Titoli in Occidentale

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost...

From the internationally acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes "a delicious memoir" (New York Times) that unfolds around the author's recollections, experiences, and imaginings of Dublin. As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city...

A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence. The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We...

It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to...

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost...

Die einzigartige Innenstadt genauso wie die unberührte Natur rund um Aachen bieten nicht nur für die Aachener selbst, sondern auch für die vielen Besucher eine Vielzahl interessanter Ausflugsziele und sorgen somit für eine Menge Eindrücke, die Sie bestimmt nicht mehr vergessen werden. Auch für das leibliche Wohl ist natürlich stets gesorgt, denn der Aachener weiß einen guten Schmaus zu schätzen und verbringt seine Abende nur allzu gern in einem gemütlichen Lokal bei gutem Essen und einem Glas Pfälzer Wein aus der Eifel.

Sie planen den nächsten Urlaub, wissen aber noch nicht, wohin Sie reisen möchten? Ganz egal, ob Sie sich nur über das vielfältige Urlaubsland Österreich informieren und die Möglichkeiten eines Urlaubs ausloten möchten oder ob Sie schon wissen, dass Sie auf jeden Fall den nächsten Urlaub in Österreich verbringen möchten, aber noch Anregungen und Tipps brauchen, wohin genau Sie fahren möchten - mit dem Kauf dieses Ratgebers werden Ihnen viele Fragezeichen genommen.

Du möchtest gerne Texel erkunden und einen perfekten Urlaub verbringen? Dann ist dieses Hörbuch genau das Richtige für Dich! Kilometerlanger weißer Sandstrand, unberührte Natur und die meisten Sonnenstunden in den gesamten Niederlanden. All das und noch vieles mehr bietet Ihnen Texel. Erkunden Sie die sieben Inseldörfer, eines malerischer und schöner als das andere, oder streifen Sie durch die idyllische Natur. Texel ist die größte und abwechslungsreichste niederländische Watteninsel und wird oft aufgrund seiner Landschaftsvielfalt als Miniaturausgabe von ganz Holland bezeichnet.

Du möchtest gerne Paris erkunden und einen perfekten Urlaub verbringen? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Dich! Wussten Sie, dass Paris weltweit der beliebteste Touristenort ist? Paris ist ein herrlicher Ort, wo alte Bauwerke auf eine moderne Welt treffen. Von den 20 beliebtesten Weltattraktionen befinden sich ganze fünf in Paris. Notre Dame, Disneyland, das Louvre, der Eiffelturm und die Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre lassen Sie in eine zauberhafte Welt eintauchen. Kunst- und Kulturliebhaber, Romantiker, Disneynerds und kulinarische Abenteurer werden Paris lieben.

A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we...

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way - their chooks died, their fruit rotted and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable thing - they quit their jobs, pulled the children out of school and went searching for la dolce vita in Italy.

A voicemail from her husband tells Sara he's arrived at the holiday cabin. Then a call from his friend confirms he never did. She tries to carry on as normal, teasing out her clients' deepest fears, but as the hours stretch out, her own begin to surface. And when the police finally take an interest, they want to know why Sara deleted that voicemail. To get to the root of Sigurd's disappearance, Sara must question everything she knows about her relationship.

Could love be the biggest adventure of all? A new gorgeous, escapist romance from Sophie Claire, set in sunny Provence. Could love be the biggest adventure of all? Filmmaker Lily's life is all about work and adventure. So when she suffers an accident on her travels and finds herself recuperating...

Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.

Although mostly unseen by us, moths are everywhere. And their capacity to delight astounds. Inspired by a revelatory encounter with a Poplar Hawk-moth - a huge, velvety-winged wonder wrapped in silver - James Lowen embarks on a year-long quest to celebrate the joy of Britain’s rarest and most remarkable moths. By hiking up mountains, wading through marshes and roaming by night amid ancient woodlands, James follows the trails of both Victorian collectors and present-day conservationists.

In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed ‘handbooks for the explorer’. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out beyond the capital and on to ‘the roads and the by-roads’ to see Britain as a ‘living country’. Yet these 13 guides did more than celebrate the rural splendour of this ‘island nation’: they also made much of Britain’s industrial power and mid-century ambition. Armed with these About Britain guides, historian Tim Cole takes to the roads to find out what has changed and what has remained the same.

Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? How did a thousand skulls come to be stacked beneath a church in Kent? Why is the music hall star who sang "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" buried on a hillside in Glasgow far from the sound of the silvery sea?

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his life from the clutches of depression. With only a pair of walking boots and a backpack, he left his home town of Maldon and began a 3,000-mile walk around the British mainland. In documenting every step of his adventure, Jake shares the ways in which his road to recovery was enhanced by the kindness of strangers, who helped him to better understand himself and the power of human connection.

I always imagine each of the signoras who lived in this house—where she shelled peas, rocked the grandchild, placed a vase of the pink roses. Now I would like to take one of these women back to my house in California to show her how Bramasole traveled to America and took root, how the doors...

“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why. Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he...