Great journeys : travel the world's most spectacular routes
2011
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Main title:
Great journeys : travel the world's most spectacular routes / [written by Andrew Bain ... [et al.]].
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Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
Footscray, Vic. : Lonely Planet, 2011.
Collation:
311 p. : col ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Overland: The hippy trail -- Cairo to Capetown -- The Khyber Pass -- The grand tour -- Istanbul to Cairo -- North Cape to Gibraltar -- La Ruta Maya (The Maya route) -- Rail: The Ghan -- The Glacier Express -- The Pride of Africa -- The Eastern & Oriental Express -- The Orient Express --The Palace on Wheels -- California Zephyr -- Toy Train to Darjeeling -- The Royal Scotsman -- The Blue Train of South Africa -- The Copper Canyon Railway -- The Trans-Siberian Railway -- New Zealand's TranzCoastal -- Explorers & conquerers: Ibn Battuta in Africa -- Marco Polo's exploration route -- Burke & Wills -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Captain Cook in the Pacific -- Amelia Earhart: the final flight -- Vasco da Gama discovers the seas -- Route to India -- Alexander the Great: from Greece to Egypt -- The Vikings: Scandanavia to the Mediterranean -- Rivers & seas: The Nile -- Northwest Passage -- Norway's fjords --Down the Mississippi to New Orleans -- The River Ganges -- The Amazon River -- Mekong River -- The river road (Rio Grand) -- The Yangtze to slow boat (Three Gorges) -- Ancient trade routes: Silk Road -- Salt train in the Sahara -- Spice route -- The incense road of antiquity -- The Baltic amber road -- Literary journeys: Theroux in the Pacific -- Homer's The odyssey -- Che Guevera's motorcycle diaries -- Aroudn the world in 80 days -- Italy's literary landmarks -- Joseph Conrad's heart of darkness -- Mark Twain's USA -- Robert Louis Stevenson's travels with a donkey -- Road: Argentina's Patagonian Highway -- Route 66 -- The Dakar Rally -- Karakoram Highway -- Iceland's Ring Road -- Tour de France - the original route -- The Pan-American Highway -- East coast of Australia -- The Amalfi Coast road -- Ring of Kerry -- Icefields Parkway -- Great Ocean Road -- Milford Road -- South Africa's Cape Route 62 -- Walks & pilgramages: Inca trail to Machu Picchu -- In the footsteps of Buddha -- Coast to coast walk -- The Holy Land -- Camino de Santiago -- The Great Wall of China -- The Haj -- Haute Pyrenean route -- Shikoku pilgramage.
ISBN:
9781742205892
Dewey class:
910.202
Language:
English
BRN:
7161
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