検索キーワード： 旅行記・解説

Die Italienische Reise ist ein Reisebericht, in dem Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seinen Italienaufenthalt zwischen September 1786 und Mai 1788 beschreibt. Das zweiteilige Werk basiert auf seinen Reisetagebüchern, entstand jedoch erst wesentlich später, zwischen 1813 und 1817. Neben Dichtung und Wahrheit und Kampagne in Frankreich zählt es zu seinen autobiografischen Schriften.

Two Brits, George and Mark, set off from New York City to explore the back roads of America. In this calamity-ridden travel tale, George sets out in true clichéd fashion to discover the real America. Throw in plenty of run-ins with the police, rapidly dwindling finances, and Josephine - the worst car in the world - and you have all the ingredients for a classic American road trip. Will George and Mark make it all the way to California? And then there is Rachel, George's girlfriend, left back in England.

Drapée dans les plis de son burnous. Bottée en cavalier filali, déguisée en homme, Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) a parcouru les immenses étendues sahariennes. Fière de son existence de femme libre, elle a vécu ses "aventures de la route" à la manière des soldats bédouins du Sud-Oranais, contrainte de faire oublier son identité féminine pour participer aux expéditions les plus risquées. Avec une palette d'une richesse impressionnante elle sait saisir les ombres, leurs absences, leurs silences, elle sait saisir la profondeur des lignes, la pesanteur mais également l'évanescence de la lumière.

For 30 years, drummer, author, and songwriter Neil Peart had wanted to write a book about "the biggest journey of all in my restless existence: the life of a touring musician." Finally, the right time, and the right tour. In the summer of 2004, after three decades, 20 gold albums, and thousands of performances, the band Rush embarked on a 30th Anniversary World Tour. The "R30" tour traveled to nine countries, where the band performed 57 shows for more than half a million fans. Uniquely, Peart chose to do his between-show traveling by motorcycle, riding 21,000 miles of back roads.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens - as he later put it, "It was clear my people needed me." They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.

In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident.

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth.

Stretching across 500 miles of northern Spain, the Camino de Santiago has been a pilgrimage route for centuries. Setting off as a competitive, shrewd negotiator with little patience for small talk, Victor Prince emerged as a very different person - more balanced, more caring, more present in the moment, but looking to the future. Prince translates this growth experience into seven leadership skills, each linked to values that have guided Camino travelers for centuries.

This compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations. Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career, which coincided with a remarkable period in Indian history.

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, the Empty Quarter, Oman, and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain. He was the first European ever to set eyes on the dunes and wadis of these deserts.

In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period.

"In mid-July of 1879, John Muir sailed for the first time through the sheer-walled fjords of Alaska's Inside Passage. 'Never before this,' he wrote, 'had I been embosomed in scenery so hopelessly beyond description.' During the previous 15 years, Muir had vanished into the north woods of Canada, walked a thousand miles from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico, and nested himself in the granite heart of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Wild nature burned with volcanic intensity in the core of John Muir's soul."

Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the best seller Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people - including himself - to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.

In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore 14 of the world’s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer’s eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.

A celebration of 25 years of Provençal living - of lessons learned and changes observed - with his final book, Peter Mayle has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home, marked by his signature warmth, wit, and humor.

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the 10 best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city".

