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Denne praktiske reiseguiden til Dubai inneholder detaljerte reisetips og oversikt over de mest ikoniske severdigheter, samt noen skatter utenfor allfarvei. Med forslagene til reiseruter og ekspertforfatterens utvalg av ting å se og gjøre blir denne boken til en perfekt følgesvenn både i forkant og underveis på turen. Denne Dubai-guideboken er fullpakket med detaljer om hvordan du kommer deg dit og rundt, informasjon før avreise og topp tidsbesparende tips, inkludert en visuell liste over ting du ikke bør gå glipp av. Våre fargekodede kart gjør Dubai enklere å navigere mens du er der.

• Publisert: Desember 2024
• Utgave: 5. utgave
• Antall sider: 224
• Språk: Engelsk
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781835290460

An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by internationally bestselling, prizewinning writer Erika Fatland. The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet and Bhutan, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs. Countless languages and vastly different cultures exist in these isolated mountain valleys.

Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence. We have read about climbers and adventurers on their way up Mount Everest, and about travellers on a spiritual quest to remote Buddhist monasteries. Here, however, the focus is on the communities of these Himalayan valleys, those who live and work in this extraordinary region.

As Erika Fatland introduces us to the people she meets along her journey, and in particular the women, she takes us on a vivid and dizzying expedition at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown histories. Skilfully weaving together the politics, geography, astrology, theology and ecology of this vast region, she also explores some of the most volatile human conflicts of our times. With her unique gift for listening, and for storytelling, she has become one of the most exciting travel writers of her generation.

• Forfatter: Erika Fatland
• Publisert: August 2022
• Antall sider: 578
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781529416893

This Southeast Asia guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about Southeast Asia's people, history and culture and detailed coverage of the best places to see. This Southeast Asia travel book has the style of an illustrated magazine to inspire you and give a taste of Southeast Asia.

• Publisert: April 2024
  
• Antall sider: 464
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781839053856

Winner of the Observer Food Monthly Cookbook of the Year 2013. Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are the men behind the bestselling Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. Their chain of restaurants is famous for its innovative flavours, stylish design and superb cooking.

At the heart of Yotam and Sami's food is a shared home city: Jerusalem. Both were born there in the same year, Sami on the Arab east side and Yotam in the Jewish west. Nearly 30 years later they met in London, and discovered they shared a language, a history, and a love of great food.

Jerusalem sets 100 of Yotam and Sami's inspired, accessible recipes within the cultural and religious melting pot of this diverse city. With culinary influences coming from its Muslim, Jewish, Arab, Christian and Armenian communities and with a Mediterranean climate, the range of ingredients and styles is stunning. From recipes for soups (spicy frikkeh soup with meatballs), meat and fish (chicken with caramelized onion and cardamom rice, sea bream with harissa and rose), vegetables and salads (spicy beetroot, leek and walnut salad), pulses and grains (saffron rice with barberries and pistachios), to cakes and desserts (clementine and almond syrup cake), there is something new for everyone to discover.

• Forfattere: Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
• Publisert: 2012
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780091943745
  

Lonely Planet's Best Bike Rides Japan reveals 35 incredible two-wheeled escapes–with maps–so you can experience even more of this extraordinary country. Get ready for an unforgettable bike ride across Japan and discover exhilarating cycling adventures that range from a couple of hours to a full day. Travel through Nichinan-Kaigan Quasi-National Park for dramatic cliffs and ocean spray; spot Pokémon manhole covers as you glide along the Ibusuki Poké Trail; and find art museums and exclusive galleries in the mountain town of Karuizawa.

• Publisert: Okt. 2025
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 240
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781838698157

This book is the culmination of his experiences and showcases Garcia's unique ability to delve beneath the surface of Japanese culture to describe its quirky and deep spiritual underpinnings. This collection of essays and beautiful photographs will appeal to his worldwide fan base—including those who devoured his previous bestsellers, A Geek in Japan and Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life—Japanophiles, armchair travellers and anyone with an interest in cultural and travel memoirs. The Magic of Japan features Garcia's keen observations on a wide variety of cultural topics: Japanese behavioral traits, including non-verbal communication, hansei (self-reflection), heijoshin (a calm mind) and shoshin (childlike openness) How Japan's geography and history have shaped its culture—its natural disasters, scarce resources, centuries of isolation and its feudal past. Japanese idiosyncrasies, ranging from food traditions and absurd jobs to a love of queues. The Japanese spirit, as evidenced in traditional art, manga and attitudes to women. Shintoism and Buddhism, looking at temples, festivals, rituals and how religious beliefs pervade popular culture, as seen for example in Studio Ghibli's movie Spirited Away. Japan's dark side, including crime, the yakuza, adultery, bullying and suicide. The book ends with a gloriously random selection of all things Garcia considers especially magical about Japan—from izakaya to shiitake mushrooms, summer fireworks and green tea!

