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The Pull of the River: A Journey Into the Wild and Watery Heart of Britain by Matt Gae
RRP: €11.89€8.15Tales of escape and adventure on Britain's waterways; In The Pull of the River two foolhardy explorers do what we would all love to do: they turn their world upside down and seek adventure on their very own doorstep.; In a handsome, homemade canoe,... -
Europe United: 1 football fan. 1 crazy season. 55 UEFA nations by Matt Walker
RRP: €13.08€8.81** AS SEEN ON BBC FOOTBALL FOCUS AND BT SPORT **** 'Excellent and thoroughly enjoyable' Sunday Sport **** 'Informative and eye-opening . . . an inspirational and motivational book' footballbookreviews.com **'ONE MAN AND HIS QUEST TO SEE A GAME IN EVERY... -
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
RRP: €17.84€13.51From the author of INTO THE SILENCE, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority... -
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: €11.89€7.97Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling... -
The 8.55 To Baghdad by Andrew Eames 9780552150774 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the trip from London... -
The 8.55 To Baghdad by Andrew Eames
RRP: €17.84€13.03Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the trip from London... -
An Ottoman Traveller by Robert Dankoff 9781906011581
RRP: €29.75€19.97'Evliya Celebi was the widest-eyed, most intensely curious ... and prolific travel writer the Ottoman world ever produced. A learned and perceptive gentleman-observer from courtly Istanbul at the height of its power, Evilya's work records and preserves... -
Je t'aime a la Folie by Michael Wright
RRP: €20.22€14.61How do you find the woman of your dreams when you're nearly forty, living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the art of seduction?Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a... -
Behind The Wall by Colin Thubron
RRP: €13.08€9.25A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on... -
On Rue Tatin: The Simple Pleasures of Life in a Small French Town by Susan Loomis 9780006532453 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.21Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan Sun. The second house that Susan Hermann Loomis looked at in the small town of Louviers was perfect. Dilapidated,... -
Home Is Not a Place by Johny Pitts
RRP: €29.75€19.67SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking ... A book I will return to again and again' Bernardine Evaristo A gorgeously produced, hugely original... -
Smile, You're Travelling by Henry Rollins
RRP: €19.03€13.82Using his trademark wit, insight and verve, icon Henry Rollins shares journals from his gruelling world tours of 1997 and 1998, as well as a record of the fulfilment of his longstanding dream to journey through Africa. He takes us on a rollercoaster of... -
The Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and Syria by Gertrude Bell 9780486468761
RRP: €17.84€11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486468761Author Gertrude BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Bronski House by Philip Marsden 9780007204526 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.53A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history - tied together by the unique experience of... -
The Brendan Voyage: Across the Atlantic in a leather boat by Tim Severin 9780717139279
RRP: €20.22€14.61It has been described as the greatest epic voyage in modern Irish history. Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America... -
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
RRP: €13.08€9.25Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring... -
On Travel and the Journey Through Life by Barnaby Rogerson 9781780602042
RRP: €11.89€8.09This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand years of wit and wisdom: from Martha Gellhorn to... -
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
RRP: €13.08€9.25Through past and present, the country and the city, Peter Fiennes takes a literary journey through the British Isles 'As enjoyable a guide to the relationship of writers to the landscape of Britain as one could hope to read: beautifully written,... -
The Immeasurable Wilds: Travellers to the Far North of Scotland, 1600 - 1900 by Alastair Mitchell 9781849954921
RRP: €22.60€18.62Towards the end of the 18th century the attention of mapmakers, explorers and travellers turned to the north of Scotland. The mountains that rise north of Stirling formed a formidable barrier for anyone wanting to visit the Highlands, and travellers to... -
Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming
RRP: €17.84€11.02It began with an advertisement in the agony column of The Times: Leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Fawcett; abundance game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns. Colonel Fawcett... -
Marble Notebook A4: Black Marble College Ruled Journal by Young Dreamers Press 9781989387757
RRP: €11.89€7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989387757Author Young Dreamers PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Young Dreamers PressPublisher YDP Creative IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)... -
Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific by Will Randall 9780349115023 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.53Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall, once a happy schoolteacher,... -
Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific by Will Randall 9780349115023
€15.15Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall, once a happy schoolteacher,... -
Uncommon Ground: A word-lover's guide to the British landscape by Dominick Tyler
RRP: €20.22€14.26An enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape: photographs and stories which take the reader from the waterlogged fens to the white sands of the Western Isles.'Out . . . over the hill and then down the dip and through some lumpy bits.' This was... -
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
RRP: €13.08€9.25A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux'Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux's interests and his skill in bringing them to life' Sunday Times... -
How Not to Travel the World: Adventures of a Disaster-Prone Backpacker by Lauren Juliff 9781849537278 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.53I had no life experience, zero common sense and had never eaten rice. I suffered from debilitating anxiety, was battling an eating disorder and had just had my heart broken. I hoped by leaving to travel the world I would be able to heal myself. ... -
Slow Adventures: Unhurriedly Exploring Britain's Wild Places by Tor McIntosh
RRP: €15.46€11.29Take a breath. Push aside those spreadsheets. Take a fresh look at the world around you: Slow Adventures will open your eyes to a wealth of new affirming experiences. Why rush through life when you could stop, ponder and truly experience the... -
Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier by Terry Darlington
RRP: €15.46€10.82At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer. But... -
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The story of the Barbary corsair raid on Iceland in 1627 by Karl Smari Hreinsson
RRP: €29.69€28.39In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in North Africa. Among those taken were the Lutheran minister Reverend Olafur Egilsson.Reverend Olafur (born in the... -
North To The Night by Alvah Simon 9780767904469
RRP: €22.61€16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904469Author Alvah SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division... -
Castaway by Lucy Irvine
RRP: €20.22€14.61'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.'The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement - and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew.Lucy Irvine fell in... -
Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions Of A Chianti Tour Guide by Dario Castagno 9780762736706
RRP: €15.46€11.44Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans... -
Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip by Billy Connolly
RRP: €13.08€8.81Britain's best-loved comedian hits the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since... -
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians by Harry Pearson
RRP: €13.08€8.81Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of legendary banality: Belgium. But can any nation whose... -
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden 9781847086303
RRP: €11.89€7.97When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one... -
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden 9781847086303 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.15When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one... -
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck 9781501106385
RRP: €23.79€15.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106385Author Rinker BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
North Coast Journey: The Magic of Scotland's Northern Highlands by Brigid Benson
€25.74'Brigid writes with warmth and appreciation of communities that she knows and loves, and she inspires us to explore them' - Rick Stein 'Whenever I am talking to customers about the NC500, I always recommend your book for the wonderful photographs and... -
An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia by Desmond Seaward
RRP: €11.89€8.40"An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia" is the story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals,... -
Set Free: A Life-Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan by Emma Slade 9781849539609 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.73The man with the gun pushed me down onto the carpet. I tried to cower to make my body curl smaller, instinctively covering my head.Oh God, please don't kill me.' My words clung to my teeth and now my whole body was so cold. All I had left were these...