Resultados para "Bernard" en Viajes y turismo

Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear, donned his hat, and headed out the front door to hike the Way of St. James, a 1400-mile journey from Paris to Compostela, Spain.

Cuando Bernardo Gutiérrez pisó la Amazonia brasileña, supo que ya había amado aquellos colores, aquellos ríos. De niño había pasado dos años en Caracas y guardaba tenues imágenes de indígenas, aguas negras y hormigas gigantes. Fue corrigiendo aquellos recuerdos en su último viaje, desde Manaos hasta la desembocadura del Amazonas. Recorrió una tierra de doble filo, al mismo tiempo cielo e infierno.

Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the Spray.

Richard Henry Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 aboard the brig Pilgrim on a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. Drawing from his journals, Two Years Before the Mast gives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailor's wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time.