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NON FICTION >> Travelling
Bruno Paulet:
MÉMOIRES DES SABLES · En Haute-Asie sur la piste oubliée d´Ella Maillart et Peter Fleming
Ediitons Olizane · Genève, 2008 · 320 pp · 16 pp colour photographs
MEMORIES OF THE SANDS · In the steps of Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming in Central Asia
Winner of the Prix Pierre Loti 2008 (for travel literature)
This book relates a 800 km trip on a high altitude desert (average of 4000 m) situated on the edge of the Taklamakan, a region where the Tibetan, Mongol and Uighur civlization meet.
Alexander Smoltczyk:
VATIKANISTAN · Eine Entdeckungsreise durch den kleinsten Staat der Welt
Heyne · München, 2008 · 352 · with illustrations + maps
VATICANISTAN · journey of discovery through the smallest state in the world
Alexander Smoltczyk, the Rome correspondent of the SPIEGEL and the author of a weekly online Vatican column, has written an awesome travel guide of the Holy City.
Michael Yamashita & William Lindesay:
THE GREAT WALL · From Beginning to End
Sterling · New York, 2007 · 176 pp · all in color
It is arguably the greatest feat of civil engineering in history, and indisputably earth’s largest single cultural relic: begun during the Qin Dynasty (around 208 BC) and completed nearly 1,800 years later during the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall of China spans more than 4,000 miles.
Katharina Holtmann:
AUF DEN SPUREN VON DONNA LEONS ROMANEN
books&friends · Essen, 2006 · 180 pp · photos + maps
THE TRAVEL GUIDE TO DONNA LEON'S NOVELS
Following the most famous italian commissario, Guido Brunetti, through his home town Venice and finding out where Donna Leon's worldwide criminal bestsellers are located.
