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Teoría del viaje: Poética de la geografía

Una brillante hoja de ruta para quienes quieran sentirse viajeros, y no turistas. «Todo viaje es iniciático; de modo parecido, una iniciación no deja de ser un viaje.» Michel Onfray convierte el viajar, uno de los sencillos placeres de la vida, en un estimulante tema de reflexión. Además de ser una invitación a soltar amarras, este libro tiene el poder de prolongar la emoción y el sabor del viaje a través de la filosofía y la literatura, de la historia y la mitología. Deseo de partir, preparativos sumidos en lecturas, elección del medio de transporte, entusiasmo y sorpresa a la llegada, despertar de los cinco sentidos durante la estancia, toma de notas y fotografías, regreso a casa, elaboración del recuerdo..., todas las etapas cobran en este libro una dimensión filosófica. Teoría del viaje es una declaración de guerra a nuestra tendencia a cuadricular y cronometrar nuestra existencia. La crítica ha dicho: «Onfray convierte el placer de viajar en un interesante tema de reflexión.» Gabi Martínez, Cultura/s de La Vanguardia «Michel Onfray ha escrito un manifiesto a favor del desajuste de todos los sentidos que supone 'el deseo ferviente de la movilidad'.» El Viajero, El País «Este libro, constituye, todo él, una invitación.» Ricardo Martínez, Todo Literatura «Hay que leer a Onfray. Para él, no vivir plenamente es un crimen del que somos únicos culpables. Ese hedonismo invita a pensar un mundo en el que el ser cuenta más que el tener.» François Busnel, L'Express «Michel Onfray insiste desde hace veinticinco años en despertar en todos nosotros el 'deseo de ser un volcan', y nos invita a deshacernos de la cultura de la culpabilidad judeocristiana para entregarnos a los placeres de los sentidos y a recoger la rosa cada día.» Martin Legros, Philosophie Magazine

Michel Onfray (Author), Eugenio Gómez (Narrator)

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Um longe perto: Histórias de um jornalista nesse mundo que dá voltas

Um longe perto é um livro que nos faz embarcar para lugares e culturas bem distantes do Brasil — tanto linguística quanto geograficamente —, mas que muitas vezes nos surpreendem por se aproximarem de alguma forma da nossa realidade. A cada página, os contornos desses vários longes vão ficando mais nítidos, preenchidos por uma infinidade de detalhes saborosos, contados ao ritmo da memória de um jornalista que reuniu boas histórias viajando pelo mundo afora.

Marcelo Lins (Author), Marcelo Lins (Narrator)

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Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness

In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths - and into a new life. Finding Hildasay, read by the author, is a brutal and beautiful true story of depression, survival, walking, and the meaning of home. 'Now I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm - the part where the real pain sets in. I'd felt it plenty of times before on this journey, but this time it was different. As I began to regain feeling in my fingers and toes, it burned so strongly that I just sat in tears of pain.' Ex-paratrooper Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom, suffering with depression so severe he would shut himself in his bedroom for weeks. Then while surfing - his only respite - he cast his eyes along the coastline and realized it was the only place he really wanted to be. Making an impulsive decision to set himself a challenge - walk the entire coastline of the UK - Chris gave himself a few days to rustle up a tent and walking boots, then left for good with just a tenner in his pocket and two days' worth of food. Little did he know at the time just how long it would take to cross the finish line - and the encounters that lay ahead that would turn his life around. Five years later, Chris has navigated the West Coast, Northern Ireland, the hard-rock cliffs of Scotland and the perimeters of the Scottish Islands . He spent three months on an uninhabited island called Hildasay, where there was no fresh water or food. It was there, the most barren his route had become, that the more pride and respect he found within himself - and the more remarkable his journey became. Happiness and hope was just around the corner.

Christian Lewis (Author), Christian Lewis (Narrator)

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Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners-brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons-travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. While travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves unsure about how to think or speak about the differences in race or culture they find, even though these differences might have fueled their desire to travel in the first place. In Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World, storyteller Anu Taranath begins at home, unpacking our baggage about who we are, where we come from, and how much we have. She takes us on a journey through engaging personal travel stories and thought-provoking questions, providing us with tools to grapple with our discomfort and navigate differences with accountability and connection. Yes, travel! But be mindful. Be present.

Anu Taranath (Author), Anu Taranath (Narrator)

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A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life

“Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer…a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.” —Melissa Febos, The New York Times “DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it’s her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.” —The Washington Post Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than we’re up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.

Marcia Desanctis (Author), Marcia Desanctis (Narrator)

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Sir, Where's 'Toilet?

A further collection of entertaining short stories to complete the author’s trilogy of world-wide adventures. His intriguing tales are spiced with lively encounters and astute observations, full of humor and wit. His fascinating historical facts are particularly enlightening, and will have you saying, 'Really? I didn’t know that.' Each story will leave you wanting more: Teachers' ghostly prank with a bizarre twist. Sampling local whiskey at a village distillery on the fabled Mekong river in Laos. Two cultures collide when Russian rugby league players invade Wigan, and to complete his experiences, he was proclaimed Emperor of China.

