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Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing
In this thoughtful, informative account of a journey from Ho Chi
Minh City and the Mekong Delta to Hanoi and Halong Bay, Zoe
Schramm-Evans delves behind the cliche-ridden images of Vietnam to
discover a country poised on the brink of remarkable social and
economic change.
Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer
Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in
49 unique journeys Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre
is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing the world
through train travel - on both epic and everyday rail routes,
aboard every type of ride, from steam locomotives to bullet trains,
meeting a cast of memorable characters who share a passion for
train travel. Join him on the rails and off the beaten track as he
embarks on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour around the globe, on
journeys on celebrated trains and railways including: India's famed
toy train Sri Lanka's Reunification Express The Indian Pacific
across the Australian outback The Shanghai maglev And the
picturesque rail journeys of the Scottish Highlands Plus trains
through Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Russia,
America and France, with short interludes in North Korea, Italy,
Poland, Peru, Switzerland, England and Lithuania. All aboard!
Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find
peace in Monet's lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a
printmaker's pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to
stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the changing
seasons on Chelsea Embankment. Artistic Places is a stunningly
hand-illustrated, visionary guide for seekers of beauty, rare tales
and cultural riches. Find yourself instantly transported to the
places where great artists have sought refuge, found their
inspiration and changed the course of art history forever. Susie
Hodge, bestselling author and art historian, presents 25 famous and
forgotten artistic destinations around the world, and connects
these to the artists they inspired. In keeping with the Inspired
Traveller's Guide series design, each entry is accompanied by
specially commissioned illustrations from Amy Grimes which
perfectly evoke the wonders that first attracted the masters, while
Hodge delves into each location's curious history with insightful
stories both in and beyond the canon. So take a leaf out of your
favourite artist's sketchbook and discover the places they loved
best. Artists and locations include: J.A.M Whistler in London,
England John Constable in Suffolk, England Barbara Hepworth in St
Ives, England Paula Rego in Cascais and Estoril, Portugal Pablo
Picasso and Guernica, Spain Salvador Dali in Catalonia, Spain
Claude Monet in Giverny, France Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France
Rene Magritte in Brussels, Belgium Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland
Michelangelo in Florence, Italy Canaletto in Venice, Italy Johannes
Vermeer in Delft, Netherlands Anni Albers in Dessau, Germany Caspar
David Friedrich in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany Gustav
Klimt and Lake Attersee, Austria Edvard Munch in Oslo, Norway Hilma
af Klint and Lake Malaren, Sweden Henri Matisse in Tangier, Morocco
Hokusai on Mount Fuji, Japan Paul Gauguin in Papeete and Papeari,
Tahiti Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York, USA Grant Wood in Iowa,
USA Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico, USA Frida Kahlo in Coyoacan,
Mexico Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers
readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide
to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series,
explore intriguing: Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden
Places and Mystical Places.
'Bags of fish for cats - 50 pence'. So it was written, on a
chalkboard sign outside a fresh fishmonger's, under the arches of
the raised promenade along the beachfront of England's newly super
trendy and booming seaside City of Brighton and Hove. In Brighton
Babylon, PK Heights is a Grade II listed maisonette flat in one of
the City's up and coming Regency Squares that provides the elegant
base for a series of interlocking true stories about the city's
people and their lives. Newly relocated from London, Brighton
resident Peter Jarrette combines and intertwines his stories, using
a colourful palette that is one part Brokeback Beach and three
parts seawater. He vividly portrays a selection of suspect
characters and shocking episodes; much like the curious bits and
pieces that might be on offer in one of those bags of fish for
cats. To the author's consternation, the residents and visitors are
a thoroughly peculiar and motley crew. This former string of south
coast fishing villages with a royal and decadent past may now be a
thoroughly cosmopolitan City and even aspire to being an
international hub, but it has not yet lost its renowned and
celebrated dark side, far from it. Brighton Babylon is populated by
a cast of unsavoury hobos and bother boys; Yardie obsessed golden
shower webmasters from nearby Crawley; mistakenly racist London
hairdressers; strangely scripted market researchers; extemporised
short-haul cabin crew; pushy airline First Officers; politically
incorrect new food emporia; a vengeful, crumbling resort Pier and a
locally obsessed, cat-mad press pack.
This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and
confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one-
liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three
thousand years of wit and wisdom: from Martha Gellhorn to Confucius
and from Pliny to Paul Theroux.
In Afskeid van Europa lewer Karel Schoeman verslag van sy laaste
twee besoeke aan Nederland, Duitsland en Oostenryk gedurende die
herfs van 2011 en 2013. Dit is veral die stede Amsterdam, Berlyn,
Dresden, Salzburg en Wene wat aandag kry en ook met Schoeman se
vermoe om mense en plekke wat hy waarneem, in woorde tot gestalte
te bring. By dit alles is daar ’n ondertoon van heimwee en
gelatenheid omdat die skrywer voortdurend bewus is daarvan dat dit
werklik sy laaste besoeke is en hy dikwels aan sy ouderdom herinner
word: “‘Elderly,’ lees ek op my vliegkaartjie, ‘can’t walk long
distance can sit gate close 15 minutes prior to departure.’ Dit is
ek.” Maar afgesien van die element van afskeid, is dit Schoeman se
belesenheid en sy vermoe om hede en verlede te skakel wat opval en
hierdie boek ’n ryk leeservaring maak. Nie alleen die politieke
geskiedenis nie, maar ook die verhale van die gewone mens soos dit
in die letterkunde uitgebeeld is, word in verband gebring met die
strate, parke, kerke en paleise van die groot stede wat hy besoek.
Onvermydelik skryf hy oor die twee wereldoorloe se impak op mens en
omgewing, maar ook die vasberade inisiatiewe om te restoureer en te
herstel in stede soos Berlyn en Dresden. Die hede met sy
massatoerisme, die gewonde daaglikse gang van sake en veral ook die
tipiese geregte van die plekke wat hy besoek, verseker dat die boek
vir eietydse reisigers ook relevant is.
Morbid, but strangely fascinating accounts In 2015, a group of
seven hikers were killed when a sudden flood struck Keyhole Canyon
in Zion National Park. Prior to that, the steep, narrow route to
Angels Landing led to at least five fatalities. Numerous people
have found that high, exposed places in Zion-such as rim trails-are
bad places to be in lightning storms. Death in Zion National Park
collects some of the most gripping accounts in park history of the
unfortunate events caused by natural forces or human folly.
In sy nuutste boek het Dana van sy ware ontmoetings geboekstaaf –
ontmoetings met mense, maar soms ook met dinge – die vleispastei,
of tuisgemaakte braai-apparate. Die stories het hy aanvanklik op
Facebook gepos. Die wat die grootste reaksie gekry het is hierin
verwerk. 'n Ware interaktiewe Suid-Afrikaanse boek.
In hierdie boeiende dagboek doen Johan Badenhorst self verslag oor
sy span se reis van 20 000 km deur die ooste van Afrika, met
besoeke aan plekke soos Zambie, Tanzanie, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenia,
Ethiopie, Somaliland, Djiboeti, Eritrea, die Soedan en Egipte. Dit
is ’n plakboek propvol asemrowende foto’s deur Gideon du Preez
Swart, kaarte en nuttige inligting vir beide die ervare sowel as
aspirantreisiger.
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