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National Bestseller  A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air , Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster. By writing Into Thin Air , Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively. In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. This updated edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy.  "I have no doubt that Boukreev's intentions were good on summit day," writes Krakauer in the postscript, dated August 1999. "What disturbs me, though, was Boukreev's refusal to acknowledge the possibility that he made even a single poor decision. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn't the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients." As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air 's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G. Weston De Walt, who coauthored The Climb , Boukreev's version of events. And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. In 1999, Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment."  According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer.  His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind." |
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This is a behind-the-scenes look at cruise ships in a way that's never been done before. Some of the stories are shocking, some are enlightening, but most are just laugh-out-loud entertaining. This tour behind those "Crew Only" doors will reveal: - How romance on a cruise ship is unlike anywhere else - The insane things passengers do - Why alcohol is mandatory at sea - How nude cruises compare to Christian cruises - What happens when things go horribly wrong at sea Jay Herring was an American senior officer and one of the few who had physical access to the entire ship. He worked with every department and every senior officer, including the captain. His wife worked in the casino, and combined they worked for Carnival Cruise Lines for 10 years and sailed on over 503 cruises. If you've ever wondered what happens below deck on a cruise ship, then get ready to laugh through an experience unlike any other! |
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To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic’s warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on. After a week of squabbles, the group splinters and the real adventure begins. In vivid, witty style, she recounts her battles with loneliness, hallucinations of being joined by Steve Martin, as well as picturesque villages and even the fair-haired man. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim is one trip neither the author nor the reader will forget. |
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A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce''s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple''s Where''d You Go, Bernadette ''A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief.'' Kirkus Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother''s house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven-year-old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa''s granny ''eccentric'', or even ''crazy''. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny''s stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don''t always exist in imaginary kingdoms; they could live just down the hallway. As Christmas draws near, even the best superhero grandmothers may have one or two things they''d like to apologise for. And, in the process, Elsa can have some breath-taking adventures of her own . . . |
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One morning at breakfast, while gawking at his phone and feeling increasingly disconnected from family and everything else of importance in his world, it strikes writer Bruce Kirkby:  this isn’t how he wants to live . Within days, plans begin to take shape. Bruce, his wife Christine, and their two children—seven-year-old Bodi and three-year-old Taj—will cross the Pacific by container ship, then travel onward through South Korea, China, India and Nepal aboard bus, riverboat and train, eventually traversing the Himalaya by foot. Their destination: a thousand-year-old Buddhist monastery in the remote Zanskar valley, one of the last places where Tibetan Buddhism is still practised freely in its original setting. Taken into the mud-brick home of a senior lama, Tsering Wangyal, the family spends the summer absorbed by monastery life. In this refuge, where ancient traditions intersect with the modern world, Bruce discovers ways to slow down, to observe and listen, and ultimately, to better understand his son on the autism spectrum—to surrender all expectations and connect with Bodi exactly as he is. Recounted with wit and humility,  Blue Sky Kingdom  is an engaging travel memoir as well as a thoughtful exploration of modern distraction, the loss of ancient wisdom, and the challenges and rewards of intercultural friendships. |
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Un voyage au Nouveau-Brunswick est une immersion dans un des plus beaux endroits au monde. Dans ces terres maritimes, nature, culture, faune, flore et grands espaces se sont formés au rythme des marées. Il suffit de suivre le cours des rivières et de longer les côtes jalonnées de phares pour mesurer la grandeur de ce territoire et de ses paysages contrastés de forêts, de plaines, de collines et de falaises abruptes dressées face à l'océan. Un spectacle hors du commun qu'on ne se lasse pas d'admirer. Tout ici semble respirer la joie de vivre, à l'instar de ses habitants si accueillants, toujours heureux de recevoir des visiteurs. Et s'ils sont Français, l'Acadie leur réserve un accueil particulier. Une histoire commune les lie ! N'est-ce pas de l'Hexagone que descendent les francophones Acadiens ? Des Charentes, du Poitou, d'Anjou, de Bretagne, qui furent le plus souvent leur terre d'origine, ils ont gardé la langue et le drapeau tricolore, affublé de l'étoile de Marie. Quelle que soit la route empruntée des cinq régions du Nouveau-Brunswick, vous n'aurez qu'à ouvrir grand les yeux et vous laisser porter par les couleurs, les senteurs et le bonheur d'un voyage authentique. |
