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On his 1972 tour, he travelled with his friend Matt Angerer, pseudonymised in the book as Stephen Katz, who also appeared more prominently in Bryson's later book A Walk in the Woods, as well as in The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. [3] Bryson's trip begins in the winter, in Hammerfest, Norway, where his goal is to see the Northern ...
Many tourists who enjoy sailing combine water travel with other activities. Supplying the equipment and accessories for those activities has spawned businesses for those purposes. [ 1 ] With many nautical enthusiasts living on board their vessels even in port, nautical tourists bring demand for a variety of goods and services.
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe.
Slow Boats to China (1981) Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey (1983) Slow Boats Home (1985) Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (1945) – this text describes Durrell's time in Corfu. It should be read in tandem with his brother Gerald's My Family and Other ...
TRAVEL POSITIVE: A new piece of research is envisioning how the travel industry can survive in a decarbonising world. Helen Coffey takes a look at the data that proves that, while ‘business as ...
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.
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