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Greater Than a Tourist - Manama Bahrain by Mariel Diaz offers the inside scoop on Manama. 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 this book, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay.

On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers...

Since ancient times the promised land has been a place of testing, revival, and fellowship with the God of Israel. God promised His land to the Jewish people as an everlasting possession as part of an eternal covenant He made with their forefather, Abraham. After two exiles and centuries of dispersion, millions of Jewish people have been drawn back to the land—and since the establishment of the modern State of Israel on May 14, 1948, millions of Christians have been welcomed as pilgrims to experience it for themselves.

Fürst Pückler war eine der schillerndsten Gestalten des 19. Jahrhunderts: Er war Aristokrat und Publizist, Abenteurer und Frauenheld, Landschaftsgärtner und Reiseschriftsteller, der für Eindrücke und Erlebnisse so aufgeschlossen war wie nur wenige seiner Zeitgenossen. 1835 startete er seine Reise in den Orient, die fast fünf Jahre dauern und ihn nach Algier, Tunis, Ägypten, Sudan, Jerusalem, Syrien und Konstantinopel führen sollte. Heinz Klevenow, Christian Rode und Günter Witte lesen aus seinen Berichten, die so lebendig sind wie die Reise selbst.

Greater Than a Tourist—Wadi Rum, Jordan by Um A'yube offers the inside scope on Wadi Rum. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series this book will give you tips and a bunch of ideas from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

A Traveling Grandma's Guide to Israel: Adventures, Wit, and Wisdom is an inspiring and heartwarming account of a grandma’s many journeys throughout Israel for nearly forty years. From Joppa/Tel Aviv through Galilee, Jerusalem, the Negev, the Red Sea, and most points in between, Topliff presents a tapestry of Israel’s history and culture with insight and humor.

Welkom in de betoverende wereld van de Egyptische mythologie, een rijke schat aan verhalen, goden en godinnen die eeuwenlang de kern vormden van de oude Egyptische cultuur. Dit boek neemt je mee op een fascinerende reis door de diepten van de Nijl, waarin we de mysteries van het ontstaan van het universum verkennen, kennismaken met machtige goden en godinnen, en ons verdiepen in de betekenisvolle mythen en sagen die generaties hebben geïnspireerd.

Damaskus – Hauptstadt Syriens, eine der ältesten bewohnten Städte der Welt und außerdem Geburtsstadt von Autor Rafik Schami. Gemeinsam mit seiner Schwester Marie Fadel lädt er ein zu einer literarischen Reise in die orientalische Stadt. Neben der Geschichte und Kultur der uralten Metropole bringt uns das Autorenduo die kulinarischen Welten der Stadt näher.

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the captivating landscapes and rich history of Jordan with this comprehensive travel guide and uncover the hidden gems, ancient wonders, and vibrant culture of this enchanting Middle Eastern country.

Ida Pfeiffer (1797 – 1858) ist eine absolute Ausnahmeerscheinung im Genre der Reiseliteratur – und ihr Leben eine Verfilmung wert! Zunächst fügte sie sich den "guten Sitten", heiratete einen Mann, den sie nicht liebte, bekam zwei Söhne. So weit, so normal. Dann starb ihr Mann – und auch ihre Mutter. Nachdem die Söhne eigene Karrieren begonnen hatten, waren die Zeiten der Pflichterfüllung für Ida Pfeiffer vorbei: Sie wollte reisen! Und das tat sie. Ganz allein fuhr sie in neun Monaten von Wien nach Konstantinopel, dann Beirut, Jerusalem, zum Toten Meer, nach Damaskus, Baalbek, Alexandria und Kairo.

This fact-providing publication informs the listener about relocating to Dubai and provides handy tips to ensure preparation and success in the Emirate. Written in the first person with funny quirks, British Ex-Pat Jazmine details "everything you need to know to turn your dream of relocation into a reality."

The Global Citizen Language Learning vocabulary mastery audiobooks are intentionally and judiciously structured for vocabulary, definition, and pronunciation learning, retention, and recall for individuals who are completely new to the language!

Most visitors to Israel face an important task: crossing the highlights off their list. After guiding countless tours through the highlights, Shakked realized that they can never replace the excitement of discovering a hidden gem. In her book Secret Israel, Shakked reveals the Israel that she knows and loves, the one most people never get to see. Hidden sites off the beaten path are presented to the listener from a personal angle of a 10th-generation native Israeli Jewess with a spicy personality, guaranteeing a fun listen.

Javier Reverte escogió esa frontera vaporosa y vulnerable, la más antigua del mundo, para realizar su último viaje. Eligió como puerta de entrada Estambul y su magnífico estrecho del Bósforo para después adentrarse en tren hasta remotas tierras iraníes.

After obtaining a married status contract in 1989, I worked on a five-star hotel project down on the Turkish Mediterranean Coast. Here, due to my wife and I loving both the people and area, we bought some land with a Turkish friend and had a house built. This turned out to be a major change in our lives, with our moving from our home in Plymouth to live in the Turkish countryside, just a short distance from what is now the resort town of Kemer. This move proved an excellent one, as we enjoyed many happy years among friendly people.

Two retired American high school teachers, former Peace Corps Volunteers, have sailed their 35 foot Nauticat sailboat from the US to the Caribbean, across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean to Turkey. We begin this third book of the trilogy in 2008, with again launching our 35 foot sailboat Tapestry. We, along with 80 other boats, explore the Turkish Coast, Cyprus, and Syria, before the storm. Imagine Le Krak des Cehvaliers, a huge crusader castle, and the oasis of Palmyra, before the uprising and before they were vandalized, nearly destroyed.

This memoir tells the story of an American English teacher working in a new university in Palestine during a time of political strife and upheaval. Cynthia Yoder describes the joys of life in Palestine, against the backdrop of military occupation and the second intifada, which began soon after she arrived in 2000. Rather than give political analysis, the book gives glimpses into the lives of the Palestinian people the author met. Yoder details the effects of the occupation and describes her journey as a pacifist working amidst violence.

When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes, but experimenting with new modes of living. Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, filmmakers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city.

Dubai is a city in the Arabain Desert, full of ambition with sights to behold, from the tallest building in the world, the biggest mega malls to keep even the keenest shoppers never thirsting for more, and huge manmade islands like the world has never seen. If you’ve never visited this "City of Gold", as it is often referred to, then you seriously need to consider doing so, and I’ve compiled 101 reasons in this guide that should hopefully persuade you to do so.

Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard, and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From childhood through college, Kroeker attended Christian schools where he learned to think critically back to predetermined conclusions.