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Adrift by Steven Callahan 9780618257324
£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618257324Author Steven CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin -
Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There: Detours into mayhem by Paul Carter
RRP: £14.99£9.80ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering... -
Down the River by H. E. Bates
RRP: £14.00£9.76Rivers are great workings of nature, time and geology. They have long been at the very centre of human culture, sustaining us with water, food, power and stories. Our thoughts flow like a river. A river's journey, from source to sea, is a metaphor for... -
Slow Road to San Francisco: Travels Through Small-Town America by David Reynolds
RRP: £14.99£4.40As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets a huge variety of Americans - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything... -
Off in a Boat by Neil Gunn 9780941533980
RRP: £14.99£11.53In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides. The boat had outlived its first... -
Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell 9781250094223
RRP: £21.99£14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250094223Author Albert PodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip by Jim Rogers
RRP: £20.00£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967265Author Jim RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 294gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Old Puglia: A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy by Desmond Seward
RRP: £12.99£8.99In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. The region boasts beautiful landscapes and miles of dramatic coastline, cities with Romanesque... -
All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter
RRP: £13.99£10.23Most travel memoirs involve a button-nosed protagonist nursing a broken heart who, rather than tearfully watching The Princess Bride while eating an entire 5-gallon vat of ice cream directly out of the container (like a normal person), instead decides to... -
Everyman's England by Victor Canning 9780715653883
RRP: £8.99£6.55I travelled from King's Cross to Berwick-on-Tweed in a sleeper on the night express for no other reason than that I like to read in bed and, at the same time, feel that I am being rushed forward at a tremendous speed. In this series of pen-portraits of... -
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J. W. Ocker 9781581572216
RRP: £15.99£13.82Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe's legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe's homes, examining artifacts from his life-locks of... -
Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens: A Couchsurfer?s Adventures in the New Venezuela by Jamie Maslin 9781628737202
RRP: £12.99£10.99Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of "firebrand," "populist," "anti-American" president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Alone in the crime capital of the world... -
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
RRP: £14.99£9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)... -
Hunting Mr Heartbreak: A Discovery of America by Jonathan Raban 9781780601373
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of non-fiction at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert Macfarlane 'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman RushdieFollowing in the footsteps of countless emigrants, Jonathan Raban takes ship... -
Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish and Me by Charlie Connelly 9781408702086 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29If you think you know Ireland, this book will make you think again. Each year on St Patrick's Day the eighty million people around the world claiming Irish ancestry celebrate their spiritual homeland. Millions more don leprechaun hats and swallow pints... -
Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish and Me by Charlie Connelly 9781408702086
£12.73If you think you know Ireland, this book will make you think again. Each year on St Patrick's Day the eighty million people around the world claiming Irish ancestry celebrate their spiritual homeland. Millions more don leprechaun hats and swallow pints... -
Syracuse, City of Legends: A Glory of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
RRP: £16.99£13.16This vivid and engaging book weaves together the history, architecture and archaeology of Syracuse and is an essential companion for anyone visiting the city. Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658
RRP: £12.99£8.60What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the... -
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson 9780552779845
RRP: £7.99£7.44WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and... -
Saved By Beauty by Roger Housden 9780307587749
RRP: £15.00£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307587749Author Roger HousdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair 9780861543731
RRP: £10.99£7.12A 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... -
Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific by Roz Savage 9781781801185
RRP: £18.99£12.37In the year 2000, Roz Savage seemed to have it all. But she felt there was a mismatch between the person she was pretending to be on the outside, and the person she wanted to be on the inside. Leaving behind her life as a London professional, she set out... -
Paddle: A long way around Ireland by Jasper Winn 9780956003881
RRP: £9.99£7.40One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in bars and paddling clockwise until he got back where he... -
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99£6.52An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth. Patrick O'Brian has unearthed... -
The Japan Lights: On the Trail of the Scot Who Lit Up Japan's Coast by Iain Maloney 9781913836320
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836320Author Iain MaloneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited -
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli 9781847085191
RRP: £12.99£8.56Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a... -
Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language by Judith Tschann
RRP: £18.99£12.75'A splendid book . . . anyone who eats food and/or likes words will gain hours of innocent pleasure from this veritable feast of fun.' - Daily MailPerfect for readers of Susie Dent and Mark Forsyth, and fans of QI. All food has a story, reaching as far... -
Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguson 9781841957852
RRP: £14.00£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841957852Author Will FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Canongate UsPublisher Canongate UsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 28mm -
The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel by Rolf Potts 9780593497470
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593497470Author Rolf PottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick
RRP: £16.99£11.87An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick's epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway-from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow-including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that... -
Tip Of The Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101985120Author Mark AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation by Sheila Fruman 9781898113874
RRP: £35.00£24.03Sheila Fruman, fascinated by the textiles and handmade carpets she saw when she travelled overland in 1969 from Turkey to India, tells the stories of nine intrepid adventurers who have combed the streets and bazaars of Central and South Asia finding,... -
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
RRP: £10.99£7.38A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his... -
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden
RRP: £10.99£7.25'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The... -
A Walk in the Park: Exploring the Treasures of Glasgow's Dear Green Places by John Cairney 9781910745359
RRP: £9.99£7.11In A Walk in the Park, Cairney shows that he clearly loves the city and he expresses that it is more than it appears to be. Glasgow is not just a city full of tenements and big buildings, it is a beautiful Scottish landmark outfitted with the beautiful... -
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 by Bill Bryson 9780544812093
RRP: £15.99£10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544812093Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
The Serpent Coiled in Naples: 2022 by Marius Kociejowski 9781909961814
£23.08In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this... -
A Walk With A White Bushman by Laurens Van der Post
RRP: £15.99£11.61Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged... -
An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
RRP: £12.99£10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148858Author Levison WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat