Author: Peter Dolezal Publisher: ISBN: 9780986579011 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
BEST-VALUE TRAVEL FOR EVERY BUDGET! Bestseller! "North Americans are avid travellers. We explore all corners of the globe, in all seasons. Many of us invest a significant portion of our disposable income on travel. Regardless of budget, your travel dollar CAN stretch further than you thought possible. This book is your guide. Full of practical TIPS and illustrativeanecdotes, it will help you achieve BEST-VALUE in all your travels." In providing a road map to "BEST-VALUE" travel, this book will assist you with an understanding of how to: Maximize the benefits of "reward travel" programsAchieve the best deals on "air, bus" and "train" travelSave dramatically on "accommodation" costsPurchase "time shares" at huge discountsSlash costs with "home exchanges" and "long-stays"Savor the thrill and economics of "cycling" and "hiking"Minimize costs of "ocean" and "river cruising"Be prepared -- carry appropriate "travel insurance"Resolve "currency, cultural" and "language" issues. About author PETER DOLEZAL Peter Dolezal is a travelholic. Since his first ocean voyage at age seven, he hasn't slowed down. He has circled the globe many times, visiting more than fifty countries on six continents. A successful, now semi-retired executive, he has experienced pampered travel as CEO of several major corporations, as well as more humble, budget-oriented, holiday travel with his wife. His aim with this guide is to provide the reader with an understanding of the many strategies and cautions associated with smart, safe and good-value travel. He also entertains readers with many often humorous, illustrative anecdotes gleaned over decades of travel.
Author: Valma Muir Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1528993721 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
Travelling with one’s partner in a campervan for a year provides an excellent, if not gruelling, test for newly married couples; it amounts to “couples therapy” on wheels but without the therapist. Not only does one learn a tremendous amount about one’s partner but also about oneself. There are a few endeavours that couples should avoid; three that come to mind are wallpapering, navigating, and being in each other’s company 24/7. After travelling for a year with my partner, I can say with absolute authority that putting up wallpaper with one’s partner is nothing short of life-threatening. Navigating and constant companionship did put us to the test a few times but fortunately there were no casualties. None that I noticed. Think “Fawlty Tourists on Wheels” and that would accurately sum up our year-long meanderings in Sharki, our trusty wannabe 4x4 campervan that took multiple terrains in her 2.8-litre stride. If one has a year to spare, I highly recommend throwing caution to the wind and embarking on a zero-itinerary adventure with an open mind, a strong stomach and your very best friend at your side.
Author: S. Khosravi Publisher: Springer ISBN: 023028132X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers Illegal Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'.
Author: Aḥmad ibn Luʼluʼ Ibn al-Naqīb Publisher: Amana Corporation ISBN: 9780915957729 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1232
Book Description
This is a classic manual of fiqh rulings based on Shafi"i School of jurisprudence and includes original Arabic texts and translations from classic works of prominent Muslim scholars such as al Ghazali, al Nawawi, al Qurtubi, al Dhahabi and others. It is an indispensable reference for every Muslim or student of Islam who needs to research on Islamic rulings on daily Muslim life.
Author: Stanley G. Crawford Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press ISBN: 9781564785121 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
"Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas..." So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as "Mrs. Unguentine," the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail the seas together, alone on a giant land-covered barge of their own devising. They tend their gardens, raise a child, invent an artificial forest--all the while steering clear of civilization. "Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine" is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve. Rarely has a book so perfectly registered the secret solitude of marriage, how shared loneliness can result in a powerful bond.
Author: John Boyne Publisher: Hogarth ISBN: 0593230167 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 480
Book Description
From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky—“a darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart” (People)—comes a new novel that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is unlimited. This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons, one with his father’s violence in his blood, one with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold. From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.
Author: Various Publisher: Virago ISBN: 0748119477 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should not have been taken; of exotic cities and shabby towns. Some are running away, and some are travelling to come home. With new stories from well-known writers, including Helen Dunmore, and an Angela Carter fable, this is a book to tuck in your backpack, your valise or to enjoy, deep in your armchair, for no one can fail to be hooked by those beguiling words: once upon a time there was a traveller . . .
Author: Suzanne Roberts Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496223985 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.
Author: Evliya Çelebi Publisher: Eland Publishing ISBN: 9781906011581 Category : Egypt Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This translation brings his sparkling work to life.
Author: Peter Dolezal
Author: Valma Muir
Author: S. Khosravi
Author: Aḥmad ibn Luʼluʼ Ibn al-Naqīb
Author: Stanley G. Crawford
Author: John Boyne
Author: Michael Pauls
Author: Various
Author: Suzanne Roberts
Author: Evliya Çelebi