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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to seventy... -
A Bike Ride: 12,000 miles around the world by Anne Mustoe 9780863696503 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.92When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home. Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East... -
A Bike Ride: 12,000 miles around the world by Anne Mustoe
RRP: £14.99£10.95When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home. Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East... -
The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple 9780006547754
RRP: £12.99£8.48William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and... -
No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully 9780140104806 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.87India's Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, 'want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops'. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of 'stories' which explore Calcutta, from the Kumbh Mela in... -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679785897
RRP: £12.99£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679785897Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)... -
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: £12.99£9.49Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99£9.80In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging from New York to Venice, Sydney to Berlin, and the... -
Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.60Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval... -
A Journey In Ladakh by Andrew Harvey
RRP: £15.99£11.61High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China and Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for Buddhist meditation since three centuries before Christ and is one of the last places on earth where a Tibetan Buddhist community... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, ... -
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End by Charles Jennings
RRP: £10.99£7.40There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL... -
D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: £14.99£10.95In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to... -
The Two Headed Whale by Sandy Winterbottom
RRP: £14.99£9.80Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was... -
It's on the Meter: One Taxi, Three Mates and 43,000 Miles of Misadventures around the World by Paul Archer 9781849538251
RRP: £10.99£7.40When three friends - Paul, Johno and Leigh - clicked 'buy' on an iconic London cab, little did they know what they were letting themselves in for. Leaving the Big Smoke in their taxi bound for Sydney, the lads began a 43,000-mile trip that would take... -
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner 9781501129025
RRP: £10.99£7.77The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each-from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir-offers practical... -
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians by Philip Marsden 9780008127435
RRP: £9.99£7.11A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th... -
Marram: Memories of Sea and Spider Silk by Leonie Charlton 9781913207106 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913207106Author Leonie CharltonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Sandstone Press LtdPublisher Sandstone Press LtdWeight(grams) 333gDimensions(mm)... -
Marram: Memories of Sea and Spider Silk by Leonie Charlton 9781913207106
RRP: £18.99£12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913207106Author Leonie CharltonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Sandstone Press LtdPublisher Sandstone Press LtdWeight(grams) 333gDimensions(mm)... -
The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure by Caroline Paul
RRP: £17.99£11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632861238Author Caroline PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 414g -
Bad Times In Buenos Aires by Miranda France
RRP: £9.99£6.80A funny and poignant account of life in Buenos Aires, by a young prize-winning writer.In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth of writers and its romantic, passionate... -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both... -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield
RRP: £12.99£7.12Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both... -
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac 9780241348079
RRP: £8.99£6.45A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discoveryAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on... -
Sailing Just for Fun: High Adventure on a Small Budget by A. C. Stock
RRP: £11.99£8.43High adventure on a small budget - this is Charles Stock's philosophy as he cruises his midget 16 -foot gaff-rigged sailing cruiser Shoal Waters on the Thames Estuary, having logged 68,000 miles since 1963. No engine, no electronics. The art of pottering... -
Writing on the Road: Campervan Love and the Joy of Solitude by Sue Reid Sexton 9781849343831
RRP: £8.99£7.40This book is not just funny (or sad) stories of campervan trips in Scotland; it is not just 'Zen and the art of campervan maintenance' (with stories of sweetness and light that will entertain or make you cry); and it is not just nature writing (with... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £20.00£13.50A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the... -
The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley 9781906011505
RRP: £12.99£8.13The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline... -
The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson
RRP: £10.99£7.32Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.Jamaica is now a country in despair. It has become a cockpit of... -
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin 9780752837062 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29A winning combination of No.1 travel writer Michael Palin and one of the great literary figures of the century.When Michael Palin was researching for his novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel and 'Papa's'... -
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot 9780330371629
£17.13An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan is widely acknowledged as the most influential contemporary work of Afghanistan. Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan's isolation from the world, Jason Elliot's uncannily prescient account... -
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
RRP: £20.00£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915304Author J. Maarten TroostFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A... -
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
RRP: £12.99£8.60Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and immersing himself in the lives of young Chinese as they... -
Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy by Chris Harrison
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A perfect read for a Mediterannean beach' Daily TelegraphWhen Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life was about to change forever. There he meets Daniela - one L, smile as you say it to pronounce it correctly - and it's amore at... -
Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus by Carla Capalbo
RRP: £29.99£23.08One of Newsweek's six best travel books of the last decade. Winner Guild of Food Writers, Food and Travel Award 2018. Winner Best Food Book of 2017, Gourmand Cookbook Awards. Shortlisted for the Art of Eating Prize. Shortlisted for the IACP, Culinary... -
How to Live Off-Grid by Nick Rosen
RRP: £10.99£7.77Off-grid: a place, building or person without mains water or power. Static or mobile - in a house or a hut, a boat or a camper van - to live off-grid is all about loosending the ties that bind us to teh fmailiar world of commuting, mortgages, no time... -
Tiny Churches by Dixe Wills 9780749579913
£16.84BBC Countryfile Magazine praised Dixe Wills for writing `intelligently and amusingly, with evident excitement and imagination', qualities that he brings to Tiny Churches. Beautifully presented in full colour throughout, the book uncovers 60 of the... -
On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel by Tony Cohan 9780747553656
£17.13When Tony Cohan and his wife visited central Mexico in 1985, they fell under the spell of an irresistible place. Recounting his awakening to needs he didn't know he had, Cohan tells how they returned to California, sold their house, and cast off for a... -
The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures by Lee Stetson 9781930238374
RRP: £9.99£6.75Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to... -
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99£9.09A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands...