18 books like Etruscan places

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Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse · 1840 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares: Tombs, Antiquities, Description and travel, Travel

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain. Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is an account of a trip Graham Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Trionfo della morte Gabriele D'Annunzio · 1896 · ★ 3.8 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Trionfo della morte, apparso prima a puntate sulla “Tribuna illustrata” e su “Il mattino” e poi pubblicato in volume nel 1894, chiude il cosiddetto ciclo dei «Romanzi della Rosa» iniziato con Il piacere (1889) e proseguito con L’innocente (1892). È un testo fortemente influenzato dall’estetica wagneriana e dalle teorie superomistiche di Nietzsche. L’opera più che dalla trama appare sorretta dalla… Shares: Antiquities, Description and travel, Travel

Reisebilder Heinrich Heine · 1830 · ★ 3.5 · 433p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Texte der Reisebilder des Dichters Heinrich Heine werden in diesem Buch mit vielen passenden Bildern neu aufgelegt. Seine Wanderung von Göttingen in den Harz und auf den Brocken sowie seine Reise über die Alpen nach Italien werden ausführlich geschildert. Außerdem äußert sich Heine eingehend über die Engländer und die Polen. Rezension zur maritimen gelben Reihe: Ich… Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Twilight in Italy D. H. Lawrence · 1916 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Minne och myt Åsa Berggren · 2004 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Vad har Ground Zero i New York gemensamt med sydskånska gravar från jägarstenåldern? Vad har trädet i barndomens trädgård gemensamt med husgrunder av sten från yngre järnåldern? Dessa till synes väsensskilda företeelser spelar alla en roll i skapandet av kollektiva minnen. I Minne och myt – konsten att skapa det förflutna diskuterar tio forskare frågor som berör hur ett samhälles historia formas… Shares: Antiquities, Art

Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens · 1846 · ★ 3.5 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of… Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Travels through France and Italy Tobias Smollett · 1766 · ★ 3.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health-resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road. Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff Bayard Taylor · 1846 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Description and travel, Travel

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc · 1890 · ★ 4.1 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Path to Rome is British-French writer and historian Hilaire Belloc’s first travelogue. It describes the pilgrimage he took to Rome as the result of a vow he made while visiting his hometown of Toul, in Lorraine, France. In his own copy of the book, dated May 29, 1904, he notes: “I wrote this book for the glory of God.” Belloc walked “two and a half hundred leagues” to Rome, over twenty-two… Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Aku-Aku: El Secreto De LA Isla De Pascua/Aku-Aku Thor Heyerdahl · 1957 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Ancient, Polynesian, Archaeological, Expedition to verify the ancient relationship of the Easter Island Polynesian with the indigenous Peruvian peoples. Shares: Antiquities, Description and travel, Travel

Italian journeys William Dean Howells · 1867 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "In the later part of his long and productive life - he wrote well over a dozen novels, thirty-one dramas, a few volumes of verse, several autobiographical works, eleven books of travel - W. D. Howells was considered one of America's foremost men of letters."--BOOK JACKET. "Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is… Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori Giorgio Vasari · 1759 · ★ 3.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Demanding In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose… Shares: Italy, Art

Corinne Germaine de Staël · 1786 · 395p · ≈ 13h · Demanding "Corinne, or Italy (1807). A romantic novel by Mme de Staël. Oswald Nevil, and English lord, recuperating in Rome, meets the famous poetess Corinne, who, half-English and half-Italian, has exiled herself from her native England. They fall in love, and Nevil wishes to marry Corinne, but she hesitates, fearing the rigidity of the English life she once knew; her present unconventional life is too… Shares: Italy, Description and travel, Travel

Le Rhin Victor Hugo · 1800 · ★ 4.4 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Dans ces pages de voyage, Victor Hugo fait du Rhin et de ses villes un vaste livre de pierre, où Mayence, Cologne, Francfort, Worms et Rome révèlent les combats du temps, de l'histoire et de la modernité. L'arrivée par le chemin de fer, la douceur des paysages rhénans, les cathédrales, les cloîtres, les tombeaux et les ruines composent une méditation à la fois savante, lyrique et indignée sur la… Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Travels to discover the source of the Nile James Bruce · 1790 · ★ 3.2 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Experiences of the Scottish explorer who rediscovered the source of the Nile on November 4, 1770. Shares: Antiquities, Description and travel, Travel

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