• Publisert: September 2021
  
• Antall sider: 192
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9784805316528

Let Secret Kuala Lumpur guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Kuala Lumpur guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city.

Featuring 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Kuala Lumpur guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Discover a Russian Orthodox Church with Malaysian convertsSee the graves of a married couple of Muslim missionaries from Baghdad that have become a shrineUncover a little-known colonial crest of Kuala Lumpur found on the portico of an old buildingView a priceless and secret relic from the German bombing of LondonAway from the towering skyscrapers, modern shopping malls filled with designer brands and the usual touristy sites with stalls selling kitschy souvenirs, there are still many interesting secrets to be discovered in Kuala Lumpur, hidden in the back lanes and byways of the concrete jungle.This guide is essential for the experienced and intrepid traveller and adventurer who want a different flavour of Kuala Lumpur.

• Publisert: Juni 2025
• Antall sider: 244
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9782361957919

"This is the Pakistani cookbook I've been waiting for!"  – Yasmin Khan, author of Zaitoun, Ripe Figs, and The Saffron Tales The first major cookbook on Pakistani food, Pakistan is a sweeping and ambitious book that puts this delicious and varied cuisine in its cultural context. Thanks to shared borders with Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran, and a history of migration and trade, Pakistani dishes draw upon a marvellous array of flavours and ingredients that make food one of the country’s finest qualities. With over 100 recipes for sauces, chutneys, aromatic curries and subtly spiced vegetables, Pakistan is a perfect introduction to readers new to the cuisine and a welcome reminder of favourites to those already familiar.

A few of the recipes that await: Spiced Chicken Dumplings, Lentil Fritters in Yogurt, Tangy Potato Curry, Slow-Cooked Lamb, Saffron-Infused Flatbread, and Parsi Wedding Custard. Along with essays profiling each of the country’s regions, abundant and dramatic photography, and a showstopping package, Pakistan is a cookbook to be read, savoured, and cooked from every night.  

• Utgitt: Mars 2025
• Innbundet
• Ant sider: 288
• Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781958417416

Explore the Land of the Rising Sun with National Geographic's expertly researched Japan Adventure Map. The user-friendly design combined with unparalleled detail provides adventure travellers the ultimate tool for exploring this island nation. Coverage includes the four main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, as well as the south-eastern tip of the Korean Peninsula. Inset maps cover Okinawa and many of the other Ryukyu Islands. Some popular destinations include the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara, Mount Fuji, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Himeji Castle. The map is the perfect compliment to National Geographic's Japan Traveller Guide or any other guidebook. Hundreds of highlighted cultural, historical and recreational points of interest, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites, National Parks, botanical gardens, castles, churches, Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, caves, waterfalls, hot springs, ski area and beaches, will guide you to popular tourist hot spots as well as to hidden gems away from major tourist hubs. Cities and towns can be easily found with the help of a clear and convenient index. A road network complete with distances and designations for motorways, expressways, major roads and secondary roads, will help find select a suitable route, including one off the beaten path. Other transportation features include airports, ferries routes, harbours, railroads and high-speed trains.

• Publisert: 2023
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Vannfast papir
• Målestokk: 1:1,300,000

'This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre' William Boyd, New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . .

' George OrwellEric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, after five years spent in the narrow colonial world of the Raj – a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class-conflict – he would emerge as the George Orwell we know. Drawing on all his powers of observation and imagination, Paul Theroux brings Orwell's Burma years to radiant life, tracing the development of the young man's consciousness as he confronts the social, racial and class politics and the reality of Burma beyond.

Through one writer, we come to understand another - and see how what Orwell called 'five boring years within the sound of bugles' were in fact the years that made him. One of John Irving’s best books of the 21st century‘Thoroughly enjoyable . .

