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The Light Garden of the Angel King by Peter Levi 9781906011550
RRP: €15.46€10.23From time immemorial Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings... -
A Thousand Days In Tuscany: A Bittersweet Romance by Marlena De Blasi 9781844081530 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.23Continuing from A Thousand Days in Venice, this is the story of Marlena and her Venetian husband, Fernando, as they make a life for themselves in rural Tuscany. Amongst the many people they befriend is Barluzzo, an old sage who takes the couple under... -
A Thousand Days In Tuscany: A Bittersweet Romance by Marlena De Blasi
RRP: €13.08€8.81Continuing from A Thousand Days in Venice, this is the story of Marlena and her Venetian husband, Fernando, as they make a life for themselves in rural Tuscany. Amongst the many people they befriend is Barluzzo, an old sage who takes the couple under... -
Last Chance To See by Douglas Adams
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Descriptive writing of a high order... this is an extremely intelligent book' The TimesJoin Douglas Adams, bestselling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an adventure in search of the world's... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: €13.08€9.25SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece'... -
Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City by Ana Kinsella 9781914198120
RRP: €11.89€7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198120Author Ana KinsellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Where the Wild Cooks Go: Recipes, Music, Poetry, Cocktails by Cerys Matthews
RRP: €29.75€22.16'A joyous treasure trove' Michael Morpurgo'A delight' Tom Jones'A Tour De Force' Roger PhillipsCook your way around the world with Cerys Matthews' Where the Wild Cooks Go, with a Spotify playlist ready for each country, as well as poems, proverbs,... -
Mustn't Grumble by Bennett 9781416526032 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.12Fifteen years ago, Joe Bennett left England for a holiday. Now it's time to come back. But how is the England of his memory different from the England of the motorway? Identikit High Streets, imported cheeriness ('Welcome to Sunny Grimsby!'), chicken... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: €17.84€13.03Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: €13.08€8.63Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but... -
Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place by Alice Maddicott 9781914613654
RRP: €15.46€10.23'A compelling way of looking at the world' The TLS WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ATMOSPHERE? Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel... -
Danziger’s Travels by Nick Danziger 9780586087060 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the... -
Danziger’s Travels by Nick Danziger 9780586087060
RRP: €15.46€11.54This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the... -
Canary Islands: A Cultural History by Peter Stone 9781908493996
RRP: €17.85€16.24The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial spring-like climate, while the... -
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley
RRP: €15.46€10.09A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of... -
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
RRP: €11.89€7.76'Warmly entertaining...an endearing account of the search for rare bees' GuardianA hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst the secret places hidden right under our noses: the... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
RRP: €15.46€10.09From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: €13.08€9.03Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain's pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a... -
China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China by Rob Gifford 9780747593355
RRP: €15.46€10.82Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of... -
Stranger On A Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America by Jenny Diski 9781860499951 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.12'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?)In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is... -
Stranger On A Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America by Jenny Diski
RRP: €14.27€8.32'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?)In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is... -
Old Man on a Bike by Simon Gandolfi
RRP: €13.08€8.63A Septuagenarian Odyssey Simon Gandolfi has never been one to grow old gracefully and following two heart attacks he decides not to rest up, as many might, but to ride the length of Hispanic America on a 125cc motorbike. And why not? ... -
Birdwatchingwatching: One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds by Alex Horne
RRP: €20.22€14.61Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon, Alex decided there was no better time to really get to know both his father and his father's favourite hobby. So he challenged his dad to a... -
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
RRP: €15.46€10.82'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan SontagTristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin... -
To the Ends of the Earth by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9781471135705 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.15Ranulph Fiennes has entered the public imagination as the intrepid explorer par excellance. Taunted by his wife over the challenge of the never-before attempted circumpolar navigation of the globe, he set off in 1979 on a gruelling 52,000 mile adventure... -
To the Ends of the Earth by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9781471135705
RRP: €15.46€9.73Ranulph Fiennes has entered the public imagination as the intrepid explorer par excellance. Taunted by his wife over the challenge of the never-before attempted circumpolar navigation of the globe, he set off in 1979 on a gruelling 52,000 mile adventure... -
The Flaneur by Edmund White
RRP: €11.89€8.46______________ 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph 'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian 'White's genius as a flaneur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and... -
Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach by Horatio Clare 9781908213778
RRP: €11.90€8.47In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more... -
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover the ultimate in classic 1930s travel writing.'A writer of breathtaking prose - prose whose sensuous, chiselled beauty has cast its spell on English travel writing ever since' William Dalrymple In 1933, the delightfully eccentric, Robert Byron... -
The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed by Norman Lewis 9780907871484
RRP: €17.84€11.66the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. - reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church -... -
The Highlands by Paul Murton
RRP: €21.41€14.99Paul Murton journeys the length and breadth of the spectacularly beautiful Scottish Highlands. In addition to bringing a fresh eye to popular destinations such as Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and the Cairngorms, he also visits some remote and... -
An Octopus in My Ouzo: Loving Life on a Greek Island by Jennifer Barclay
RRP: €13.08€8.33Escape to the sunlight and colour of a wild island in the south Aegean.When Jennifer moves alone into the Honey Factory on a tiny Greek island, bringing a laptop, her hiking boots and plans for a peaceful life, she has no idea what surprises are in store... -
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
RRP: €15.46€10.82WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern MexicoNogales is a border town caught between... -
I Never Knew That About England by Christopher Winn 9780091902070 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around England. Christopher Winn takes us to each county, to see where history happened, where people and ideas were born, where dreams took flight and where men... -
I Never Knew That About England by Christopher Winn
RRP: €20.22€14.61The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around England. Christopher Winn takes us to each county, to see where history happened, where people and ideas were born, where dreams took flight and where men... -
Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon by Barry Hatton
RRP: €20.22€18.22Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing-in 1755 the city was devastated... -
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland
RRP: €15.46€10.82Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This... -
Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil
RRP: €20.22€14.61Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit, the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996, 2006 saw no surprise blizzard, only the constant dangers posed by... -
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
RRP: €13.08€5.60Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station... -
The London Compendium by Ed Glinert
RRP: €17.84€13.03The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has...