Name: Reisverhaal Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan | Japan by Train | John Dougill
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Reisverhaal Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan | Japan by Train | John Dougill

Observations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails along the less-traveled western coastline. This journey the length of Japan takes the reader off the beaten tracks to explore some of the country's remoter regions along the Japan Sea--from Wakkanai in northern Hokkaido to Ibusuki in southern Kyushu--in a fascinating mix of travelogue, anecdote, and personal memoir. At each of the thirty stops along the journey the author, who has lived in Japan for thirty years, goes in quest of the spirit of place, determined to highlight what makes it special. Mixing comments on landscape and culture, the author was inspired by Alan Booth and Donald Richie and brings a contemporary perspective to his writing. The text provides some practical information on travel by rail and railway lines, but goes into far more depth and personal observation than a conventional guidebook for tourists.

20,95

Reisverhaal Lost Japan | Alex Kerr

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his home. But the book is not just a love letter. Haunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old, Kerr's book is part paean to that great country and culture, part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan's environmental and cultural destruction. Winner of Japan's Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize, and now fully revised in a new edition. Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.

15,50

Treinreisgids - Reisgids Train Japan - The Essential Rail Guide to Japan | Hardie Grant

See the land of the rising sun from the rails in Train Japan, the perfect guide to travelling Japan by locomotive. Seasoned Japan lovers Steve Wide and Michelle Mackintosh bring you their expert advice on the best way to get around this country, including day trips, multi-day train journeys and even themed itineraries for crafty folk, foodies or pop culture fanatics on 'joyful' trains. Platform-hop around Tokyo and Kyoto cities or whiz along on the shinkansen bullet train to get to where you need to go - fast! Do a lap of the islands, Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku or Kyushu, to get a feel for all this country has to offer, and then do it again in cherry blossom season or when the mountains are blanketed in snow. Whatever the time of year, this guide will help you experience Japan in a way you never have before. Including carefully curated advice, stunning photography and useful tips, Train Japan has everything you need to experience Japan by rail.

27,95

Campergids Off the Beaten Track: England and Wales | Bloomsbury

England and Wales might feel familiar to many, but there are countless hidden idylls and remote wildernesses to discover amongst the soaring passes, spectacular coastlines and boundless moorlands. For many, Martin's 'slow road' routes will have opened up the country's most well known highways and byways, but there is so much more to England and Wales than these, at times overcrowded, hotspots. This book is the next, natural step in Martin's wanderings around England and Wales. If Take The Slow Road whetted the appetite for a Great British adventure, this book will be the main course, filling you up with inspiring writing and beautiful imagery from the most remote and wild corners of England and Wales. It will take you to the very edges of the map, on a series of personal journeys to uncover parts of these countries that the masses never reach but wish they could. In discovering these secret and beautiful places this fabulous book shows the reader that, with a little imagination, and…

27,95

Reisverhaal Mijn leven in Japan | Chris Broad

Chris Broad, bekend van het populaire YouTube-kanaal Abroad in Japan, deelt in Mijn leven in Japan zijn hilarische en leerzame ervaringen van tien jaar leven in Japan. Wat begon als een avontuur in een afgelegen dorpje zonder kennis van de taal of cultuur, groeide uit tot een unieke reis door het complexe Japanse leven. Van landelijke dorpjes tot de drukke, neonverlichte straten van Tokio: Chris biedt een kleurrijk kijkje in het dagelijks leven van Japan, met de nodige cultuurshocks en persoonlijke anekdotes. In dit boek vertelt Chris over de grappigste, gÃªnantste en soms gevaarlijke momenten uit zijn tijd in Japan. Hij neemt je mee van een bizarre ervaring in een love hotel tot een angstaanjagende ontmoeting met een Noord-Koreaanse raket. Naast de persoonlijke verhalen geeft hij ook waardevolle inzichten in Japanse gewoonten, tradities en de moderne samenleving. Mijn leven in Japan is een must-read voor iedereen die Japan beter wil begrijpen, of voor diegenen die zelf de reis willen…

17,50

Reisgids Off the Beaten Track in Iceland - IJsland | Skrudda

Een gids voor de avontuurlijke 4x4 off the road reiziger, die gedetailleerd 40 routes beschrijft. This book provides detailed descriptions of interesting routes in Iceland that are off the beaten track, especially in the highlands. A map is provided for each of the 40 route descriptions, most of them in the south and west of the country, and they are liberally illustrated with photographs. Each description is prefaced by its own list of practical information such as the length in kilometers, estimated travelling time, suitable vehicles, possible difficulties, etc. The general introduction contains vital information and advice on travelling in the Icelandic highlands.

30,95

Reisverhaal Dreaming of Jupiter | Ted Simon

Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle books - indeed, one of the greatest travel books - ever written. In 2001, at the age of 69, Ted Simon decided to retrace his journey, and DREAMING OF JUPITER is the result. It took him two and a half years - during which time he revisited all the countries he had travelled through in the 1970s. He found much had changed, and he reflects upon the increased poverty, political upheavals, environmental issues and indeed the changes in himself. But ultimately, DREAMING OF JUPITER is a hugely inspiring read with a positive message at its heart - that even at the age of 70 you can still set off on an adventure, and be surprised and excited by what life throws at you along the way. *'Gloriously …

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Reisverhaal The Amur River | Colin Thubron

'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' Michael Palin *As serialised on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *Winner of the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards* *Shortlisted for 2021 Duff Cooper Prize* **A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR** **ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S BEST 75 BOOKS OF 2021** ________________________ A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific to form the tense, highly fortified border between Russia and China. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic 3,000-mile long journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores…

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Reisverhaal The Robber of Memories | Michael Jacobs

A gripping journey up the River Magdalena into the centre of Colombia, and a deeply personal meditation on memory and loss in the footsteps of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals and precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia', Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated - including a terrifying three day encounter with the FAR…

15,50

Reisverhaal Terug naar Japan | Anne Sey

Anne Sey, japanoloog, is vele malen in Japan geweest. En toch, het onvermogen van ons westerlingen om deze cultuur te doorgronden is door de eeuwenlange uitsluiting die volgde op de dag dat de eerste Europeanen aan wal stapten - meer dan vier eeuwen geleden - niet meer in te halen. Hopeloos te laat. Dat gevoel blijft knagen. Alsnog wil Sey een voet tussen de deur van de tijd krijgen. Met de frisse blik van een ontdekkingsreiziger ervaren hoe dicht zij bij haar geliefde Japan kan komen. Terug naar dat oude Japan! Deze keer maakt zij de reis op de fiets, een bijna duizend kilometer lange tocht. Zij slaat de tent op in een tempel, logeert in een kerk, slaapt achter een grafheuvel en ervaart dat wabi sabi verzoening is met imperfectie. Komt terecht in een nuffig huwelijkspaleis, wordt uitgezwaaid door ontelbare inktvissen, slaat op de grote bronzen bel van een kasteel en beleeft de oneindige pijn van de boeddhistische hel en de levensverlengende krachten van bronwater. Kortom, een avont…

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