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Acclaimed travel writer Jonathan Raban invites us aboard his boat, a floating cottage cluttered with books, curling manuscripts, and dead ballpoint pens. He's about to sail alone from Seattle to the Alaskan Panhandle, following an ancient sea route rich in history, riddles, and whirlpools. It's the perfect setting for Raban's prodigious intellect, eloquence, and eye for detail.

Dans ce podcast, écoute la bande-son de AR, UN MAGAZINE DE VOYAGE qui inspire et donne envie de voyager autrement. Découvre les aventures de nos reporters à l'autre bout du monde ou dans un coin de France, des entretiens avec des personnalités qui racontent leur rapport à l'ailleurs, des récits de voyageurs étonnants, des commentaires de photographes en pleine action. Bref, entre dans les coulisses d'un magazine qui porte un regard libre sur le voyage!Production : Studio Aller-Retour avec Sandrine Mercier et Michel Fonovich.Retrouve AR Magazine voyageur dans les kiosques et sur ...

Ibn-e-Insha, real name Sher Muhammad Khan was a Leftist Urdu poet, humorist, travelogue writer and columnist. He also served the UN for some time and this enabled him to visit a lot of places and was the reason for his subsequent travalogues. Some of the places he visited include Japan, Phillippines, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Iran, India, France, UK, Turkey and the US. Nagri Nagri Phira Musafir is a humorous and fascinating account of many such travels.

Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. This book - a work of immense erudition spiced with anecdotes and gossip - documents their haunts and habits, their comings and goings, their relationships intimate and artistic.

The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz decided to change everything. Despite being professionally accomplished and contributing to the world as an attorney at a nonprofit, she had yet to achieve the most important goal, according to society: becoming a wife and mother. So, after more ghostings than a graveyard, tired of dating apps and sitting in a windowless office, Jen embarked on an epic challenge to send her twenties out in style. Twelve months, twelve trips, no excuses.

Ever since I cycled down the west coast of Canada and the United States as a means of saving the bus fare on a round-the-world trip, I dreamed of cycling the whole length of that landmass, from the southern tip of South America all the way up to the Arctic Ocean. Returning home to a job I didn’t enjoy, that dream burned at my mind until, as a mature student in 1999, I was given the opportunity to take a year out and decided now was my time.

Discussion podcast for Irish language learners. Bitesize Irish offers self-paced Irish language learning courses, and a private online community including regular conversation practice calls. Based in Limerick, Ireland, since 2010.

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, he takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars, before arriving for a secular retreat on the Holy Isle. To the Island of Tides is a meditation on the power of place, but also a more personal journey - a chance for a personal stocktaking and a reflection on where life leads us.

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Savor digs into how people live and how they eat – and why. Hosts Anney Reese and Lauren Vogelbaum interview the culinary creators and consumers of the world, exploring the science, history, and culture of food and drink, all with a key question in mind: Why do we like what we like, and how can we find more of those things?

Step into the magic with us! Updates, travel tips, discussion and more focusing on the Happiest Place on Earth - Disneyland! Whether you’re planning your first trip or your 100th, we’ll give you the latest information and lay out our thoughts & favorites from around the Disneyland Resort in California.

Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown.

Parmi les nombreuses îles que la mer des Caraïbes abrite dans ses eaux splendides, il existe un archipel en forme de papillon capable de faire naître de vives émotions dans le cœur de ceux qui découvrent pour la première fois ces joyaux tropicaux d’exception. Bienvenue en Guadeloupe, territoire d’Outre-mer français (Europe), pour explorer une poignée d’îles des Petites Antilles, chacune avec son propre charme. Voici cinq raisons pour lesquelles la Guadeloupe représente une destination idéale pour un séjour de rêve.

No hotel is as inseparably linked to its city than Raffles Hotel, writes Pico Iyer, arguably the world's greatest travel writer alive. Drawing upon numerous stays in Raffles over 35 years and the fast-ascending city all around it, Iyer—a lifelong global soul—reflects on the "Grand Old...

Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: discover Rome through intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters. There are four guided tours for you to listen to as you walk through Rome, plus essential Italian words and phrases that every traveler wants to know.

Mark and his Suzuki DL 650 that he calls “Mabel” love adventure. This is a collection of some of the adventures that they have shared. Like most motorcyclists, a certain relationship develops with the motorcycle; Mabel and Mark trust each other. As they have found out on many occasions adventures are those things that happen to plans and sometimes you need someone you can trust. These are some of those stories.

"La Gaspésie, par monts et sentiers" est une immersion, en octobre 2023, dans l'aventure de la Traversée de la Gaspésie (TDLG). La Traversée de la Gaspésie est une expérience qui dure depuis vingt ans. À ski l'hiver, en bottines (chaussures de randonnée) l'automne. Sa créatrice, Claudine Roy, Gaspésienne pure laine, l'a inventée par désir de faire connaître son bout de pays, la pointe extrême du Québec, dans le Golfe du Saint-Laurent. Là où Jacques Cartier, en 1534, a planté une croix au nom du roi de France et fondé, sur les terres des Mic-Macs, ce qui deviendra la ...

The Wine Road provides the Wine, When and Where of Northern Sonoma to locals and visitors with tips and news on events, wineries, restaurants, outdoor activities, and places to stay. Hosts Marcy Gordon and Beth Costa have a biweekly conversation with guests and share their insider stories about the places to check out when you're exploring along the Wine Road.

A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic - survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else - until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations - a form of communication extremely rare in nature.

The classic spiritual travelogue by one of Tibet’s best-known explorers, The Way of the White Clouds is the remarkable narrative of a pilgrimage which could not be made today. In 1948, Lama Anagarika Govinda made an unforgettable journey into Tibet before its invasion by the Chinese. His unique account is not only a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery; it is also invaluable for its sensitivity and clearly presented interpretation of the Tibetan tradition.