Travel genre books (80)
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Hippie by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
A journey to the past. A map for the future. After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam’s famous Dam Square. Together they decide to take the fabled hippie trail across Europe to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus, in search of self-discovery. So begins a life-defining love story that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.
32.
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Der rationalitätsgläubige Techniker Faber muß kurz vor seinem Tod erfahren, daß seine Weltorientierung nicht ausreicht, um menschliche Schuld und schicksalshaftem Zufall zu entgehen.
33.
Homo Faber : A Report by Max Frisch EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Loneliness and despair invade the world of an engineer who comes to realize that he has failed as a friend, husband, and father.
34.
House of Stone : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid EN
LebanonDescription:
Culture and institutions.
35.
I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jančar EN
SloveniaDescription:
"I Saw Her That Night is a tragic love story set amid the atrocities of World War II in Slovenia" --
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I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti EN
PalestineDescription:
Palestinian poet Barghouti relates his homecoming to Ramallah after 30 years in exile, offering a moving account of what it means to be a Palestinian today. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
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In bocca al lupo by Mick Herron IT
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Se un tempo sei stato una spia, sarai una spia per sempre. Vale per Jackson Lamb e i suoi uomini, i Brocchi o Slow Horses, agenti che si sono rovinati commettendo errori in servizio o cedendo a un vizio di troppo, e che l’Intelligence ha dovuto allontanare senza però riuscire mai a metterli a riposo. E vale per Dickie Bow. Un vecchio leone, per giunta cresciuto allo “Zoo” di Berlino durante la Guerra fredda. Un’ombra capace di infiltrarsi ovunque, di stare alle calcagna del suo obiettivo per mesi e carpirne i segreti. Almeno finché non viene trovato morto su un autobus vicino a Oxford. Jackson... continue
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In Morocco by Wharton, Edith EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
First published in 1919, this detailed account of the author's journey through Morocco following World War I shares Wharton's observations on local customs and lifestyles, Moroccan history, cities, and more. Reprint.
39.
In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne EN
FranceDescription:
A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of The Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of his Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. In Search of the Castaways (French: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit. 'The Children of Captain Grant') is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, t... continue
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In The Name Of The Father by Immanuel Mifsud EN
MaltaDescription:
At the age of nineteen they handed you a rifle with a bayonet and dressed you up in a uniform ... and somehow, you managed to get your hands on a little, dark brown notebook and a pen. After the funeral, a grieving son starts reading the diary his dead father had kept during the Second World War. As he turns each page, searching for a trace of the man he remembers, a portrait of an individual unfolds; a figure made both strange and familiar through the handwritten observations, the yearnings and the confessions. Immanuel Mifsud tells a moving story of pain, warfare, and the things that connect... continue