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"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

Make the most of your time on Earth with the ultimate travel guides. World-renowned 'tell it like it is' travel guide, now with free eBook. Discover Crete with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest recommendations by our independent experts. Whether you plan to visit the 3500-year-old Minoan palace of Knossos, stroll along the turquoise waters and rose-tinted sands of Elafonisi or hike one of Crete's countless gorge hikes that take you from the mountains to the sea, The Rough Guide to Crete will help you discover the best places to explore, eat, drink, shop and sleep along the way. Features of this travel guide to Crete:- Detailed regional coverage: provides practical information for every kind of trip, from off-the-beaten-track adventures to chilled-out breaks in popular tourist areas- Honest and independent reviews: written with Rough Guides' trademark blend of humour, honesty and expertise, our writers will help you make the most from your trip to Crete- Meticulous mapping: practical full-colour maps, with clearly numbered, colour-coded keys. Find your way around Irakilo, Lasithi and many more locations without needing to get online- Fabulous full-colour photography: features inspirational colour photography, including the striking windmills on the Lasithi Plateau and the awesome Melidhoni Cave- Time-saving itineraries: carefully planned routes will help inspire and inform your on-the-road experiences- Things not to miss: Rough Guides' rundown of Hania, Ayios Nikolaos and Rethymno's best sights and top experiences- Travel tips and info: packed with essential pre-departure information including getting around, accommodation, food and drink, health, the media, festivals, sports and outdoor activities, culture and etiquette, shopping and more- Background information: comprehensive 'Contexts' chapter provides fascinating insights into Crete, with coverage of history, religion, ethnic groups, environment, wildlife and books, plus a handy language section and glossary- The ultimate travel tool: download the free eBook to access all this from your phone or tablet- Covers: Iraklio; Lasithi; Rethymno; HaniaYou may also be interested in: The Rough Guide to Greece, The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands, The Rough Guide to SicilyAbout Rough Guides: Rough Guides have been inspiring travellers for over 35 years, with over 30 million copies sold globally. Synonymous with practical travel tips, quality writing and a trustworthy 'tell it like it is' ethos, the Rough Guides list includes more than 260 travel guides to 120+ destinations, gift-books and phrasebooks.

Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change-The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal-a form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observations-by turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholy-and the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.

In the 1970s I was teaching in Athens and came across the account by Lord Hunt, of Everest fame, of his 1963 traverse of the Pindos mountains with a mixed party of Greek and English youngsters. I decided that I would try to retrace his itinerary and my route became the backbone of the first edition of this guide in 1986. Since then I have added descriptions of most of the interesting mainland massifs so that the book became a general guide to mountain trekking in Greece. At the time of the last revision I acquired a colleague, Michael Cullen, who was born and grew up in Greece and founded its first ever trekking company. This time we decided to change the format of the guide quite radically, ditching almost everything in favour of a single route that runs pretty much the length of the country from the northern frontier with Albania to the southernmost reaches of the Peloponnese. We have accordingly also changed the title to The Peloponnese and Pindos Way, in the hope that this will give the book a clearer focus and identity and help to attract walkers to come and sample the real charms and beauties of Greece's mountains. If you are in any doubt, there is no better taster than the blog of Jane and Alan Laurie (http://greekhiking.com) describing their epic 2014 walk from the Prespa Lakes on the Albanian-Greek border to their home in the southern Peloponnese, most of it following a route identical with or very close to ours. And keep an eye on our websites, www.thepindosway.com and www.thepeloponneseway.com, for additional photographs and various extra snippets and bits of information which we will add as time goes by.

On your walks in Athens, with your family or friends, you will surely come across huge statues like giants - you could even stand beside them and find out how tall they really are. Riders appear suddenly out of Byzantine icons or marble reliefs - can you picture yourself as a rider? You will come across buildings that measure time, works of art depicting musicians -can you hear their song? The pages of this book will take you through the streets of Athens, a city that has many stories to tell, a city that can fascinate and entertain you. Inside this book you will find: - Suggestions about where to go and what to see. - Activities and things to make. - An inventory of everything we suggest you see. Take notes about the time you saw or visited the various monuments. Send postcards to your friends, keep the plastic bottles of water you drink as you walk around the city in order to make an hourglass, observe the sky at night and make your own paintings... There are lots of ways to see a city!

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Ο μικρός αυτός οδηγός θέλει να αναδείξει την ομορφιά και τις ιδιαιτερότητες των τριών ορεινών γιγάντων της Ρούμελης: της Γκιώνας, των Βαρδουσίων και του Παρνασσού. Κείμενα και φωτογραφίες για τη βλάστηση, τη χλωρίδα και την πανίδα διαδρομές στους οικισμούς και τα μνημεία και μια ευρεία επιλογή από πεζοπορικές διαδρομές με χάρτες και περιγραφές, καλοκαιρινές και χειμερινές αναρριχήσεις, κάποιες προτάσεις για διαχίσεις με ορειβατικά σκι.

Ο πρώτος οδηγός για το ορειβατικό σκι στην Ελλάδα. Περιλαμβάνει γενικές οδηγίες και αναλυτικές περιγραφές για διαδρομές που μπορεί να ακολουθήσει κανείς σε 23 βουνά της ηπειρωτικής χώρας, της Πελοποννήσου, της Εύβοιας και της Κρήτης. Σε κάθε βουνό υπάρχει λεπτομερής χάρτης με σημειωμένες τις προτεινόμενες διαδρομές και πολλές φωτογραφίες. Αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι ο οδηγός μπορεί να φανεί χρήσιμος και σε μη-σκιέρ: Πρώτον γιατί μπορείτε να περπατήσετε τις περισσότερες διαδρομές που περιγράφονται, το καλοκαίρι, και δεύτερο, και ακόμα καλύτερο, γιατί μπορείτε να πάρετε έκπτωση 10% για όλες τις αγορές σας στα σημεία που αναφέρονται με την ένδειξη "ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΗ" όπως ξενοδοχεία, εστιατόρια και αμπελώνες, αν δείξετε αυτό το βιβλίο.

und. Athens is a new art-guide that seeks to map, record and promote the alternative art scene of Athens today. Focusing on contemporary art by young and emerging artists based in the city, this independent double publication offers a comprehensive directory of artist-run spaces, artist studios, galleries, museums and institutions in Athens, presented alongside local insights about each neighbourhood, where to eat and which streets are worth exploring. The first city guide of its kind in Greece, und. Athens comes as a printed, foldable map available for sale at select bookstores, shops and other locations. This map is the perfect companion for art-curious urban explorers to discover a city thatʼs changing rapidly and in ways that cannot be immediately grasped: shifting demographics, unique architectural and urban-planning conditions, a shaky political landscape—and the tired adage of an indefinite crisis screeching in the background—are shaping the city every day in a myriad ways, and particularly the way local artists think and work. From the visual arts and street art to performance and creative writing, und. Athens turns the spotlight on alternative art spaces and projects, in an attempt to reassemble a city that is broken as much as it is in flux. Edited and published by Kiriakos Spirou Designed by Natassa Pappa Photos by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos