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The Kindness of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow by Fearghal O'Nuallain
RRP: $23.08$15.54Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richerTravel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive... -
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley 9780907871835
RRP: $29.38$19.32During the war, Gerald Hanley spent several years in the remote and scorching deserts of Somalia. The rigours of living in such heat, and the difficulties of attempting to control blood-feuding nomads, led to the suicide of seven fellow-officers. Despite... -
A Jerusalem Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by T J Gorton
RRP: $25.18$20.37Jerusalem has a special status as a city that is both terrestrial and celestial. The name includes a cognate for 'peace, ' but the old stones of the city have witnessed epic bloodshed and destruction over the centuries. The three great monotheistic... -
An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $23.08$16.32The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to... -
Danube by Claudio Magris
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on SundayWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is... -
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Magnificent' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearOur lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable... -
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
RRP: $27.28$19.09During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing... -
Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths by Phoebe Smith 9780008566524
RRP: $35.68$24.93A woman’s tale of the transformative power of walking Britain’s ancient pilgrim paths ‘Raw, honest, powerful. I couldn't put it down.’ Cerys Matthews On an assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the... -
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
$20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746690Author Michael OndaatjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Literary Places by Sarah Baxter
RRP: $31.48$20.58Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments - brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning... -
Way to Go: Two of the World's Great Motorcycle Journeys by Geoff Hill 9780856407659 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$4.03Way to Go brings together two epic motorcycle journeys, from Belfast to Delhi on a loyal Enfield, and from Chicago to LA on a Harley Davidson. A thoughtful, hilarious, off-beat adventure story by award-winning travel journalist Geoff Hill.About the... -
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire by Simon Winchester 9780141011899 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$5.57The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean to visit the far-flung islands that... -
Going to Extremes by Nick Middleton 9780230768307
$27.99In Going to Extremes writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits Oymyakon in Siberia, where the average winter temperature is -47 degrees and 40% of the population have lost their fingers to frostbite while changing the car wheel... -
Travels With Boogie: 500 Mile Walkies and Boogie Up the River in One Volume by Mark Wallington
RRP: $23.08$16.32Travels with Boogie is the story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways.First they had to survive against... -
Chucking It All: How Downshifting to a Windswept Scottish Island Did Absolutely Nothing to Improve My Quality of Life by Max Scratchmann 9780957192027
RRP: $27.28$19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957192027Author Max ScratchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Poison Pixie PublishingPublisher Poison Pixie PublishingWeight(grams) 332g -
Travels into Bokhara by Sir Alexander Burnes 9781906011710
RRP: $31.48$20.58Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the 'Great Game'. His account of these travels was a bestseller... -
Getting Stoned With Savages by J. Maarten Troost
RRP: $33.58$23.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767921992Author J. Maarten TroostFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream by Janine Marsh
RRP: $20.98$14.39One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something... -
From Source to Sea: Notes from a 215-Mile Walk Along the River Thames by Tom Chesshyre 9781849539210
RRP: $35.68$22.66Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He's walking the length of the river from the Cotswolds to the North Sea - a winding journey of... -
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $20.98$14.93A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics.As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac... -
Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions by Pico Iyer 9780679776109
RRP: $46.20$31.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776109Author Pico IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm... -
Turn Right At Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
RRP: $37.78$25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452297982Author Mark AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 292g -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: $27.28$19.09Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'Remarkable. If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned,... -
Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen 9781909961838
RRP: $27.28$18.88Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio (among others), the author of The... -
The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record by Arjan Dwarshuis
RRP: $39.88$26.78'This is an epic journey by a man who's not only obsessed with birds but who has a deep spiritual connection with the planet.' David Lindo, author of How to be an Urban Birder The (Big) Year Flew By is the tale of one avid birder's epic,... -
A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee by Tom Coyne
$24.68By turns hilarious and poetic, "A Course Called Ireland" is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's greatest game in the tradition of Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods". In his thirties, married, and staring down impending... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: $23.08$16.32He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as... -
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News'ensures you'll never think about Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.' - Geographical MagazineEssential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st... -
Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer by Tim Moore 9780349111407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18$4.03Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing Dufferin's epic voyage to Iceland and... -
Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer by Tim Moore
RRP: $25.18$16.80Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing Dufferin's epic voyage to Iceland and... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Jody Rosen 9780099593591
RRP: $23.08$16.32**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.A toy, a tool, a... -
Delight by J. B. Priestley
RRP: $20.98$13.94'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is... -
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Norman Lewis
RRP: $27.28$18.06a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the... -
An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers by Danny Gregory 9781440320255
RRP: $39.88$26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440320255Author Danny GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint How Design BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 941gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
RRP: $42.00$24.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland'Immensely readable true travel writing' Robin Hanbury-Tenison'A fine book... Leon McCarron's tough journey paints a rich and enthralling portrait' Sir... -
Tschiffely's Ride: Southern Cross to Pole Star by Aime Tschiffely 9781590481950
RRP: $63.00$47.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590481950Author Aime TschiffelyFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Long Riders' Guild PressPublisher Long Riders' Guild PressWeight(grams)... -
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks
RRP: $39.88$29.42New introduction by Ian Rankin_________________________________________'One of the most playful and entertaining writers of our generation' Val McDermid, Guardian In an absorbing voyage as interesting to non-drinkers as to true whisky connoisseurs,... -
Travel Writer's Way: Turn your travels into stories by Jonathan Lorie 9781784776046
RRP: $31.48$21.42Whether you want to be the next Bill Bryson, set up a brilliant blog or simply make the best of your travel journal, this book will lead you along the travel writer's way. The Travel Writer's Way takes a ground-breaking approach to the craft of travel... -
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
RRP: $23.08$16.32A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the...