Travel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850589334Author Les LumsdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 11mm

A guidebook to 8 multi-day trekking routes in Ladakh. Exploring the Zanskar range in the northern tip of India, these extremely challenging treks are suitable for experienced trekkers. The routes are presented as 8 multi-day treks, covering...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. The Condor and the Cows...

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge of Sumatra, into East Timor and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762874Author Robyn DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Concise and user-friendly, Easy Mandarin Chinese is designed for anyone who wants to learn Mandarin Chinese-whether on their own or with a teacher.This language learning book introduces the learner to all the basics of the Chinese language and teaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117216Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

'a guidebook that might just save your life' HERALD SUNBob Cooper's incredible bushcraft skills have been developed through more than 30 years of experience in Australia's harsh outback. He has picked up tools of survival from the experiences of living...

Discover the world's most energising, inspiring and relaxing wellbeing retreats. From yoga, t'ai chi and meditation to mindfulness, spa treatments and creative writing, we present our favourite retreats and spas around the world to help replenish the...

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups. The I-SPY concept is very simple: it's like the 'I spy with my little eye' game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about 'something beginning with',...

On previous journeys through Britain, David McKie headed for places he had heard of and was eager to see. But how true, how representative a picture of the country could that provide? What, he wondered, might happen if he let chance dictate his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739501402Author Roy DenneyImprint Leicestershire Footpath AssociationPublisher Leicestershire Footpath Association

A handy Japanese phrasebook and guide to the Japanese language, Survival Japanese contains basic vocabulary necessary for traveling in Japan.This best-selling phrase book has been dramatically expanded and improved to provide you with all the key...

In the spring of 1978, as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she builds the story of the river through memoir, travelogue and history, writing a love letter to the city she has called home since 2002...

Metamorphosis is a central theme of contemporary creativity, investigated by artists, stylists, designers, philosophers and craftsmen who have crossed the exclusive fences of their respective disciplines in search of the changing inclusiveness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771602310Author Paul ZizkaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is...

Multi-activity guidebook to the Haute Maurienne region of south east France. The book describes a wide range of the finest day walks, scrambles, rock climbs, via ferratas, treks and mountain biking and road cycling routes, offering all the inspiration...

Let us take you around a village where time has stood still for over 500 years seen through the eyes of artist Paul Snowdon as he leads you around the village with words on the history and sketches of what you can see. Famous the world over Castle Combe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916398627Author Elaine CanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Aderyn PressPublisher Aderyn PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 20mm

Lying between deserts, mountain chains and seas, Iran developed a fascinating cultural landscape. 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilisations during the 3rd millennium BC until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early 18th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940481132Author Monika SaxerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint HelvetiqPublisher HelvetiqWeight(grams) 540g

Taygetos extends as 70km of magnificent massif anchoring the southern tip of Greece. From a dense network of challenging trails, Anavasi selected routes favoured since antiquity by devotees of sky-gods or their successor, the Prophet Elijah. Paths...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398470408Author Stewart WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Experience Austin the local way with this insider's guide Holy cow, Austin has a lot to offer: soaring skyscrapers, Tex-Mex food joints, and honky-tonks galore. But what's beyond the well-trodden sights? Former ambulance vehicles serving up breakfast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600213Author Isak DinesenFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 192mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788361155348Author terraQuestImprint terraQuestPublisher terraQuest

Montana is the crown jewel of the American West. Experience Big Sky Country with our completely new edition of Montana Road & Recreation Atlas. No other map product can better portray Montana's rugged peaks, majestic rivers, and expansive plains...

Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early adventurers whose name nearly everyone knows. His book was one of the best-loved...

Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western...

Story and Structure tells the untold story of how story works. Using just six primary symbols, author Leon Conrad outlines eighteen story structures and shows how they all optimally solve the problems which give rise to them. The book also demonstrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967265Author Jim RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 294gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the memoir of a carefree young cavalry officer in the halcyon days of the British Empire. Francis Yeats-Brown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908851291Author Heron MapsFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Heron MapsPublisher Phoenix Maps

Where were you in 1966? Most of Bridget's friends, in their early twenties, were settling down with jobs and/or husbands... She, on the other hand, was wandering the highways and byways of Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia: behind the Iron Curtain...

Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living on a shoestring in a lion conservation camp, Kate home-schools her family under a camelthorn tree while they also learn at...

"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many...

Insight Guides Explore New YorkTravel made easy. Ask local experts.Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries, now with free eBook.Discover the best of New York with this unique travel guide, packed full of insider information...

The Galapagos Islands have captured hearts and captivated imaginations for centuries. Such is their ecological importance that in 1978 the archipelago was declared the first ever World Heritage Site, a testament to our collective desire to preserve the...

During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these journeys are three of the most impressive essays on the natural...