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SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD\n\nA Financial Times Book of the Year\nA Spectator Book of the Year\nA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year\n\n'Travel writing in excelsis' -Jan Morris, author of Venice\n'A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder' -Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun\n\nNick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest: to follow four of Europe's winds across the continent...\n\nHis wind-walks begin on Cross Fell, the highest point of the Pennines, as he chases the roaring Helm - the only named wind in Britain. In southern Europe he follows the Bora - a bitter northerly that blows from Trieste through Slovenia and down the Croatian coast. His hunt for the 'snow-eating' Foehn becomes a meandering journey of exhilaration and despair through the Alpine valleys of Switzerland, and his final walk traces an ancient pilgrims' path in the south of France on the trail of the Mistral - the 'wind of madness' which animated and tormented Vincent Van Gogh.\n\nThese are journeys into wild wind, but also into wild landscapes and the people who inhabit them - a cast of meteorologists, storm chasers, mountain men, eccentric wind enthusiasts, sailors and shepherds. Soon Nick finds himself borne along by the very forces he is pursuing, through rain, blizzards, howling gales, and back through time itself. For, where the wild winds are, there are also myths and legends, history and hearsay, science and superstition - and occasionally remote mountain cabins packed with pickles, cured meats and homemade alcohol.\n\nWhere the Wild Winds Are is a beautiful, unconventional travelogue that makes the invisible visible.

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Avreste mai pensato di imbattervi nella tundra artica in Scozia, di passeggiare all’ombra della foresta vergine in Polonia e in Bielorussia, di traversare steppe erbose sferzate da venti selvaggi in Ungheria o di esplorare canyon rocciosi del deserto in Spagna? In \"Sentieri di sabbia e ghiaccio\" l’acclamato scrittore di viaggi Nick Hunt ci guida attraverso le terre più insolite d’Europa, terre estreme che a un primo sguardo appaiono fuori posto. Più simili a exclavi dell’Africa, dell’Asia, dei poli o del Nord America, questi improbabili paesaggi rendono il nostro civilizzato continente più misterioso, esotico e ricco di segreti ancora da svelare. A fronte del rapido deterioramento climatico di deserti, steppe e foreste e all’inarrestabile fusione dei ghiacciai di tutto il mondo, questo libro rivela habitat stravaganti che sopravvivono nel nostro “giardino di casa”, insieme alla loro ricca fauna selvatica: renne, bisonti, stambecchi, lupi e mandrie di cavalli selvatici. Con una sublime scrittura di viaggio, Hunt segue un cammino sorprendente e ispirante, informato e letterario, attraverso paesaggi che stentiamo a credere esistano alle nostre latitudini, dimostrandoci che lo straordinario è molto più vicino di quanto immaginiamo.

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EAN: 9781529387414
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In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary.\n\nFrom snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines to threadbare, yellow open grassland, these anomalies transport us to faraway regions of the world. More like pockets of Africa, Asia, the Poles or North America, they make our own continent seem larger, stranger and more filled with secrets.\n\nAgainst the rapid climate breakdown of deserts, steppes and primeval jungles across the world, this book discovers the outlandish environments so much closer to home - along with their abundant wildlife: reindeer; bison; ibex; wolves and herds of wild horses. Blending sublime travel writing, nature writing and history - by way of Paleolithic cave art, reindeer nomads, desert wanderers, shamans, Slavic forest gods, , European bison, Wild West fantasists, eco-activists, horseback archers, Big Grey Men and other unlikely spirits of place - these desolate and rich environments show us that the strange has always been near.

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EAN: 9781857886436
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In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Aged eighteen, Nick Hunt read A Time of Gifts and dreamed of following in Fermor's footsteps.\n\nIn 2011 he began his own great trudge - on foot all the way to Istanbul. He walked across Europe through eight countries, following two major rivers and crossing three mountain ranges. Using Fermor's books as his only travel guide, he trekked some 2,500 miles through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. His aim? To have an old-fashioned adventure. To slow down and linger in a world where we pass by so much, so fast. To discover for himself what remained of hospitality, kindness to strangers, freedom, wildness, adventure, the mysterious, the unknown, the deeper currents of myth and story that still flow beneath Europe's surface.