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Thirty-two essays—many never before published—of life in Paris from writers who were drawn by the city’s charms to take up residence there. In thirty-two personal essays, more than half of which are published here for the first time, authors describe how they were seduced by Paris—and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it’s done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and—a few—from other parts of France. And they stayed, not as tourists, but as Parisians; some are still living there. In Paris Was Ours , these outsiders-turned-insiders share their observations and revelations about the City of Light. The collection includes entries from celebrated literary expats, such as Diane Johnson, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman, Joe Queenan, and Edmund White. Together, their reflections form an unusually perceptive and multifaceted portrait of a city that is entrancing, at times exasperating, but always fascinating. They remind us that Paris belongs to everyone it has touched, and to each in a different way. “[A] wonderful collection . . . The essays capture the mood of the city in all of its dark and light shades, evoking the spirit of Eugene Atget and Marcel Proust.” — Chicago Tribune |
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Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” ( The Wall Street Journal ).   Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences.   Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity.  Lingo  takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.”   “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” ( Publishers Weekly ), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ). |
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Le jeune écrivain écossais, Robert-Louis Stevenson, a traversé le Massif Central, en 1878, avec un âne. Puis il a publié son récit sous le titre : Voyages avec un âne dans les Cévennes. Le récit de ce parcours est devenu légendaire. Pour les jeunes Écossais, ce chemin se veut un moyen de découvrir la France. Le livre est devenu très populaire auprès de ses concitoyens. Au cours du XXe siècle, plusieurs sont venus marcher sur ses traces. Ce chemin est également très fréquenté par les pèlerins de Compostelle, car il a le même point de départ que le chemin français, celui de Puy-en-Velay. De plus, ce chemin suit un ancien tracé qui allait, soit vers la ville d’Arles, soit vers la ville de St-Gilles où il est possible d’entreprendre le Chemin d’Arles qui traverse les Pyrénées au col de Somport. Pour ces raisons, le Chemin de Stevenson a beaucoup de ressemblance avec les chemins de Compostelle, surtout avec le Chemin de Puy-en-Velay, puisqu’il a le même point de départ. Après 14 chemins de Compostelle, mon ami belge, Roger Thomas, et moi-même, nous voulions entreprendre un chemin légèrement différent des précédents. Surtout nous voulions passer par la ville d’Arles pour rejoindre Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert où j’avais vécu la journée la plus dramatique de tous mes Chemins de Compostelle. Alors que Stevenson a parcouru le trajet avec son âne, nous avons porté nos sacs sous le vent, la pluie, la grêle en nous remémorant à tout moment les péripéties de Stevenson. |
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5 ans de recherches ont été nécessaires pour la conception de ce guide exceptionnel qui permettra à tous les amoureux de Venise ainsi qu'aux Vénitiens de repartir à la découverte de la ville la plus extraordinaire du globe, loin des sentiers battus. Découvrez les secrets de la basilique Saint-Marc sans aucun touriste, déchiffrez enfin les chapiteaux du palais des Doges, empruntez le seul canal souterrain de Venise à la recherche de la sculpture alchimique du cheval ailé, ouvrez l'œil sur les traces de la Teriaca, ce breuvage miracle qui fut longtemps fabriqué à Venise, déchiffrez les peintures de la Scuola di San Rocco selon les principes de la kabbale hébraïque ou la construction de San Francesco della Vigna selon ceux de la kabbale musicale, visitez un cimetière souterrain inconnu, poussez les portes des palais et des monastères pour vous promener dans des jardins insoupçonnés, admirez l'extraordinaire bibliothèque oubliée du séminaire de Venise, dormez dans une sublime chambre cachée dans un palais, allez faire vos courses au marché de la prison pour femmes de la Giudecca, jouez à la pétanque en plein cœur de la ville, faites une retraite dans un merveilleux monastère de la lagune, à l'écart du monde... |
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RECENTLY UPDATED FOR 2019 ! With more than 130 high-resolution images and new videos, this is the definitive guide to the most important ancient Maya ruins in Mexico, including Chichen Itza, Tulum, Teotihuacan, Palenque, and more.  Maya religious centers are one of Mexico’s cultural treasures, the vestige of a great civilization that prospered for 2,000 years (peaking from 600-800 CE) in Mesoamerica and created some of the most impressive art and architecture in the New World. This Approach Guide serves as an ideal resource for travelers seeking a deeper understanding of this Maya cultural legacy through a comprehensive exploration of five ancient cities. What’s in this guidebook ★ Background. We start off by providing some critical background information — focusing on cosmology and the role of the dynastic ruler — that makes sense of the forms and symbols of the unique Maya aesthetic. ★ Tours that go deeper on the most important sites. Following our tradition of being the most valuable resource for culture-focused travelers, we then turn our attention to Mexico’s premier Maya cities: Bonampak, Chichen Itza, Palenque, Tulum and Yaxchilan. For each city, we start by introducing the distinctive features of its art and architecture, isolating