Novedades

Take a trip with unreconstructed grouch Nick Sellens, a washed-up office worker with a foot odour problem, who’s finally doing his gap year twenty years too late. Chuckle at his efforts to fit in with the youngsters on the backpacker buses that motor up and down New Zealand and plough a furrow along the east coast of Australia, and find out if these tours really merit their reputation for drunken debauchery. If you are contemplating discovering the United States by train, be sure to heed the warnings set out so painfully in part three – the Amtrak experience. In between his droll and ...

Two Soviet engineers. One abandoned sailboat. A promise made in vodka and brotherhood—to bring her home, no matter the cost. In the early 1990s, Alexei and Nikolai hand-built a sleek racing yacht—Gonta—crafted with grit, sweat, and dreams of freedom on the open sea. But after it’s shipped to Australia under orders from a powerful Soviet director, Gonta is left behind and forgotten. Years later, lost in post-Soviet monotony and cheap vodka, the friends make a pact to retrieve her—an oath that will test the limits of courage, friendship, and survival. What begins as a drunken dream ...