Figli del diavolo
Author: Liliana Lazar
Language: Italian
Summary: Una testimonianza storica sotto forma di romanzo, una storia ispirata a fatti realmente accaduti che ci trascina in un capitolo oscuro del nostro recente passato; un libro sugli abusi, sull’orrore perpetrato a danno dei più deboli nell’indifferenza generale.
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A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Author: Anthony Bourdain
Language: English
Summary: From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain’s New York Times-bestselling chronicle of traveling the world in search the globe’s greatest culinary adventures. Continue reading “A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines”
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The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Author: Roz Hopkins
Language: English
Summary: Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture. Continue reading “The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World”
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Reading the world: confessions of a literary explorer
Author: Ann Morgan
Language: English
Summary: In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics… and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe’s 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn’t easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down at all; some governments don’t like to let works of art leak out to corrupt Westerners.
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Author: Bill Bryson
Language: English
Summary: Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Continue reading “Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe”
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Traveling with ghosts, a memoir
Author: Shannon Leone Fowler
Language: English
Summary: From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took—through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond—to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.
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