Travel

This is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like

by Alexander Barrett

A firsthand look at one of the world’s most livable cities, this fun take on the guidebook genre explores the atmosphere of Portland, Oregon, versus detailing its landmarks and restaurants. It both explains...

Sant'Efisio

by logus mondi interattivi

An appointment that the people of Cagliari, the Sardinians and the ever increasing number of foreign visitors consecrated as the "Festival of Cagliari". A religious and folkloric festivity without parallel in...

The Kelly affair

by Paul D. Brazill

The third chapter of Luke’s wondering around Europe reveals part of his secrets. What is he hiding behind drinks and cigarettes, pubs and women?

The English Concubine: Passion and Power in 1860s Singapore

by Dawn Farnham

In the fourth and final volume of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love affair with Zhen, wealthy Chinese merchant, is an open scandal to both the English and the Chinese...

The Seven Year-Old Pilot

by Capt. Steven Archille & Pascal Giacomini and

Flying has been my dream since before I can remember... literally. My Aunt Odette tells me that when I was three years old, she took me with her to the Port-au-Prince International Airport to pick someone up,...

Healing Adventures - Wellness Getaways for Health & Happiness

by Paul Froemming

Overview –

The world's best places for health & happiness are revealed in this new book, fresh from five continents, with 50 stories and a gallery of color photos. Travel, health and adventure writer Paul Froemming,...

Insight Guides: Lake Garda Mini

by APA Publications Limited

This ebook guides you round the sights and experiences that you can enjoy on and around Lake Garda, Italy's largest lake. Its shores border three provinces (Veneto, Brescia and Trentino), and the landscape is...

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace

by Paul Sochaczewski

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles follows the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. While Wallace is recognized as co-discoverer of the theory of natural...

Confessions of a Key West Cabby

by Michael Suib, Joe Forte & Nancy Butler-Ross

This collection of columns about the author's experience driving a cab in Key West, Florida originally appeared in the Key West Citizen and the Miami Herald. These short essays are humorous and insightful about...

On the Unhappiness of Being Greek

by Nikos Dimou

Required reading for anyone wishing to understand how the Greek crisis came about and what it means to be Greek today written by a controversial patriot and native of Greece.

Chika: Bizarre true accounts of train and street groping in Tokyo, Japan

by Mico Keplar

It is generally acknowledged that there are unusually high incidence rates of molestation in Japan, especially aboard trains and buses but also in pubs and clubs, in the workplace and in the street. Many of...

Kuala Lumpur Undercover

by Paik-Leong Ewe

From the crumbling backstreets of Chow Kit to the gleaming highrises of Sultan Ismail Road, ladies of all ages and ethnicities patrol the dark alleys, fancy clubs and dingy massage parlours of Malaysia’s capital...

Insight Guides: Travel Photography

by Insight Guides

To mark the 40th anniversary of Insight Guides, the leading publisher of visual travel guides, we are publishing our very own Insight Guide to Travel Photography. This practical and informative guide will appeal...

Dancing with the Vodka Terrorists: Misadventures in the 'Stans

by Rob Ferguson

When Rob Ferguson went off to the five former Soviet 'Stans of Central Asia to work on a project to save the rapidly disappearing Aral Sea, he expected to have challenges and adventures, but he didn't anticipate...

Death on a hot afternoon

by Paul D. Brazill

After Red Esperanto, Luke Case, freelance journalist, moves to Madrid from Warsaw. From the pen of Paul Brazill a new short story as noir as ever that will keep you stuck on your eReader.

Lotus Blue

by A.J. Savage

Thailand is a loser's paradise. Harry Marx is picking up the pieces of his life and looking for inspiration in the land of smiles. He finds it in Lotus Blue. But she is not what she seems to be. A sordid tale...

The edge of desire

by Richard Godwin

Exotic perfumes rose from the skins of women as he wandered down the Champs Elysees. He noticed their watchful eyes dart in his direction and the demure coy way they had of looking away, and he looked forward...

A Crack in the Earth

by Haim Watzman

The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since...

Weekend in Beijing (english version)

by Pedro BARBOSA

A real time be-book

"be", because this is a real time book. But it's also a beta electronic. Because is a electronic test that can be changed and improved by everyone who reads it.

This is not a technic book,...

Love in the time of Bin Laden

by Ebla Ahmed

A journey to the timeless and wonderful Sana'a. The discovery of her body and her own femininity by a girl arrived in Yemen after years of living in the Western world. An unusual and sensual path through glances...