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Sultan in Oman by Jan Morris 9781906011178
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906011178Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd -
Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides by David Yeadon
RRP: $20.98$13.94For many armchair travelers the Outer Hebrides of Scotland epitomize the beauty and remoteness of island life. And the most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, where the legendary Harris Tweed is woven by local crofters, reflecting the strength,... -
West with the Light by Brian Jackman
RRP: $20.98$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784778361Author Brian JackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel GuidesWeight(grams) 130g -
Hidden Art in the South of France by Eric Rinckhout 9789460582790
RRP: $39.80$27.55There's more to the South of France than sun, beaches, palm trees and the azure blue sea. For over a hundred years, it has been the favourite destination of many artists, who find themselves drawn to the superb light and the pleasant climate. The South... -
Journey to the Edge of the World by Billy Connolly
RRP: $23.08$15.54Billy tells us the gripping story of his adventures in some of the remotest parts of the world.In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the North West Passage - a... -
The Children's Fire: Heart song of a people by Mac Macartney
RRP: $27.28$18.06***SILVER AWARD WINNER, 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS!***The Children's Fire forges a trail into Britain's wild and ancient Celtic past. It locates the fragments of a story that still has resonance today; the pulse and surge of an older wisdom that cracks... -
What Could Possibly Go Wrong. . . by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: $23.08$16.32What Could Possibly Go Wrong... is the eighth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling Clarkson on Cars series.There's nothing quite like messing about on four wheels. In fact, there's no better way to contemplate the madness of the world than from the... -
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner 9780552775083
RRP: $23.08$16.32What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are... -
Waypoints: Seascapes and Stories of Scotland's West Coast by Ian Stephen
RRP: $25.18$17.70Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland's west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime's love affair with sailing; each voyage honours... -
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s by Dervla Murphy 9781780600116
RRP: $31.48$20.58A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland in order to try and sort out her own... -
The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness by Leif Bersweden
RRP: $27.28$18.06He has just a few months to complete his quest - no one has ever done it before within one growing season - and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each... -
Between Extremes by Brian Keenan 9780552145954 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$3.93In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American... -
Between Extremes by Brian Keenan
RRP: $31.48$23.00In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American... -
Cargo of Hope: Voyages of the Humanitarian Ship Vega by Shane Granger 9781493080861
RRP: $39.88$28.58This is the story of the historic ship Vega's first missions of mercy-a real-life sea tale complete with vicious storms, exotic locations, heart-rending moments, and priceless glimpses into real life on some of the world's most remote tropical islands.In... -
How the Heather Looks: a joyous journey to the British sources of children's books by Joan Bodger 9781922634702
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922634702Author Joan BodgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Another Epic Feat of Navigation Safely Completed! by Jeremy Walker
$28.92"As I sat on the side of Hamnafield on Foula in the Shetland Islands, looking down at my 'enormous' 38-foot ferry stowed in its cradle on the quay in Ham Voe, over 1,000 feet below me, I reflected on a moderately successful career to date, and wondered... -
Far Horizons by Frank Gardner
RRP: $25.18$17.70Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano...pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster...picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: Frank Gardner's idea of a holiday is not everyone's. But ever since his student days, the BBC... -
An African in Greenland by A. Alvarez 9780940322882
RRP: $33.58$25.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322882Author Kpomassie Tete-MichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Another Long Day On The Piste: A Season in the French Alps by Will Randall 9780349119342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$3.74Writer, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of umpteen travel disasters, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a disastrous season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous,... -
Another Long Day On The Piste: A Season in the French Alps by Will Randall 9780349119342
$31.23Writer, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of umpteen travel disasters, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a disastrous season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous,... -
Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island by Ben Aitken
RRP: $23.08$15.37FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE GRAN TOUR AND THE MARMALADE DIARIESAn irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic.'It would be wrong to view this book as just a highly accomplished homage to a personal hero. Aitken's politics, as much as his humour,... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $23.08$16.32A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The... -
The Angry Island: Hunting the English by Adrian Gill 9780753820964
RRP: $20.98$14.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Thunder and Sunshine: Riding Home from Patagonia by Alastair Humphreys 9781903070888
RRP: $20.98$14.93At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a tiny budget of just GBP7,000 (AU$15000). Thunder and Sunshine is... -
The Magic of Japan: Secret Places and Life-Changing Experiences: My Fifteen Years as a Geek in Japan (with 475 Color Photos) by Hector Garcia
RRP: $33.58$23.79A charming collection of quirky insights into Japanese culture.The Magic of Japan is writer Hector Garcia's intensely personal account of his fifteen years in Japan. A self-professed "otaku" or Japanese anime geek since childhood, Garcia has worked for a... -
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron 9780141442099
RRP: $27.28$19.09A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana includes an introduction by Colin Thubron.In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via... -
Bon Appetit!: Travels with knife,fork & corkscrew through France by Peter Mayle
RRP: $23.08$15.54Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says 'The religion of France is food. And wine, of course.' And they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion... -
Far Away & Long Ago by W. H. Hudson 9780907871743
RRP: $31.48$20.58The first eighteen years of William Hudson's life were spent on the Argentinian pampas. Although he was a scholarly ornithologist, every page of this book reveals a rapturous delight in the wildlife of the pampas, animal or human. He mixed with... -
Motorworld by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: $27.28$19.09Jeremy Clarkson invites us to Motorworld, his take on different cultures and the cars that they drive.There are ways and means of getting about that don't involve four wheels, but in this slice of vintage Clarkson, Jeremy isn't much interested in them... -
Burton Holmes. Travelogues. The Greatest Traveler of His Time by Genoa Caldwell
RRP: $42.00$41.10It was the Belle Epoque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China's Great... -
Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African by Simon Fenton
RRP: $16.78$12.16The tale of an Englishman making a life for himself in Senegal. Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. "If I don't offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard," she explained. Clearly I had a lot to... -
Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City by Stephen Clarke
RRP: $23.08$16.32PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world.BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest?Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds?Why Parisian men feel compelled to pee in the street?How to... -
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna 9780141011981 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$5.57Joanna Kavenna went north in search of the Atlantis of the Arctic, the mythical land of Thule. Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came to represent the vast and empty spaces of the north. Fascinated for many... -
Lois on the Loose by Lois Pryce 9780099493563 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the... -
Lois on the Loose by Lois Pryce
RRP: $23.08$16.32Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the... -
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba by Sarah Rainsford
RRP: $20.98$14.93Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, and... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania by Michael O'Sullivan 9786155225642
RRP: $54.50$47.92This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This S.O.E. officer walked into Hungary as a youth of 19 at Easter of 1934 and left Transylvania in August... -
Remarkable Treks by Colin Salter
RRP: $52.50$34.50Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops. Following the same format as the award winning Remarkable Road... -
Barcelona by Robert Hughes
RRP: $35.68$25.79"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a dazzling collage of Catalan peculiarities" FREDERICK RAPHAEL,... -
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller 9781935597193
RRP: $18.88$12.87In 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller's account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine. On page...