Essays & Travelogues

Exploring the world through travel is a vital way to shape our political views and our social awareness. These days, it's more important than ever to engage in travel as an activist.In this fully revised edition of his award-winning book Travel as a...

'Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.'Fredrik Sjoeberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest...

'Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.'Fredrik Sjoeberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest...

Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845274078Author Rob PiercyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Still hooked on adventure after their long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a few years later Mefo Phillips and her spotted horse Leo set off again from Canterbury, this time heading for Rome, with Mefo's husband Peter once more trying to keep track...

From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. Launched during the Great Depression amid...

2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long...

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Sanjeev Bhaskar, the comedian and writer behind The Kumars at No. 42 embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev's characteristic humour and unique take on the country form the heart of this beautifully written travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076765Author Alice Leccese PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 296gDimensions(mm)...

A visual and anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, including ancient cities, salt mine cathedrals, underground amusement parks, and more.From bone-filled catacombs to sculpted salt churches to hand-carved cave complexes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989216517Author Sigga RunFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Giveliveexplore LLCPublisher Giveliveexplore LLCWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372181Author Henri ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345469663Author Linda Bird FranckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266g

The River Ganges has a thousand names. Hindu priests regard it as a sin to call her a river at all. She is a goddess, the source of the world, her waters holy and healing and still sold to Hindus all over the world. Ilija Trojanow travelled along the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999383404Author Jasmine Mah-InnocentiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Canadian Expat MomPublisher Canadian Expat MomWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671779979Author Mary Lee SettleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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, ...

When Bill and Laurel Cooper decided to spend the winter in the South of France, they took their seaworthy but half-finished Dutch barge Hosanna" by an overland route through the canals and rivers of France. Climbing the watersteps of the Massif Central,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398428683Author Pete OxfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881900319Author Jason Y. NgFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 241g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043089Author Ian McMurdoFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltdDimensions(mm) 233mm * 158mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486256689Author Henry Morton StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Near the southern tip of Africa, there is a mountain that does a conjuring trick with the biggest tablecloth on earth. In a sacred forest near the Limpopo river, there is a bird that flies on wings of thunder, flashing lightning from its eyes and bearing...

Near the southern tip of Africa, there is a mountain that does a conjuring trick with the biggest tablecloth on earth. In a sacred forest near the Limpopo river, there is a bird that flies on wings of thunder, flashing lightning from its eyes and bearing...

Deciding what to do in the city that never sleeps is daunting. That is why 100,000 readers have flocked to The Best Things to Do in New York, celebrating its tenth anniversary in print in 2016.About the AuthorCaitlin Leffel and Jacob...

One of the Europe's most celebrated rivers, the Seine stretches from the fertile plains of Burgundy to the English Channel at Le Havre. Starting at its source near Dijon, writer and engraver Robert Gibbings follows the river's 400-mile course as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992784102Author Lance RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Design MarquePublisher Design MarqueWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890623579Format PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Lost Classics Book CompanyPublisher Lost Classics Book Company

Presents a collection of pieces taking us from Africa to Iceland hunting for the world's most dangerous and interesting animals.Book InformationISBN 9780312038106Author Peter Hathaway CapstickFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint St Martin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437193Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457140Author Malcolm JackFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995502741Author Lindsay De FelizFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Springtime BooksPublisher Springtime Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911175841Author Andrew BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

This account shows the full range of Hugh Miller's interests - the lyrical description of the scenery and accounts of beautiful fossils show a deep affection for the Scottish landscape, while his role as a serious religious journalist and social crusader...

An outcast gay Mormon travels from his Washington, DC, home to Antarctica-by bus. A devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an...

In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinople to see for himself what the Russians were up to in this remote corner of the Great Game battelfield. With wars between Turkey and Russia imminent, he...