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Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
RRP: £10.99£7.77Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day.Osborne's... -
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan by Will Ferguson
RRP: £10.99£7.32Abridged editionIt had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and... -
French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Bill Bryson on two wheels' IndependentSelf-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it.A few weeks before the actual Tour de... -
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99£9.09SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWinner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to America, exploring the landscapes and communities of his homeland as an outsider for... -
Waugh in Abyssinia by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £10.99£7.77A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondentIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the... -
A.A. Gill is Further Away by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£6.80A collection of dazzling travel pieces from SUNDAY TIMES journalist and critic A. A. GILL.From the moment he joined the SUNDAY TIMES, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places - to discover the personality of a place as if it were a person, to listen and... -
Travels Through the French Riviera: An Artist's Guide to the Storied Coastline, from Menton to Saint-Tropez by Virginia Johnson 9781579657376
RRP: £15.99£12.77In this irresistible marriage of watercolorist's sketchbook and traveler's guide, Virginia Johnson lovingly captures the magic of one of the world's most storied regions, the French Riviera. We walk the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Shop for handmade... -
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook 9781783784332
RRP: £10.99£7.32Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad... -
Crude Britannia: How Big Oil Shaped a Country's Past and Future by James Marriott
RRP: £12.99£9.00'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya Chakrabortty Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling... -
Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey by Felicity Cloake 9780008413668
RRP: £9.99£6.64The charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief,’ Felicity Cloake. If there’s one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it’s an obsession with breakfast. We all have an opinion... -
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington 9780553816693 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their... -
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington 9780553816693
RRP: £10.99£7.77'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their... -
Puligny-Montrachet: Journal of a Village in Burgundy by Simon Loftus 9781911547488
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547488Author Simon LoftusFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Channel Shore: From the White Cliffs to Land's End by Tom Fort 9781471129735 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.87The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people,... -
Channel Shore: From the White Cliffs to Land's End by Tom Fort 9781471129735
RRP: £8.99£5.82The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people,... -
Don't Look Behind You!: True Tales of a Safari Guide by Peter Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.40In Peter's own words: These are the stories of a not particularly brave safari guide . . . As a child I knew that I was afraid of heights, and while uncomfortable admitting any phobia, was glad to have only one. Then I met my first crocodile. Now I know... -
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: £10.99£7.32Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the... -
A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique by Guirec Soudee
RRP: £18.99£13.33"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas."-BOOKLISTA man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands... -
The Raven's Nest: An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Fascinating' - Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'Truly a thing of wonder' - Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places'Lyrical [and] thoughtful' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentVisiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in... -
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings by Nellie Bly
RRP: £9.99£7.11Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race... -
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99£9.09Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of... -
A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island by Brenda Chamberlain 9781905762866
RRP: £8.99£7.46"A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a beautiful and personal account of the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960's. Sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, her neighbours and friends are... -
Slow Coast Home: 5,000 miles around the shores of England and Wales by Josie Dew 9780751531640 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Josie Dew's love of cycling has taken her across the world, travelling everywhere from Japan and Mexico to Iceland, India and Algeria. In her latest book, she sets off on another quirky and riotous ride, choosing to circumnavigate the coastline of the... -
Slow Coast Home: 5,000 miles around the shores of England and Wales by Josie Dew 9780751531640
£17.02Josie Dew's love of cycling has taken her across the world, travelling everywhere from Japan and Mexico to Iceland, India and Algeria. In her latest book, she sets off on another quirky and riotous ride, choosing to circumnavigate the coastline of the... -
The World of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
RRP: £10.99£7.25A collection of the best moments from the 'Ricky Gervais Show' with further musings from Karl Pilkington, star of Sky 1's 'An Idiot Abroad'. Karl Pilkington's is a brilliant mind, locked inside a perfectly round head and uncluttered by the... -
Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp
RRP: £12.99£9.09** Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award **Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, Miles Jupp would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series... -
I Never Knew That About New York by Christopher Winn 9781785034688 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.92In I Never Knew That About New York Christopher Winn digs beneath the gleaming towers and mean streets of New York and discovers its secrets and its hidden treasures. Learn about the extraordinary people who built New York into one of the world's great... -
I Never Knew That About New York by Christopher Winn
RRP: £14.99£10.95In I Never Knew That About New York Christopher Winn digs beneath the gleaming towers and mean streets of New York and discovers its secrets and its hidden treasures. Learn about the extraordinary people who built New York into one of the world's great... -
Of Walking In Ice: Munich - Paris: 23 November - 14 December, 1974 by Werner Herzog
RRP: £8.99£6.45A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film-maker and critic, was dying in Paris, he set... -
London Alleyways Map by Matthew Turner
RRP: £9.50£7.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018871Author Matthew TurnerPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm -
Guide to Greece: Central Greece by Pausanias
RRP: £14.99£10.95Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions and myth, it describes with precision and... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: £10.00£6.71The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line... -
Roughing it by Mark Twain 9780140390100
RRP: £14.99£10.95A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.About the AuthorBorn... -
I Never Knew That About Scotland by Christopher Winn 9780091910242 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£3.21The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around Scotland from bestselling author Christopher Winn. Travelling county by county, this irresistible miscellany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts,... -
I Never Knew That About Scotland by Christopher Winn
RRP: £16.99£12.28The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around Scotland from bestselling author Christopher Winn. Travelling county by county, this irresistible miscellany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts,... -
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination by Philip Marsden 9781783783007
RRP: £9.99£6.52In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate the... -
Slow Walking The Wales Coast Path by Eirlys Thomas
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637859Author Eirlys ThomasFormat PaperbackImprint Jelly Bean BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books -
The Wrong Way Home by Peter Moore 9780553817003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.65When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music, they had the best... -
Hashish by Henry de Monfreid
RRP: £12.99£9.09Nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, Henri de Monfried lived by his own account 'a rich, restless, magnificent life' as one of the great travellers of his or any age. Infamous as well... -
The Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash 9781914484377
RRP: £16.99£11.58What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey...