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All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O'Neill 9789774168659
RRP: £16.99£14.10If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard. ... -
An Englishman In Paris: L'education Continentale by Michael Sadler 9780743440462 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.78Peter Mayle, author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE, writes in his Preface to this charming travel memoir: 'Michael Sadler was born in Lewes, a small town in the south of England. This was a geographical accident. He should have emerged from the womb in Paris,... -
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife and her Alligator by Homer Hickam 9780008154240
RRP: £7.99£5.41'Must-read... A funny yet tragic tale of a husband and wife's car journey across the US with Albert the alligator in tow. Yes, really.' Marie Claire A journey of a thousand miles. With an alligator on the back seat. And John Steinbeck as a... -
Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology by Deborah Manley
RRP: £11.99£9.70Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole,... -
The Japanese Chronicles by Nicolas Bouvier 9781906011048
RRP: £12.99£8.60Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. The Eland edition of "Japanese Chronicles" will be accompanied by many of his startling images of Japan. "The Japanese Chronicles" is a distillation of Bouvier's lifelong quest... -
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen by Julia Parry
RRP: £10.99£7.38Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel... -
Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey-1,000 Days. 64 Countries. 1 Beautiful Planet. by Nuseir Yassin 9780062932679
RRP: £20.00£14.34Based on the Nas Daily video series with over 13 million dedicated followers comes the surprising, moving 1,000-day journey of a lifetime in book formIn 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his job to travel for 1,000 consecutive days. But instead of the usual... -
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers by Jane Robinson
RRP: £19.99£14.28Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical... -
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee 9781911508908
RRP: £9.99£6.99Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his... -
With the Sun on the Our Right: the people we met while cycling the world by Tim Moss 9781999582715
RRP: £12.00£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999582715Author Tim MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Biddles BooksPublisher Biddles Books -
Curiosities and Splendour: An anthology of classic travel literature by Lonely Planet 9781788683029 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.94Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before... -
Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica by John Harrison
RRP: £15.99£11.61John Harrison's Forgotten Footprints is the untold story of the sailors, sealers and eccentrics who discovered the last continent: Antarctica. A thrilling record of lost triumph and tragedy, a saga of adventure and ambition against all odds, and a ... -
Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty by Carlo Piano
RRP: £14.99£9.80"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many... -
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.60For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the... -
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
£16.87Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to... -
The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland by Hugh Thomson
RRP: £12.99£8.60One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland.The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered... -
The Monk of Park Avenue by Yun Rou 9781642506082
RRP: £13.99£10.95Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in... -
Persian Pictures by Gertrude Bell 9781843311690
RRP: £9.99£9.61This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, 'Persian Pictures' is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: £8.99£6.20Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is... -
Seasons of Change: Busking England by Tom Kitching 9781999333935
RRP: £13.99£13.45Tom Kitching is one of England's leading traditional fiddle players. He has worked as a solo performer, band member, dance caller, violin teacher, and street busker. That last element - the busking - was an afterthought, something to be phased out as he... -
Umbria: The Heart of Italy by Patricia Clough
RRP: £10.99£7.71When Patricia Clough bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that life would become a dream. By the end of this book, in which she describes the journey of making Umbria her home, she is sure that if one has basic... -
Oz: Around Australia on a Triumph, Motorbike Adventures 3 by Geoff Hill
RRP: £9.99£8.17'Cliffs, sudden death and sharks on the right; poisonous snakes, spiders, lethal kangaroos, dingoes and, of course, the killer wombats on the left.' These are just some of the challenges that face Geoff Hill and Colin O'Carroll as they set off on... -
Shalimar by Davina Quinlivan 9781908213907
RRP: £16.00£11.62In her mid-twenties, shortly before her father's death, Davina Quinlivan moved from her family home in west London to begin a transitory life in the countryside: here she felt restless and rootless, stuck between Deep England and the technicolour... -
Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea by Rob Lilwall
RRP: £12.99£8.60Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel,... -
Michael Foreman: Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman
RRP: £17.99£12.79Join Michael Foreman on an incredible journey around the globe. His prolific career as an illustrator has taken him through war-torn Vietnam to the vast forests of Siberia, from Mao's China to Japan, the Arctic to the South Seas and from the top of the... -
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo
RRP: £3.00£2.49'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and... -
Where the Wind Blows by Heyward H Coleman
RRP: £14.50£13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984735624Author Heyward H ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Heyward ColemanPublisher Heyward ColemanWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Hanging: And An Appeal for Publishing the Truth about Burma by George Orwell 9781804470886
RRP: £5.00£4.42George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles
RRP: £11.99£8.00PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a... -
L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home by David Lebovitz
RRP: £13.99£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804188401Author David LebovitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Travels in the South of France by Stendhal
RRP: £9.99£7.11Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with numerous personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings. Both an... -
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
RRP: £9.99£7.27In this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants... -
Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain by Jack Hitt 9780743261111
£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743261111Author Jack HittFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £10.99£7.32Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition which includes the acclaimed essay Sea Burial.About the... -
Sweet Encore: A Road Trip from Paris to Portugal by Karen Wheeler
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957106628Author Karen WheelerFormat PaperbackImprint Sweet Pea PublishingPublisher Sweet Pea Publishing -
A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life by Marcia DeSanctis 9781609522063
RRP: £13.99£9.26"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived." -Melissa Febos, The New York... -
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life by Lesley Blanch
RRP: £10.99£7.40Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part... -
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Elliot Paul 9781780600741
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780600741Author Elliot PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd -
A Coast-to-Coast Walk: A Personal Travelogue by Trevor K Bell 9781913551445
RRP: £9.99£7.11Robin Hood's Bay to St Bees: 200 miles across Northern England The Coast to Coast Walk: A Personal Travelogue is based on the route described in The Coast-to-Coast Walk by Alfred Wainwright. Inspired to follow in Wainwright's footsteps, Trevor K Bell... -
Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet
RRP: £18.99£13.15This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring...