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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay by John Gimlette 9780099416555
RRP: $33.58$24.38Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid tourist. It doesn't... -
This is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
RRP: $46.20$31.71A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion_____What does it now mean to call yourself... -
Return to the Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater
RRP: $20.98$14.28Life and love, olive groves and bee hives in Provence - further adventures in the bestselling Olive Farm series. After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved... -
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair 9780141014746 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English' John Lanchester, Daily TelegraphEncircling London... -
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $27.28$19.09London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English' John Lanchester, Daily TelegraphEncircling London... -
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
RRP: $35.68$25.79A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it... -
An Advertisement for Toothpaste by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $6.30$5.23'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War PolandPenguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a... -
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
RRP: $20.98$14.28Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to 'find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off... -
A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
$25.83In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization,... -
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell 9780099561590
RRP: $31.48$23.00'The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwanMitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his... -
My Family and Other Enemies: Life and travels in Croatia's Hinterland by Mary Novakovich
RRP: $20.98$14.28My Family and Other Enemies is part travelogue, part memoir that dives into the hinterland of Croatia. Mary Novakovich explores her ongoing relationship with the region of Lika in central Croatia, where her parents were born.. 'Lika is little known to... -
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux 9780141044262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.47A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part... -
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
RRP: $23.08$16.32A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part... -
I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
RRP: $35.68$25.79One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
RRP: $52.50$37.84SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece'... -
Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey by Ed Stafford
RRP: $27.28$19.09In April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the River Amazon. Nearly two and a half years later, he had crossed the whole of South America to reach the mouth of the colossal river.With danger a... -
The Silver Invicta: Journeys with a Fly Fisher by Tom Harland
RRP: $37.78$25.62The Silver Invicta is a stream of impressions from a fishing life, in its varying moods, coloured with plenty of whisky and eccentric company. Join Tom Harland on his light-hearted journeys with his fly rod; take part in his triumphs and disasters on... -
Coming into the Country by John McPhee 9781907970726
RRP: $27.28$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970726Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 450g -
The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders by Ben Aitken 9781785786488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$5.57'Both moving and hilarious' Spectator, Books of the Year'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he write.' Daily Mail, Book of the WeekFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE... -
The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders by Ben Aitken
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Both moving and hilarious' Spectator, Books of the Year'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he write.' Daily Mail, Book of the WeekFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE... -
The Only Gaijin in the Village by Iain Maloney 9781780277394
RRP: $23.08$16.21In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the... -
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta 9780747259695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. 'If there's been a more striking snapshot of the changing face of Asia, I've never read it' Sunday... -
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
RRP: $23.08$15.54An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. 'If there's been a more striking snapshot of the changing face of Asia, I've never read it' Sunday... -
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
RRP: $31.48$20.37The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey - from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been... -
Dave Gorman Vs the Rest of the World by Dave Gorman 9780091928483 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$4.03Remember when you were a kid, and you used to go round to a friend's house to see if they were playing? Well, as adults we're not supposed to do that. Which is a shame... because Dave Gorman likes playing. He REALLY likes games. So he knocked on the... -
Quest for Kim by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: $25.18$16.80This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
RRP: $23.08$16.65This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... -
Blue Guide Literary Companion London by Robin Saikia 9781905131440
RRP: $16.70$12.10Perfect for taking on vacation or as preparatory reading before a visit - or as entertainment for lovers of London and literature. Compiled by Robin Saikia, a London-based writer and journalist.Book InformationISBN 9781905131440Author Robin SaikiaFormat... -
Call of the Wild: My Escape to Alaska by Guy Grieve
RRP: $27.28$18.06Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska. And just when he'd... -
Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age by Sara Wheeler
RRP: $20.98$14.93A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides... -
Our Lady Of The Sewers: And Other Adventures in Deep Spain by Paul Richardson 9780349108575 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.47Paul Richardson's mission - 'to sieve out the ancient, perverse and eccentric from the new, nice and normal' - took him from coastal plain to mountainous peak. It also took him, often, by surprise. From ritual pig killings to wood-chopping competitions,... -
The Green Road Into The Trees by Hugh Thomson
RRP: $23.08$16.32WINNER OF THE 2014 THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZEIn the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all - his own. Walking right across England, along... -
Deer Island by Neil Ansell 9781915068330
RRP: $21.00$14.95At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell lived in a series of squats and derelict buildings across London. Becoming part of a floating community of rough sleepers and volunteers, who found purpose in providing companionship and support for one another... -
Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships by Rosita Boland
RRP: $20.98$14.93'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
Is that Bike Diesel, Mate?: One Man, One Bike, and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil by Paul Carter
RRP: $20.98$14.28Oi, mate, is that monstrosity diesel? From the author of the bestsellers Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse and This Is Not a Drill, this is the eagerly awaited next installment of Paul Carter's rollicking... -
Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures by Alexander Armstrong
RRP: $35.68$25.79In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong wraps up warm and heads ever north to explore the hostile Arctic winter - the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, and the final frontier of Canada and... -
The Old Weird Albion by Justin Hopper 9781908058379
RRP: $20.98$14.68A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the sun in a circle of stones. A dowsing road turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps.Old Weird Albion is America writer Justin Hopper's dark love song to... -
The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa by Alex Garland 9780091881801 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$4.81What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of Edinburgh and... -
A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Suzanna Clarke
RRP: $31.48$23.00When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house - a traditional riad - was beautiful but in desperate need of repair...