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Travel Tales Monthly: No. 6 DEC 2014 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min
The December 2014 issue, number six, of Travel Tales Monthly bookazine samples drug tourism--the quest to achieve the sorts of brain states that travelers avidly seek out for the purposes of recreating, vegetating, meditating, cogitating, experimenting, exploring, or seeking enlightenment and personal growth. Tales such as "Snake Wine", "The Full Moon Party", and "Magical, Mystical Marrakesh" illustrate how travelers wander the world to experiment or explore by ingesting, injecting, imbibing, chewing, eating, snorting, and smoking a variety of drugs, substances, plants, and even "medications" in order to morph from the normal, oft boring, mundane, ordinary, conscious waking state into the brainless or the superconscious in an attempt to achieve various mental states of being that range somewhere betwixt and between the mindless and the mindful. It is one thing to dabble in a limited way with substances at home; it's another matter altogether to venture into a vast world of the exotic--a world that is a veritable candy store of magical, mystical drugs and substances that are there simply for the taking. Some travelers are lured to the hypothetical, mysterious, so-called blue pill or red pill. Not only can they choose one of these pills to satisfy their exploring, their inquisitiveness, their mental journeys piled on top of their physical travel journeys; they can choose both as well as a panoply of other substances. But what are the consequences of doing drugs and substances in a foreign land? In one of our featured stories this month, "Snake Wine", our traveler toys dangerously with drinking, willy-nilly, a concoction of blood and venom of a deadly poisonous snake in a Taiwan night market. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029195/bk_acx0_029195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Europe Under the Old Regime: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
Behind the glittering facade of 18th century European civilization lurked some of the most brutal and cynical power brokers ever to practice the art of diplomacy, and ironically it was their blueprint for conquest that the French Revolution was to utilize so well. Europe Under the Old Regime is actually the preface to Sorel's tremendous and magnificently elaborate work, Europe and the French Revolution. In this brief introduction to his mighty history, Sorel gives us a sweeping and incisive understanding of the workings of court diplomacy as practiced from the time of Louis XIV up to the Revolution itself. It is an ugly picture of beautifully dressed women and gentlemen behaving in the most barbarous fashion, while doing so with grace and in a mannered style that was so brilliant and compelling that we can only wonder how they could carry out their perfidy and remain outwardly so cavalier. And yet, in the midst of sordid intrigue and heinous butchery, they did just that. Never in European history has such elaborate courtesy and refined behavior so thoroughly masked a vile intent. No one could be trusted. Thrones and kingdoms were partitioned and absorbed willy-nilly and their rulers sent packing...if they were lucky. Wars were frequent and horrible. Revenge, secret agreements, assassination: all in a day's work for an 18th century enlightened despot. When it came to "reasons of state", no kingdom was secure and no treaty sacrosanct. Diplomatic and military success were the only things that counted, and they were pursued with deadly zeal. This miniature masterpiece pierces the veil of 18th century manners and refinement to reveal the shocking truth of a "polite" aristocracy on the verge of self-immolation. Even after a hundred years, Europe Under the Old Regime remains one of the greatest historical essays ever written. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000033/bk_acon_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Follow the Breadcrumbs (The Wild Imagination of Willy Nilly #2)
Follow the Breadcrumbs (The Wild Imagination of Willy Nilly #2): ab 3.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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