Geography

...Many topics were connected with this story of the death of a group of tourists, including the secrets of rocket flight, radiation from nuclear weapons tes...

As soon as Uncle Antifer finds out the exact coordinates of the island on which countless treasures bequeathed to his father (and therefore to himself!) were...

The book tells about the years I lived in Sweden, with all its beauty and secrets.

Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the key figures in modern Polish prose. Russian readers are familiar with his novel “The White Raven”, the story “Duklya”, short st...

Welcome to Rick Steves’ EuropeTravel is intensified living—maximum thrills per minute and one of the last great sources of legal adventure. Travel is free...

Introduction.Mention Switzerland and people typically think of the Alps, Heidi, cheese, yodeling, chocolate and St. Bernards. Yet, this relatively small c...

In 1829, at the invitation of Emperor Nicholas I, the famous German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt organized an expedition across the European part of Rus...

Every person at least once in his life has to experience a situation that can be called “on the brink of survival” or “between life and death.” Invaluable su...

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattl...

Travel diaries of the great Jewish travelers of the 9th-13th centuries - Benjamin of Tudela, Petahia of Regensburg and Eldad Danit, describing the life of Je...