Сельма Лагелеф (1858–1940) – Шведская писательница, лауреат нобелевской премии по литературе (1909). "Чудесное путешествие Нильса Хольгерссона по Швеции" появилось в 1906 году. Задумывая учебник по географии для шведских детей, талантливая писательница создала книгу, которая стала классическим произведением мировой детской литературы.Здесь представлен полный вариант книги, а не тот "пересказ со шведского", который был ранее у нас известен.Skriven som läsebok för folkskolan, erbjuder den samtidigt en saklig översikt över geografi, natur och kultur samt ett spännande äventyr utan motsvarighet i svensk läromedelshistoria.

Zenta ĒrgleNo Plutona līdz NeptūnamCeļojuma piezīmesIzdevniecība «Liesma» Rlga 1975Mākslinieks Arnolds Krēsliņš© «Liesma», 1975Noskannējis gramatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Žils VernsNoslēpumu sala Sērija Piedzīvojumi, fantastika, ceļojumi. Franču rakstnieka Žila Verna romānā «Noslēpumu sala» stāstīts par pieciem drosmīgiem cilvēkiem, kurus gaisa ba­lons aiznesis uz neapdzīvotu salu Klusajā okeānā. Šeit pateicoties inženiera Sairesa Smita erudīcijai šie pieci cilvēki nodibina koloniju un uzbūvē ne tikai dzelzs kausēšanas krāsni, bet arī nelielu kuģīti, ar kuru aizkuģo uz netālu esošo Tabora salu un atbrīvo jūrnieku Airtonu, kuru uz šis salas atstāja lords Glenervens par mēģinājumu sagrābt kuģi lai kļūtu par pirātu. Romāns rakstīts 1872. gadā un šādā veidā sasaistās ar romānu «Kapteiņa Granta bērni», bet ar romānu «20 000 Ijē pa jūras dzelmi» to sasaista tas, ka uz Noslēpumu salas pēdējo ostu atradis zemūdens kuģis "Nautils", kura kapteinis Nemo ir vienīgais dzīvais palikušais. Noslēpumu sala vulkāna izvirduma rezultātā nogrimst jūras viļņos un kolonistus izglābj garām braucošs kuģis.No franču valodas tulkojis Andrejs Upīts Ž. Ferā Ilustrācijas G. Kļavas noformējumsNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Канадская Арктика! У многих это словосочетание вызывает вполне определенные и отнюдь не теплые ассоциации. Огромная малонаселенная территория, простирающаяся на тысячи километров от южного побережья Гудзонова залива до Ледовитого океана, – мир белых медведей и эскимосов, загадочный и таинственный.

Автору посчастливилось в течение трех лет – с 1992 по 1994 год, в период подготовки к Трансарктическому переходу, участвовать в трех экспедициях по канадской Арктике. Об этих путешествиях и рассказывает предлагаемая книга. Помимо дневниковых записей, в книге содержится глава, посвященная полной драматизма многовековой истории исследований этой страны.

Для широкого круга читателей.

Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart prize for non fiction and the Community Relations Commission Award in NSW and the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year.I left too early, before tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and before Gorbachev was put under home arrest in a failed coup. I left before Russia and Ukraine became separate countries, before the KGB archives were opened, before the Russian version of Wheel of Fortune, before the word ‘Gulag’ appeared in textbooks. I left before Chechnya, before the mass renaming of cities and streets, before you could go into a shop and actually purchase the books of Brodsky, Pasternak and Nabokov. I left too early, I missed the whole point. I was not there when my generation was cornered by history.Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family’s native country. For Maria the trip back is no simple stroll down memory lane. Splintered and scattered across the world, her generation has ended up inhabiting vastly different realities.Along with exploring the political and cultural fallout of a century of turmoil, Maria wanted to bring together the worlds of her mother and daughter – the different continents, histories and experiences they encompassed. Before they set off, Maria wistfully imagined her and Billie’s hearts beating in unison as they travelled back to a past they could both understand, forging a nearly superhuman bond along the way. But, in Maria and Billie’s case, the past was not simply another country, but one that no longer existed.Otherland is the story of a six-week trip traversing three generations, three lifetimes and three profoundly different but profoundly interconnected stories of mothers and daughters.Review“For the most part her account is fascinating, even exhilarating, and there is barely a dead word in the book. Tumarkin’s viewpoint is unfailingly insightful with an overlay of pungent Russian humour.”—Age“The literary beauty of Otherland is essentially textual: multiple layers of memory and reflection, intertwining historical commentary, cultural and literary criticism, and personal reminiscence. It is at once a roadtrip of anecdotes peppered with yearning and longing as well as a politico-cultural window on a huge part of 20th century history.”—Sydney Morning Herald

