Essays & Travelogues

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his...

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his...

In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner we get a wonderful insight into what has or hasn't changed within the last two hundred years. In a series of letters home he describes his amazement at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916353718Author Graham WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Little Bandit BooksPublisher Little Bandit BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space-Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan's experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan...

Unflinchingly honest about his family, his failures, his already broken health at the age of sixty?three and the loss of the hopes he once had for himself, Thomsen is also sickened by the corruption and rapacity of our societies, the inequality and the ...

Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608685042Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

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, ...

Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. "The Ancient Shore" collects the best of Hazzard's writings on...

As the seat of prince-bishops it found wealth and power, as the birthplace of Mozart it found fame, and as a festival city it found its purpose and destiny. But can today's Salzburg really be described by anything more than music and majestic baroque...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172714Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

There was someone standing further along the beach, facing out to sea. An old man dressed in... I blinked... battle fatigues? Second World War U.S. by the looks of the helmet. I looked on for a moment, squinting into the sun-streaked coconut smoke. 'You...

Istanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995589735Author David M. AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147531209Author Emma FitzgeraldFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060920081Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 275g

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany returns to immerse herself - and her readers - in the sights, aromas and treasures of twelve new special places.A YEAR IN THE WORLD is vintage Frances Mayes - a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990493228Author Sam AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Route66mc.comPublisher Route66mc.comWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423660279Author Andrew MuseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307592187Author Tony PerrottetFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

The English seaside has long been seductive. For 200 years, punters have sought out its quirky thrills from bingo to Wurlitzer organ dances, glamorous granny parades to child-jockeyed donkey races, lewdly shaped rock candy to harrowingly bad karaoke. But...

Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838255602Author John MoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint FortunePublisher Fortune

PROVOCATIVE AND ENTERTAINING: An imaginative take on Los Angeles from the vantage of the legendary Chateau Marmont, a 1927 Norman castle whose clientele have included Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Warren Beatty, and most notoriously, John Belushi, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884313554Author Zoltan SulkowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 413Imprint Whitehorse PressPublisher Whitehorse Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439146965Author Benoit Denizet-LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

The continuation of the journey on horseback through the west Ireland described in Connemara Mollie. With her replacement pony, Peggy, the author travels from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, south down the coast of Co. Cork, before turning inland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307947444Author Oliver SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524593179Author Paddy RooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by her great great great grandfather. Dickens is usually...

**Society of American Travel Writers Foundation GOLD Award Winner** For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and giant skyscrapers, A Geek in China is a hip, smart and concise guide to the Middle Kingdom.Packed with photographs and short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306222Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 213g

Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool with The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. A metaphysical journalist in search of echoes rather than analogies, hints as opposed to verities, Kociejowski discovers once again...

This book paints the story of a Western artist’s discovery of authentic Mexico, encapsulating a journey away from narrow observations of the country’s stereotypes- black and white films, cactus’, cartels, and the jumping bean- towards a greater...

Let's face it, there is only one Ponty. Pontypridd: birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem, and home to what was once the most famous bridge in the world. With their penchant for gossip and addiction to frothy coffee and chips, Ponty...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328592781Author Paul TherouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

The central concern of this study is the basic question: what does it mean to travel? In order to understand this query, Hafizi places the discourse on travel within an economical framework and distinguishes between two interdependent forms: a restricted...

The phrase "an animal a thousand miles miles long," attributed to Aristotle, refers to a sprawling body that cannot be seen in its entirety from a single angle, a thing too vast and complicated to be knowable as a whole. For Leath Tonino, the...