Travel

Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with his dry, infectious, laconic wit. He takes us on a journey that transforms a stammering schoolboy into a worldly-wise...

One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas -...

These four interlinked stories encapsulate Martha Gellhorn's first-hand observation of the Great Depression. Fiction crafted with documentary accuracy, they vividly render the gradual spiritual collapse of the simple, homely sufficiency...

Intended to be the concluding trilogy of a series of autobiographical books (beginning with Voices of the Old Sea and Jackdaw Cake) but instead was transmuted into a deeply searing...

Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in...

The perfect gift book for Guinness lovers, served here. How did a beer from Dublin become a globally renowned symbol of Ireland? With just GBP100 in his pocket, Arthur Guinness...

After eight years working in Japan, immersing herself in its language and literature, Lesley Chan Downer set off in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho, Japan's most cherished poet, to explore...

The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan...

The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live...

When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayocircumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for thevillage in northern Cameroon where he had lived as...

Eothen , which means 'news from the east' started out asa few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advicefor his own...

Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms...

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years,...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron 'One of the most humane and visionary of all travel...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...

Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the...

There are only a handful of destinations left in the world that have retained their ability to shock the traveller with their unique perspective. These places still awaken a sense...

Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming. Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence,...

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She developed an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society, meeting...

The British links with St Petersburg date back to the very year of its foundation and have continued almost unbroken to the present day. Anthony Cross narrates the story of...

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

Deep in the desert of Jordan lies the hidden city of Petra, one of the greatest marvels of the ancient world. Carved from rose-red rock, Petra's monuments, dwellings and temples...

In this revised and expanded introduction to the Maya, Professor Coe incorporates the latest ideas and research in a fast-changing field. Spectacular tomb discoveries at the city of Copan reveal...

Art-loving armchair travellers, as well as the more devoted kind, will delight in this book as much for its intelligence and sensitivity as its detailed descriptions both of the travails...

Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a...

Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a...

At the peak of his literary powers, Robert Louis Stevenson, age 37, sailed on a small hired schooner into the almost uncharted vastness of the Pacific Ocean. There, the ailing...

Ascension Island is one of the most remote inhabited spots ono earth; a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs and feral donkeys. The thousand or so people who live on...

In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece-a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the...

West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...

Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography....

The newly updated Green Guide Chateaux of the Loire features the treasures of France's picturesque Loire Valley. Discover the top attractions, most interesting villages and towns, and shopping hot spots....

An insider's guide to the most fascinating, delicious and beautiful things to do in London, whatever the time of day. Like New York, London can be enjoyed all day and...

The book titled Peregrinations of a Pariah by the author Jean Hawkes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Travels Through the Third World by the author Brian Schwartz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Secret Life of the Seine by the author Rosenblum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'For the reader who knows little about whisky, this is a book that will easily and enjoyably fill that gap.' - Sir Alexander McCall Smith Beginning with the origins of...

Where we go is usually decided spontaneously; one of us might say, 'Let's do a wine trip in France;' or 'We should go to Angkor before it's overrun by tourists'......

Kriya Yoga is an instrument through which human evolution can be quickened. Learn the essence of this spiritual science from its greatest proponent, Paramhansa Yogananda, in his own words. Heed...

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA gripping work of Australian maritime history, Wrecks & Reputations: The Loss of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of archival scholarship, Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly evocative work of travel memoir and natural history, The Green Mosaic: Memories of New Guinea chronicles Eric C....

Condition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA beloved classic of Victorian adventure fiction, The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA vivid and candid work of colonial memoir, Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: FEP missing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of popular history and science writing, Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology chronicles the thrilling discoveries...