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The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this tranquil and picturesque region. Visit the magnificent...

The book titled Memoirs from a Young Republic. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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 lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of...

The amusing account of a landlubber's adventures on the world voyage of eight tall ships re-enacting the first journey to Australia by the convict fleet of 1787. The author chronicles...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Third printing of first US edition of Chatwin's classic.

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...

Here is the Rome of the Popes, of a poet who loathed priests - Shelley, his wife and their son - in happiness and in tragedy. Here too are the...

The book titled The Village in History. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Stryker McGuire covered the Nicaraguan revolution for Newsweek, and twenty years later drove 20,000 miles from North America to the end of South America. The result is Streets with No...

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...

The book titled Guide to Central Europe by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

The book titled Under a Sickle Moon: Journey Through Afghanistan by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Jacques Piccard And Robert S. DietzBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction account chronicles the groundbreaking journey of the bathyscaph Trieste into the deepest reaches...

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...

Author: Small, A. P. (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Bosch & Keuning, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis architectural guide chronicles the rich heritage of Dutch structures, presenting a detailed examination...

Author: A. Van Der Heyden And Ben KroonBinding: HardbackPublished: Elsevier and Phaidon, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Glory Of Amsterdam: An Explorer's Guide presents a comprehensive look...

Author: Fulvio Roiter (Photographs) And Peter Lauritzen (Text)Binding: HardbackPublished: New York, The Vendome Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis stunning volume presents a visual and historical journey...

Author: Sergio Bettini, Andrea Caizzi, Paolo Carpeggiani, Lanfranco Franzoni, Giovanni Lorenzoni, Sandro Pirovano, Lionello Puppi, Giandomenico Romanelli, Giovanna Scire Nepi, Guglielmo Tagliacarne, Fulvio ZulianiBinding: HardbackPublished: ELECTA EDITRICE, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very...

Author: Lloyd RhysBinding: HardbackPublished: Georgian House, Melbourne, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis poignant maritime tale, My Ship Is So Small by...

Author: Admiral Sir Edward R. G. R. EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Fold-out map intact. South With Scott presents a firsthand...

Author: Noel CowardBinding: HardbackPublished: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD, 1944Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir chronicles Noel Coward's experiences and observations during his wartime travels through...

Author: George Nathaniel CurzonBinding: HardbackPublished: SIDGWICK & JACKSON, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, Curzon's Persia, meticulously chronicles the intricate political landscape and cultural nuances of...

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard...

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...

It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of...

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,...

This was wild adventure, but it was also a journey with a practical purpose. Powell furthered the cause of modern science, seeing the Grand Canyon as a geological textbook which...

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...

"Creepy, beautiful, icky and amazing." --Penny Le Couteur, author of Napoleon's Button Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our...

Tim Cahill sleeps with grizzly bears. He also treks with llamas, inches his way through the deepest cave in America, and assesses the cuteness quotient of giant clams in the...

Is the "Book of Mormon" the Great American Novel? Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farmhand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book...

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: David Suzuki Keibo OiwaBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Unwin, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: signed on inside cover with...

Author: Vircondelet, AlainBinding: HardbackPublished: Flammarion, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcase: GoodThis three‑volume set of cultural history presents Venice through its political rise, artistic triumphs, architectural...

Author: Peter D'Epiro And Mary Desmond PinkowishBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis engaging non-fiction work presents a fascinating collection of cultural inquiries, inviting readers...