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The Gastronomical Me
Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...
Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies
Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...
Let's Get Lost
He has walked along the Great Wall in China, communed with a sign-language-speaking orang-utan in Borneo and taken psychoactive pharmaceuticals with a witch doctor in the depths of the Amazon...
A Place In France: An Indian Summer (PB)
Charting the adventures of affable yet bumbling Nigel, looking for a place to renovate in the deepest Ardeche, this compelling, original and slightly bonkers tale sees him first foray to...
When Men & Mountains Meet Paperback: Like the desire for drink or
We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of...
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...
Gone Bush
The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond...
The Juice: Vinous Veritas
Jay McInerney has written unique, witty, vinous essays for over a decade. Here, with his trademark flair and expertise, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of...
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to Driving over Lemons
Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful...
The Impossible Road Trip: An Unforgettable Journey to Past and Present
Filled with color photography, entertaining site descriptions and histories, and five specially commissioned maps, The Impossible Road Trip is your ultimate look back at America's most famous-and quirkiest-roadside attractions, past...
China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China
Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford...
Educating Peter
Peter's mum and dad are worried. Over the last twelve months, they've noticed ferocious changes taking place in their son. It's not just the mumbling and the cloud of melancholy...
Between Extremes
A moving and funny testament to a friendship born out of adversity. In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next...
Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia
As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes...
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
From Ice Cube to You Tube via 'Singlish' and Bouncebackability - Mark Abley travels the globe to report on the dynamic new forces shaping the future of the English language...
The Penguin Lessons
Now a major film, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a flightless bird and a teacher out of his depth. . . When schoolteacher Tom Michell...
Can You Make This Thing Go Faster?
The eighth volume of Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series These days, you might know him better as a tractor-driving Gentleman Farmer, but Jeremy Clarkson wasn't always...
My Family and Other Animals
The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood in Corfu by British conservationist Gerald Durrell Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian
'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...
Facing East - Photos from the Heart
The book titled Facing East - Photos from the Heart by the author Roger Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Islands in the Sky: Scenes from the Colorado Plateau
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Magnificent collection of photographs which celebrate the beauty of majestic landscapes. Includes a descriptive and helpful introduction with evocative poetic texts.
All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise
"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers...
A Girl's Own Adventure
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In a not quite mid-life crisis, Jacquie and Sarah - fancying themselves a bit rugged - head off to Africa in search of the deepest, darkest bits they'd seen on...
Country Australia
While the majority of Australians live close to the coast, the heart of our nation is still in the country, as spectacularly displayed in this collection of photographs by renowned...
Transcontinental Train Odyssey: The Ghan, the Khyber, the globe
'This book is both highly educational and a damn good read.' - Sam Burgess, OAM, former chairman Zig Zag Railway 'A fascinating view of railways throughout the world by an...
Guide to the Lakes
A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S CLASSIC GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH LAKES - THE LANDSCAPE WHICH INSPIRED HIS GREATEST WORK. WHILE KEEPING FAITHFULLY TO WORDSWORTH'S ORIGINAL TEXT, THIS ATTRACTIVE...
A Bend in the Yellow River
Justin Hill was only twenty-one when he arrived starry-eyed in Yuncheng, central China, a small town hidden among the plains of dusty Shanxi province. He was greeted by a place...
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984
The book titled Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984 by the author Paul Theroux. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Old New World
In this text, Lucinda Lambton sets out to show that it is in America rather than in Britain that she finds a sense of living history, where the culture and...
Cubebook: the Earth
A volume of photographs dedicated to the Earth with a particular regard for its most spectacular and beautiful landscapes, and for the relationship man has created with it. The 15...
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through...
Dorset Privies
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This book presents a light-hearted look at Dorset's loos of yesteryear with local anecdotes and photographs of those buildings still standing. It is fully illustrated.
Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran
For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting to make sense of...
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual...