio sul mio sito.Oriana Fallaci. Alda Merini. Charles Bukowski. Se non avete ancora letto i loro...

For me solving problems is key to our social well-being. After my accident I wanted to sustain an active life and keep solving problems which gets my adrenaline pumping. All too often, with the exception of a few (rip Stephen Hawkins), disabled people...

La Guida è rivolta a un pubblico italiano di appassionati del vino, che per turismo si reca in Borgogna e non vuole sorprese nell'acquisto dei vini (ossia: ottimi vini e prezzi giusti). In questa pubblicazione, pertanto, non sono indicati molti celebri...

A journal of six lads who self-organized a ~20-day trip down the Nahanni River, NT.We were a disparate group of six who were largely unknown to each other. Yet, we went directly from the "forming stage and norming stages" of team formation to the...

As a new year approaches, a twenty-four-year-old woman leaves her unfulfilling life in England to pursue her goal of moving to Vancouver Island, Canada. Upon arrival, she encounters the challenges of adjusting to her new environment, advancing her...

"Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information."--New York Times Book ReviewBased on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she...

"In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Bryson's A Walk In the Woods and Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I couldn't put it down." --Eric Blehm,...