key features and concepts that you will see again and again as you make your way through the site. The tours walk you through the highlights, aided by high-resolution images and a discussion that ties it all together. ★ Tours of Maya-connected civilizations. Finally, to put these Maya sites into context, this guide profiles the capital cities of three Mexican civilizations that were closely connected to the Maya over its long history: La Venta (Olmec civilization), Teotihuacan (Teotihuacan civilization) and Tula (Toltec civilization). Detailed tours of these locations reveal the back-and-forth exchange between the Maya and its neighbors to the north. ★ Advice for getting the best cultural experience. To help you plan your visit, this guidebook offers logistical advice and provides links to online resources. Plus, we provide our personal tips for getting the most from your experience while on location. ★ Information the way you like it. As with all of our guides, this book is optimized for intuitive, quick navigation; information is organized into bullet points to make absorption easy; and images are mocked up with text that explains important features. ★ NEW! Customers can now print this guidebook with our new PDF-on-Demand service. See the final chapter in the book for details. ABOUT APPROACH GUIDES Travel guidebooks for the ultra curious, Approach Guides reveal a destination’s essence by exploring a compelling aspect of its cultural heritage: art, architecture, history, food, or wine. PRAISE FOR APPROACH GUIDES  Compulsive (and compulsively informed) travelers, the Raezers are the masterminds behind the downloadable Approach Guides, which are filled with a university course-worth of history and insights for 62 destinations worldwide. WHY WE LOVE IT: The Raezers share our desire for deep, well-researched information on the wonders of the world.  - Travel + Leisure |
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Lured by Venice's colorful history and its labyrinth of walkways, canals, and bridges, Barry wanted to be more than just a tourist. He convinced his wife Debbie to join him in his Venice experiment, a one-year cultural immersion. Through their initiation into Venetian society, Debbie and Barry discovered the close-knit family of its inhabitants and the oddities of living in Venice, the improbable city built upon millions of tree trunks driven into the mud sixteen centuries ago.  From the exasperating bureaucracy to high tides endangering their ground-floor apartment, these expatriates get far more than they bargained for.   The quintessential storyteller, Barry Frangipane draws us into the inner life of Venice.  With his inexhaustible humor, he takes the reader on his journey abroad, a journey filled with a cast of remarkable characters who will touch your heart. |
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Les grands tours en Europe de l’Est est un chapitre numérique extrait de « Europe de l’Est – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Splendide source d’inspiration pour imaginer et planifier votre prochain voyage dans ce coin du monde, il propose une série d’itinéraires longue durée agrémentés de spectaculaires photographies en couleurs. Au programme, tournée des grandes villes de l’Allemagne, la Pologne, la Hongrie, la Slovaquie, l’Autriche et la Tchéquie; long circuit à la découverte de la Bulgarie, la Roumanie et la Hongrie; expédition dans les Balkans ou en Pologne et dans les pays baltes; croisière sur le Danube avec escales dans huit pays différents, et plus encore. Les grands tours en Europe de l’Est décrit au jour le jour chaque itinéraire, les villes et villages à explorer et les paysages à admirer. Il dévoile ainsi la richesse d’une autre Europe, hors des sentiers battus. Chaque parcours présente aussi des capsules mettant en lumière les expériences inoubliables à vivre et les découvertes étonnantes à faire. |
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When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives. Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30-plus years with quotations, insights, reflections and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians and literary masters. Storti's vast knowledge of the literature makes him an expert curator of astute gems from the likes of St. Augustine, Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley and more. |
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‘The Camino’ is a personal account and visual photographic journal of walking Europe’s most popular pilgrimage trail in Spain, written by a two-time veteran of the Camino and a middle-aged independent traveller who has walked a total of four different pilgrimage trails in Europe. This interactive multi touch eBook shares the author’s personal experiences that are unique to this type of walking adventure, along with the social and community elements that define the Camino. To assist you with your preparations, the book includes an interactive online map of the route taken by the author, and relevant information on a variety of subjects, such as accommodation, food, what to take, signage, and history. At the end of this eBook is a brief list of resources and websites for additional information. ‘The Camino’ is a useful innovative resource for people who are considering walking the Camino for the first time, and for those who have walked it before, and want to relive their own personal Camino adventure. |
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Living and working in downtown Tokyo, we wanted a place of peace to escape to. We found it in our Tree House, high in the jungle above a surf beach. We gained new friends and we encountered Japan in a very personal way. |
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Half travel tips and half travel memoir, The Slacker Pilgrim Guide to the Camino de Santiago is a humorous book about the famous pilgrim trail across the north of Spain. In April and May 2012, Sunshine Jen walked 550 miles on the Camino Frances to Santiago de Compostela then onto Finnisterre on the coast. She went looking for answers, but she came back with more questions and no blisters. |
