Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Travel & Tourism

Are you keen to start camping and sample the great outdoors? Maybe you are a complete beginner or a seasoned pro? This audiobook will provide great advice, whichever you are! There can be nothing better than getting out into the fresh air and camping by the side of a river, forest, or mountain. The good that it does for body and soul is difficult to replicate in any other sport or pastime, and the great thing is that it doesn’t matter what age you are; camping can be enjoyed by all.

This audiobook is about Japanese onsens, which are one of the most popular destinations in Japan. They offer a range of benefits for locals and travelers across the world. In this mini-guide, you will find an easy-to-understand overview on onsens, explanations of how to use onsens for beginners, and best tips on your stay at onsens.

Awesome adventures with amazing people in incredible places. That's what San Francisco film maker Christopher Strong (aka/ the Bicycle Gourmet) has been experiencing cycling the French country back roads filming his Treasures of France Lifestyle Adventure series.

My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker is based on Melissa Burch's experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she was featured in a New York Times story about her time in Afghanistan. She was just in her 20s when she traveled with the moujahedeen, filmed an attack on a Soviet convoy, slept with an Afghan commander, and climbed 14,000-foot mountains in the Hindu Kush.

The American West was a notion, not a nation. It was a process, not a place. The native animal and human life of the West was displaced, replaced, and exterminated - 60 million bison to make way for European bog animals, billions of passenger pigeons for nothing, and 90 percent of aboriginal native Americans, out of an original population of possibly a hundred million, by accident and design. Late in the summer of 2013, I set out to find the Old West, what it had been, and what had replaced it.

Im Jahr 2006, als sich die Welt noch ohne Smartphones und Navi drehte, unternahm der Autor, damals mittelloser Student in Berlin, eine knapp dreiwöchige, 2400 km lange Radreise von seinem ostsächsischen Heimatdorf über die Alpen und durch Südfrankreich bis an den Atlantik. Gewappnet mit Straßenkarte, Kompass, einem Zelt und wenig Geld kämpft er sich anfangs über Feld- und Waldwege durch Deutschland. Wie soll er so bis nach Westfrankreich kommen?

Led Through the Jungle is a true story about time I spent travelling through Colombia, which included walking through a jungle near the border with Venezuela. It was a time of some risk in Colombia but my Colombian friend's careful planning enabled me to experience small wild monkeys in that park as well as involvement with other native animals, including cuddling a three toed sloth, seeing a large capybara up close and holding a macaw and seeing iguanas and chameleons.

La excusa de una graduación para realizar un viaje en coche por el oeste de Estados Unidos hacia la Falla de San Andrés y el Gran Cañón del Colorado. Todo empezó cuando mi sobrina Laura que vive cerca de Dallas, me propuso ir a la graduación de mi otra sobrina Rebeca, que vive en los Ángeles. Claro que eso solamente fue la chispa que encendió el fuego de una aventura mayor: visitar el Gran Cañón del Colorado.

Unlock the keys to save money shopping offline. The age of the Internet has allowed people to connect with each other like never before. It's opened up an entire world of music, thoughts, cat videos and, of course, shopping.

France has many treasures - food, wine, fashion, history, art. But for me, one of the France's greatest treasures are its people. After a zillion and a half years cycling the French country backroads, I've had awesome adventures with incredible people, of all nationalities, and I'm going to share them with you now, in this audiobook!

This is an unabridged diary kept by actor/writer/director Roger Worrod from January to March 2008, when he was the only passenger on the Grey Fox, a 192 meter-long mixed-cargo boat, from Belgium to South Africa. He went around South Africa by train and on a return trip with the Grey Fox to the Netherlands and on to Switzerland. This was a journey through space and time to re-find his father 60 years after his first voyage to Cape Town on the Winchester Castle, in 1948.

The Final Cartwheel is the story of a young doctor's return home, after a five-year hitchhiking odyssey around the world. Through East Asia, Indonesia, and around the Antipodes, the circle becomes unbroken.

In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up to hitchhike around the world. The first part of his odyssey took him through South America and up through Africa, accompanied by his mythical hunter companion, Orion. Between the Cartwheels is the sequel to that cartwheel, his vision quest continuing now on the European grand tour adventure of a lifetime.

Somewhere beyond the Salish Sea lived the Stout Men who did the Megin River, and Tibet, and the Amazon. There was Tictac and Poldy, Cliffy and Madame, Captain and Gung, and Papa Smurf, who would die someday, but not yet. These are the stories of where they rushed headlong, towards adventure and suffering, and how it all took place.

Only a few weeks old, Gypsy is left in a box outside a pet shop on Crete, Greece. Rescued by David, she spends her first year learning about olives, beaches, and reiki. David then decides to move to a tiny, almost uninhabited island. Gypsy goes too. She learns to catch crabs and live on beans and fish heads! One year later, Gypsy hitchhikes with David for eight days to Germany. After settling in with Petra and her two cats, Gypsy decides to write her autobiography.

I've been there. Years, months, and just hours ago. And it is so wonderful to get over it, to be able to choose to get up and use this time to greet the dawn, to get clarity and change my life, or to soothe the beast and be able to go back to sleep in peace, and wake again knowing that there is nothing to be afraid of, that I am life and my life is perfect and we are all perfect. This is an audiobook about faith, about adventure, about living with my heart open, and letting go of the fear of being myself.

The Travel Adventures of Harvey & Smudge—In Dublin's Fair City is part of a series of audiobooks which follow two dogs as they visit cities around the world. The stories are full of facts and amusing content, with the strap line 'Laugh & Learn through the Travel Adventures of Harvey & Smudge.'