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A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's...

'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' - Daily Mail 'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' Observer This is the account of...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping along edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact hardcover binding. A richly illustrated travelogue...

This is a travel book on the newly emergent countries of central Asia, which contain the magical cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, the Kazakh Steppes, the deserts of Karakum and...

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

Thubron's first travel book since "Behind the Wall" (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award) describes the newly emergent countries of Central Asia, originally part...

Thubron learnt Russian and entered the then Soviet Union in an old Morris Marina in which he camped and drove for almost 10,000 miles between the Baltic and Caucasus. This...

A few years ago it bacame possible for a foreigner to travel Siberia almost at will. This is the account of the author's 15,000-mile journey through this astonishing country, one...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past...

This selection of travel writing from "The Spectator" covers diversity of experience and is arranged in geographical sections (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East and Australia, North...

A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook...

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we...

Awash with superstition and folklore, the Yangtze river has been an inspiration for more than a thousand years to those who have lived beside it or sailed along it. This...

New to Penguin Classics In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name...

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Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing. Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself...

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FEATURING BRAND NEW UPDATED CONTENT EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION 'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Fascinating' - Joe Moran 'A very lovely book' - Kate Mosse Bestselling and award-winning authors share the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn 1963, a landmark government report reshaped the future of...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: SignedA compelling sports memoir, this work chronicles the remarkable life of Colin McDonald, the legendary Australian opening batsman whose stoic...

'A compelling book... Test cricket is hanging on. It's a worry' - Graham Gooch 'Huw Turbervill is the ultimate passionate polemicist for the Test format' - David Gower OBE THE...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: previous owner onblockA Space on the Floor by Colin King is a charming children's story published by Ward Lock Educational,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this...

'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot 'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UK In...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American history have captured the imagination of the world quite like Abraham Lincoln, and Stefan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3 February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia...

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began...

This expert guide to competitive ultra-distance cycling is all riders need to cycle a very long way, fast. Ultra-distance events are among some of the greatest challenges a cyclist can...

Edition: limited to 2000 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew lives in the annals of maritime exploration burn as brightly as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's earliest artistic voices speak across centuries in Colonial Painters 1788–1880, a richly authoritative survey that chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-drenched townships of early twentieth-century Australia, a razor-sharp young mind absorbs the full theatre...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat makes a city tick — and who decides how its spaces are divided, contested, and transformed? Internal...

'Reckoned one of the greatest of modern fairy tales' Observer 'Hughes has never written more compellingly.' Robert Nye, The Times Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused...

Edition: facsimile edition. No. 162 of 250 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed by Bruce L. Evans (Foreword). 22ppIn the...