Essays & Travelogues

Antiquity'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,...

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Almost everyone on safari hopes for a glimpse of the charismatic and elusive leopard. Chui was the first of a new generation of leopards Jonathan Scott watched and photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve in the 1970s and 1980s. He spent every...

Embarking on several months of random budget travelling in S E Asia, John Staniland takes us on a journey to several stimulating and exotic countries in this remarkable part of the world. This life-changing adventure arises as a result of semi-retirement...

In a ruined temple along the Nile, Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later that day, a policeman stops his taxi to ask to borrow a mobile phone to call his mother. The ancient rubs up against the...

Commemorating Cicerone's 50th year, Fifty Years of Adventure is a compilation of tales by Cicerone authors. A story to celebrate each year Cicerone has been publishing outdoor activity guidebooks, the collection is a delicious hotpot of adventures in...

Delhi claims a noble history as the site of at least seven capitals dating from before the time of Alexander the Great. The glorious Mogul Empire brought great riches to the city and to Agra, where the world-famous Taj Mahal has excited awe in visitors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156033749Author Jen Lin-LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Harvest PublicationsPublisher Harvest PublicationsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting awestruck travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crusaders and Napoleon, followed by the grand tourists of the eighteenth century,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965478519Author Ted SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Jupitalia ProductionsPublisher Jupitalia ProductionsWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848510869Author Trevor FishlockFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870841863Author Nigel FoxellFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye

This wonderful book takes an affectionate, entertaining and perceptive look at the English people. Here are their traditions, foibles, quirks, customs, humour and achievements, triumphs and failures, peccadilloes and passions. Travel through England from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134114Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890623784Author Zo CanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Lost Classics Book CompanyPublisher Lost Classics Book Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486841731Author Aloha BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm)...

Kenneth Murphy's brother was one of the last US soldiers to be killed during the Vietnam. Travelling through Vietnam, he captures its ancient culture and what remains after French and US imperialism and the onslaught of the 21st century finance; and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813251Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited Press

'One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.' The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend...

A Strange Kind of Paradise is an exploration of India's past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for many years. Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358361312Author Padma LakshmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people,...

The author and actress chronicles her journey along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain--the famous pilgrimage route that has been taken by pilgrims ranging from St. Francis of Assisi to Chaucer.About the AuthorShirley MacLaine, Oscar(r)-,...

Bruce Springsteen -- 'The Boss' -- has towered over the rock world since he shot to international fame with 'Born to Run' and other classics in the early 1970s. He has always been an outspoken advocate of his home state of New Jersey, which has produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437070Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701825Author Colin FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544962Author Sebastiano BrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590480137Author Aime TschiffelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Long Riders' Guild PressPublisher Long Riders' Guild PressWeight(grams)...

Richard Skelton spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days were spent beating the valley's bounds, exploring its network of paths,...

At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609808269Author Jeffrey TaylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

The last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is an ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation. The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until...

In Bed with the Atlantic is a travel memoir of a young woman, Kit Pascoe, as she goes from never having stepped on a yacht, to sailing over 18,000 miles - across the Atlantic, around the Caribbean and then back - in three years with her partner. At...

The river Severn, Britain's longest river, passes through some of our most beautiful countryside, but it is the variety of scenery that makes it so special. Beginning as a boggy spring on top of Plynlimon in mid Wales, it falls approximately 1,500 feet...

Have you ever wanted to take a sabbatical from work and go travelling? `Reading these stories again takes me back immediately to the windswept green hills of Rum, the howling huskies of Greenland and the far-off plains of Alaska, where a green camper...

Have you ever wanted to take a sabbatical from work and go travelling? `Reading these stories again takes me back immediately to the windswept green hills of Rum, the howling huskies of Greenland and the far-off plains of Alaska, where a green camper...

As a passionate Londoner, Ken Livingstone has seen London change dramatically over the last 60 years. From playing on bomb sites in an era where St Pauls was the tallest building in the city, to 2019 where the gleaming towers of the Shard and Walkie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945058Author Cedric GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating...