Les Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais (1872) mettent en scène six astronomes dont la tâche est de mesurer une portion de méridien terrestre. Il s'agit donc plus de géodésie que d'astronomie, mais...
“Journalist Orth delivers a jaunty description of his travels… [that] armchair travelers will enjoy.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Funny, insightful, and mind-bendingly entertaining. Stephan Orth is a fearless and fabulous tour guide to...
On Three Wheels from Moscow to Paris Chasing Napoleon’s Epic Fail
Lire Magazine Best Travel Book
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most...
A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century’s most mesmerizing speakers.
Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and...
John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his...
Dieser Roman ist den meisten Jules-VerneFreunden unbekannt, weil er in allen alten Gesamtausgaben fehlt. Der Artistenfamilie Cascabel wird nach einer Tournee durch die Vereinigten Satten das gesamte Vermögen gestohlen. Trotzdem wollen sie nach...