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Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so... -
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson 9781399721653
RRP: £25.00£16.78In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching... -
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
RRP: £15.99£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679758334Format PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the acclaimed guide to travel in Holland by Ben Coates
RRP: £10.99£7.40*A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history... -
Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness by Christian Lewis
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Sunday Times Bestseller.Finding Hildasay is Christian Lewis's brutal but beautiful true story of survival, walking the coast of Britain - his dog Jet in tow - and finding a different way to live. With a foreword from longtime supporter Ben Fogle... -
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in... -
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain 9780747558217
RRP: £14.99£10.95Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of "Kitchen Confidential", sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he... -
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly 9780349116037 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.40This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of... -
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
RRP: £9.99£7.11This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of... -
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed 9781838959548
RRP: £9.99£6.70At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk... -
I Never Knew That About the Lake District by Christopher Winn
RRP: £14.99£10.95Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey through the Lake District, that majestic landscape in Cumbria beloved of poets and tourists, hill walkers, seekers of scenic beauty and those who mess about in boats. Learn about the... -
Waterlog by Roger Deakin 9780099282556
RRP: £10.99£7.77Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos,... -
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
RRP: £10.99£7.77'4 stars. Attlee, who knows and loves Italy and the Italians, takes the reader through the country's scented gardens with her sharp descriptions, pertinent stories and quotes and intriguing recipes. I was there with her' Anna del Conte, Sunday TelegraphA... -
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis 9781906011611
RRP: £14.99£9.26"Voices of the Old Sea" is Lewis' masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women... -
Wild Abandon: A Journey to the Deserted Places of the Dodecanese' by Jennifer Barclay
RRP: £9.99£6.80'There's something about abandoned places which moves me and captures the imagination.' So says seasoned travel writer Jennifer Barclay as she walks with her dog and her backpack through the deserted spaces of the Dodecanese, islands that were once... -
Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers by Dr Chris Thorogood 9780241632628
RRP: £25.00£17.62The incredible story of one man's obsession to find and protect the world's largest flowers As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. He crafted life-size replicas in an abandoned cemetery,... -
Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North by Stuart Maconie 9780091910235 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.24A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his... -
Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his... -
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £12.99£8.56Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War and the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a... -
La Vie: A year in rural France by John Lewis-Stempel 9780857526458
RRP: £16.99£12.28AN INDIE BESTSELLER'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of La Belle France' Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm'An utterly beguiling immersion in La France Profonde, keenly observed and beautifully told'... -
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey 9780571228706
RRP: £10.99£7.97In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and anime, and explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although graphically violent and disturbing, the two mediums are both... -
On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder 9780064400800
£5.90A detailed diary from the author of the beloved Little House series, chronicling her journey with her family from South Dakota to Missouri. In 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, packed their belongings into their... -
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru by Dervla Murphy
RRP: £10.99£7.40The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south... -
The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99£7.32Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a... -
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr
RRP: £9.99£6.64On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome... 'Four Seasons in Rome' charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr's varied... -
Made In America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson 9781784161866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big... -
Made In America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£8.87'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big... -
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
RRP: £9.99£6.85The Good Life goes on at El Valero. Find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an... -
The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps by Ben Coates
RRP: £10.99£7.40*SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through... -
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 9780007367757 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.40A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the... -
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99£7.25A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the... -
DON'T RUN, Whatever You Do: My Adventures as a Safari Guide by Peter Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Okavango Delta, Botswana: a lush wetland in the middle of the Kalahari desert. Aged 19, Peter Allison thought he would visit for a short holiday before going home to get a 'proper job'. But Peter fell in love with southern Africa and its wildlife and... -
The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £10.99£7.32Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Incandescent.' Andre Aciman'A magician.' The Times'Invades the reader's every sense ..... -
A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson 9781784161446 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.69'Short of doing it yourself, the best way of escaping into nature is to read a book like A Walk in the Woods.' New York TimesIn the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the... -
A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Short of doing it yourself, the best way of escaping into nature is to read a book like A Walk in the Woods.' New York TimesIn the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the... -
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: £10.99£7.77Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. This new edition includes a previously unpublished epigraph in the form of a walk. When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron 9780099437222 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.20A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99£9.09A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £10.99£5.47'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a... -
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native...