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Fregattskeppet Concordia av Jacobstad, fört av kofferdikapten Claes Breitholtz, gjorde åren 1782 - 1785 en sjöresa som kom att utsträckas ända till staden Batavia på ön Java. I …

For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory StewartPart adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.”—Cheryl …

Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of …

The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented, in the 19th century, to travel halfway around the world, through storms and tropical …

Purjelaiva Herttuatar Cecilie, Herzogin Cecilie, on merenkulun historiamme tunnetuimpia aluksia. Sen haaksirikko vuonna 1936 herättää yhä surua. Muutamia vuosia sitten aluksen …

A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback'I experienced that …

Den 10 maj 1996 nådde bergsklättraren och journalisten Jon Krakauer äntligen toppen av Mount Everest tillsammans med en grupp andra klättrare. Kort därefter drog ett oväder av …

Tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor …

Vuonna 1888 New York World -lehden nuori toimittaja Nellie Bly sai ajatuksen: voisiko maailman kiertää nopeammin kuin Jules Vernen fiktiivinen sankari kirjassa Maailman ympäri 80 …