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In Travels with Plotinus, Moin Mir follows Plotinus's 1,780-year-old journey of personal discovery across India, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey as he tries to understand the core concept of Plotinian thought, derived from studying the Upanishads - 'Unity and Oneness'. He uses Plotinus's philosophy to observe how the free will of intellect uses 'Unity' for good and evil. Intimate conversations with refugees escaping war, innocent boatmen drifting down the Nile, simple farmers and monks in Greece along with observations of ancient art and modern technological accomplishments inform his thoughts and writing on the concept of the oneness of humankind - its immense power to bring good and yet its vulnerability to the stealth of intellect to destroy and self-destruct.

Edited from diaries, journals and news items of the time, this is a fascinating account of the popular young Thai prince and his new bride travelling back to where they met (Ukraine and Russia) as well as other European countries and the coronation of the new British king.

First published in 1994, and reprinted 57 times (with half a million copies sold), The Travelling Tree by world renowned photographer Michio Hoshino is a literary classic of nature writing. In this enduringly popular collection, naturalist, mystic and adventurer Michio Hoshino recounts his experiences with the wildlife and reflects on and our place within it. Michio Hoshino's life was changed after coming across a book containing an aerial photograph of the tiny Inupuiak (Eskimo) village, Shishmaref, in a used bookstore in Tokyo. The teenager was immediately enchanted by this tiny cluster of dwellings on the Arctic Sea. What sort of people lived in such a desolate place, seemingly at the ends of the Earth? The photograph intrigued him so much that he decided to write a letter asking if he could visit the village. Not knowing to whom he should address the letter, he made it out to simply, "Mayor, Shishmaref." To his surprise, he received a response from an Inupiak family willing to host him and spent the next summer, at the age of 19, immersed in their way of life.After this introduction to Alaska, Hoshino was smitten with America's northernmost state and dedicated the remainder of his life to photographing and writing about it. The Travelling Tree is a collection of his writing published at the peak of his artistic prowess, only two years before his career was tragically cut short at the age of 43 by a fatal bear attack while on a shoot in the Kamchatka Peninsula.The Travelling Tree has gained increasing popularity in the more than 20 years since Hoshino's untimely death. His work has been featured in numerous Japanese television specials and documentaries and an exhibition of his photography has travelled to cities and communities across Japan.

The aim of the Handbook is to strike a balance between theory and practice, which we see as inseparable, while also seeking to achieve a geographical spread, disciplinary diversity and perspectives, and a mix of authors from academic, practitioner, management, and community backgrounds.

This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.

This visual travel guide explores the Spanish and Portuguese coastlines, with countless charming beaches, rugged cliffs and hidden gems.

From pristine, pearl-white sands in the tropics to dramatic cliffs along rugged shores, this book is a true tribute to the most beautiful coastlines, where every beach lover can find their paradise

Let Secret French Riviera guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating French Riviera travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this beautiful city.

The Soul of Rome Guide reveals 30 unforgettable experiences that capture the soul of Rome.

Learn ballroom dancing in an authentic Milanese bocciofila, admire the rainbow on theceiling of an inner-city church, dine with strangers in an old Milanese flat, enjoy a night outwith Andy Warhol and Madonna in the most iconic club of the 1980s, forget the city chaos ina spa oasis within the ancient Spanish walls of Porta Romana, see cinematic masterpiecesunder the stars, take a ride at one of the legendary venues of Italian cycling, venture into aCabinet of Curiosities owned by the city's greatest industrialist, visit a former locomotivefactory transformed into an artistic space, spend the night in an exclusive bar surrounded bysports memorabilia ...The 'Soul of ' guides are a new approach to the art of travel, full of secret places andunforgettable experiences. Each place holds the promise of an exceptional moment, withsomething for every taste and budget.

Sample the city's best pizzas, spend the night in an old palace, rediscover that - when itcomes to food - the Phoenician city is the most Italian of French cities, delve into the secretof the Mucem, explore Marseille's café-bar culture, follow in the footsteps of Marcel Pagnol,visit a villa-cum-art gallery, order a legendary fruit juice, enjoy breakfast at the top of thecalanques, book one-of-a-kind hotel rooms, discover the popular traditions of Provence in alittle-known museum ...The 'Soul of ' guides are a new approach to the art of travel, full of secret places andunforgettable experiences. Each place holds the promise of an exceptional moment, withsomething for every taste and budget.

Enjoy 120 colorful sketches that remind even the most jaded New Yorkers to notice the city's simple beauties.

Starting out from Cape Town in South Africa, there is plenty to see as the journey heads north. The scenery changes from green fields and vineyards such as Stellenbosch to the deserts and giant sand dunes of Namibia. It is only further north that the desert changes to savannah. There are numerous safaris to see wild animals in their natural habitat including hippopotamus, the most dangerous animal on the continent and walking with cheetahs.There are close encounters with elephants in the Okavango and views of thousands of zebras before crossing the border in Zimbabwe. There are the magnificent Victoria Falls and a railway journey across the Zimbabwe countryside to Bulawayo with its great industrial centre and railway heritage.On safari through the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, there is the opportunity for visitors to see all of the Big Five Game animals, the five most dangerous animals to hunt on foot. There are the Spice Islands, the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park where there is an opportunity to walk with gorillas and there were plenty more countries and experiences to enjoy and this was still only halfway up the continent to Cairo.

An increasingly popular genre, addressing issues of space, language, colonialism, globalization and politics, travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. This book offers a useful introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of the terminology, history and debates within the field.

African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespeare's Othello, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, and the remarkable visibility of African and Afro-descendant artists at the Venice Biennale. These tours are enriched by more than twenty essays, poems, and reflections that celebrate, question, and reimagine Venice's Black past and present. From premodern paintings and sculpture to contemporary artworks, African Venice will show you the city as you have never seen it. The book includes contributions from Giuseppina Bakhita, Marilena Umuhoza Delli, Rita Dove, Emiliano Guaraldo, Eddy L. Harris, Lorenzo Lazzarini, Ibrahima Lö, Vittorio Longhi, Olga Manente, Tony Mochama, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Caryl Phillips, Sandra Stocchetto, Sami Tchak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Alessandra Viola.