• Utgitt: Feb 2025
• Pocket
• Engelsk
• Antall sider: 390
• 9780241998953

1:50,000 scale map printed on waterproof, durable material. This beautiful, folded map, is the perfect reference map, guidebook, and planner aid to anyone attempting this long, difficult trekking adventure.
Features three passes;
Kongma La
Chola Pass
Renjola Pass

• Publisert: 2018
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:50 000

For 15 years, award-winning travel writer Stephen McClarence and his BBC Radio journalist wife Clare Jenkins made a series of journeys through India to learn about one of its most eccentric and fast-dwindling communities: the Anglo-Indians. Mainly descendants of British men and Indian women, their combined heritage stretches back 350 years through the times of the East India Company and the British Raj. In Jhansi - a railway hub in the state of Uttar Pradesh and inspiration for John Masters's 1950s book Bhowani Junction - the Anglo-Indian community is reduced to around 30 families.

Teatime at Peggy's shares their stories. Inspired by Jenkins' own Anglo-Indian family connections, the couple immersed themselves in the customs of this little-known dimension to India, soon developing a profound affection for their new friends, particularly for two of the area's most memorable figureheads: the title character 'Aunty Peggy', daughter and widow of railwaymen, overseer of the European cemetery, and 'friend of the great and the good, the rich and the poor'; and Captain Roy Abbott, the last British landowner in India, who never dined without wearing a blazer, cravat and immaculately pressed trousers. The authors spent hours at Peggy's kitchen table - eating cake, samosas and curry; drinking tea; welcoming eccentric characters, like Pastor Rao who could recite Winston Churchill speeches from memory; listening to stories, told in lilting accents, of the Railway Institute and May Queen Balls, Monsoon Toad Balls (where 'the ugliest, most hideous-looking man' would win the prize), waltzes and foxtrots, dancing in the jungle to Victor Silvester gramophone records, games of rummy and housey-housey, and Anglo-Indian cookery that embraced plum cake, goat's brain curry, Mulligatawny soup and crème caramel.

Warm, humorous and evocative, Teatime at Peggy's is a lyrical, loving homage to the Anglo-Indians. Filled with larger-than-life characters and with the ever-present exhilaration of 21st-century India, it is both intimate and revelatory, and a testament to the importance of tradition, community and friendship. This enchanting book is for anyone who knows India well - or who simply yearns to take the 'trip of a lifetime' to the 'sub-continent' and see things a little differently.

• Forfattere: Stephen McClarence og Clare Jenkins
• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781804692424

From a distance, Saudi Arabia may seem a subdued, or even dull place; but for those who take a closer look it emerges as a fascinating country, not necessarily because of its political and economic importance, but because of its people. Reticent perhaps but, on closer acquaintance, charming and warm, the Saudis form a far less monolithic society than one might expect. Divided by region, creed, and background but united in Islam, insular yet forever traveling abroad, and living with a foreign contingent that makes up nearly one-third of the population: the list goes on.

So what do Saudis have in common beyond their national dress? Culture Smart! Saudi Arabia will help you navigate the swirling waters of this important and fast-changing country. Social, cultural, and business life is demystified in concise chapters, while sections on the values, traditions, and attitudes that prevail will help you find your way through the new and unexpected situations that you are likely to encounter.

• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Antall sider: 200
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781787023543

Den prisbelønte forfatteren Torbjørn Færøviks mektige fortelling tar oss igjennom Kinas historie. Kina er et skattkammer for historieinteresserte. Landets skrevne historie er mer enn fire tusen år gammel, og det gjøres til stadighet nye interessante arkeologiske funn. I formann Maos styretid fra 1949 til 1976 var Kina et nokså lukket land. De siste tiårene har det åpnet seg mer. Millioner av turister har opplevd keiserpalasset i Beijing, vandret på Den kinesiske muren eller beundret den underjordiske terrakottahæren til landets første keiser, den sagnomsuste Qin Shihuang. Turisters inntrykk blir ofte flyktige, og mange forstår ikke betydningen av det de ser. Derfor er det historiske bakteppet så viktig.

• Forfatter: Torbjørn Færøvik
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• Antall sider: 622
• ISBN: 9788202839383

One of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas. This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas.

In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a 'journey of the heart' - amongst the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace.

