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Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914 by Rosemary O'Brien
RRP: £25.95£21.09The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Called the most powerful woman in the British empire,... -
Mediterranean: The Passenger by Various 9781787704794
RRP: £18.99£12.83IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leila Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt * plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the invention of the Mediterranean... -
Journey to Portugal: A Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by Jose Saramago
RRP: £12.99£9.09Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate... -
A Piano In The Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains by Tony Hawks
RRP: £14.99£10.95'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?'I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces... -
The Voyages of the Princess Matilda by Shane Spall 9780091941819 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.65'Tim and I both understood we had done something really stupid. We had underestimated the danger involved in going out to sea. We had no radio, compass, life raft or flares. In other words, we were a couple of idiots.'This is the story of Shane and... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: £12.99£9.09Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching... -
Golden Earth: Travels in Burma by Norman Lewis
RRP: £12.99£8.60"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and... -
Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties -- One Crazy Year Working on by Brian David Bruns 9781932361605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt -- or in this case, the dirty water -- on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the... -
Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties -- One Crazy Year Working on by Brian David Bruns 9781932361605
RRP: £10.99£8.29In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt -- or in this case, the dirty water -- on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the... -
The Hills Of Adonis by Colin Thubron
RRP: £10.99£7.77For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and... -
You Are A Global Citizen: A Guided Journal for the Culturally Curious by Damon Dominique
RRP: £12.99£8.60Who are you? Why are you, you? What kind of person do you want to be?You Are A Global Citizen challenges us to take a deeper look at our role as global citizens, from the armchair traveller to the frequent flyer and everyone in between, providing a... -
Join Me by Danny Wallace
RRP: £14.99£10.95Some men are born to lead. Others, not so much...Danny Wallace was bored. Just to see what would happen, he placed a whimsical ad in a local London paper. It said, simply, 'Join Me'. Within a month, he was receiving letters and emails from teachers,... -
Taverna by the Sea: One Greek Island Summer by Jennifer Barclay 9781784779481
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784779481Author Jennifer BarclayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel GuidesWeight(grams) 130g -
Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. Robinson writes about the people, places and history of south... -
In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey by Barbara Toy
RRP: £12.99£8.60Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels in North Africa and Arabia, set out in her trademark Land Rover to drive from Libya to... -
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True stories from the world's best writers by T. C. Boyle
RRP: £8.99£6.45Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term... -
Paris: The Passenger by Various
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World by Anne Mustoe 9780753504260 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.78'You don't have to be twenty, male and an ace mechanic to set out on a great journey. I've cycled round the world twice now. I'm not young, I'm not sporty, I never train and I still can't tell a sprocket from a chainring or mend a puncture.'So speaks... -
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker
RRP: £20.00£13.34A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is a... -
The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
RRP: £10.99£7.77When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they... -
Destination Earth: A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler by Nicos Hadjicostis
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997414806Author Nicos HadjicostisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Bamboo Leaf PressPublisher Bamboo Leaf PressWeight(grams) 514g -
Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and Traditions from around the World by Sandor Ellix Katz
RRP: £30.00£20.40Selected as a best cookbook of the year by BBC Food Programme '...the high priest of fermentation - the Guardian 'The godfather of fermentation.' -The Telegraph 'Sandor Katz's teachings and writings on fermentation have changed lives around the... -
Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot by Tom Jeffreys 9781910312148
RRP: £9.99£6.80One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in his hand and an overloaded rucksack. His aim was to walk the 119 miles from London to Birmingham along the proposed route of HS2. Needless to say, he... -
Chile: Travels In A Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
RRP: £10.99£7.40Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from... -
Yorkshire: There and Back by Andrew Martin
RRP: £20.00£13.75In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and... -
Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think by Dave Gorman 9780091928506 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.86It's hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about - and everything you don't even know you want to know about - isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world once... -
Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think by Dave Gorman
RRP: £10.99£7.77It's hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about - and everything you don't even know you want to know about - isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world once... -
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey by Monty Don 9781471114588
RRP: £9.99£6.41This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary... -
Outlandish: Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes by Nick Hunt
RRP: £10.99£7.40In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£6.45Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the... -
The Voyage of The Aegre: From Scotland to the South Seas in a Shetland boat by Nicholas Grainger 9780645763904
RRP: £15.95£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645763904Author Nicholas GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Vinycomb PressPublisher Vinycomb PressWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice by C. J. Schuler
RRP: £16.99£12.28Light, portable and high in value, amber is an ideal commodity for long-distance trade. An Amber Route, comparable to the Silk Road, ran from the Baltic to the Mediterranean for thousands of years. In Along the Amber Route, C.J. Schuler follows this... -
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman 9780199553921
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a... -
Encore Provence by Peter Mayle 9780140242669
RRP: £10.99£7.77The third spellbinding volume in the series begun by A Year in Provence, ENCORE PROVENCE continues the account of an English couple's life abroad. Among other curiosities, explore a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed... -
What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political... -
Hellenica: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39A continuation of Thucydides.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
RRP: £14.99£9.70Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated... -
Madagascar: The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in a Lost World by Peter Tyson 9781841624419
RRP: £14.99£9.80Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Island, it is a place where fossa and tenrecs, vangas and aye ayes thrive in a true 'Lost World' alongside bizarre plants like... -
Romanian Furrow: Colourful Experiences of Village Life by Donald Hall
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071120Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804137607Author Kristin NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...