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Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia by Wilfred Thesiger
RRP: €13.08€8.63Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled... -
Cinematic Places: Volume 7 by Sarah Baxter
RRP: €17.84€11.51Go beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time - brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals 25 essential... -
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours'Many people associate the Grand... -
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore
RRP: €15.46€10.23They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours'Many people associate the Grand... -
France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Jonathan Miller 9781783342280
RRP: €15.46€13.10The French live in a feverish state of fantasy. People are paid to pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes depression and suicide. Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the French exchange a staggering 184 billion kisses every... -
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains by Jon Krakauer
RRP: €17.84€13.03No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject... -
Meetings With Remarkable Muslims by Rose Baring 9780955010507
RRP: €15.46€10.23This collection of travel writing celebrates friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the Islamic world and the way in which it continues to inspire, bemuse and enrich the western imagination... -
I Never Knew That About Wales by Christopher Winn 9781785031021 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.28The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is a spellbinding journey around Wales by bestselling author Christopher Winn. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales... -
I Never Knew That About Wales by Christopher Winn
RRP: €15.46€10.82The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is a spellbinding journey around Wales by bestselling author Christopher Winn. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales... -
The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris by Lindsey Tramuta
RRP: €26.17€18.56In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women... -
Blue Skies & Black Olives: A survivor's tale of housebuilding and peacock chasing in Greece by John Humphrys
RRP: €13.08€8.81'A very funny tome' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Hilarious' DAILY MAIL'A profoundly instructive course in the idiosyncrasies of Greek law, custom and culture ... entertainingly chronicled' SAGA* * * * * *From Radio 4 presenter, bestselling author and national... -
Sahara by Michael Palin 9780753817391 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.23Michael Palin's superb No. 1 bestseller about his incredible voyage across the Sahara.Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean, but this was... -
Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking by Michael Booth
RRP: €15.46€10.82'His account of their "foodie family road trip" establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson.' New York TimesJapan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of... -
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
RRP: €11.89€8.65Oliver Sacks, the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is most famous for his studies of the human mind: insightful and beautifully characterized portraits of those experiencing complex neurological conditions... -
Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
RRP: €13.08€9.25Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events... -
Sails & Winds: A Cultural History of Valencia by Michael Eaude 9781909930759
RRP: €19.03€17.22The towns of Valencia's long coast and privileged climate, in particular Benidorm, southern Europe's skyscraper capital, are famous beach tourism destinations. Country of fire, fireworks and long meals (often featuring the renowned paella), Valencia is a... -
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa 9781838856946
RRP: €17.84€11.66A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVELChina today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. It is also an intersection of racism and prejudice.Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of... -
The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary by Caroline Crampton 9781783784141
RRP: €11.89€7.97Raised on its banks and an avid sailor, Caroline Crampton sets out to rediscover the enigmatic pull of the Thames by following its course from the river's source in a small village in Gloucestershire, through the short central stretch beloved of... -
Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home by Malachy Tallack 9781846973420
RRP: €7.13€4.89'Sixty Degrees North is a story that we tell, both to ourselves and to others. It is a story about where - and perhaps also who - we are.' The sixtieth parallel marks a kind of borderland. It wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden... -
Vroom With A View: In Search Of Italy's Dolce Vita On A '61 Vespa by Peter Moore 9780553816372 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73It was the late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warning him that life comes to an end after 40 that prompted Peter Moore to chase a boyhood dream. To go to Italy and seek out its celebrated dolce vita from the back of a Vespa. But it couldn't be just any... -
Vroom With A View: In Search Of Italy's Dolce Vita On A '61 Vespa by Peter Moore
RRP: €15.46€10.82It was the late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warning him that life comes to an end after 40 that prompted Peter Moore to chase a boyhood dream. To go to Italy and seek out its celebrated dolce vita from the back of a Vespa. But it couldn't be just any... -
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of... -
Tales from the Tillerman: Fifty Years of Cruising Britain's Inland Waterways by Steve Haywood
RRP: €15.46€13.10'Haywood imprints his inimitable humour on his descriptions of the people and places he meets along the way.' BBC Countryfile magazine 'He conjures up a picture of a different world, filled with interesting and eccentric people. A cross-section of... -
Adrift in the Middle Kingdom by Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
RRP: €15.46€10.27Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) was a ship's doctor serving in south-east Asia, and is one of the most important twentieth-century Dutch-language writers. His 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative... -
Canned Coffee and Kimonos by Tom Fitzmaurice
€14.61Canned coffee and Kimonos is Tom Fitzmaurice's memoir of the four years he spent living and teaching in Tokyo, the biggest city on Earth. A young man from England's rural West Country, he was thrust into a new world for which he was completely unprepared... -
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney 9780061936463
RRP: €20.22€13.65"An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported...A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities." -Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing... -
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow
RRP: €10.70€7.5420-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking... -
Annals of Solitude by Stephen Pax Leonard 9781666738285
RRP: €23.80€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666738285Author Stephen Pax LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)... -
The Road to Timbuktu: Down the Niger on the Trail of Mungo Park by Tom Fremantle 9781841199696 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73In the summer of 1795 a 24-year-old Scot with an optimistic heart and an unforgettable name docked on the Gambia River. So began one of the most extraordinary journeys of exploration in West Africa. Tackling fever, starvation, wild beasts and curious... -
The Road to Timbuktu: Down the Niger on the Trail of Mungo Park by Tom Fremantle 9781841199696
€13.59In the summer of 1795 a 24-year-old Scot with an optimistic heart and an unforgettable name docked on the Gambia River. So began one of the most extraordinary journeys of exploration in West Africa. Tackling fever, starvation, wild beasts and curious... -
Falling in Honey: Life and Love on a Greek Island by Jennifer Barclay
RRP: €11.89€7.66I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done.One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek island - because life is too short not to reach out for what... -
A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Classic Work of Mystical Quest by Paul Brunton
RRP: €20.22€14.61'The introductory account of Mr. Brunton's pony-back journey up the mountainside has real charm. One of his most interesting chapters gives a practical-minded consideration to the probable future of Tibet.' New York Times Paul Brunton was one of a very... -
A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: €14.27€10.23A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight... -
This Is Not A Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield by Paul Carter
RRP: €11.89€8.09The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far side of civilization - hilarious, full of humour, colourful characters and dramatic action! Just another... -
On The Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys by Michael Williams
RRP: €13.08€9.25'A trip back in time' DAILY TELEGRAPHA love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia.______________________________Get ready to board the slow train to another era, to a time when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next. On... -
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-century Japan by Sarashina
RRP: €13.08€9.25As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and evocative descriptions of the Japanese... -
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
RRP: €12.97€9.17Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great,... -
My Venice and Other Essays by Donna Leon 9780802122803
RRP: €14.27€11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802122803Author Donna LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Honey and Dust: Travels in Search of Sweetness by Piers Moore Ede 9780747579670 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€8.48After being seriously injured in a hit-and-run, Piers Moore Ede goes to an organic farm in Italy to recuperate. There, a beekeeper shows him the magic of the beehive and Piers, depressed since his accident, realises that honey might be his salve and... -
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city by Geert Mak
RRP: €13.08€9.25A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne...