Travel was a way of life for the Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke, and it was integral to his work. Between 1897 and 1920 he visited Venice ten times. The city has inspired countless writ
Although the Jewish people were not technically part of the reparations, dissolution, and remaking of new countries after WWI, they took the opportunity to express their needs and carve out a solutio
The Czechoslovak state was created by two very different men: Toma? Masaryk and Eduard Bene?. Masaryk the stallion of the Czechoslovak cause, President of the Republic from 1918 to 1935; Bene? the Cz
On ten strolls through London, Rudiger Gorner explores the literary landscape of the capital. He meets William Shakespeare, Heinrich Heine, and William?Hogarth south of the river; finds Virginia Woolf
Concerned about the possible demise of the Gulf Stream, Érik Orsenna read, investigated, interviewed experts, and traveled from the violent swirls off the coast of Florida to the maelstroms of N
Each year, over 200,000 people pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Often called the Way of St. James, this journey has been an important Christian tradition for centuries.T
As China’s global influence continues to rise, its capital, Beijing, has become increasingly important—and a popular tourist destination, greeting close to five million international visitors each yea
Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in sp
Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba, and Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life and work. This book, the first on the subject, explores Hemingway’s visits througho
Whether it is in Madrid's cafés or in Barcelona's fish markets, van den Brink takes you on a trip through Spain where tasting and smelling are the key occupations.
The Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia are remote and largely neglected by outsiders. Will Buckingham went there, as an anthropologist in training, with a mission. He hoped to meet three remarkable sc
