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Greater Than a Tourist—Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines by Denice Hally Salting offers the inside scoop on the City of Pines. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Mark Twain begibt sich auf Weltreise und uns wird das Vergnügen gewährt, mitkommen zu dürfen. In diesem Teil halten wir uns ausschließlich in Neuseeland auf und lernen eine Menge über die Maori, die historisch betrachtet einfach im 15 Jahrhundert vom Himmel fielen und so lange blieben bis sie von den Weißen – wie immer unter Aufwendung gemeinster Niederträchtigkeit - ausgerottet wurden.

Greater than a Tourist: Australia: 250 Travel Tips from a Local gives you the inside scoop about Australia. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern capes; walks through the Valley under the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a hurry), sets off on a hunt for the South Island's Grey Ghost, looks deep into the heart of volcanic New Zealand and tracks our most unlikely hero, the prison escaper George Wilder.

Lunga nuvola bianca non è una guida turistica, per questo esiste già la Lonely Planet. Non è la storia di un uomo in carriera che ha mollato tutto per girare il mondo. Non parla di un viaggio in Asia senza soldi e senza prendere aerei. Non è nemmeno una guida pratica atta a muovere i primi passi lontani da casa. È la Nuova Zelanda raccontata attraverso gli occhi di un viaggiatore, ritrovatosi lontano da casa durante la pandemia.