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Gain the wine know-how you’ve always wanted in this comprehensive course. With thousands of wines on sale in the US today, choosing just the right one for each occasion can be a challenge even for the experienced. To help you master that challenge and deepen your appreciation of wine and its inexpressibly rich lore, Master of Wine Brian Wheaton recorded Understanding the World of Wine. Whether you're a seasoned oenophile or a beginner, you will discover new insights in this set of 36 easy-to-use audio lectures.

Why does anime make sense in an animist culture? How might Oscar Wilde reveal a culture too often associated with conformity? How can Japanese friends in a typical neighbourhood turn every stereotype on its head? His provocations may infuriate you - may even infuriate himself - Iyer confesses in his opening salvo, but maybe it’s only by setting its love hotels next to its baseball stadia, its wild fashions against its eighth-century values, that Japan can be made new again for both the first-time visitor and the jaded foreign resident. 

From the very select Mayfair district to the lively streets of Soho, visit the most cosmopolitan of European cities, in total freedom. The London CitySpeaker Audio Guide features 90 audio tracks including: visits of all the major monuments and sites, walks in the most beautiful neighborhoods and interviews on the history, the culture of London and the everyday life of the Londoners.

No visit to Sydney is complete without a trip to the historic Rocks district on the harbour foreshore. And no visit to the Rocks would be complete without this self-guided audio walk. The Rocks is the enclave where European Sydney had its beginnings. Here the first convicts were ordered to build their huts and here they worked the sandstone that made Australia's first buildings. This self-guided walk will take you to the places they lived and tell you their stories.

From the Ancient Rome to the Baroque Rome, discover a city full of history and style! With CitySpeaker, visit Rome in total freedom. The Rome CitySpeaker Audio Guide features visits to all the major monuments and sites, walks in the most beautiful neighborhoods, and interviews on the history, the culture of Rome, and the everyday life of the Romans.

Audio Journeys explores the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra. Over 2,600 years old, Petra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Petra is the legacy of the Nabateaeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in south Jordan more than 2,600 years ago, dominating the trade routes of ancient Arabia. With our guide, Mohammad Mofal, we walk through the outer Siq, a steep sided gorge. Its early in the morning, we are on our way to the Treasury.

Take to the streets with Robert Elms to explore Camden Town, an area famous for being different. Where music lives and markets thrive. A place where million pound houses can sit next to homeless shelters. Camden Town has many stories to tell; from its famous live music pubs to secret underground shelters. Get the ultimate guided tour of the area that will forever wear its heart proudly tattooed on its arm.

Soak up the legendary atmosphere of Soho with Irma Kurtz as she walks you around the village she calls home. Discover some of the famous haunts of Bohemian Soho and walk through the streets that have played host to generations of writers, artists, tarts, pimps, gangsters and philosophers. Meet some of the locals like Norman, landlord of his pub for 63 years and Gerry the Stitch, the last of the Soho Jewish Tailors. Soho has many secrets to reveal.

As international master of wine Rob Geddes explains, every bottle of wine is a book that tells three stories: where it came from, who made it, and what it's made of. But - and here's the rub - each of the stories comes in coded form, and you would be wise to seek an experienced guide who can help teach you to read them. In this audio course, Rob gives you a key to decipher one - and perhaps the most influential - of the codes, the one that tells you what the wine is made of.

Yellowstone is a land of extreme diversity. Nowhere else will you find wolves, bison, and grizzlies living among the largest concentration of hot springs and geysers in the world. The park’s 2.2 million acres is an incongruous landscape of bubbling hot, lunar-like geothermal features, lush green rolling meadowlands, snow covered mountain peaks, colorful canyons, waterfalls, lakes and untamed rivers. It is a park so large, so complex and so fascinating it seems fitting that it owns the title as our world’s first national park! Travel Audios’ park approved audio tour will help you understand what you are seeing and smelling! It is not a mile-by-mile guide; it can be listened to anywhere. It features an impressive group of knowledgeable Park Ranger geologists, biologists and naturalists who explain the geological processes that created the landscape and why this area in Wyoming is such a geothermal hot spot. They’ll tell you about their studies and observations of the park’s wildlife and their experience with massive forest fires.

Welcome to BrightPathTours' mini-tour of LaFayette Park! Our tour begins at the LaFayette Monument, one of five major monuments that honor individuals for their service to America. LaFayette Park has existed from the time the White House was built and four of the monuments here pay tribute to the men who came from France, Poland, and Germany to aid in America's fight for independence. This tour will lead you around this beautiful park while we discuss the many contributions of the men who fought alongside the likes of Henry Knox, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington himself.

The unique history of Brick Lane is brought to life by author Tarquin Hall in this mesmerising walk down the street that has played host to over 300 years of immigrants. From French Huguenots weaving silk in the lofts of Spitalfields to becoming the heart of Jewish London, Brick Lane has impacted millions of lives. It is now an astonishing mix of cutting edge fashion as well as the centre of the Bangladeshi community.

This audio program will help you plan and enjoy a hassle-free vacation to the northern European country of Iceland.

Explores works that dazzle the eye and excite the imagination. The art and science objects were selected for their maximum "wow" factor. Some are big, some are not so big, but all of them are eye-filling feasts of form, pattern, color, line and texture. This tour is particularly recommended for family groups with children.

Paris, la ville de l'amour et du romantisme, vous séduira avec son caractère unique et son incroyable charisme. Paris qui abritât des dirigeants légendaires, à l'origine de la révolution, est un berceau de la culture artistique. La ville est pleine d'histoire mais sait garder une âme d'enfant...

Audiogid – eto interesnejshij rasskaz s ogromnym zapasom poleznyh i neobhodimyh svedenij o Prage: nachinaja s istorii etogo goroda, ego dostoprimechatel'nostej i zakanchivaja informaciej o tom, chto nuzhno delat' v jekstrennyh sluchajah. Prednaznachen kak dlja turistov i gostej Pragi, tak i dlja ljudej, interesujushhihsja istoriej goroda, ego ulicami, arhitekturoj i zhelajushhih luchshe uznat' etot gorod.

The bustling streets of Brixton are full of music, art, markets, poets, radicals and preachers. Alex Wheatle, the Brixton Bard, takes you on a journey around the area he first discovered in the 1970's when it was vibrating with reggae baselines and the smog of uprising was in the air. Follow him through Brixton's legendary market and round its diverse and vibrant streets.

Audiogid - eto interesnejshij rasskaz s ogromnym zapasom poleznyh i neobhodimyh svedenij o Londone: nachinaja s istorii jetogo goroda, ego dostoprimechatel'nostej i zakanchivaja informaciej o tom, chto nuzhno delat' v ekstrennyh sluchajah. Prednaznachen kak dlja turistov i gostej Londona, tak i dlja ljudej, interesujushhihsja istoriej goroda, ego ulicami, arhitekturoj i zhelajushhih luchshe uznat' etot gorod.

Venezia, la Città dei Ponti, è legittimamente chiamata "un museo all'aria aperta". Distesa su 118 isole collegate da traghetti e ponti...

Luvr - krupnejshij muzej mira. Byt' v Parizhe i ne zajti v Luvr? Kak mozhno! No on ogromen, i chtoby uvidet' vse shedevry - Vam nuzhen gid. Eto ochen' dorogo. No vyhod est'! Nasladites' velikimi proizvedenijami Luvra i uznajte o nih vse samoe interesnoe s nashim Audiogidom.