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  Insight Guides Explore Barcelona...

  Insight Guides

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  Barcelona is a bustling, vibrant city with plenty to do and see, from a tour of the iconic Nou Camp, to a stroll down Las Ramblas, to relaxing on one of its famous beaches. Insight Guide Explore Barcelona is the ideal pocket companion for your trip: a full-colour guide containing 12 easy-to-follow routes around this fascinating city. Inside Explore Barcelona:�       Discover the lively nightlife and bustling daytime of this proud, Catalan city.�       Insight's trademark cultural coverage sets the routes in context, with introductions to Barcelona's cuisine, entertainment options, wealth of activities on offer and key historical dates.�       Our recommended places to eat and drink are highlighted in each route, with even more suggestions in the directory section, which also contains a wealth of useful practical informationincluding a range of carefully selected accommodation to suit all budgets.�       Pull-out map with useful plotted routes. �       Evocative photography captures Barcelona's stunning architecture, including Gaudi's masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia.  About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 
  'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

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  Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in...

  Andrew K. Amelinckx

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  This criminal history of the Berkshires is brimming with unforgettable stories of greed, jealousy, and madness from the turn of the twentieth century.   The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts are known for their picturesque beauty, but this history offers a fascinating look at the region’s dark side. This chronicle includes true tales of greed, betrayal and violence in The Bay State.   In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of the upper crust . . .   A visit from President Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 ended in tragedy when a trolley car smashed into the presidential carriage, killing a Secret Service agent . . .   A psychotic millworker opened fire on a packed streetcar, leaving three dead and five wounded, shocking the nation . . .   These and many more stories—from axe murders to botched bank jobs—paint a stark portrait of the inequities that shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age.

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  A Goddess in the Stones -...

  Norman Lewis

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  A fascinating portrait of the eclectic tribes of India and the remote regions that they inhabitIn the 1990s, the fifty-four million members of India’s tribal colonies accounted for seven percent of the country’s total population—yet very little about them was recorded. Norman Lewis depicts India’s jungles as being endangered by “progress,” and his sense of urgency in recording what he can about the country’s distinct tribes results in a compelling and engaging narrative. From the poetic Muria people whose diet includes monkeys, red ants, and crocodiles, to the tranquil mountain tribes who may be related to the Australian Aborigines, to the naked Mundas people who may shoot, with bow and arrow, anyone who laughs in their direction, Lewis chronicles the unique characteristics of the many tribes that find their way of life increasingly threatened by the encroachment of modernity.

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  Anchorages & Marinas from...

  Roland Nyns

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  This book holds detailed descriptions of the marinas and anchorages between Guadeloupe and Martinique, including charts, original photographs and advice for visits ashore. The book covers 6 islands and 30 anchorages and marinas and as many chart extracts.

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  Lake Nipigon - Where the Great...

  Nancy Scott

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  2017 Gertrude H. Dyke Award — Nominated 
   
  
  The history of Lake Nipigon, where the Great Lakes begin. 
   
  
  The name Nipigon is evocative of storied brook trout, cold clear waters, elusive woodland caribou, sweeping vistas, and spectacular scenery. Situated in the heart of Northwestern Ontario, almost every map of North America shows Lake Nipigon as a significant geographic feature, yet few people know its story. As the primary watershed that flows into Lake Superior, Nipigon is the headwaters of the Great Lakes. 
   
    
  This, the first inclusive historical account of Lake Nipigon, provides a fascinating overview of its extensive natural history, including information on species at risk, and interprets the story of human incursion into the area, from its aboriginal prehistory to the colourful fur trade, the harvesting of resources, the coming of the railway, recreational fishing, eventual settlement, and the communities that remain today.

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  The Bells in Their Silence -...

  Michael Gorra

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  Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany. 
   Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W. G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing. 
   Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries--and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood--The Bells in Their Silence offers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.

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