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Orientalist, the (Exp)
An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world. he Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world...
Hillary's Antarctica: Adventure, Exploration and Establishing Scott
Written by Nigel Watson of the Antarctic Heritage Trust, and illustrated with Jane Ussher's stunning photographs, historic images and never-before-seen ephemera, this is the first book to fully document and...
American Voyage
Beautiful portrait of America in the 1960s, rediscovered after 50 years. In 1966, Mario Carnicelli won first place in an Italian national photography competition sponsored by Popular Photography magazine and...
Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times
On the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs. The book will take readers on a visual journey through...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
With the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist. Kapuscinski has been visiting Africa since...
Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair
A book that tells the story of London since the Thirties through the 26 streets and stations of the Monopoly board. Acclaimed comic writer Tim Moore travels through the best...
Stanley: Sorcerer's Apprentice
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This is the second volume of Frank McLynn's biography of Henry Morton Stanley. It covers the years 1877 to 1904. During this period of his life King Leopold II of...
Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town
Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
Cruising Yachts: Design and Performance
Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer responsible for some hundreds of classic English cruising yachts which still grace our seas. Cruising Yachts, his design manifesto, first...
Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend.
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have...
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...
Maurice and Maralyn: An extraordinary true story of shipwreck,
An extraordinary true tale of love, shipwreck and survival, beautifully told -- Maurice and Maralyn's escape from 1970s England and its oil crisis, strikes and inflation is also a story...
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan
A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture,...
Survivors in Mexico
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...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
Author: Magda Hellinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at...