Travel Essays

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 book is for you. Eat Like a Local - Sweden by Author Louise Walting offers the inside scoop on food in Sweden. You will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides.

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. You will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides. Eat like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the food, people, and culture.

Samantha offers the inside scoop on food, coffee, and local culture in Sarasota, Florida.  

Gran Canaria, the third largest of the seven Canary Islands, lies at the gates of West Africa in the deep blue Atlantic. A "miniature continent" with different climates and many different landscapes in a very small space. Las Palmas is the capital of the island and metropolis of the Canary Archipelago. A contrast to the quiet and rural island. Christopher Columbus landed in Las Palmas on his first trip to the new world in 1492 and spent one night in the residence of the Spanish military governor, named after the famous explorer Casa De Colón.

Eat like a Local - Hanoi by author Linh Le offers the inside scoop on food in one of the most gastronomically diverse countries in southeast Asia. Culinary tourism is an import 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.

Islas Canarias, the islands of the dragon tree and happiness on the edge of the world, washed by the Atlantic. Lanzarote is the fourth largest island. A bitter beauty, born of fire and water, a paradise on the volcano. At the southern end is Playa Blanca, once a fishing village, now a port for ferries and yachts. Fuerteventura is the second largest island in the Canary Archipelago. In the far north is the island of Corralejo, which developed into a ferry port and within a few decades into a lively resort.

Knysna (Garden of Eden) South Africa Breathtaking coastlines, picturesque river landscapes and untouched forests give this region where the Garden Route runs its unmistakable charm. The aquatic plants of the Wilderness National Park are a paradise for wildlife.

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. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.    

Eat Like a Local - Chattanooga by author Ashe Hilling gives you the inside scoop on Chattanooga Tennessee. Culinary tourism is an import 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. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

Urlaub zu Hause verbringen: Den meisten von uns ist der Gedanke so fremd wie früheren Generationen die Vorstellung einer Auslandsreise. Dabei ist Daheimbleiben kein Bekenntnis zur Langeweile, sondern die Möglichkeit, genau das zu finden, was wir in der Ferne oft vergeblich suchen: uns selbst. Es ist außerdem ein Akt der Rebellion - gegen Jetlags, CO2-Irrsinn und den Irrglauben, der geistige Horizont eines Menschen korreliere mit seinem Meilenkonto. Das beste Rezept gegen Stau ist immer noch, gar nicht erst loszufahren; man muss nur etwas mit sich und seiner Zeit anzufangen wissen.

 In this revolutionary new audiobook, you have a partner for your memorization practice without having to find someone to quiz you. Like verbal flashcards, US Geography Quiz: 50 States and Their Capitals is here to be the partner to your study session, reading off questions to help you memorize the capitals, or quiz yourself for trivia. By asking both the state and having you respond with the capital, as well as asking the capital and having you respond with the state, you'll know the answers to your upcoming quiz, test, or trivia night backwards and forwards. 

Edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez, Journeys offers access to Ramanujan's personal diaries and journals, providing a window into his creative process. It will include literary entries from his travels, his thoughts on writing, poetry drafts, and dreams. His diaries and journals served as fertile ground where he planted the seeds for much of his published work....

Thoreau gives an account of three canoe and hiking journeys - by himself and with others - through the mostly uninhabited forests of Maine in the 1850s. Identifying birds, trees and plants by their botanical as well as their common names, he also records the Indian names of lakes, rivers and plants. He investigates the connections between waterways and trails, and provides detail on camping, fishing and hunting in the woods, using whatever is at hand. Extolling the beauty of the wilds that he encounters, Thorough’s narrative is also imbued with elements of his philosophy.

Journalistic stories - some with a happy ending, others ending with a crashing tragedy; simple or unbelievably complex, full of love or burning bitterness. Marcin Wójcik, a journalist from Duży Format, in his comprehensively documented and well-balanced book gives a voice to the clergymen, showing them as flesh and blood people who feel hunger, thirst, tiredness, and...have sex drive.

After thousands of rides, rideshare driver, author, and storyteller J.D. Phillippi is inviting you into his life on the road. The rider who "loved" him, his favorite category of riders, his biggest tip, his best story, flat tires, and surprises left behind by his riders are just a few of the stories here. Plus, tips on how to improve your safety in a rideshare and how to make your rides better, overall.  

En Jerusalen esta? llamando, Robbie Freeman Shugart comparte contigo su peregrinaje a la Tierra Santa. En el libro de Marcos, Jesu?s les dice a Sus disci?pulos que “vayan por todo el mundo y anuncien las buenas nuevas” acerca de lo que E?l hizo, y demostrar a otros, en Su nombre, los milagros, las sen?ales y maravillas que siguen a los creyentes.En Mateo, Jesu?s dice, “Pidan, y se les dara?; busquen, y encontrara?n; llamen, y se les abrira?”.

Il viaggio più affascinante è un viaggio antico, graduale, privato e sociale insieme: il viaggio in treno. I treni sono teatri, caffè, bazar. L'unico talk-show che non conosce crisi è quello che si replica quotidianamente sulle rotaie. La confidenza genera libertà: ci ha messo insieme il caso, ci dividerà una stazione. I treni aiutano a pensare. Tutti i grandi viaggi - dai pellegrinaggi cattolici al Grand Tour, dalla prima partenza con gli amici al viaggio di nozze - sono, in fondo, una scoperta di se stessi: il panorama che c'interessa sta dentro di noi.

Told with Thoreauian poeticism and appreciation to detail, Morgan Bulkeley Sr. guides the listener through the wonders of one of the World's most beautiful natural landscapes: that of the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

This riveting collection of adventure writing includes the work of The Perfect Storm author, Sebastian Junger. Listen as men and women battle the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting sharks, savage storms, rogue waves, mountainous icebergs, starvation, and their own fear and suffering.

Wisconsin had a big party in 1998. It was a roll-out-the-barrel, slice-the-cheese, strike-up-the-polka-band wing-ding that promised to roust every last badger out of state burrows and into the streets to dance with guests.