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Slow boat through Pennine waters
By Frederick Doerflinger. 1971
Slow boat through England
By Frederick Doerflinger. 1970
Spring jaunts: some walks, excursions & personal explorations of town, country & seashore
By Anthony Bailey. 1986
The author's jaunts take him round the Isle of Wight, along the Massachusetts to Maine coastline, into the bizarre and…
hilarious history of Nice's Promenade des Anglais, and down the Severn River. A world of friendly conversation, tranquil landscapes, antique churches and country pubs. 1986.Silver linings: travels around Northern Ireland
By Martin Fletcher. 2001
Martin Fletcher was initially sent to Northern Ireland as a reporter for The Times, but while reporting on the tortuous…
peace negotiations his wife was meeting the ordinary people. Although essentially a tour of the country, the real story is told in endless digressions, with the author hunting rats on an island in the middle of the Strangford Lough and participating in the ancient game of road-bowling, in which players compete to hurl iron balls along two or three miles of country lane. 2001.Seraffyn's Mediterranean adventure
By Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. 1981
Account of the authors' journey along the south coast of Spain and Malta, crossing over to Tunisia, then moving on…
to Italy and Yugoslavia. Intersperses tales of unwitting smuggling, military arrests, a collision and a hurricane. 1981.Sea to shining sea: people, travels, places
By Berton Roueché. 1985
The author presents 18 essays about his travels in the United States and Europe. The reader visits wheat-country Kansas, a…
isolated small-town New Mexican doctor, the last surviving Shakers of Mt. Lebanon, New York, as well as Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France. Some strong language. 1985.Saving Alex: when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began
By Joanna Brooks, Alex Cooper. 2016
Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their fifteen-year-old daughter to Utah, where…
they signed over their parental rights to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed "residential treatment program," a virtual gulag where thousands of American teenagers have been sent by fundamentalist parents. Forbidden from attending school, Alex was beaten and verbally abused, and forced to stand facing a wall for up to eighteen hours a day wearing a heavy backpack full of rocks that literally broke her back. "God's plan does not apply to gay people," her captors told her, using faith as a cudgel to punish and terrorize her. With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex would eventually escape and make legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law's protection as an openly gay teenager. 2016.Sacrés français!: un Américain nous regarde
By Theodore Stanger. 2003
Les Américains, leur hyper-puissance, leur arrogance, leur McDo... Les Français ne se privent pas de dire tout haut et fort…
ce qu'ils pensent d'eux. Mais les Américains, eux, qu'en pensent-ils? C'est à cette question que se propose de répondre Ted Stanger, un journaliste américain qui vit à Paris depuis dix ans et ne cesse d'être étonné par leurs moeurs, qu'il trouve toujours aussi exotiques. En une quinzaine de chapitres, il se penche sur leurs habitudes, modes de vie et de pensée : des 35 heures à la cuisine, du french lover à la contestation comme esthétique de vie, de la bureaucratie aux dîners en ville... 2003.Rowed trip: from Scotland to Syria by oar
By Colin Angus, Julie Angus. 2009
2006. Adventurers Julie and Colin Angus were checking a map of Europe when Julie noticed an interconnected water route from…
Colin's parents' homeland of Scotland past her mother's homeland, Germany, and on to her father's, Syria. What started as a funny idea of rowing to visit relatives resulted in an odyssey by oar (and bike) where Julie and Colin tested their relationship while exploring their roots. Some strong language. 2010, c2009.Roses round the door
By Doreen Tovey. 1982
The author describes her introduction to the English countryside, as well as to the village "characters" she and her husband…
meet on their quest to find a country home of their own. 1982.Rome and a villa
By Eleanor Clark. 1974
Romewalks
By Anya M Shetterly. 1984
Rita will: memoir of a literary rabble-rouser
By Rita Mae Brown. 1997
Autobiography of the openly lesbian novelist who has co-authored mysteries with her cat, Sneaky Pie. Describes her illegitimate birth, adoption…
by relatives, and southern childhood; how she became an advocate for women's rights; and her relationships with tennis star Martina Navratilova and author Fannie Flagg. Some strong language. c1997.Raw spirit: In Search Of The Perfect Dram
By Iain Banks. 2004
In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author Iain Banks has decided to undertake…
a tour of the distilleries of his homeland. His tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account. Strong language. 2004.Queer, there, and everywhere: 23 people who changed the world
By Sarah Prager. 2017
A LGBTQ chronicle for teens shares hip, engaging facts about 23 influential gender-ambiguous notables from the era of the Roman…
Empire to the present, exploring how they defied convention to promote civil rights, pursue relationships on their own terms and shape culture. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Portugal: récit
By Bernard Chambaz. 2013
" Parti sur les traces de son fils, Bernard Chambaz sillonne le Portugal à la rencontre des paysages et des…
êtres, des couches d'histoire et de géographie où ils s'inscrivent. De l'âpre Tras-os-Montes à la douce Lisbonne, ce récit voudrait être un hymne à la vie, à la puissance des livres et à un pays arrimé au continent européen. " -- 4e de couv.Le sortilège des chemins: récit (Réverbération)
By Sergio Kokis. 2015
" Depuis longtemps, Sergio Kokis se conformait à ses passions exigeantes en temps et en efforts : l'écriture et la…
peinture. Toutefois, il y a dix ans, une forte envie le prend de secouer la routine et de rompre radicalement avec ses habitudes de cabinet de travail et d'atelier. La lecture d'un ouvrage sur les mythiques chemins de Compostelle s'avère une véritable révélation : l'appel du chemin. Il présente le projet à sa compagne de vie qui, ravie, s'exclame immédiatement Pourquoi pas ? Allez ! Il faut penser à nous entraîner. Séduits par leur première aventure, les deux amoureux vont alors entreprendre annuellement des voyages de randonnée en Espagne, au Portugal, en Suisse et dans le nord de l'Allemagne. Cher lecteur, l'auteur te livre ses impressions et ses réflexions afin que tu rompes les amarres et partes sur les chemins de marche qui, quels qu'ils soient, te feront rêver. Et n'oublie pas que le vrai pèlerin marche vers lui-même et que l'aventure se trouve sur le chemin et pas à l'arrivée. Buen camino ! "Petit guide sentimental de Venise
By Nathalie Castagné, Paolo Barbaro. 2000
Qui n'a rêvé d'avoir pour compagnon de voyage à Venise un vrai connaisseur qui le guide dans le labyrinthe? Parce…
qu'il aime sa ville plus que tout, l'auteur, ingénieur des eaux, a écrit ce livre à l'usage des visiteurs qui ne se satisfont pas des lieux communs réservés aux touristes. 2000.Pies and prejudice: in search of the North
By Stuart Maconie. 2007
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the…
cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile. 2007.Paris and the Ile de France (DuMont guide)
By Klaus Bussmann. 1984