Reiseskildringer

Må snakke med folk! - vindusplass på vagabondekspressen er en samling reiseessays skrevet av Helge Baardseth som har levd et langt liv på reise både som reisereporter, forfatter og som redaktør av Vagabond. Tekstene tar i hovedsak for seg eventyret som oppstår gjennom møter med mennesker over grenser og kulturer. Men boka er vel så mye en hyllest til toget, til bokhandlene, bibliotekene, kafeene, ørkenen - og til vagabondens viktigste verktøy - et par gode, håndsydde sko.

• Forfatter: Helge Baardseth
• Publisert: 2014
• Antall sider: 89
• ISBN: 9788293105046

An inspiring memoir of humanity and perseverance as Thor Pedersen embarks on an epic journey to visit every country in the world.

195 countries. Over a decade of travel. Not a single aeroplane in sight. This is the story of one man's journey to be the first to visit every country in the world without flight . . .

When Thor Pedersen set out on the adventure of a lifetime, he never dreamed of the people he'd meet and the places he could go. But embarking on this epic voyage took him to the brink of his sanity, wiped his funds and tested the relationships he held dear.

Over the years he encountered grave danger in the form of drunken armed men as well as the high seas, with giant waves crashing in over the ship from all sides. He has slept on the street and dined in the homes of billionaires. He visited countries stricken with war-zones, and once had to take an 11,919 km detour, revisiting seven countries, traversing Baluchistan in Pakistan escorted by armed guards because he was denied a visa while in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Life becomes unnecessarily complicated without the luxury of flying.

Yet after years of challenges and milestones, Thor achieves something no human has ever done. The Impossible Journey is a triumphant memoir as he invites the world to share in this once in a lifetime adventure, the lessons, stories and unique perspectives on humanity he learned along the way.

• Publisert: 2025
• Språk: Engelsk
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781472149770

En enestående reiseskildring fra en verden nesten ingen nordmenn kjenner.
Bli med på en reise til land som er ukjente selv for den mest erfarne globetrotter – men mer aktuelle enn noen sinne. De tidligere sovjetrepublikkene Kasakhstan, Kirgisistan, Tadsjikistan, Turkmenistan og Usbekistan ble selvstendige da Sovjetunionen brøt sammen i 1991. Hvordan har landene utviklet seg siden? Hva er deres fremtid med nyvunne olje- og gassressurser og med Putins Russland som igjen tenker ekspansivt?

Erika Fatland skildrer landenes nære og fjerne historie, deres kultur og samfunn. Fremfor alt byr hun på gripende menneskemøter og innsikter i hvordan sovjetarven har preget landene, hvor styresettet i dag varierer fra demokratiske forsøk til rene diktaturer – noen med en personkult som knapt kjenner sin like i vår tid. I spennet mellom Samarkands skatter og sovjetarkitekturens tristesse, beveger Erika Fatland seg med et åpent blikk for menneskene og landskapene omkring seg.

• Forfatter: Erika Fatland
• Publisert: 2015
• Antall sider: 495
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9788248917229

En svært velskrevet og underholdende bok om japansk kultur, tankesett og historie – fortalt fra gateplan i tolv av Tokyos unike nabolag. Disse bydelene er svært forskjellige – i arkitektur, tempo, mennesketyper, historie, grøntområder. Ina Strøm vandrer rundt i byen, møter folk, opplever ting, bruker seg selv, og byr på et engasjement som både smitter og inspirerer. Boken er gjennomillustrert.

• Forfatter: Ina Strøm
• Utgitt: 2019
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9788202629373

• Forfatter: Erika Fatland
• Publisert: 2020
• Innbinding: Heftet
  
• Språk: Norsk
• ISBN: 9788248921493

For mennesker på flukt står livet på spill. Svært mange flyktninger er barn og unge som må dra alene langs fluktrutene som er både lange og farlige.I denne boka fortelles historiene til 11 ungdommer fra de tre landene flest mennesker må flykte fra; Syria, Ukraina og Afghanistan. 

«Én regel hadde jeg lært allerede før flukten. Faller du av i ørkenen, dør du. Ingen kommer og plukker deg opp. Ingen snur. Sovner du og sklir av lastebilen, er det det siste du gjør.»

Ungdommene på flukt har reist over brennende sanddyner, iskalde bølger og bekmørkt hav mot en ukjent framtid. Alle flukthistorier er unike, men ungdommene i denne boken har likevel én ting til felles: De vil at du skal vite hva som skjer med mennesker som er på flukt.

Kristina Quintano er forfatter, forlegger, oversetter og festivalsjef for Fluktfestivalen. I over tjue år har hun dokumentert flyktningkrisen i Middelhavet, og i 2022 ble hun tildelt Annette Thommesens hederspris for sin innsats for mennesker på flukt. Quintano er halvt norsk og halvt maltesisk og bor nå i Oslo.

• Forfatter: Kristina Quintano
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Innbundet
  
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
  
• ISBN: 9788241964114

En annerledes reisebok som formidler både besk realisme og skjønnhet, glede og opphøyet ro - og ikke minst: Kunnskap.

"Den som vil forstå India, må belage seg på en reise i tid og rom", sa Indias første statsminister Jawaharlal Nehru.

I sin bok tar Torbjørn Færøvik deg med på en slik reise. Likevel inntar han en ydmyk holdning til dette veldige landet, og som han selv skriver: "Sannheten om India får du ikke, men jeg lover å gi deg viktige biter av den."

