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Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain by Bill Bryson 9781784161194 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$9.22In 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... -
Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain by Bill Bryson
RRP: $23.08$16.32In 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: $52.50$35.24In 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: $33.58$20.62Apologies 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: $23.08$15.54*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: $35.68$26.63The 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: $23.08$16.32'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... -
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed 9781838959548
RRP: $20.98$14.07At 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... -
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain 9780747558217
RRP: $31.48$23.00Anthony 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: $20.98$5.04This 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: $20.98$14.93This 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... -
Guyabano Holiday by panpanya
RRP: $25.18$18.21A trip to Tokyo's Asian market district, Ameyokocho, leads the protrag on a trip to hunt down the mysterious guyabano fruit! Little does the protrag and their crew know that their curiosity will take them on a wild and mouth-watering trip to the... -
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis 9781906011611
RRP: $31.48$19.45"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: $20.98$14.28'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... -
Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North by Stuart Maconie 9780091910235 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.70A 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: $31.48$23.00A 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... -
Bahari: Recipes From an Omani Kitchen and Beyond by Dina Macki 9780241632512
RRP: $54.60$35.76WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD 2023ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARDS BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2024With honesty and curiosity, British-born Omani-Zanzibari chef Dina Macki explores the unique foodscape of Oman, in the first Omani cookbook to be written by an... -
La Vie: A year in rural France by John Lewis-Stempel 9780857526458
RRP: $35.68$25.79AN 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'... -
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
RRP: $23.08$16.32'4 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... -
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru by Dervla Murphy
RRP: $23.08$15.54The 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... -
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson 9780679762874
RRP: $35.70$20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762874Author Robyn DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture by Matt Goulding 9780062394033
RRP: $78.75$48.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062394033Author Matt GouldingFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Harper Wave/Anthony BourdainPublisher Harper Wave/Anthony BourdainWeight(grams) 839g -
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett
RRP: $27.28$17.98Spaniards 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... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $23.08$11.49'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a... -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $23.08$15.37Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Stunning.' Andre Aciman 'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' Jan... -
Made In America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson 9781784161866 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57'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: $23.08$16.32'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... -
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
RRP: $20.98$14.93As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But,... -
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
RRP: $20.98$14.39The 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: $23.08$15.54*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... -
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey 9780571228706
RRP: $23.08$16.74In 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... -
DON'T RUN, Whatever You Do: My Adventures as a Safari Guide by Peter Allison
RRP: $23.08$15.54The 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... -
A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson 9781784161446 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.65'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: $23.08$16.32'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... -
Waterlog by Roger Deakin 9780099282556
RRP: $23.08$16.32Roger 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,... -
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: $23.08$16.32Over 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... -
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Eat, Sleep, Cycle: A Bike Ride Around the Coast of Britain by Anna Hughes
RRP: $20.98$14.28For Anna, a cycling enthusiast, the decision to ride 4,000 miles solo around the coast of the UK wasn't that hard. Following the river from London until it became the sea, then following the sea until it reached the mouth of the Thames again was a... -
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara Maitland
RRP: $23.08$15.37Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating... -
The Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey: In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and the footprint of HS2 by Gail Simmons 9781784770808
RRP: $25.18$16.80Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020. Travel writer and journalist Gail Simmons follows in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson as she walks from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to Tring in Hertfordshire via Great Missenden...