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Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy
RRP: €22.60€15.17Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa high-rises,... -
Peking to Paris: Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World by Dina Bennett 9781629146577
RRP: €15.46€12.29In this thrilling journey from "Peking to Paris," a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down.In May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 125 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge... -
A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
RRP: €11.89€7.97A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s. In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill... -
The Spirit of Malawi by Susan Dalgety 9781913025465
RRP: €17.84€13.24Living your life against the odds. Through the voices of Malawians The Spirit of Malawi is a first-hand account of daily life in Malawi. It also examines the big issues that affect us all, but Malawians more than most: climate change, the global economic... -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: €15.46€10.82'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: €17.84€10.16Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and... -
Grey Skies, Green Waves: A Surfer's Journey Around the UK and Ireland by Tom Anderson
RRP: €13.08€8.33So this is surfing in Britain, I told myself as I grumpily walked up a slope of wet rocks and wispy beach grass, trying to keep a foothold as rain and wind both tried their utmost to send me skidding back down to the freezing beach below. Tom Anderson... -
Car Park Life: A Portrait of Britain's Unexplored Urban Wilderness by Gareth E. Rees 9781910312353
RRP: €11.89€8.09Car parks: commonplace urban landscapes, little-explored and rarely featured in art and music, yet they shape the aesthetics of our towns and cities. Hotspots for crime, rage and sexual deviancy; a blind spot in which activities go unnoticed... -
Red Dust by Ma Jian
RRP: €15.46€10.82In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his work unit and the police, as Deng Xiaoping clamped down... -
Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in The Caucasus by Carla Capalbo 9781843681953
RRP: €23.79€17.79One of Newsweek's six best travel books of the last decade. Winner Guild of Food Writers, Food and Travel Award 2018. Winner Best Food Book of 2017, Gourmand Cookbook Awards. Shortlisted for the Art of Eating Prize. Shortlisted for the IACP, Culinary... -
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
RRP: €11.89€8.46The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa. Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating... -
Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco by Jason Webster
RRP: €15.46€10.82Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson 9780140432213 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a... -
Great American Railroad Journeys by Rt Hon Michael Portillo
RRP: €23.80€15.74Great American Railroad Journeys sees the famous brand of social-history-cum-travelogue venture to the New World. Across multiple programmes and using Appleton's General Guide To The United States & Canada as reference, Michael Portillo now undertakes an... -
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen 9781474625197
RRP: €29.75€17.45In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of... -
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Cotswolds: A Cultural History by Jane Bingham 9781909930223
RRP: €17.85€16.24The Cotswolds have featured on a thousand country calendars, but what is the real story behind the picture-perfect rural scene? Jane Bingham reveals a history of privilege and poverty, idyll and conflict, through the eyes of travellers, writers and... -
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the new Colombia by Tom Feiling
RRP: €13.08€9.25For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? And how is it... -
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9780141021140 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.55Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a... -
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: €13.08€9.25Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a... -
Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India by Rory MacLean 9780141015958
RRP: €11.89€8.46In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope.Since the Summer of Love, the countries that... -
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
RRP: €17.84€13.51Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist... -
A Year in Marrakesh by Peter Mayne 9780907871088
RRP: €17.84€11.66Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakesh in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace, he rented rooms, learned the language, made friends,... -
Mirror To Damascus: 50th Anniversary Edition by Colin Thubron
RRP: €15.46€10.82A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history... -
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone by Kenneth Cain
RRP: €17.84€13.03What it's really like on the frontline of humanitarian aid It's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi's... -
Miss-adventures: A Tale of Ignoring Life Advice While Backpacking Around South America by Amy Baker 9781849539968 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.53'Watch out for men with too much wooden jewellery, Amy. I know what you're like... you'll let them sucker you in with their yoga chat but essentially, they're unwashed... and you don't want to put your face anywhere near an unwashed penis, let me tell... -
Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany by Alistair Moffat 9781780278766
RRP: €13.08€8.71'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art,... -
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
RRP: €13.08€8.81This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century.Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher 9780099494287 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
RRP: €15.46€10.82**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover... -
The Moor: A journey into the English wilderness by William Atkins
RRP: €15.46€10.19Shortlisted for the 2015 Wainwright Prize In this journey across England's most forbidding and mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, exploring moorland's uniquely captivating position in our history, literature and... -
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
RRP: €13.08€7.70In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was... -
Train Journeys by Gestalten
RRP: €41.65€30.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040203Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy 9781906011468
RRP: €17.84€11.66"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio of young girls and their mother soon find themselves... -
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: €15.46€10.19A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal... -
Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain's Wild Mammals by Fiona Mathews
RRP: €21.41€15.41From central Glasgow to rural Wiltshire, a husband-and-wife team track down Britain's rarest and most enigmatic animals. 'Weasely my favourite book of the year.' Dave Goulson, author of Silent Earth A COUNTRYFILE AND WATERSTONES BEST NATURE BOOK OF... -
Education Of A Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
RRP: €9.51€6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553286526Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil by Carol Drinkwater
RRP: €11.89€8.09NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES: CAROL DRINKWATER'S SECRET PROVENCEThe third in the bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM - from the author of THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER'Captures perfectly the dreamy atmosphere of the South of France and its people'... -
The Cairngorms: A Secret History by Patrick Baker
RRP: €13.08€8.71Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a...