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EAN: 9788854519022
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Un libro che conferma l'appartenenza di Nick Hunt alla medesima dinastia di Patrick Leigh Fermor, Robert Byron e Bruce Chatwin.«Un libro splendido, ricco di intuizioni e di spirito... Un omaggio al leggendario viaggio di Patrick Leigh Fermor attraverso l'Europa dei primi anni Trenta e, nello stesso tempo, un'avventura epica unica. Magnifico» – Robert MacfarlaneNel dicembre del 1933 il diciottenne Patrick Leigh Fermor partì alla ventura con un paio di scarponi chiodati per attraversare l'Europa «come un vagabondo, un pellegrino o un chierico vagante», a piedi da Hoek van Holland a Istanbul. Quando, anni dopo, il diciottenne Nick Hunt scopre i libri di Patrick Leigh Fermor, non può fare a meno di identificarsi con quel coraggioso giovanotto partito alla ricerca del suo posto nel mondo. Già allora Hunt sente, con assoluta certezza, che un giorno seguirà i passi di Fermor, ripercorrendo lo stesso itinerario attraverso Olanda, Germania, Austria, Slovacchia, Ungheria, Romania, Bulgaria e Turchia, per scoprire quanto di selvaggio sia rimasto in quelle terre. Del resto, quale modo migliore di conoscere l'Europa dell'esporsi completamente a essa, cosciente di ogni goccia di pioggia, di ogni sasso sotto i piedi? Come comprendere meglio i processi di perdita e cambiamento, se non viaggiando all'ombra delle parole di Patrick Leigh Fermor? E soprattutto, quale miglior sistema per vivere una buona, vecchia avventura? In un'epoca di informazione globale, Hunt evita deliberatamente di fare ricerche sui luoghi che intende attraversare, portando con sé solo i libri di Fermor, con le loro informazioni superate da ottant'anni. Con quell'unica testimonianza a fare da sfondo, attraverso i boschi e l'acqua, il vento e la pioggia, i campi, le foreste, le città, i sobborghi, le montagne e le autostrade, Hunt verificherà di persona quanto resta dell'ospitalità, della cortesia verso gli stranieri, della libertà, della vita selvaggia, dell'avventura, del mistero, dell'ignoto, delle correnti più profonde del mito e della storia che scorrono ancora sotto la superficie dell'Europa. «Degno tributo all'originale» (\"The Bookseller\"), Camminando fra i boschi e l'acqua è un libro che conferma l'appartenenza di Nick Hunt alla medesima dinastia di Patrick Leigh Fermor, Robert Byron e Bruce Chatwin.

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EAN: 9780099414988
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In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new breed of fuelless transport systems - and weapons beyond our imagination. Of course it never happened. Or did it? Forty years later a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediction forces a highly sceptical aerospace and defence journalist, Nick Cook, to consider the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code - and has covered up ever since. His investigations moved from the corridors of NASA to the dark heartland of America's classified weapons establishment, where it became clear that half a century ago, in the dying days of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists were racing to perfect a Pandora's Box of high technology that would deliver Germany from defeat. History says that they failed. But the trail that takes Cook deep into the once-impenetrable empire of SS General Hans Kammler - the man charged by Adolf Hitler with perfecting German secret weapons technology - says otherwise. In his pursuit of the true facts behind Kammler, Cook finally establishes the truth: America is determined to hang onto its secrets, but the stakes are enormous and others are now in the race to acquire a suppressed technology.

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EAN: 9788881586837
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\"Terminal Stage\" analizza in profondità i temi della metamorfosi e della trasformazione biologica che caratterizzano l'opera dell'americano Richard Dupont dal 2003, anno in cui lo scultore iniziò a produrre opere legate ad una scansione digitale tridimensionale del suo corpo. Gli ambienti scultorei di Dupont impegnano lo spettatore in relazioni percettive-fisiologiche che si sviluppano tra lo spazio mentale e il mondo fisico. Il libro si concentra su una grande installazione pubblica in un edificio di New York.

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EAN: 9781250749987
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It's been a long time since Kitty has had a playdate. So her owners decide it's about time she interacts with some friends. But the playdate takes a turn when Kitty and her friend Strange Kitty don their armor and become Super Cat and Captain FantastiCat!\n\nTogether, they must go on a scavenger hunt across the world (their house and yard) and recover the Orbs of Destiny (some dog balls) in order to prevent the ninty-two universes from being turned into cheese by the nefarious Dr. Lagomorph!\n\nWill they succeed in their mission? Or will the world as we know it descend into chaos and curds?

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Kitty doesn’t want an Easter egg. Kitty wants the Easter egg. Kitty wants . . . the GOLDEN EGG!\n\nSo she goes on the hunt.\n\nThere! A blue egg! But Kitty doesn’t want a blue egg.\n\nOr there! A purple egg! But Kitty doesn’t want a purple egg.\n\nBut then . . . Kitty sees something! Something round . . . and sparkly . . .\n\nWill Kitty find the GOLDEN EGG?

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EAN: 9781787704794
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IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leïla Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt • plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the invention of the Mediterranean diet; and more…\n\n\nThe word “Mediterranean” evokes something larger than geography, and has historically marked a distinct cultural space, one where different people have met, traded, and clashed. \n\n\nToday the Mediterranean appears to be in crisis, neglected by the EU, and at the centre of one of the greatest migrations in history. While millions of tourists flock to its shores, hundreds of thousands of people face a dramatic journey in the opposite direction—to escape wars, persecutions, and poverty. The liquid road, as Homer called it, is increasingly militarized, trafficked, and polluted—as well as overheated and overfished.\n\n\nBut the Mediterranean remains a source of wonder and fascination—a space not entirely colonized by modernity, where time flows differently, and where multiple cultures and languages are in very close contact and dialogue.

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