Tildelt Brageprisen i 1999 i klassen for beste fagbok.

• Forfatter: Torbjørn Færøvik
• Publisert: 2014
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk
• ISBN: 9788202438142

Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt's engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trail-blazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters. and success.

From her first solo trip aged three (on a British beach), she revisits six decades of hitchhiking, feeding the travel habit by working abroad, and starting a successful travel publishing company where knowing nothing proved a surprising asset. Barely into her twenties, Hilary Bradt thumbed lifts around the Middle East for three months before spending four years working and travelling in the US. Between 1973 and 1976 Hilary explored, and worked in, South America and Africa with her then husband George, often journeying through literally uncharted territory in their quest to find new hiking routes.

The discovery of an ancient trail to Machu Picchu unexpectedly inspired their first guidebook. From 1977 the pair wrote several backpacking guides, and set up Bradt Guides. This was just as well, because Hilary's career in occupational therapy ended when potential employers noticed that time taken off for travel exceeded periods of employment.

During the 1980s, Bradt Guides grew and became successful - but that didn't stop Hilary travelling, including as a tour leader. Join Hilary as she relives in detail the rigours of travel before the days of the internet or mobile phones, including smuggling her husband across an international border and frequently getting arrested despite efforts to be responsible tourists. Learn how Hilary's lack of experience made the early days of publishing quite unlike those of any other successful publisher.

Laugh (or cry) at Hilary's ability to court media disasters while seeking the limelight, including waving around condoms on BBC TV. Taking the Risk comprises the collected stories of an inveterate, intrepid traveller whose joyous exploration of the world has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people - anyone who has owned a Bradt Guide. A unique book from a unique individual, it will delight anyone who has ever travelled or ever wondered what goes into making the books we read.

• Forfatter: Hilary Bradt
• Publisert: 2024 Softcover 2025
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Antall sider: 352
• ISBN: 9781804692783

• Forfatter: Erika Fatland
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Innbundet
  
• Språk: Norsk
• ISBN: 9788248936459

• Forfatter: Thorbjørn Færøvik
• Publisert: 2014
• Antall sider: 428
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk
• ISBN: 9788202438173

My Family and Other Enemies is part travelogue, part memoir that dives into the hinterland of Croatia. Mary Novakovich explores her ongoing relationship with the region of Lika in central Croatia, where her parents were born.. 'Lika is little known to most travellers - apart from Plitvice Lakes National Park and the birthplace of Nikola Tesla' she says.

'It's a region of wild beauty that has been battered by centuries of conflict. Used as a buffer zone between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires for hundreds of years, Lika became a land of war and warriors. And when Yugoslavia started to disintegrate in 1991, it was here where some of the first shots were fired.'Shipped off to Lika as a child during the supposedly golden years of Tito to stay with relatives she barely knew, Novakovich has been revisiting Croatia ever since, researching the story of her family's often harrowing life: in 1941 her aunt was the only survivor of Serbs massacred by Croatian fascists; and her mother saved her grandmother from being buried alive when she was thought to be dead from typhus.

Amidst adversity there is resilience and laughter, too, with plenty of light to balance the shade. Eccentric and entertaining characters abound, showing typically sardonic Balkan humour. And, this being the Balkans, much of daily life revolves around food, which features prominently.

Forfattere: Mary Novakovich
Publisert måned: Aug
Publisert år: 2022
Utgave: 1.utg
Sider nr: 272

Norges fremste reiseskildrer har fulgt verdens mest berømte togspor – fra London til Istanbul og videre til Samarkand og leverer sin mest sprudlende bok til nå. En reise gjennom et kontinents historie og kultur, 7500km, 12 land og tre århundre.

• Forfatter: Torbjørn Færøvik
• Publisert: 2017
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• Antall sider: 504
• ISBN: 9788202542764

A 3,000-mile Adventure on 52 Rides.

Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Venice, Ticket to Ride and Tales from the Fast Trains, hits the tracks once again to take in the country through carriage windows on a series of clattering rides beyond the popular image of "holiday Spain" (although he stops by in Benidorm and Torremolinos too).

From hidden spots in Catalonia, through the plains of Aragon and across the north coast to Santiago de Compostela, Chesshyre continues his journey via Madrid, the wilds of Extremadura, dusty mining towns, the cathedrals and palaces of Valencia and Granada, and finally to Seville, Andalusia's beguiling (and hot) capital. Encounters? Plenty. Mishaps? A lot.

• Forfatter: Tom Chesshyre
• Publisert: April 2022
• Antall sider: 320
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781800072633

An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by internationally bestselling, prizewinning writer Erika Fatland. The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet and Bhutan, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs. Countless languages and vastly different cultures exist in these isolated mountain valleys.

Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence. We have read about climbers and adventurers on their way up Mount Everest, and about travellers on a spiritual quest to remote Buddhist monasteries. Here, however, the focus is on the communities of these Himalayan valleys, those who live and work in this extraordinary region.

As Erika Fatland introduces us to the people she meets along her journey, and in particular the women, she takes us on a vivid and dizzying expedition at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown histories. Skilfully weaving together the politics, geography, astrology, theology and ecology of this vast region, she also explores some of the most volatile human conflicts of our times. With her unique gift for listening, and for storytelling, she has become one of the most exciting travel writers of her generation.

• Forfatter: Erika Fatland
• Publisert: August 2022
• Antall sider: 578
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781529416893