Travel

In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.Inspired by his own experience of both...

Theology, says Brian McLaren, is at its best when it is in conversation with the wild world that flourishes beyond our walls and outside our windows and cities. In God Unbound, McLaren follows his love of nature all the way to the Galapagos Islands...

Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Malaysia presents visitors with an exciting and fascinating medley of cultures--Malay, Chinese, Indian, Arab, Eurasian, Dayak, and aboriginal. Though very much a modern nation state, its diverse...

In 2016, Mary Jane Baxter did what many people dream of: she quit her job at the BBC, rented out her flat and headed for the hills. Her home for the next few months was an upcycled 1986 Bedford Bambi campervan with a top speed of 60mph. She raided skips...

A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARA nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.'A writer of great gifts.' Robert...

'Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth's frozen regions... The prose is startling and sharp-edged as the icy landscapes themselves' Financial TimesSmashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908851161Author Roy WatsonPage Count 2Imprint Heron MapsPublisher Phoenix Maps

Alps Mountain Biking is a guide to the western Alps. It reveals epic rocky descents, high-altitude blasts and hidden Alpine singletrack, all set against a backdrop of snowy peaks, pine forests and clear blue skies. This is some of the greatest...

The White Wolves brand is known for providing engaging books that children want to pick up, at a range of different reading levels. The new non-fiction strand reflects the range of non-fiction texts that children will come across in the real world, from...

Plans included: Marina Alimos (Kalamaki) (1:12 500) Stenon Metopis (1:30 000) Limin Poros (1:25 000) Nisidhes Tselevinia (1:50 000) Stenon Spetsai (1:40 000) Navplion (1:20 000) Imray-Tetra charts for the Ionian and Aegean are widely...

In 1769, Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola dedicated the new town: Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles - Our Lady the Queen of the Angels. Since then the city has been a colorful melting pot of cultures. Wagon trains brought pioneers in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997137088Author Eric HenzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Gone Beyond GuidesPublisher Gone Beyond GuidesWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803374451Author Tim BugbirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Make Believe IdeasPublisher Make Believe IdeasDimensions(mm) 265mm * 260mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730206Author Wyndham LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

The home of trusted Korean dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy Korean to English and English to Korean dictionary. Offering learners at home, school and in the office extensive and up-to-date coverage of Korean and English in...

The epic novel of Roman adventure.Correus and Flavius, half brothers and rivals, have found the life of a Centurion to be dangerous. After imprisonment and torture, Flavius found his strength and proved his mettle. Correus, son of a slave, found glory on...

More extraordinary but true stories from London's history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London's Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a...

A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of warIn this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is...

Tokyo is an amazing world unto itself a city for lovers of Japanese culture, fashion and great food that mixes the best of old and new. In Cool Tokyo Guide, Abby Denson, renowned graphic artist and author, takes you on a personal tour of Tokyo's...

Explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From disciplinary and topical perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was brought to view...

A sweeping tale of ambition and passion in the shattered world of post-war Paris - perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Kate Furnivall1952. In the fragile atmosphere of post-war Paris, Sophie Bernot is training as a heart surgeon. A young woman in a...

Malaga may be the smallest province in Andalucia, but it compensates with its significant population and economy, much of it based on tourism. The provincial capital is the vastly underrated Malaga, Andalucia's second largest city with a lively...

'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you'll love this' Red Magazine Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto. There - along with their friend, Marlena - they cook...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial...

First published in 1937, Letters by a Modern Mystic is a compilation of excerpts from letters Christian missionary Frank C. Laubach wrote to his father. Within them, Laubach shares his findings of the greatest experiment of his life: attempting to live...

Becoming a parent need to not put an end to wanderlust. That's the message in this new anthology from Bradt, the latest in a series of collections of real-life tales focusing on different aspects of travel. With contributions from a range of both...

A guidebook to cycling the lower Danube, following the Danube Cycleway, from Budapest to the Black Sea. Covers 1647km through Hungary, Croatia, Serbia (former Yugoslavia) and Romania. The route is presented in 32 stages, averaging 53.5km per stage and is...

The University of Oxford offers 800 years of history: its 39 colleges are inextricably linked with the daily life of a busy city with beautiful buildings, cobbled lanes, and turrets and spires. Fully revised for 2019, and with a map to guide visitors,...

Fresh pasta, red wine, fine art... and love? Find enchantment this year in the magical city of FlorenceWhen Debbie Waterson's bicycle crashes into handsome doctor Pierluigi, she wonders if her luck has changed. Determinedly single after ending a long...

Secret Abergavenny offers a unique insight into the sleepy Welsh market town, proving that there's a lot more to the 'Gateway to Wales' than meets the eye. Did you know that Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess was kept in the town under lock and key...

A beautifully illustrated journey through the history of travel-and traveling in style-from one of the world's preeminent fashion brands The mid-19th and early 20th centuries heralded new means of transport and equipment and, with them, new and original...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The concept of peace has always attracted radical thought, action, and practices. It has been taken to mean merely an absence of overt violence or war, but in the contemporary era it is often used...

*A Newstatesman Book of the Year*'Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting' ObserverBestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north.'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this...

The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving" David Mills,...

Almost French takes readers on a tour fraught with culture clashes but rife with insight and deadpan humour - a charming true story of what happens when a strong-willed Aussie girl meets a very French Frenchman.Backpacking around Europe, twenty-something...

Racundra's First Cruise is Arthur Ransome's account of Racundra's maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him from Riga, in Latvia to Helsingfors (Helsinki) in Finland, via the Moon Sound and Reval (Tallinn) in...

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. In the resulting...

Rough Guide Swedish Phrasebook Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Swedish phrasebook and dictionary from Rough Guides' trusted language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion, and...

The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999355909Author David WienirFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint de Wallen PressPublisher de Wallen Press