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A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan. Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century - to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan. |
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Ce chapitre Peninsule de Basse-Californie est issu du guide consacré à la destination Mexique. Tous les chapitres sont disponibles et vendus séparément. Vous pouvez également acheter le guide complet. |
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Cet ebook est une version numérique du guide papier sans interactivité additionnelle.Dans cette nouvelle édition du Routard Costa Rica, vous trouverez une première partie en couleurs avec des cartes et des photos, pour découvrir plus facilement la région et repérer nos coups de coeur ; des suggestions d'itinéraires et des informations pratiques pour organiser votre séjour ; des adresses souvent introuvables ailleurs ; des visites culturelles originales en dehors des sentiers battus ; des infos remises à jour chaque année et des cartes et plans détaillés.Merci à tous les Routards qui partagent nos convictions : Liberté et indépendance d'esprit ; découverte et partage ; sincérité, tolérance et respect des autres. |
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Fall under the spell of an Italian village through the eyes of an American family. When Michelle Damiani dreamed of living in Italy, she imagined her family as it was in Virginia—her husband filling every moment with work, her teenage son experimenting with sarcasm, her daughter smiling at the scent of lilacs, her baby-cheeked son methodically clicking Legos together, and herself hovering over the happiness of them all—only surrounded by ancient cobblestone alleys and the sound of ringing Italian. What she didn’t know was how Italy would work to change them all. Immerse yourself in authentic village life and live vicariously through hilarious moments, joyful discoveries, dramatic upheavals, embarrassing miscommunications, and mouth-watering meals. At once uplifting and enchanting, this spellbinding journey feeds the soul as it sweeps readers into the heart of Italy. Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center   includes recipes for delicious Umbrian dishes as well as professional-quality photographs. "Top 10 Fascinating Books about Living in a Foreign Country" --Huffington Post |
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Part adventure story, part cultural history, this “enjoyably offbeat travelogue” explores the phenomenon of the spiritual pilgrimage ( Booklist ).  Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques, then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths—a 1,100-year-old network of trails leading to the sanctuary of Saint James the Greater. It is best known as El Camino de Santiago de Compostela—“The Way” for short. The object of any pilgrimage is an inward journey manifested in a long, reflective walk. For Downie, the inward journey met the outer one: a combination of self-discovery and physical regeneration. More than 200,000 pilgrims take the highly commercialized Spanish route annually, but few cross France. Downie had a goal: to go from Paris to the Pyrenees on age-old trails, making the pilgrimage in his own maverick way. |
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"Love this book! My Bible for the El Camino..." The classic book used by thousands to learn what you should take on a Camino journey. Includes: • Pros & Cons for difficult gear choices (poncho or rain jacket? water bottles or pack hydration system? sleeping bag or sleeping sheet? • A "skin-out" (everything!) pack list with the weight of each item • Experienced backpacker tips show you how to create a lightweight pack (to walk far, carry less) ...and much more. Jean-Christie Ashmore has walked over 3,200 kilometers (about 2,000 miles) on Camino pilgrimage routes in France and Spain. |
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After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories . Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer's defense of foie gras . With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career. Covering his adventures through England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell. Wry, personal, and full of Rick's signature humor, For the Love of Europe is a fond and inspirational look at a lifetime of travel. |
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I suppose one should draw a distinction between professional tramping and just tramping, especially as this whole book is to be called THE GENTLE ART OF TRAMPING. I am not writing of the American hobo, nor of the British casual, nor of rail-roaders and beachcombers or other ‘enemies’ of society and parasites of the charitable. While among these there are many very strange and interesting exceptions, yet in general they are not highly estimable people, nor is their way of life beautiful or worth imitation. They learn little on their wanderings beyond how to cadge, how to steal, how to avoid dogs and the police. They are not pilgrims but outlaws, and many would be highway robbers had they the vitality and the pluck necessary to hold up wayfarers. Most of them are but poor walkers, so that the word tramp is often misapplied to them. The tramp is a friend of society; he is a seeker, he pays his way if he can. One includes in the category ‘tramp’ all true Bohemians, pilgrims, explorers afoot, walking tourists, and the like. Tramping is a way of approach, to Nature, to your fellowman, to a nation, to a foreign nation, to beauty, to life itself. And it is an art, because you do not get into the spirit of it directly you leave your back door and make for the distant hill. There is much to learn, there are illusions to be overcome. There are prejudices and habits to be shaken off. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
