Eastern Europe

Die atemberaubende Hauptstadt der Ukraine lebt seit der Gründung zwischen dem 5. und 6. Jahrhundert von der Abwechslung. Kiew ist eine zweisprachige Stadt, die sowohl Russisch als auch Ukrainisch beherrscht. Sie liegt am Dnjepr, der unter neun Brücken die Stadt quert. Die Stadt wurde mehrmals zerstört und wiederaufgebaut. Sie ist schön durch die Vielfalt der verschiedenen Arten von Sehenswürdigkeiten, Aufbau und Modernität.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Southern Finland. Greater Than a Tourist - Southern Finland by Author Mika Langel offers the inside scoop on top cities to see in Southern Finland. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local audiobook is for you. Dora Urbancsek offers the inside scoop on the most traditional food in Budapest. Eat like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the food, people, and culture. By the time you finish this listen, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next culinary destination.

The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's navy and France. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India: and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe.

State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the Ministry for State Security. No one else quite trusts him, but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course.

Emma Goldman was initially supportive of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution. This 1918 pamphlet was published in elucidation of the revolution and in justification of the Bolsheviks. Goldman reversed her opinion in the wake of the Kronstadt rebellion and denounced the Soviet Union for its violent repression of independent voices.

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.

Ein Reisebuch für alle, die im Baltikum waren oder dorthin wollen. Ein Abenteuerbuch für alle, die selbst ihre sieben Sachen packen und etwas unternehmen wollen. Ein Laufbuch für alle, die selbst Erfahrungen auf langen Läufen machen. Mit Kapiteln zur Gesundheit und Ernährung unterwegs. "Das Abenteuer Baltikum ist mein ganz persönlicher Lebenslauf. Er hat mich für immer verändert. In 107 Tagen reiste ich in Laufschuhen entlang der Ostseeküste von Stralsund nach Tallinn. Ohne Begleitung konnte ich mich ganz der Natur, den Menschen und ihren Kulturen widmen.

Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.

Eat Like a Local: Armenia by Narine Musayelyan offers the inside scoop on food in Armenia. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Eat like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the food, people, and culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next culinary destination.

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Prag, die goldene Stadt, ist für seine guten Traditionen berühmt. Das ist es wahrscheinlich, was die spezielle, magische, mystische und positive Aura...

"A Handful of Nuts" is a gloriously funny and unexpectedly tender story of being young and adventurous in small town India. The central character would like to establish himself as a writer, but he is constantly diverted from his task by assorted escapades, romances, friends, and other distractions. "The Sensualist" is altogether more somber but deals with a similar theme - the trials and tribulations of a young man are coming of age. Gripping, erotic, even brutal, it explores the demons that its protagonist must grapple with before he is able to come to terms with himself.

Eat like a Local - Malta by author Danielle Eloise offers the inside scoop on food in Malta. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist.

Lothar Streblow unternahm viele Reisen im In- und Ausland, auf denen er sich mit Studien über Tiere, Verhaltensforschung und Ökologie befasste. Von diesen Erkenntnissen inspiriert, entstanden zahlreiche Radiosendungen, Hörspiele und Essays, sowie Umwelt-, Reise- und Tiererzählungen. Dabei versuchte er stets dem sachkundlichen Anspruch gerecht zu werden, gleichzeitig überzeugt er durch eine sehr bildhafte und lebendige Sprache. Eine dieser Erzählungen ist "Jugoslawische Impressionen" - ein Zeitbild aus dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien.

This audiobook is for those who know nothing about Ukraine, complete “Ukraine beginners” who, hearing the word Ukraine, think of “the war, football player Andriy Shevchenko, and Chernobyl”, and who might not even guess Ukraine has so many pristine natural wonders, historical places, architectural gems, and cultural events to offer. The audiobook is full of local legends and folklore stories behind each castle, museum, and mountain, so even if you are not going to Ukraine, at least in this life, you may discover something new about another culture.

Lothar Streblow unternahm viele Reisen im In- und Ausland, auf denen er sich mit Studien über Tiere, Verhaltensforschung und Ökologie befasste. Von diesen Erkenntnissen inspiriert, entstanden zahlreiche Radiosendungen, Hörspiele und Essays, sowie Umwelt-, Reise- und Tiererzählungen. Dabei versuchte er stets dem sachkundlichen Anspruch gerecht zu werden, gleichzeitig überzeugt er durch eine sehr bildhafte und lebendige Sprache. Eine dieser Erzählungen ist "Rumänische Impressionen".

In 1854, a quarter of a million British soldiers headed east to fight in the Crimean War. Together with their French and Turkish allies, the goal was to free the important port city of Sevastopol from the clutches of Russia, thus keeping them from the seizing control of the Red Sea and thence Mediterranean. This they did, but not without considerable hardship, suffering and loss of life - over 21,000 British men fell to enemy fire, accidents and disease.

You may have heard about him: Attila the Hun. Let's discover who this individual actually was and why he has such a bad track record of being a callous, aggressive conqueror in the first millennium after Christ. Attila the Hun was the ruler of the Huns from the year 434 till his death in the month of March in the year 453. Also, he was the leader of a tribal realm which consisted mainly of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans and Bulgars, to name a few, in Central Europe and in Eastern Europe.

Faith and Fortitude got them through. August 19th, 1968, an American family of Czechoslovakian descent were visiting Prague, Czechoslovakia. Overnight they were surrounded and trapped in an unforeseen war that became known as "Prague Spring."