Cathy Birchall Touching the World

"Touching the World" is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18-year-old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational, worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed boundaries. From desolate and dangerous mountain roads, difficult border crossings and numerous mechanical breakdowns, to climbing Wayna Picchu (first ever...

Engels | 19 uur 7 minuten (835 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

Luisterboek (digitaal)

Herman Melville Typee

The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee‘ (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Engels | 11 uur 35 minuten (539 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

Luisterboek (digitaal)

Ruth Wielockx Luke and Lottie and their vegetable garden

Papa heeft een moestuinbak gemaakt voor Luke en Lottie. In het tuincentrum kopen ze plantjes en zaadjes. Papa legt uit wat je allemaal kunt kweken in de tuin en thuis gaan ze meteen aan de slag. Luke kan niet wachten tot hij zijn eigen groenten mag opeten! Prentenboek met sfeervolle kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 3 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 26 pagina's | Clavis, New York | 2022

Gedrukt boek

Roland Allen The notebook

a history of thinking on paper

"The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, thinkers from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, writers from Chaucer to Henry all created work forged in their notebooks. In The A History of Thinking...

Non-fictie

Engels | 416 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek

Marianne Julia Strauss Temples of books

magnificent libraries around the world

Non-fictie

Engels | 304 pagina's | Gestalten, Berlin | 2022

Gedrukt boek