Name: Reisverhaal The Tao of Travel | Paul Theroux
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Reisverhaal The Tao of Travel | Paul Theroux

A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and exposes 'Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited'; tracks extreme journeys in 'Travel As An Ordeal' and highlights some of 'Travellers' Favourite Places'. Excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work are interspersed with selections from travellers both familiar and unexpected, including Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and more. The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

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Reisverhaal De grote spoorwegcarrousel | Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux reist vier maanden per trein door Azië. Hij doorkruist onder meer Turkije, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Birma, Maleisië, Zuid-Vietnam en de Sovjet-Unie en neemt de ultrasnelle Japanse treinen, de Oriënt-Express en de Transsiberië-Express. In zijn aanstekelijke stijl en met een scherp oog voor detail beschrijft Theroux de plaatsen en de mensen die hij onderweg tegenkomt - en daarbij spaart hij ook zichzelf niet. De grote spoorwegcarrousel verscheen voor het eerst in 1975 en is een moderne klassieker onder de reisboeken.

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Reisverhaal The Inuit Way | E.A.S. Cooper

The Inuit Way is a mesmerising take on Polar travel by explorer and award-winning researcher Edward Cooper. It is a gripping account of the author's travels across northwest Greenland, where he spent several months living and hunting with the Inuit. From there, Cooper and teammate venture across the sea ice on to the Canadian Arctic islands. Here, Cooper's quest is to track down a note left by David Haig-Thomas, a British Arctic explorer, nearly a hundred years previously. Suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, fighting off hungry polar bears, surrounded by the white wolves of Ellesmere Island, Edward Cooper and teammate discover a land steeped in culture and history. Part travelogue, part adventure and part history, this is a thrilling Polar travel narrative that offers insights into the people that live in the Arctic year-round. Meet Aqpaa, a young Inuit hunter who sleeps in a small tent on the sea ice, and fishes for halibut during the winter months. Join Cooper in watchi…

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Reisverhaal De oude Patagonië expres | Paul Theroux

De oude Patagonië-Expres is het fraaie verslag van een treinreis dwars door het hele Amerikaanse continent. Theroux stapt in Boston op de metro, om uiteindelijk uit de trein te stappen op het zuidelijkste puntje van Zuid-Amerika. Hij komt door adembenemende gebergten en dorre woestijnlandschappen, per luxetrein en per gammele roestbak, altijd gewapend met zijn scherpe pen, waarmee hij zijn lotgevallen en gesprekken onderweg vastlegt.

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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…

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Reisverhaal Laatste trein naar Zona Verde | Paul Theroux

`Ik was weer gelukkig, terug in Afrika, rijk van het licht, schrijft Theroux wanneer hij begint aan een nieuwe reis: van Kaapstad naar Angola, dwars door het continent waar hij zoveel van houdt. Hij kwam voor het eerst in Afrika als 22jarige vrijwilliger bij het Vredeskorps. Nu keert hij terug, ditmaal om het minder betreden westelijk Afrika te verkennen, en zichzelf. Hij reist door de Kaapprovincie van ZuidAfrika naar Namibië, waar hij een oude droom verwezenlijkt: de San (Bosjesmannen) te bezoeken. Hij onderneemt een adem benemende olifantensafari in Botswana en belandt in Angola, bijna op de grens met Congo. Na meer dan 4000 kilometer door de bush beëindigt hij zijn reis eerder dan hij van plan was, een beslissing waarover Theroux vertelt met een typerende, driftige eerlijkheid. 'De grootste, de eerste van de beste in dit genre is Paul Theroux.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Een aangrijpend verslag van 's werelds bekendste reisschrijver in crisis. Indrukwekkend reisverslag. Vie…

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Reisverhaal The Realm of the Punisher | Tom Sykes

In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide. Infamous for his bombastic temper and un-PC wisecracks, he is waging a brutal drug war that has killed more than 12,000 people so far. Over the last nine years, British writer Tom Sykes has travelled extensively in the Philippines in order to understand the Duterte phenomenon, interviewing friends and enemies of ‘The Punisher’ – as he is known – in politics, the media, the arts and civil society. Sykes witnesses anti-government demonstrations in the capital Manila and visits the provincial city of Davao, where Duterte began his crusade against crime using police and vigilante death squads. By delving into Duterte’s troubled childhood of violent rebellion, Sykes discovers what motivates the man today in his pursuit of a merciless ‘war on the poor’ – as Amnesty has described it – that has no end in sight. The Realm of the Punisher also examines oppressed and marginalized groups in the modern Phili…

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Reisgids - Reisverhaal The Hebrides | Paul Murton

Reisgids - reisverhaal over de Hebriden Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world – the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of the Scotland’s rugged, six-thousand-mile coast line, and sailed to over eighty islands. In this book Paul visits each of the Hebridean islands in turn, introducing their myths and legends, history, culture and extraordinary natural beauty. In addition he also meets the people who live there and learns their story. He has met crofters, fishermen, tweed weavers, Gaelic singers, clan chiefs, artists, postmen and bus drivers – people from every walk of life who make the islands tick. This blend of the contemporary and the traditional creates a vivid account of the Hebrides and serves as unique guide to the less well known aspects of life among the islands. Paul Murton is well known as a documentary film maker whose work includes Grand Tours of Scotland and Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands…

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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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Reisgids - Reisverhaal Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands | Judith Schalansky

'Utterly exquisite.' Robert MacFarlane, Guardian'Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical.' TimeBorn on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created her own, taking us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. Perfect maps jostle with cryptic tales from the islands, full of rare animals and lost explorers, marooned slaves and lonely scientists, mutinous sailors and forgotten castaways.'By book's end, I felt that I had travelled to all fifty islands.' Washington Post'Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic.' Time Out Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The Soviets wouldn't let anyone travel so everything she learnt about the world came from her parents' battered old atlas. An acclaimed novelist and award-winning graphic designer, she has spent years creating this, her own imaginative atlas of the world's loneliest places. These islands are s…

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