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Whether you want to dine in London, marvel at Stonehenge, or explore the Cotswolds, the local Fodor's travel experts in England are here to help! Fodor's Essential England guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything...

There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead - to lengthening evenings, bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells and poppies (just like the seventies Flake ad) and several months of fetes, vide greniers (car boot...

There can be few routes through France which have not been exhaustively charted by travel writers. There's one, however, which runs for fifty kilometres through picturesque-sounding towns like Aubennlhers. Blanc Mesnil and Gif-sur-Yvette. But there are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859652893Author William FrickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint GoldeneyePublisher Goldeneye

Modern-day New York, a subway train. David, an American-Jewish jazz musician, torn between his dreams and his parents' expectations, sees a woman across the carriage. Ameena, a British-Pakistani artist who left Manchester to escape the pressure from her...

PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a...

The Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty have been described as the jewels of the English landscape and the North Wessex Downs, the third largest AONB, is no exception. Its predominant feature is its underlying chalk geology and it covers one of the most...

Insight Guide to Canada is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Canada, choosing what to see, from exploring Nova Scotia to discovering Ontario or creating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784778422Author Will GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel Guides

The Great Trossachs Path and Great Trossachs Forest is a 30 mile (48km) long distance path from Callander to Inversnaid linking together three of Scotland's Great Trails : the West Highland Way, the Rob Roy Way and the Three Lochs Way. It is therefore a...

PRE-ORDER INTO THE FLAMES, THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE GROUNDBREAKING AUTHOR OF 55, OUT SUMMER 2024.'Intense, insightful and impossible to put down' CAZ FREAR When you go looking for a new start, make sure you don't find a nightmare instead. The Kane...

Hamish Brown, who occupies a special place as a Scottish writer and traveller, turns his wealth of experience into captivating narratives of fascinating people and places; sometimes serious, at times laugh aloud in this new volume. Chasing the Dreams is...

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to travel and work abroad? Teaching English as a foreign language is a fun and rewarding career choice if you want to see the world. Whether you're a trained teacher, newly qualified or want to travel the...

Heinrich Harrer returns to Tibet - thirty years after the visit described in his bestselling SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET told of an idyllic life on the 'rooftop of the world', before Harrer was forced to flee from the invading Chinese...

This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts...

On the occasion of Blondie's fortieth anniversary, Chris Stein shares his iconic and mostly unpublished photographs of Debbie Harry and the cool creatures of the '70s and '80s New York rock scene. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Chris Stein...

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable literary debut . . . Part memoir, part travelogue, Motherlands is ultimately an investigation of how we come to understand the past at all' Guardian Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion...

In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the...

Ten years ago, Angela Kiss arrived in the UK without a word of English. All she brought with her was a small bag, a sense of adventure, a desire to work and a copy of George Mikes' classic 1940s' humour book about the peculiarities of the British, How to...

New York is one of the most ever-changing and photogenic places in the world. Featuring full-color photographs of well-known landmarks from all five boroughs-from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to South Street Seaport, as well as secret treasures throughout...

Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful island chain facing seismic cultural and economic change. Her experience is described in a typically affectionate but...

Revised 2nd edition. The Yorkshire Wolds are one of Yorkshire and England's most magical but least known landscapes - dry grassy valleys through undulating chalk hills, unspoiled villages, a dramatic coastline, delightful market towns such as Beverley...

This elegant book invites readers to lift up their eyes while strolling throughout Paris s streets and boulevards to pause, discover, and appreciate the facades of its buildings and the delicate artworks that are their windows, doors, and balconies...

Looking for some of the best pub walks around Dartmoor? Look no further! The 15 circular walks in this pocket-sized guidebook take in beautiful scenery and all start/finish at a top-rated local pub. Experience Dartmoor's vast and varied landscape at its...

Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to...

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek).Natchez, Mississippi, once had more...

A unique and captivating guide to the literary heritage of Venice. Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most breath-taking cities in the world. From its earliest beginnings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture,...

Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual perspectives. Unique locations, hidden corners and unusual...

From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often...

Nicholas Dylan Ray grew up next to an American national park, whose mountains and forests he explored to escape his troubled home. As a young man, he left the United States, and aged twenty-two set out on a six-month journey from France to Tibet,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140678Author Wendell SteavensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The Cotswold Way crosses some of the most densely populated and varied landscapes from the each period of the past. The route also has some nationally important archaeological sites along, behind and in front of it. This book introduces the serious trail...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643131955Author Stephen FabesFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

A guidebook to walking the Westweg (Westway) between Pfozheim in Germany to Basel in Switzerland. Covering 285km (177 miles), this long-distance trek through the Black Forest takes around 2 weeks and is suitable for any reasonably fit walker. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999661786Author Anna NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Burro BooksPublisher Burro Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368062473Author Daniel HandkeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc.

Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook is a new beginner Mandarin Chinese course which enables you to quickly learn the basics of the language. The 24 lessons in this book are meant to be used in 3 hours per week of class instruction over one academic year...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995469921Author Penny MinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Taniwha Press UKPublisher Taniwha Press UK

You've read the myths, now discover what really happened! In this powerful historical adventure set in Ancient Greece, the Argonauts take on mighty Troy, witness the strange skills of Circe, and encounter the unfortunate Sirens. Jason is the second novel...

Insight Guides Great Breaks Lake DistrictTravel made easy. Ask local experts.Inspirational travel guide making the most of the British Isles through clearly laid-out walks and tours, now with free eBook. Explore the best of the Lake District with this...