Im Centro de Portugal werden alte Traditionen neu entdeckt – vom Instrumentenbau bis zur Herstellung von Textilien mit Burel-Wolle. Ein Spaziergang durch die alte Universitatsstadt Coimbra, wo auch der Fado wieder zelebriert wird. ...
Wir genie?en Ruhe und Einsamkeit auf Alicudi. Auf Filicudi besuchen wir eine Siedlung aus der Zeit der antiken Mythen und lassen uns von der besten Kochin der Insel verwohnen. Teil 3 unserer Serie uber die Liparischen Inseln. ...
Der Anflug auf die Insel Madeira – fur viele war das lange der Inbegriff der Waghalsigkeit. Fruher erzahlten sich Urlauber abenteuerliche Gruselgeschichten von ihrem Urlaubsflug dorthin. Bis heute taucht der Airport Santa Catarina bei Funchal immer wieder ...
Drogen, Dreck und Prostitution – fruher war Chueca ein verruchter Stadtteil von Madrid. Doch dann entdeckten Schwule, Transvestiten und andere Minderheiten die Gegend. Heute ist Chueca zu einem der spannendsten Viertel der spanischen Hauptstadt geworden. ...
Based on Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine on three separate occasions in 1846, 1853 and 1857, The Maine Woods is a captivating portrait of the region in the mid-1800s. Rich with the naturalistic detail that is common with Thoreau's writing, readers will delight in the exquisiteness with which Thoreau relates his experiences in nature. The Maine Woods is a classic work that will enchant lovers of nature for years to come. ...
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a preeminent British explorer of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His famed disguised pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853 made his name known. Burton helped demystify this exotic Eastern world to the West. In «Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah», we are gifted with his personal account of his Haj. Full of insightful anthropological observations, Burton describes his encounters with Arab ...
Written after several years of travelling through France and Italy, Laurence Sterne published this novel as a sentimental account of his experiences abroad, and ultimately established travel writing as the dominant literary genre of the second half of the 18th century. This book is sometimes seen as an epilogue to his previous work, «The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman», but was immensely popular of its own right because of its el ...
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, literary critic and painter who published under the name D. H. Lawrence. He is valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism, as well as one of the finest writers in English literature. After the traumatic experience of World War I, Lawrence began what he termed his «savage pilgrimage,» a time of voluntary exile, w ...
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a preeminent British explorer of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His famed disguised pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853 made his name known. Burton helped demystify this exotic Eastern world to the West. In «Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah», we are gifted with his personal account of his Haj. Full of insightful anthropological observations, Burton describes his encounters with Arab ...
