South Korea
Автор: Mark Dake
Год издания: 0000
A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers’ gem of East Asia. For seventeen years, journalist, teacher, and coach Mark Dake has called South Korea home. Now, with his longtime Korean friend Heju, he sets out on a four-month, ten-thousand-kilometre road trip, determined to uncover the real country. From the electric street life of Seoul to the tense northern border, where deadly skirmishes still erupt, the pair’s shoestring, wing-and-a-prayer trek takes them well off the beaten trail and across the complicated nation. Along the way are prisons, dinosaurs, anthropology, history, marine life, art, and abundant nature. There are Buddhist temples, fairgrounds, palaces, national parks, bridges, historical sites, forts, churches, and cemeteries. Whether standing amidst ancient stone tombs and religious architecture unrivalled in Asia, or at military briefings under the steely eyes of North Korean sentries, Mark and Heju are tireless explorers in search of the culture, geography, and beauty of this enigmatic peninsula.
An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798
Автор: John Barrow
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798 : including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent, the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population, and produce of that extensive colony / by John Barrow».
Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian Sea
Автор: James Baillie Fraser
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian sea : with an appendix, containing short notices of the geology and commerce of Persia / by James B. Fraser».
An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2
Автор: William Mariner
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 2».
An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 1
Автор: William Mariner
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 1».