Titoli in Europa

In längst vergangenen Zeiten halfen die Heinzelmännchen den Menschen und verrichteten deren schwierige Arbeiten im Haushalt...

Espacios mágicos y rituales, laboratorios de la cultura y de la técnica, los pasajes permiten pensar el gran texto urbano desde sus notas a pie de página. En Barcelona hay cerca de cuatrocientos. Algunos son caminos que conducen a un pasado rural; otros, pasadizos proletarios o callejones de...

Bursting with humorous stories about local characters and vivid description of French landscapes and customs gleaned from thirty-five years in the country, Raising Olives in Provence tells the story of how the author improbably came to renovate a run-down house and raise olive trees in the hills above Saint-Tropez.

Entre el cuaderno de viajes, el ensayo literario, el diario personal y la crónica urbana, el autor nos muestra su fascinación por el turbulento y espléndido pasado de Budapest. De la barbarie a la civilización, de la sabiduría de Marco Aurelio a la gran narrativa magiar contemporánea, este recorrido por las huellas de la memoria atiende también a la belleza del presente y lo cotidiano. Así, con una mirada genuina, el texto nos conduce por los puentes, las calles y los patios de una ciudad que revela su naturaleza tras la experiencia del viaje y la lectura.

The world is enamored with Italy: its culture, art, food, and fashion, its beautiful landscapes, and famous cities-and, of course, its wine. If history can sometimes be throat-achingly dry, writer and wine expert Marc Millon serves up a delightfully fresh take on Italy's past, present, and future, best enjoyed with a glass in hand.

With the help of some of our more disreputable friends, each an argumentative and unreliable expert in his or her own dodgy field, we'll explain why some streets have genders, why only two Londoners got to meet Dracula, how a department store and a prison played tricks on your mind, when a theatre got stranded in the past, how a building vanished in plain sight, what excited Charlotte Brontë about the city and where the devils hide in London.

Venice waits for you. It is the home of the artist, the writer, adventurer or madman (depending on how you look at it) for thousands of years. Their spirit abides, Marco Polo, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Christie… haunting the canals, which demand exploration and defy explorers.

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on communication, both verbal and non-verbal, and advice on how to be a good guest.

"Det er en myte, at solen altid skinner i Provence, som den nobelprisbelønnede digter Fréderic Mistral kaldte for solens rige. Det er en myte, at der ikke kan falde sne i et subtropisk klima, og at man på disse breddegrader ikke risikerer at opleve en kulde, som bider i kinder og næse. Hvis man vil elske Provence, denne mangfoldige sydfranske provins, må man lære også at elske eller i det mindste tolerere et klima, som undertiden kan være mere omskifteligt og lunefuldt, end man forestiller sig.

Den berejste forfatter Lis Andersen havde egentlig ingen planer om at besøge Færøerne. Men skæbnen ville det anderledes, og i denne bog kan du læse hendes bjergtagende beretning om mødet med klippeøerne i det nordlige Atlanterhav, hvor beboerne kun kan føre deres planer ud i livet, hvis vejret tillader det ... Lis Andersen (1918-2001) var forfatter, globetrotter, fysioterapeut og naturterapeut. Som barn rejste hun rundt i verden med sin familie på sejlskibet Monsunen, og det lagde grunden for et langt livs rejselyst.

Den unge chilener José Andersen tager den lange tur over Atlanterhavet til det høje nord for at undersøge den del af sin slægt, der stammer fra Norge. Gennem Josés øjne oplever vi det norske samfund og dets borgere på godt og ondt. Vi møder overklassedamen, der foretrækker latin lovers, en flok lige lovligt muntre danske murere på en byggeplads samt en lang række andre skøre personligheder. Alt imens forsøger José at finde sin familie og sin egen plads i dette fremmede samfund.

Since giving up their city jobs in London and moving to rural France over ten years ago, Janine and husband Mark have renovated their dream home and built a new life for themselves, adjusting to the delights and the peculiarities of life in a small French village. Including much-loved village characters such as Mr. and Mrs. Pepperpot, Jean-Claude, Claudette, and the infamous Bread Man, Toujours La France also introduces listeners to some new faces and funny stories, as Janine and Mark continue their lives in this special part of northern France. There is never a quiet moment.

When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of the sites that people believe God once touched.

When our hero, Victor, needs a pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his wife after deciding to pen a book about up-sticking to Greece, he dusts off his original name of V.D. Bucket, the name he was stuck with after being abandoned in a bucket as a baby. As Victor adapts to his adopted homeland, he battles an obsession with the exacting hygiene standards he demanded during his illustrious career as a public health inspector against the rather less exacting standards of rural Greece. His attempts to master the complexities of the language lead to a number of embarrassing misunderstandings.

In Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing, and the new developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the landscape. Anna takes us from the gritstone rocks of the Peak District and Yorkshire to the gabbro pinnacles of the Cullin, the slate of North Wales and the high plateau of the Cairngorms.

Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended.

I Arne Falk-Rønnes romankomedie "Se Neapel - og spis sovs til" følger vi en gruppe rejselystne, danske charterturister, der er taget på busrejse til Napoli i Italien. Rejsen udvikler sig snart til den rene (grise)fest med stærke drinks, munter og højrøstet rundsang og hede, erotiske eskapader. Et unikt og underholdende portræt af charterturismens indtog. Arne Falk-Rønne (1920-1992) dansk forfatter, journalist, rejseleder og eventyrer.

Intet bjerg i verden har været genstand for større fascination end Matterhorn. Lige siden den fantastiske førstebestigning i 1865 har dramaet og myterne skabt en enestående interesse for det bjerg, der formentlig har kostet flere bjergbestigere livet end noget andet bjerg. Hvert år forsøger flere tusinde at bestige Matterhorn, men det er kun hver femte, der når toppen. Mellem 10 og 20 bjergbestigere dør under forsøget. Derfor kaldes Matterhorn verdens farligste bjerg.

Die alte Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main, die Karl der Große im Jahre 794 n. Chr. erstmals in einer Urkunde erwähnte, ist reich an wundervollen Sagen und Legenden...

Konstanz am Bodensee ist eine reizvolle, weltoffene, historische Stadt. Die Landschaft und der Blick über den See bis zu den Voralpen begeistern jährlich tausende Besucher...