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The Virago Book Of Women Travellers. by Mary Morris
RRP: €20.22€14.21'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' GuardianThree hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French... -
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
RRP: €13.08€9.25Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre contains a new preface by the author in Penguin Modern Classics... -
In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great by Michael Wood 9780563521938 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.28Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexanders... -
In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great by Michael Wood 9780563521938
RRP: €19.03€13.82Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexanders... -
Poacher's Pilgrimage: A Journey into Land and Soul by Alastair McIntosh
RRP: €17.84€11.66The islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides boast some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They also feature an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic and... -
Hadrians Wall XT40 by Harvey Map Services Ltd.
RRP: €18.98€16.65Tough & durable. XT40 - virtually indestructible. Light, compact. Entire route on one sheet. Clear easy to read. Sites of Roman remains. Accommodation and services. Great value for money.Book InformationISBN 9781851374380Author Harvey Map Services Ltd... -
Looking for Adventure by Steve Backshall
RRP: €13.08€7.70A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime.How do you become an explorer? It's a question every child has asked. And, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was... -
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: €15.46€10.23Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer... -
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
RRP: €22.60€15.33'Terrific ... His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph 'Christ, could Bourdain weave words ... the guy wrote like a poet' Guardian A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all... -
Sky Burial by Xinran
RRP: €11.89€8.46As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had... -
Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani 9781847086556
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now... -
Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance by Christopher McDougall
RRP: €11.89€8.46AS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS BREAKFAST SHOW - "It's not just for runners. It's for life! It's a great story." When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped... -
The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands by Harry Pearson
RRP: €14.27€10.81SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 - CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A joy.' - Ned Boulting Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. In... -
Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland by Caroline Eden
RRP: €35.70€24.89Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2020Fortnum & Mason's Awards, shortlisted in 'Food Book' category (2021) "Caroline Eden is an extraordinarily creative and gifted writer. Red Sands captures the sights, tastes and feel of Central Asia so well... -
Seal Morning by Rowena Farre
RRP: €9.51€6.50At the age of 10, Rowena Farre left the security of her parents' home in India and was sent to live with her aunt on a lonely croft in the wild and remote Highlands of Scotland. During her stay in Sutherland, she drew strength from the isolation of... -
Adrift In Caledonia: Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened by Nick J. Thorpe 9780349117379 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would... -
Adrift In Caledonia: Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened by Nick J. Thorpe
RRP: €13.08€7.70One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would... -
The Call of the Weird: An American Road Trip with Neo-Nazis, Porn Stars and One (Alleged) Space Alien by Louis Theroux 9781509893287 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.15After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the... -
The Call of the Weird: An American Road Trip with Neo-Nazis, Porn Stars and One (Alleged) Space Alien by Louis Theroux
RRP: €13.08€9.44After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the... -
Death's Other Kingdom by Gamel Woolsey 9780907871194
RRP: €15.46€10.23A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male voices. A balance to the cruelty of Orwell's Homage to... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: €13.08€8.71After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club in 2007, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable wine, cheap property and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: €14.27€10.03'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co by Jeremy Mercer
RRP: €11.89€8.09Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company''Completely riveting ...a vivid picture of modern Paris' OBSERVER'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous... -
You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain by Tim Moore
RRP: €13.08€9.25Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry? Could you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell?Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil? In You are Awful, Tim Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on... -
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy by Jr Joe McGinniss 9780767905992 [USED COPY]
RRP: €18.98€6.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767905992Author Joe McGinnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher 9781911547273
RRP: €11.89€7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547273Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Viking Isles: Travels in Orkney and Shetland by Paul Murton
RRP: €21.41€15.71Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north - the island groups of Orkney and Shetland and the old counties of Caithness and Sutherland - which, for centuries, were part of the Nordic world as depicted in the great classic the Orkneyinga Saga... -
How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson Volume 4 by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: €13.08€9.25Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson seriesJeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest... -
Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd
RRP: €22.60€17.36'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The Times Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best. This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic... -
Holloway by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: €13.08€8.71Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin - author of Wildwood - travelled to explore the... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
RRP: €17.84€11.66Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and... -
South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: €11.89€8.46The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material... -
Talk to the Snail by Stephen Clarke
RRP: €15.46€10.82Have you been taken to what you've been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside, only to find there's no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough, and been diagnosed with a rather more personal complaint?... -
Dreaming Of Jupiter by Ted Simon
RRP: €15.46€8.94Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is... -
Hard Lying: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919 by Lewen Weldon
RRP: €17.84€11.66Lewen Weldon was mapping the eastern desert of Egypt when World War I broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spies and confidential agents who were landed from a steam yacht onto the Syrian coast behind Turkish lines. He... -
Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore by Patrick Barkham 9781847088994
RRP: €13.08€8.71Told through a series of walks beside the sea, this is a story of the most beautiful 742 miles of coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: their rocks, plants and animals, their views, walks and history, and the people who have made their lives... -
Walking the Americas: 'A wildly entertaining account of his epic journey' Daily Mail by Levison Wood
RRP: €17.84€11.66LONGLISTED IN THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL CATEGORY OF THE 2017 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERBY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Levison Wood has breathed... -
How to Walk a Puma: & other things I learned while stumbing around South America by Peter Allison
RRP: €13.08€8.81"Plans are usually only good for one thing - laughing at in hindsight. So, armed with rudimentary Spanish, dangerous levels of curiosity and a record of poor judgement, I set off to tackle whatever South America could throw at me." On his nineteenth... -
1989 the Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall by Peter Millar
RRP: €15.46€10.23Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.About the... -
I Never Knew That About Yorkshire by Christopher Winn
RRP: €20.22€14.61Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on an intriguing journey through Britain's largest county, uncovering the hidden places, legends, secrets and fascinating characters of this unique and compelling piece of England. From England's largest vale...