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A must-read reality check for anybody who has ever pondered making a new life abroad "Pure enjoyment!" "Another corker from Mr Cawley" "Couldn't put it down. Made me happy, made...

2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As...

The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and...

The New York Times Best Seller "Amazing . . . the most original travel narrative ever written." --CounterPunch Around the World in 50 Years is the inspiring story of an...

In What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay de Feliz gave up marriage and a successful career in the UK to follow her dreams as a scuba diving instructor in the Dominican...

The course of one's life never unfolds quite as we imagine it would. While traveling to gain perspective on her life, Mony, a Lebanese-Canadian woman feels called to walk an...

My Pilgrim's Heart is a beautifully written story about simultaneous journeys: a woman's pilgrimage across the landscapes of Italy and Eastern Europe and a marriage on the line. At 48,...

When Colin Holden wanted to know more about Australian artist Lionel Lindsay and his trips to Spain in the middle of the last century, he went to Europe to find...

This photographic book records a cross-section of Londoners in their home environment, ranging from a single man living in a tent with two dogs to a family of 17 Lubavitch...

This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities - Berlin. Taking as its subject the...

Patrick Sutherland's photographs and Adam Nicolson's prose capture the existences of the men and women for whom this part of England forms the background and substance of their lives. As...

One life sabbatical. Two laps around the world. After being married for a year, Bob Riel and his wife, Lisa, decided to take a chance in life. They took time...

Two pensioners and a whippet sail their English narrowboat down America's 1,000 mile long Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway... Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you might expect pensioners Terry and Monica...

Rosemary Bailey's enthralling account of her quest to make a 21st century home out of a ruined French medieval monastery. 'I wake to the sun striking gold on a stone...

The book titled Londoners by the author Nicholas Shakespeare. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An obsessive walks the entire London Underground system overground The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home- Great Britain Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry? Could you stick up for...

A journey through Eastern Europe 'You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the...

Brilliant, funny, powerfully evocative - the young English author of Duende! and his Spanish wife set out to create a magical garden high in remote Spanish mountains. Jason Webster had...

The book titled Wales: An Anthology by the author Alice Thomas Ellis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Country Round Paris by the author Ian Dunlop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. 'I cannot remember the last time I read a book so...

Arundel Castle is a great Norman and medieval fortification, built after 1067 on the same plan and at the same time as Windsor. Its revival as a country house in...

""The cornerstone of the history of the American continent."" --Washington Irving This revised edition (originally published in 1959) of the famous biography of Columbus by his son Ferdinand was published...

The great 19th century boom in church building, spurred by population growth and new religious movements, was already under way whan Victoria became queen in 1837, and it continued until...

A lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river's...

Expectation meets Julie and Julia, The Yellow Kitchen is a brilliant exploration of food, belonging and friendship. London E17, 2019. A yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong...

Captain Cook confidently declaring that no man will ever venture further than he has ...Richard Burton musing on how to keep a wife alive in the tropics ...the unreliable Sir...

Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren...

The book titled The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Travelling Tales by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This guide responds to huge public interest in both Iraq and its people and is less a travel guide and more of an objective account of Saddam's regime as a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s Sequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour...

Author: Jeffrey Spier & Gordon MorrisonBinding: PaperbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSan Marco And Venice presents a...

The first volume of Manchester University Press' 'Beginnings' series, which is based on Peter Barry's critically aclaimed bestseller, Beginning theory This brilliant digest offers a clear, step-by-step introduction to postmodernism...

The book titled Flemish Cities Explored: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Mechelen and Brussels by the author Derek Blyth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This is a collection of the author's choice of his own best travel writing, harvested from half a dozen books. He has chosen his favourite people, his most vivid journeys,...

The fabled city on the banks of the River Nile, once home to pharaohs and emperors, now forms a focal point of the Islamic faith and of the Arab world....

The first guidebook to take the reader around this magical city using the great works of art that mark the golden age of 17th century Amsterdam, the city of Rembrandt...

The second instalment to the hugely successful Costa prize shortlister, The Salt Path, and the continued, powerful true story of the couple who lost everything Nature holds the answers for...

This expression of the pain of Burma uses novelistic techniques to weave together the patient endurance of its stricken inhabitants, together with their fragility and immense charm. Through his studies...

Author: Maya Silver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Whether you're stopping for a day hike or spending a long weekend under the stars, escape to the great outdoors with...

Author: Insight Guides Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Cosmopolitan Bangkok blends evocative street markets with glitzy modern malls, Buddhist philosophy with animism, and traditional reserve with lashings of fun....

Author: Noo Saro-Wiwa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 China today is both a land of opportunity for Africans blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America, and...

Author: Bruce ChatwinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine has minor sun-fading and minor peels to corners.Bruce Chatwin's collected works, In...

It offers information on the Rome of the Popes; the poet Shelley, in happiness and tragedy; Sheridan's unravelling of the curious story of Mussolini's son-in-law and the British ambassador; the...