Résultats Éditeur "Random House Audio" dans Voyage et tourisme

Alle Wege führen bekanntlich nach Rom, und ist man erst mal angekommen, offenbart sich ein wahres Feuerwerk der abendländischen Geschichte...

Stockholm ist die größte und vielleicht schönste Stadt Skandinaviens - nicht allein durch so imposante Bauwerke wie das Stadshuset...

Entdecken Sie die pulsierende Metropole Amsterdam. Rund 160 Grachten und über tausend Brücken haben der Stadt den Spitznamen "Venedig des Nordens"...

Ganzjährig subtropisches Klima, fruchtbare Täler, bizarre Felsformationen, einzigartige Vegetation, dazu schwarze und weiße Badestrände...

Barcelona gilt zu Recht als die heimliche Hauptstadt Spaniens. Kaum eine andere Stadt ist so vielseitig und weltoffen wie die Mittelmeermetropole...

Entdecken Sie Lissabon, die portugiesische Hauptstadt mit dem leicht maroden Charme, der an ihre große Vergangenheit erinnert...

Rund 10 Millionen Touristen besuchen pro Jahr Mallorca, die größte Insel der Balearen. Viele Jüngere fühlen sich von der Platja de Palma...

Venedig, die Lagunenstadt, bietet ein reiches kunstgeschichtliches Angebot. Hier findet man romantische Plätze, lebendige Straßenzüge...

Nicholas Sparks’ persönlichstes Buch. Als sich Nicholas Sparks und sein Bruder Micah im Januar 2003 auf eine Weltreise machen, blicken sie voller Erwartung auf einmalige Eindrücke und Erlebnisse. Nicholas und Micah sind die beiden einzigen lebenden Mitglieder ihrer Familie. Und so wird ihre Reise zu den Wundern der Welt auch eine Reise in die Erinnerung. Aus einem Reisebericht wird die bewegende Geschichte ihrer Familie, die durch den tragischen Tod der Eltern und der Schwester allzu früh zerrissen wurde.

Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farmhand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book from a haunted hill in western New York State that told of an epic history of ancient America, a story about a family that fled biblical Jerusalem and took a boat to the New World. Using his prophetic gift, Joseph translated the mysterious book into English and published it under the title The Book of Mormon.

Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children’s Community. Begun with just 50dollars in the pocket of Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodia’s verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new family—a place that Gutradt calls “a workshop for souls.”

The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and grace, Mayes explores the power of landscape, the idea of home, and the lasting force of a chaotic and loving family.

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.

The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s 50 states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.

Here is armed America - a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns - which horrifies and fascinates many other Americans, and much of the rest of the world. This lively, sometimes raucous book explores from the inside the American love affair with firearms.

In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what he'd experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth. Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time.

At the end of The Vintage Caper, Sam had just carried off a staggering feat of derring-do in the heart of Bordeaux, infiltrating the ranks of the French elite to rescue a stolen, priceless wine collection. With the questionable legality of the adventure. Sam thought it’d be a while before he returned to France, especially with the charms of the beautiful Elena Morales to keep him in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul asks our hero to take a job in Marseille, it’s impossible for Sam and Elena to resist the possibility of further excitement....

For 18 years, Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's 14 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.

In the summer of 2011, Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black embarked on a balls-out, cross-country tour. Along the way, they spoke to politicians, gun lovers, abortion-rights advocates and opponents, gay parents, flag burners, Muslims, poker players, Tea Partiers, Minutemen, veterans, teen moms, bikers, fast-food workers, and a hooker or two. They toured the White House. They fired semiautomatic weapons. They stopped and ate at every Olive Garden along the way. But mostly they talked to each other.

Jeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the 10 Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict.