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Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
RRP: $11.60$8.32'For God's sake look after our people' Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage... -
The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories by Patrick Baker
RRP: $12.89$8.64Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards - Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones... -
Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia by Penelope Chetwode 9781906011680
RRP: $16.76$11.09Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts and Chetwode's compelling account - warm,... -
Foodie City Breaks: Europe: 25 Cities, 250 Essential Eating Experiences by Richard Mellor
RRP: $12.89$9.38A gourmet, bite-sized guide to 25 of the best cities in Europe for foodies to visit. Foodie City Breaks: Europe is a gourmet, bite-sized guide to 25 of the best cities in Europe for foodies to visit. Want to know the best brunch spot in Berlin, where... -
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
RRP: $14.18$10.02WINNER: 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... -
Run Britain: My World Record-Breaking Adventure to Run Every Mile of the British Coastline by Nick Butter
RRP: $21.92$15.84In the spring of 2021, as the UK's latest pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Nick Butter set out from the Eden Project to become the fastest person to cover every mile of Britain's mainland coastline on foot.Battling the most extreme winds Britain had seen... -
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker 9780008499211
RRP: $14.18$9.35A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is a... -
Moods of Future Joys by Alastair Humphreys
RRP: $10.31$7.47This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the... -
The Gentle Art of Tramping by Stephen Graham
RRP: $16.76$11.53'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair Humphreys First published in 1926, The Gentle Art of Tramping is as relevant now as then. Tramping is an approach: to nature, to humankind, to nations, to beauty, to life itself. This lost classic is a breath of... -
Roads To Santiago by Cees Nooteboom 9781860464195 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovered Spain and reveals his obsession for a country he has... -
Roads To Santiago by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: $16.76$11.73A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovered Spain and reveals his obsession for a country he has... -
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: $14.18$9.35Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the... -
The Great North Road: London to Edinburgh - 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway by Steve Silk 9781800070493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$3.11The Great North Road is Britain's Route 66 - we've just forgotten how to sing its praises In 1921, Britain's most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist - on paper at least. Stretching from London to Edinburgh, the old road was... -
The Great North Road: London to Edinburgh - 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway by Steve Silk
RRP: $14.18$9.55The Great North Road is Britain's Route 66 - we've just forgotten how to sing its praises In 1921, Britain's most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist - on paper at least. Stretching from London to Edinburgh, the old road was... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk
RRP: $14.18$9.44When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk's sharp... -
If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Clarkson is back with a brand new book of hilarious stories and observations about our gone-wrong world.___________In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on... -
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
RRP: $14.18$9.35A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time,... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: $14.18$10.02Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling... -
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss
RRP: $12.89$8.64'One of the most enjoyable travel books I've read' The Times Acclaimed novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children in the year the volcano erupted At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss... -
Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Buford
RRP: $12.89$8.41From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.'A romping, chomping, savoury tour de force... Hilarious' Simon SchamaWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the... -
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe by Tom Chesshyre
RRP: $12.89$8.77Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by... -
My 1001 Nights: Tales and Adventures from Morocco by Alice Morrison 9781471174278
RRP: $12.89$8.27TV presenter, writer and adventurer Alice Morrison gives her own unique and personal insight into Morocco, the place she's made her home. When Alice Morrison headed out to Morocco, it was to take on one of the most daunting challenges: to run in the... -
Mountain Guru: The Life of Doug Scott by Catherine Moorehead 9781780278315
RRP: $32.25$21.92Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to New... -
The Travels by Marco Polo
RRP: $24.50$18.07A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271... -
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart
RRP: $12.89$8.84Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. A Parrot in the Pepper... -
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $25.80$17.72A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 What kind of country is England today? ... -
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground by Mark Mason
RRP: $14.18$10.02The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way.In a story packed with historical trivia,... -
A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland by Ben Aitken
RRP: $14.18$9.44A TIMES BESTSELLER'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIOWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.Not many Brits... -
The Silence of the Stands: Stories from Football's Lost Season by Daniel Gray
RRP: $16.76$12.63LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant ... the game's answer to A Journal of... -
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham
RRP: $12.89$8.77This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge... -
Under The Tuscan Sun: Anniversary Edition by Frances Mayes 9780857503589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$7.26Discover the New York Times bestseller that inspired the film. The perfect read for anyone seeking an escape to the Italian countryside.When Frances Mayes - poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - buys an abandoned villa in Tuscany, she has no idea of the... -
Under The Tuscan Sun: Anniversary Edition by Frances Mayes
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover the New York Times bestseller that inspired the film. The perfect read for anyone seeking an escape to the Italian countryside.When Frances Mayes - poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - buys an abandoned villa in Tuscany, she has no idea of the... -
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812992182Author Rolf PottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910
RRP: $14.18$10.02Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the... -
The Gastronomical Me by M. F. K. Fisher 9781907970993
RRP: $12.89$8.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970993Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 396g -
A Traveller In Rome by H. Morton 9780306811319
$23.67H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome,the fabled era of La Dolce Vita,remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed and... -
Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully... -
The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: $25.80$17.88"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy... -
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne 9780571241033 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$3.42'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' Sephen Dalton, The Times 'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' Observer David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of...