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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best...
Being Indian: Inside the Real India
A compelling journey through the paradoxes, myths and realities of India, by 'one of the country's most perceptive writers.' (Guardian) In the 21st century every sixth human being will be...
Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing
Creativity is a place. Memory is an image. The artistic process itself is a journey, a specific one, the return to a lost and cherished childhood realm, the original source...
Going to Extremes
Going to Extremes is a four-part series in which writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits the world's hottest, coldest, wettest and driest inhabited places. He will visit...
Inca Kola
Inca-Kola is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris s fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants and riots. He and his...
The Great North Road: London to Edinburgh - 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1
The Great North Road is Britain's Route 66 - we've just forgotten how to sing its praises In 1921, Britain's most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist...
Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
In "Eagle Dreams", Bodio gives life to the people, landscapes and animals of Mongolia that have become part of his soul.
Shopping for Buddhas: Travel Literature
Greenwald's story of his obsessive search for the perfect Buddha statue. His souvenir-hunting turns into an ironic metaphor for the clash between spiritual riches and material greed. Politics, religion and...
Man Against Nature: Firsthand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration
The forty-five tales in Man Against Nature cover an extraordinary range of time and terrain.
Songs At the River's Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
Part autobiography, part travelogue, part anthropological study, this is an account of a Western woman living in a Muslim Bangladeshi village for 18 months. On an anthropological level, it demonstrates...
The Story of San Michele
This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a...
Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
From Kauia to Key West, Alaska's tundra to the Rio Grande, a rollicking year-long search for American butterflies With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with...
The London Compendium: A street-by-street exploration of the hidden
The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, brothers, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs,...
Sons of the Moon
On a vast plateau high in the Bolivian Andes live the "Sons of the Moon", the Aymara. This great pre-Columbian empire, the first in South America, was a peaceful nation...
Medieval Castles, Stately and Historic Houses of Great Britain and
This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain's finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style...
Life's a Journey: The Adventure Continues
Part autobiography, part travelogue and part reflection, this is a book of wonderful variety and range. There's humour, drama, anecdote and heart-searching. Every spread is illustrated by Ken's superb images:...
In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan
These places are among the most beautiful on earth - the deserts of the Middle East, the Dead Sea coast, the ancient splendor of Luxor, the pyramids at Giza, and...
Table Mountain and the Cape Peninsula
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Table Mountain National park extends from Cape Town's trademark table-top mountain all the way to Cape Point, where craggy cliffs drop spectacularly into a boiling sea. The Park's slogan, 'accessible...
In Europe's Shadow
Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. What ensued was a lifelong fascination with a...
Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain
Jason Webster originally travelled to Spain to play the flamenco guitar. A qualified Arabist, he now embarks on a quest for Spain's forgotten Arab legacy, and gets embroiled with characters...
Maximum City: Biography of New York City
Maximum City is the biography of New York City. It has an exact purpose: to use the past to understand how New York came to be New York, and what...
The King Neptune Day and Night Club
The book titled The King Neptune Day and Night Club by the author Larry Buttrose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Singapore: State of the Art
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Set against a backdrop of superb color photographs, an elite team of Singapore's best fiction and non-fiction writers describes the inner workings of island life. Never before have so many...
China Memories
Photographer Marco Paoluzzo first became interested in China decades ago, yet the passionate world traveller refused to visit the country for political reasons until 1998. At that time, two friends...
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
In this remarkable dual memoir about family, faith, and friendship, film legend Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez share their stories. Spanning nearly 50 years of family history, the...
The Encounter: Amazon Beaming
1971, the American photographer Loren McIntyre finds himself stranded in the depths of the Amazon rainforest, on the border between Brazil and Peru. Finding refuge with the Mayoruma tribe -...
Sydney in Photos
Everything in Sydney competes for your attention: the sight of a yacht race in the wake of a ferry; the sizzle of barbecues at the local park; the bustle of...
See How We Run
This is a book that infuses the zest of jogging into the adventure of travel. A wonderful world full of vitality emerges in Terry Henderson's account of his jogging journeys...
Bergerac's Jersey
As Sergeant Jim Bergerac on BBC TV, John Nettles has helped to make the island of Jersey familiar to over 14 million viewers. Here he offers a personal view of...
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a...
Eat the Rich
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In P.J. O'Rourke's classic best-seller, "Parliament of Whores," he attempted to explain the entire United States government. Now, in his most ambitious book since, he takes on an even broader...
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through...
The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places
The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going. Enter the world...
Into The Never-Never: Travels in Australia
A witty, affectionate and beautifully written account of Johnston's travels in 1990s Australia. After a long sojourn in China, Brian Johnston arrived in Cairns to join his sister on a...
The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece and the Greek Islands
From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. The variety...
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
An account of Redmond O'Hanlon's four-month trip up the Orinico river and across the Amazon Basin. It includes details of the natural hazards which he encountered, some of which were...
The Spirit-Wrestlers
The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born....
Travels With My Trombone
From the siesta to fiesta, the lifeblood of the Caribbean is in the rhythms of the salsa, calypso and zouk. The author of this book left London for Trinidad seeking...