Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Special Interest - Literary

According to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In The Glamour of Strangeness, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them." From the early days of steamship travel, artists stifled by the culture of their homelands fled to islands, jungles, and deserts in search of new creative and emotional frontiers. Their flight inspired a unique body of work that doesn't fit squarely within the Western canon, yet may be some of the most...

For centuries before its "rebirth" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient Hebrew ship was torpid because the language of the Bible was inadequate to represent modern life in Europe. Early modern speakers of Yiddish and German gave Hebrew the breath of life when they translated dialogues, descriptions, and thought processes from their vernaculars into Hebrew. By narrating tales of pilgrimage and adventure, Jews pulled the ship out of the bottle and sent modern Hebrew...

In the age of Sex and the City, when Manhattan has been elevated to the Mecca of the world, Wolfgang Hermann prefers to wander through the red-light district, immigrant quarters, bad neighborhoods and the docks. Hermann's readers are confronted with homeless people, immigrants and the poor. Other people and their stories abound in his writing, although Hermann's poor flaneurs are not granted the privilege of merely strolling and observing, for encounters play a particularly pivotal role in his texts.
With an introduction by Mark Miscovich.

In the age of Sex and the City, when Manhattan has been elevated to the Mecca of the world, Wolfgang Hermann prefers to wander through the red-light district, immigrant quarters, bad neighborhoods and the docks. Hermann's readers are confronted with homeless people, immigrants and the poor. Other people and their stories abound in his writing, although Hermann's poor flAneurs are not granted the privilege of merely strolling and observing, for encounters play a particularly pivotal role in his texts.
With an introduction by Mark Miscovich.

"It calls for a writer more able at words to picture the sheer beauty of the Mountain. To convey the altering feeling of morning, or high noon; of afternoon, and deep midnight; of the golden scores of stars puncturing the sky."

Athos, the Holy Mountain of Greece, is one of the most mysterious places in the world. A rugged pyramid that rises up from the Aegean Sea, the mountain is wreathed in myth, legend and ancient traditions that, to this day, remain largely hidden from view. The heart of Athos started to beat at the dawn of Christianity and its community lays claim to being the...

Egipto es Dendera, AbidOs, Amarna o AkenatOn. TambiEn los evangelios apOcrifos, los Coptos, Nasser. Pero por encima de todo estAn las personas, los descendientes de quienes construyeron las pirAmides de Sakkara, Giza o la Esfinge, con su alegrIa, su forma de vida y sus miedos. En "Las sonrisas del Nilo. Luxor- El Cairo en bicicleta," el escritor, en plena transformaciOn personal, recorre con dos amigos una zona casi olvidada, donde se esconden las claves para entender el verdadero Egipto, desde el antiguo de los faraones al contemporAneo de la "Primavera Arabe." Un mundo lleno de...