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her; of primitive festivals; of big game that were her near neighbors—lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes—and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner—in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades—but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café—a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik’s beloved and award-winning “Paris Journals” in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d’Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a “culinary crisis.”As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys—both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. “We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation—I did anyway-even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education.”

Žils VernsPiecas nedēļas gaisa balonāTrīs angļu ceļojums ĀfrikāRīga «Liesma»1981No franču valodas tulkojusi Mirdza Ersa Mākslinieku Riā un Monto zīmējumi Gunām Kļavas mākslinieciskā apdare© Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Liesma», 1981

PiedzīvojumsDžeks LondonsRomāns stāsta par briesmu pilno balto kolonistu dzīvi starp Zālamana salu cilvēkēdājiem. Spilgti un krāsaini attēlota iezemiešu noslēpumainā dzīve, kultūra un ticējumiPiedzīvojumiTapals Tulkojis Juris KrastsMākslinieks Tomass FolksRedaktore Ingrīda Pandare"Pirms Ādama" un "Piedzīvojums" ir darbi, kas nav tulkoti un iekļauti Džeka Londona Kopotajos rakstos (1973-1978).© "Tapals", 2001 Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

PiedzīvojumsDžeks LondonsPIEDZĪVOJUMITAPALS Tulkojis JURIS KRASTSMākslinieks TOMASS FOLKSRedaktore INGRĪDA PANDARE"PIRMS ĀDAMA" un "PIEDZĪVOJUMS" ir darbi, kas nav tulkoti un iekļauti Džeka Londona Kopotajos rakstos (1973-1978).© "Tapals", 2001

‘A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time’ John le Carré

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were – for most Brits and Americans – part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine’s bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow’s chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev.

As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists – both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists – have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.

Известный полярник, Герой Советского Союза Э.Т. Кренкель рассказывает в своих воспоминаниях о героических этапах освоения Арктики. Автор книги участвовал в походах «Сибирякова» и «Челюскина» с О.Ю. Шмидтом и В.И. Ворониным, летал на дирижабле «Цеппелин» с Умберто Нобиле, дрейфовал на льдинах с «лагерем Шмидта» и с первой советской станцией «Северный полюс», возглавляемой И.Д. Папаниным, зимовал на маленьких полярных островах. Интересны его встречи с лётчиками Чкаловым, Леваневским, Водопьяновым, Молоковым, с учёными Бонч-Бруевичем, Визе, Самойловичем, с отважными полярниками и моряками.Книга насыщена колоритными подробностями и вся пронизана добрым юмором.

Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From the barren deserts of Xinjiang to the ice forests of Manchuria, from the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton to the dry hills of Tibet, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.

SAMAITĀTA SIEVIETEDžeks Londons, VII sējKad DIEVI smejas

Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle’s Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.

Allan Quartermain – our hero – and Ayesha (that is, She Who Must Be Obeyed) share the limelight in this great adventure, but oddly enough considering the stars on stage, it’s Umslopogaas the Zulu who steals the show. A supernatural fantasy thriller featuring a magic token, telepathy, powers of the occult, and a people lost to time in the depths of ancient Africa.