奈良県桜井市、大神神社の神体山・三輪山の南麓の初瀬の地に、天武朝創建の古刹として名高い長谷寺がある。その参道西の山の中に、與喜天満神社が鎮座している。天満神社の名の通り、祭神は菅原道真公であるが、他の天満宮のように「怨霊鎮め」の為に建てられたのではない。長谷寺の鎮守・瀧蔵権現の勧めによって、自ら雷神としてこの地に鎮まったという。それは、当地の道真公の出自との深い関係による。長谷寺参詣の土産として古くから親しまれ、今も参道で売られている「出雲人形」という土人形があるが、それは近隣の出雲集落で作られている。大和にあって出雲という不思議な名を持つこの地は、古代、当麻蹴速との相撲の為に出雲より呼び寄せられ勝利した、野見宿禰ゆかりの地で、皇后の葬儀において、殉死に代わって埴輪を供える事を提案した話が、日本書紀にある。これが出雲人形の発祥とされ、野見宿禰の子孫は土師氏を称した。その後、土師氏の一部は、菅原氏を名乗る。道真公はその出身である。道真公は、父祖ゆかりの地に自ら鎮まったのである。なお、與喜天満神社は、中世、神前で連歌の行われる場所としても名高かった。歌人としても名を轟かせた道真公は、連歌の守護神でもあったのだ。更級日記では夢告を授かる場所としても描かれる初瀬。古の「コンテンツの聖地」巡礼記。

When Jamie Maslin decides to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road, he decides to travel first and plan later. Then, unexpectedly stranded in Iran - a country he's only read about in newspapers - he wonders whether he'll make it out alive. After crossing the border on foot from Turkey, Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into the subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture, where he is embraced by locals who are happy to show him the true Iran as they see it....

岩手県南部の都市、北上市。東北一の大河・北上川に沿う、 肥沃な盆地にあたるこの土地には、古くから蝦夷(えみし)が暮らしていた。 この豊かな土地を巡って、争いも繰り広げられる。 平安初期、蝦夷の指導者アテルイを、征夷大将軍・坂上田村麻呂が、激戦の末に破る。 このとき坂上田村麻呂は、信濃の諏訪大明神を勧請し、当地に諏訪神社を建てたという。 平安中期には、岩手の豪族・安倍氏が、黒沢尻の柵を築いた。 黒沢尻は北上の地名として残り、北上駅近くに、柵跡も残っている。 前九年の役では、安倍氏の一族・正任(まさとう)が黒沢尻の柵を守るが、 命運尽きて安倍氏は源氏に滅ぼされる。 その後、諏訪大明神の神託によって、正任鎮魂のための舞が、神事として始められる。 それが今も北上周辺に広く伝わる民俗芸能・鬼剣舞(おにけんばい)であるという。 諏訪神社は、鬼剣舞を中心に様々な郷土芸能が演じられる、 「北上みちのく芸能まつり」の会場の一つでもあり、多くの見物客が詰めかける。 鬼剣舞は先祖供養の念仏踊りの一種であるが、鬼の面を付け、金色の長い髪を振り、 「反閇(へんばい)」という呪術的な歩行を行う、勇壮な踊りで、独自性に富む。 日本各地で様々な郷土芸能が危機に瀕している中、北上周辺では、鬼剣舞が、 年長者から若年者へ、各地域で熱心に継承されており、共同体の紐帯となっている。 ...

平成25年に式年遷宮が行われた、伊勢の神宮。それが内宮・外宮より成ることは一般にも知られているが、その他に多くの別宮・摂末所管社があり、全て合わせると125社となる。由来は様々だが、その多くは、神宮創祀の際、地元の神が従って、神宮に土地の譲渡や貢納を約束する話となっている。その別宮の一つ伊雑宮が、志摩市に鎮座する。この伊雑宮は、伊勢から離れたリアス式海岸に近いという地理的条件もあって、別宮の一つでありながら、独立的傾向が強かった。明治の神仏分離を経てもなお、北極星の信仰に関わる祭祀が続けられ、江戸時代には、伊雑宮こそが神宮の発祥、中心であるという偽書の発行に関わり、幕府より弾圧を受けるという「まつろわぬ」歴史もある。そもそも伊勢とは、神話の時代に遡れば「まつろわぬ」土地だった。また、中世においても「まつろわぬ」ものの噴出する土地であった。朝廷、国家の宗教的中心地に、なぜ「まつろわぬ」要素があるのか。事象の「裏側」から見た、伊勢というものの深層を掘り下げる。語り:高橋御山人 聞き役:盛池雄峰