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Im amerikanischen Westen des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts ist kaum jemand so sehr fehl am Platz wie Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Der naive 16-Jährige und Sohn aus adligem Hause ist auf eigene Faust aus Schottland aufgebrochen, um das Mädchen zu finden, an das er sein Herz verloren hat. Doch obwohl er mit einem Kompass auf seinem Pferd unterwegs ist und nachts mit Revolver in der Hand schläft, ist er überhaupt nicht vorbereitet auf das Abe...

Im amerikanischen Westen des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts ist kaum jemand so sehr fehl am Platz wie Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Der naive 16-Jährige und Sohn aus adligem Hause ist auf eigene Faust aus Schottland aufgebrochen, um das Mädchen zu finden, an das er sein Herz verloren hat. Doch obwohl er mit einem Kompass auf seinem Pferd unterwegs ist und nachts mit Revolver in der Hand schläft, ist er überhaupt nicht vorbereitet auf das Abe...

Subtitled, "On The Hippie Trail From Istanbul To India". MacLean retraces the path of the once well-worn trail blazed by thousands of Westerners in the 1960s. A competition to win a Trailfinders trip to India is included in each book. 'Excellent. MacLean is a perceptive and entertaining guide...' "Independent

Was ist Wahrheit, was ist Fiktion? Die Frage drängt sich auf, wenn der kanadisch-britische Autor Rory MacLean von seiner Reise durch Europa berichtet. Sie führt ihn durch Länder, die wieder gespalten sind, aber anders als vor dreißig Jahren, als er diese Reise in umgekehrter Richtung von Berlin nach Moskau unternommen hat. Oft begegnet er den alten Geistern, vor allem aber neuen Ängsten. MacLean zeigt auf, wie Europa in eine gefährliche neue Z...

Crazy, charming, a delight' - John le Carré In Rory MacLean's groundbreaking debut travel book, Winston the pig drops on to Uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. Unwilling to be left alone in her house Aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, hijacks her nephew and, together with Winston, sets out on one last ride. The Berlin Wall has fallen only weeks before and Zita is determined to reach across the reopened border...

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on MacLean retraces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia through Ukraine's bloodlands, to Poland, Germany and the UK. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, he explores how opportunists - from Putin to Home Counties ...

An unsettling, poignant and darkly comic exposé of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from the highly acclaimed travel writer.In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on MacLean retraces his original journey, backwards, travelling from revanchist Russia through Ukraine's ...

A darkly comic revelation of the cultural quirks of a Russia and Eastern Europe beholden to illiberal and powerful leaders and forms of anti-democratic subterfuge, in which Rory MacLean retraces his 1989 journey from Berlin to Moscow - an optimistic moment - going the other direction, revealing the nature of the present as a more forbidding moment.

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The intimate biography of BERLIN, one of the world's great cities - from medieval times to the twenty-first century.

Florida is the land of pink flamingos, melanoma, the blue rinse, gang warfare and the electric chair. This work shatters the stereotypical image that is associated with Florida. It is a story of the places that chance can take you to and a portrait of the many sides of Florida, where dreams can be made as quickly as they are broken.

A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBerlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and...

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The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives and all hopes for democracy, he seized the chance to return. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he hears stories of freedom fighters, government censors, basket weavers, farmers and lovers -- ordinary people struggling to...

Heartbreaking stories from the Balkans. As many as 140, 000 people were killed, a quarter of whom simply vanished.