Essays & Travelogues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394758374Author Tim CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948885Author William DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 336g

The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by...

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favourite city: Austin. Maybe you want to know where to find President Bush's favourite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of Willie Nelson's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307885944Author Salma AbdelnourFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

There is more than a slight malaise in the air these days about French food and cooking. While the rest of the world delights in the intricacies of molecular gastronomy and even Britain is revelling in a culinary renaissance, in France the years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985639846Author Jon BreakfieldFormat PaperbackImprint Key West PressPublisher Key West PressWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780030234Author Norman MagowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Indepenpress Publishing LtdPublisher Indepenpress Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409246268Author John ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409246268Author John ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

This keepsake album is the freshest collection of images published in many years savoring the many facets of New York. Some intimate and detailed, others wide-angled, these photographs explore the grand chaotic serendipity that makes New York so vibrant...

Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa.Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. This is his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578894454Author Janine HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Rivette PressPublisher Rivette PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ...

1955, Kenya. A group of four acquaintances set out to drive from Nairobi to London, via the Sahara desert, in a 8 horse-power Morris Traveller. Under the leadership of Alan Cooper, a down-on-his-luck farmer, the group was made up of a worldly field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776871Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071113Author Jan GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528984683Author R. Neville Tate OBEFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'Fantastic debut' Time Out 5-Star Review 'Its randomness is its joy' The Independent 'A picaresque travelogue about chasing an idea through down-home modern America.' The Times What do you do if you want to get underneath the skin of a country, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602641860Author Adrian ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams)...

This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, water-logged village. Whether you already have a raging case of Venetophilia or are among the fifteen million people who yearly put themselves in danger of contracting it, here...

In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (c. 64 BCE c. 25 CE) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate countries. Geography is a vital source for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834375Author Washington IrvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers' gem of East Asia. For seventeen years, journalist, teacher, and coach Mark Dake has called South Korea home. Now, with his longtime Korean friend Heju, he sets out on a four-month,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037248Author Rebecca SolnitFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 136mm...

A lyrical travelogue charting Tomas Espedal's journeys to and ruminations around the world, from his native Norway to Istanbul and beyond. "Why travel?" asks Tomas Espedal in Tramp, "Why not just stay at home, in your room, in your house, in the place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061256769Author William T VollmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

In this breathtaking travel memoir and adventure guide, the legendary founder of the world's premier luxury travel company, Abercrombie & Kent, takes readers on a whirlwind tour around the globe, sharing his best-kept secrets and the story of his success...

From the originator of the bestselling HIP Hotels series comes a book that will once again revolutionize our approach to travel. Amazing Places Cost Nothing is a call to arms for a return to the old-fashioned adventure of authentic travel, in an age in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187441Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 197mm...

Headstones are sliding earthwards. An urban fox forages for slugs. A jogger disappears into a forest of sycamores as high-rise blocks glister with the last of the sun. Follow Chris McCabe into the nocturnal world of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in search...

"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957585126Author Frank KusyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grinning Bandit BooksPublisher Grinning Bandit BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780030241Author Norman MagowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Indepenpress Publishing LtdPublisher Indepenpress Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385486477Author Robert J. HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385486477Author Robert J. HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell...

Though much has been written about the political implications of the religious revival which has engulfed America in recent years, a question remains unanswered: what pushes its people into 'declaring for Jesus'?Douglas Kennedy spent a long hot summer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605816Author Lisa DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books