Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Europe - General

This volume contains the first volume of Anne Grant's "Letters from the Mountains" (1806), one of the Romantic era's most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands.

Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from the 18th century to the 20th, and what the attributes of ports (fishing, harbour crafts, the whiff of the exotic, fishermen's homes and families) contributed to the attractions of resorts. Case-studies drawn from across Europe, from Wales and the Netherlands to Norway, Latvia and Spain, bring original perspectives to bear on these histories...

Part painting in prose, part delightful narrative, this book is filled with clever observations, memorable characters and the authors' own paintings and drawings. It will prove irresistible to anyone interested in the culture of the French village.

In diesem Band werden die Ergebnisse der sechs Expeditionen (1994-2009) entlang der Route, die Humboldt auf seiner russisch-sibirischen Reise 1829 zurucklegte, zusammengefasst. Es wurden nahezu alle wichtigen Reisewege Humboldts im Ural und seinem Umland nachvollzogen mit dem Ziel, seine Russlandreise aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu erforschen und mit den gegenwartigen Verhaltnissen in Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur zu vergleichen.

To try to bridge this gap and better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the former camps, ghettos and other settings for the atrocities. The Holocaust Sites of Europe offers the first comprehensive guide to these sites, including much practical information as well as the historical context, serving as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to add another layer to their understanding of the Holocaust by visiting these important sites for themselves.

Including not only the notorious...