Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger . . .' John's three-week holiday in India starts badly. After his girlfriend falls ill with a severe case of 'Delhi belly' and returns home alone, he finds himself looking at the sharp end of a knife in a train station latrine. But such is the stuff of backpacking and his life is saved - and turned upside down - by Rick, an enigmatic, streetwise traveller, who persuades John to throw a future of mundane security to the wind and embark upon a series of increasingly bizarre journeys. On the island of Koh Pha-Ngan, John, Rick and Dave pose as millionaire aristocrats in a hedonistic Eden of beautiful girls, free drugs and wild beach parties. But all is not as it seems and eventually their new world comes crashing around their ears as they become embroiled in the politics of the Thai Mafia, stolen passports and arson attacks. Narrowly escaping with their lives (and a stolen yacht) they head for Bali, but tragedy strikes and the unexpected follows them through Indonesia, Australia and Hong Kong changing the direction of their lives once again . . . This is not travel for the faint-hearted: some backpackers never return.

autor: John Harris

wydawca: Matrix Digital Publishing

issn: 1840241616

data: 2001.07.30

cena: 40.72 PLN

kategorie: Podró¿e / 

  

Having battled and succumbed to the ma?ana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca's Mayoral. However, even after the trials, tribulations and triumphs of their initiation, Spain has not yet finished with them. Embarrassing subtleties of the language, brushes with the local police, the unfortunate outcome of a drinking session . . . surprises are aplenty to test the resolve, stamina and, perhaps more importantly, the sense of humour of this venturesome (some would say foolhardy) émigré family. Their eccentric and colourful new friends are always on hand to help out - for better or worse - and add spice to this engaging account of tranquilo life from the author of Snowball Oranges. All the charm of Mallorca: where you seldom do today what can be more judiciously put off till ma?ana!

autor: Peter Kerr

wydawca: Matrix Digital Publishing

issn: 184024870X

data: 2001.07.03

cena: 8.06 PLN

kategorie: Podró¿e / 

  

A motorcycle the size of Roz?s Betty Boop would have been beyond the dreams of the craziest pack leader at the Ace Café on London?s North Circular Road in the monochrome days of rockers, Nortons, Bonnevilles and Marianne Faithfull, when ?good? was middle class, ?bad? misunderstood and the motorcycle offered stark hope to a generation of inarticulate searchers . . .? Tom Cunliffe and his wife Roz take life in the saddle and on to the American highways and byways astride the quintessential ?dream machine? - theHarley-Davidson. With flashbacks to the Sixties, the eclectic assortment of moonshiners, bikers hard and not-so-hard, cowhands, Sioux Indians, strippers, biblebashers, war veterans, southern gents and the occasional alligator delivers a unique insight into the diversity of the USA.

autor: Tom Cunliffe

wydawca: Matrix Digital Publishing

issn: 1840248955

data: 2000.10.15

cena: 8.06 PLN

kategorie: Podró¿e / 

  

Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and 'experiences', and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. However, laughter is the best medicine when confronted with consuming a local dish of rats, the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance and attending a shotgun wedding. The colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goatherd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restores the family's faith in human nature and helps them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain. Full of life and colour, hilarious and revealing, and set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Mallorca.

autor: Peter Kerr

wydawca: Matrix Digital Publishing

issn: 1840248467

data: 2000.06.12

cena: 40.72 PLN

kategorie: Podró¿e /