Geography

The book by the famous Danish traveler, explorer, publicist and writer Arne Falk-Rönne is dedicated to the beginning of the colonization of Australia at the ...

A tropical paradise with snow-white sands and azure sea - this is how Bali is imagined by those who have never been there. Do you want to know more? About “b...

Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, Jean Bart, Peter Hein, Pierre Lemoine d'Iberville, Paul Jones, Thomas Cavendish, Oliver van Noort, William Dampier, Woods Rogers...

Bill Bryson had not been to America for almost twenty years - and when he returned, he realized that he was looking at his native country through the eyes of...

The book by famous explorers of the world's oceans tells about the first discoveries of the Underwater Research Group - young enthusiastic friends - about th...

Alexander Genis is a writer, cultural scientist, radio host, author of many books (“The Tower of Babel”, “Ivan Petrovich Died”, “Dovlatov and the Surrounding...

The idea to write this book came along with middle age - fewer and fewer of my classmates are alive. If they did not die tragically at sea, then sea life and...

This book from the “What is What” series tells about the history of cartography from ancient times to the present day, about how geographical maps have been ...

Bertie Arkwright arrived in the Solomon Islands to get to know their colorful and harsh life...

“Every time I look back and remember the past, the figure of the Upper Ussuri Goldman Dersu Uzal, now deceased, stands before me. My heart breaks with melanc...

Among the hills of Italian Umbria, in a picturesque valley surrounded by olive groves and orchards, American actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry bought...