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  City Walks: Paris - 50...

  Christina Henry de Tessan

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  Explore the boulevards and bistros of the City of Light with fifty walking tours highlighting both major landmarks and lesser-known gems. 
   
  Paris is a perfect city to explore à pied, and this ebook is designed for just that. On each page you’ll find an illustrated map and, along with it, insider info on where to eat, drink, stop, and shop.  
   
  With these fifty self-guided walking adventures you can explore historic sites, from the Arc de Triomphe to the Musée du Louvre, as well as uncover lesser-known gems, from open-air markets and intimate cafes to small museums with world-class art. Choose any page, and Paris is yours for the taking.

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  French Short Stories for...

  Christian Stahl

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  10 Short Stories for Beginners and Travelers 
  This audio book in French contains 10 culturally relevant French short stories for beginners and travelers.  
  Probably the best way to learn French is with a suitable audio book in French with which you can learn quality audio french lessons for adults. Learning French through listening to travel relevant short stories is an excellent way to get a good grasp of the language, especially for beginners. All the French short stories in this audiobook include important vocabulary for travelers, new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed. Towards the end of this book you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for beginners. The voice is medium-paced and natural as spoken in France and Europe. 
  This French language audiobook offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to France or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for French language learners but also for anyone interested in French culture in general. (French conversation audio version 2) 
  There are many French audio books on the market, but this one will help you as well as entertain you, so get your copy now!

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  Czech in 40 Minutes: Learn to...

  Collins Collins

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  Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Czech language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. 
  Collins Gem Phrase Books are designed for ease of use, with practical, flexible phrases that can be adapted to suit the needs of the traveller. But often, it’s not the question that’s the problem, it’s the reply. This downloadable audio file for your Audible-compatible mp3 player (including your iPod) addresses this problem. 
  Along with the key phrases you need to get by – simple, to-the-point and polite – the audio file gives you an idea of what the shopkeeper, the waiter, or the passer-by you ask directions from may say to you. 
  This volume uses this unique approach to teach the reader (and listener) Czech quickly and effectively.

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  Tales of the Alhambra

  Washington Irving

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  One of the most entertaining travelogues ever written, Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra is a heady mix of fact, myth, and depictions of secret chambers, desperate battles, imprisoned princesses, palace ghosts, and fragrant gardens, described in a wistful and dreamlike eloquence. Irving, who also penned "Rip Van Winkle" and "Sleepy Hollow," wrote Tales of the Alhambra during a stay at the legendary Alhambra in Granada, Spain. The Alhambra is a combination fort, palace, and gardens dating from the thirteenth century, filled with fantastic Arabic architecture (ornate plasterwork, ceramic tiles, sculpted marble fountains, and archways) and plenty of room for imagining the days of its former greatness, which Irving brings to life most memorably. Even though Tales of the Alhambra is over 170 years old, it seems as if it was written yesterday. There are tales of princes, genies, lost and found loves, enchanted treasures, battles, hellish headless horses, and commentary on the Spanish landscape and nature of the Spaniards that he lives with. Full of bewitching music, the smell of roses and exotic perfumes, fiery sunsets, and the ghosts of the past, Tales of the Alhambra is a sensory treat as well.

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  Taking Lady Gibraltar

  Dick Schwirian

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  Grant's Convoluted Tour de Force in the WestThe Taking of Lady Gibraltar is about one of the major events of the Civil War: the campaign to seize Vicksburg by Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant. Before 1863, Vicksburg, situated on high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, was thought to be impregnable. Grant created a new reality. The capture of Vicksburg and its garrison was, if not the signature northern victory of the Civil War, at least among the top contenders. It denied the Confederacy free access to the Mississippi River, it split the South in two, and, perhaps most importantly, it ultimately persuaded Abraham Lincoln to appoint Grant commander of all Union armies. In the words of the sixteenth president: “I can’t spare this man. He fights.”  It may be inaccurate to say that Grant won the Civil War for the North, but there is truth in the claim. His success, first in the west and later in the east, was phenomenal. Was he a military genius? Probably not. But he had a keen sense for the opportunistic moment and the fortitude to pursue a course of action relentlessly, once chosen. The Taking of Lady Gibraltar illustrates these qualities—and some shortcomings—in an exciting and stimulating read for anyone who loves Civil War history and historical fiction.

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  New Jerusalem

  G. K. Chesterton

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  The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox.Dale Ahlquist calls the book a "philosophical travelogue" of Chesterton's journey across Europe to Palestine. "On the road to Cairo one may see twenty groups exactly like that of the Holy Family in the pictures of the Flight into Egypt; with only one difference. The man is riding on the ass."  
   
  "The real mistake of the Muslims is something much more modern in its application than any particular passing persecution of Christians as such. It lay in the very fact that they did think they had a simpler and saner sort of Christianity, as do many modern Christians. They thought it could be made universal merely by being made uninteresting. Now a man preaching what he thinks is a platitude is far more intolerant than a man preaching what he admits is a paradox. It was exactly because it seemed self-evident, to Muslims as to Bolshevists, that their simple creed was suited to everybody, that they wished in that particular sweeping fashion to impose it on everybody." (Summary from Wikipedia)

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