• Forfatter: Peter Matthiessen
• Publisert: 1998
• Antall sider: 312
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099771111
  
  

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face - that of violence and corruption.

Forfattere: Jon Swain
Publisert: 1996
ISBN: 9780749320201
Sider nr: 304

A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.

• Forfatter: Arthur Golden
• Publisert: 1998
  
• Antall sider: 512
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099771517

An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains, Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer.

Without Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own bestseller, The Eight Mountains. An investigation into the author's physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth.

• Forfatter: Paolo Cognetti
• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Antall sider: 160
• ISBN: 9781529925432

As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar. Eight centuries ago the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular conquests that took them from the Danube to the Yellow Sea.

Their empire was seen as the final triumph of the nomadic «barbarians». But in time the Mongols sank back into the obscurity from which they had emerged, almost without trace. Remote and outlandish, Outer Mongolia became a metaphor for exile, a lost domain of tents and horsemen, little changed since the days of Genghis Khan.

In this remarkable book, Stanley Stewart sets off in the wake of an obscure 13th century Franciscan friar on a pilgimage across the old empire, from Istanbul to the distant homeland of the Mongol Hordes. The heart of his odyssey is a thousand-mile ride on horseback, among nomads for whom travel is a way of life, through a trackless land governed by winds and patterns of migration. On a journey full of bizarre characters and unexpected encounters, he crosses the desert and mountains of Central Asia, battles through the High Altay and the fringes of the Gobi, to the wind-swept grasslands of the steppes and the birthplace of Genghis Khan.

Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly-awaited book will take its place among travel classics - a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world.

• Publisert: 2021
  
• Antall sider: 265
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780006530275

This selection of 108 portrait images documents the many journeys made by Diane Barker to join in the everyday lives of the ancient nomadic people of Tibet. Taken over the course of thirty years, th e photographs share the timeless practices and traditions of the n omadic lifestyle as well as the shifts and changes which have beco me visible in more recent times, seeing them at work and leisure.

• Forfatter: Diane Barker
• Publisert: September 2022
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781912213559

The Philippines, an archipelago of over 7,000 islands in southeast Asia, offer an extraordinary fusion of cultures and rich biodiversity. National Geographic's Philippines Adventure Map provides global travelers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective in a highly functional travel tool. Each of the three principal geographic divisions of the country - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao - are detailed. The front side of the print map shows Luzon and includes an inset of the Batanes province. The Visayan Islands, Mindanao, and an inset of the province of Tawi-Tawi are shown on the reverse side. Cities and towns are easy to find with the map's helpful index. Highways and major roads as well as minor and secondary roads are clearly designated and include distance in kilometers so travelers can easily plan their best route. National parks and reserves, World Heritage sites, hot springs, beaches, points of interest, and areas for surfing and diving are indicated so travelers can take advantage of the Philippines' many natural attractions and activities. The locations of airports, airfields, railroads, and ferry routes take the guesswork out of travel around the islands. Every Adventure Map is printed on durable synthetic paper, making them waterproof, tear-resistant and tough — capable of withstanding the rigors of international travel..

• Målestokk: 1:1,3M
• År: 2022
• Papir

Denne boka er unik ved at den på en praktisk måte sammenlikner hvordan de statskontrollerte fjernsynskanalene og det som fortsatt er igjen av mer uavhengige russiske medier rapporterter om Krim, Ukraina, Norge, Baltikum, Tsjetsjenia, Georgia, historie, politikk og en rekke andre temaer. Boka er en hyllest til de tøffe og uavhengige journalistene i Russland som med stor integritet fortsetter å jobbe profesjonelt til tross for hyppige drap, overfall, trusler og statlig press.

Boka er med på å forklare hvordan flertallet av russere ofte tenker annerledes en andre europeere, og er en påminnelse om hva som skjer når man ikke lenger makter å tenke kritisk.

• Forfatter: Richard Bærug
• Publisert: 2018
  
• Antall sider: 496
  
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• ISBN: 9788283301847

This mini pocket Singapore travel guidebook is perfect for travellers seeking basic information about Singapore. It covers key places, main attractions and a short hotel and restaurant recommendations list. This book is printed on paper from responsible sources, verified to meet FSC's strict environmental and social standards.

• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 144
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 978183529000