For American Bird Lovers

Bird Songs is an amazing book that apart from the accurate description and pictures of 250 different birds of North America, it has a digital audio-player that allows the reader to listen to the songs and calls of every bird depicted in the book, from wild turkey to trumpeter swan and from American robin to lark sparrow.

Postcards and Secrets

What is a secret? Something that only a few people know and for some reason don't tell others, perhaps something that just one person know or feel. What happens to secrets? Well, there is always the temptation of telling secrets to another person. So, what if someone ask high school and college students to send him their secrets anonymously in a especially designed postcard? He receives hundreds of postcards telling him all kind of secrets. Then there are enough secrets to make a very special book: My Secret: A Postsecret Book.

A 1000 Places Journey

Taking into account that at the moment there are 814 sites in 138 countries declared World Heritage by UNESCO, and that there are still lots of sites that may be included in this list in the future, then the book 1000 Places To See Before You Die by author Patricia Schultz sounds very interesting for both the armchair explorer and the real traveler. This book will take the reader from Edinburgh Castle to Machu Picchu and from the old Cairo to the city of Prague. An excellent book for any library.

Long Journey Through China

In the 1930s, Peter Fleming was a famous journalist, always ready to participate in difficult travels through isolated and unknown regions of the world. The accounts of his travels are written in a particularly elegant style and with a lot of humour to tell the small misfortunes that here and there happens to all travellers. Among his books, it is specially interesting
News from Tartary: A Journey from Pekin to Kashmir. There Fleming tells the long journey he made in the company of the Swiss explorer Ella (Kini) Maillart, who was as stubborn as Fleming himself. In those years the north of China was invaded by Japan, and there was a Civil War between the communist guerrilla and the nationalist Chinese government, so it didn't seem a good idea to even think in such a journey. But Fleming and Maillart were determined to travel to India through Sinkiang territory. Old trucks and camels were the means of transportation used by the travellers who most of the time were running away from Chinese authorities in this Tintin like adventure.