John Meadows (Author), Angus Freathy (Narrator)

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Viaje a Portugal

Conocer un país significa comprender, de la manera más exacta posible, su paisaje, su cultura y el pueblo que lo habita, por eso José Saramago viaja a Portugal y ofrece al lector el auténtico rostro de una tierra inagotable. Con un itinerario que, desde Trás-os-Montes hasta el Algarve y desde Lisboa al Alentejo, recorre todo el país, Viaje a Portugal es la reproducción escrita de las múltiples impresiones recogidas por la sensibilidad de un viajero siempre atento a lo que ven sus ojos. Saramago intenta comprender con su obra la realidad de Portugal y descifrar al mismo tiempo su pasado. Leer este libro será una revelación para quienes desean conocer el país vecino, y un auténtico placer de la memoria para quienes ya lo conocen y sin duda retornarán a él.

José Saramago (Author), Víctor Velasco (Narrator)

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Zuhause in der Eifel - Endlich Eifel, Band 6 (ungekürzt)

Leben auf dem Land - jeder kann sich glücklich schätzen, wer sagen kann, 'ich bin in der Eifel zuhause'. Umgeben von viel Grün, Landschaft und Natur fühlt man sich so manches Mal wie im Urlaub. Die Suche nach Ruhe und Entschleunigung führt Menschen in die Eifel-Region mit ihrer ursprünglichen Umgebung und ihren faszinierenden Weiten. Die Eifel ist Heimat - ein Gebiet, in dem man aufgewachsen ist, sich zuhause fühlt oder auch ein Ort, an den man gerne zurückkehrt oder ein neues Leben beginnt. ENDLICH EIFEL besucht Wohlfühlorte wie Gut Neuwerk in Kall, wo eine junge Familie mit drei Generationen lebt, auf dem Areal eines historischen Werksgeländes ein kleines Paradies geschaffen hat und dieses mit anderen Menschen teilen möchten. In Annas Eifelgarten bei Kelberg kann man besondere Gemüsesorten probieren und ein Malermeisterpaar treffen, das heute den 400 Jahre alten Bauernhof der Großeltern mit nachhaltigen Baustoffen saniert und neugestaltet. Auch im ostbelgischen Waldbaden Store war das Team zu Gast und erlebte die ethische Herstellung von Mode und gesundem Essen, war bei Yoga Sitzungen oder Seminaren zur Persönlichkeitsentwicklung mit dabei. Mit Herz und ganz viel Liebe wird hier der Fokus auf das pure Leben gelenkt - mit innerer Entspannung, erweiterte Entdeckungen und ganz bewusstem Genuss! Das Bugazin® zum Hörbuch gibt es überall wo es gute Bücher gibt.

Jeannette Fentroß, Stephan Falk (Author), Anne Fink (Narrator)

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Mit Fahrrad von Athen nach Budva: 1000 km - 26 Tage - 4 Länder - Reisetagebuch

Auf zwei Rädern über den Balkan – einmal die Hauptstädte aller Länder des südosteuropäischen Gebirgsmassivs besuchen, das ist der Plan von Mattis Lühmann. Von Athen aus will er sechs Staaten auf dem Rad durchqueren und anschließend nach Hause radeln. Das Ganze in drei Wochen, mitten in der Coronapandemie und mit einem in Athen gebraucht gekauften Fahrrad. Das klingt nicht nur ambitioniert, sondern ist auch äußerst abenteuerlich. Schlussendlich abenteuerlicher als geplant. Zahlreiche Begegnungen mit Straßenhunden, mehrere Reifenpannen und nicht nur ein Regenguss, der ihn bis auf die Haut durchnässt, prägen die Tour, aber auch viele, viele positive Begegnungen, neue Bekanntschaften, wundervolle Ausblicke und glückliche Zufälle. Nach rund 1000 Kilometern ist Mattis zwar nicht am Ziel, aber um viele prägende Erfahrungen und tolle Erlebnisse reicher.

Mattis Lühmann (Author), Mattis Lühmann (Narrator)

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The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel

"Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring" (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives-from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they're currently on, The Vagabond's Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel. Each day of the year features a one-page meditation on an aspect of the journey, anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers-from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street. Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers' lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book's various sections mirror the phases of a trip, including • dreaming and planning the journey: "All life-affecting journeys-and the unexpected wonders they promise-become real the moment you decide they will happen." • embracing the rhythms of the journey: "The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary." • finding richer travel experiences: "Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated." • expanding your comfort zone: "No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it." The Vagabond's Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey, even when you aren't able to travel, and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.

Rolf Potts (Author), Rolf Potts (Narrator)

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Days

Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier.

Paul Bowles (Author), Richard Trinder (Narrator)

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Into Iraq

Brought to you by Penguin. In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. It was a journey of sharp, often brutal contrasts. At one moment he would be exploring the old streets of Baghdad or the ancient ruins of Babylon. At the next he would be visiting the war-torn city of Mosul, or learning about the horrific Speicher massacre in Tikrit. Now he shares the journal he meticulously kept during his trip, in which he describes the very varied places he visited, the people he met and the impressions he formed of a country that few outsiders now venture to see. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and permeated with his warmth and humour, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country. © Michael Palin 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Michael Palin (Author), Michael Palin (Narrator)

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