Essays & Travelogues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137698Author Erika FatlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Christopher Nicholson's first book of nature writing is a beautiful account of an unusual obsession. In 2016 he spent August searching for the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands. His account of his solitary walk is by turns funny, fascinating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802157218Author Jim HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

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, ...

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, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983036Author Kate BettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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"Sarah Tuttle-Singer brings Jerusalem's Old City to life like no writer before her?penning a ferocious love letter that will infuriate zealots and enthrall most everybody else. . . .Ultimately a plea for Jerusalem, as she puts it, not to be 'ripped to...

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Hailed by Alistair Cooke as the 'Flaubert of the jet age', Jan Morris's ability to capture the surface and essence of a place has secured her reputation as a leading contemporary travel writer. In this collection of pieces on places as different as Las...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914277Author Ann VanderhoofFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lakeland Book of the Year Awards Michael Berry Prize for Guides, Walks and Places 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781904524694Author Robin BrayFormat HardbackPage...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312610609Author Ian FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785430619Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint WanderlustPublisher WanderlustWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent travel guide as they wander about ponderin' the peculiarities beyond their small-town front porches.Trae and Corey will take you from the smallest of small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903070697Author Christine PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Eye BooksPublisher Eye BooksWeight(grams) 318g

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In the 14th century, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure...

In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments and...

In the middle of the night on March 11, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed's Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to the Madeira School where she had been a student. Her former...

Sicily has a timeless allure, and much of what one sees there today has changed little over the centuries. With Sicily's literary greats as a guide, Keahey discerns what lies behind the soul of its inhabitants, touching on history, archaeology, food,...

With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and "dangerous savages...

An engaging look at women writing on the go-and what they tell us about female identity.As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061363504Author Michael PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g

Chasing Hornbills charts Simon Fenton's further adventures in Senegal. Now a father, and expanding his business interests to include a taxi firm and a restaurant, he continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations that made Squirting Milk...

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"Immensely illuminating and enjoyable account of a road trip along Highway 83 ...Books like [Reynold's] prove that good travel writing remains not only very much alive, but essential."--The Bookseller In Slow Road to Brownsville, David Reynolds embarks...

In 2006, "Time magazine" listed the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, as one of the 100 'leaders and revolutionaries' who are changing our world today. Yet it was only in the 1960s that the first road linking "The Kingdom of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299116Author Tuvia TenenbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 654g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957200203Author Mark SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Tinderbox PublishingPublisher Tinderbox PublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 26mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996190145Author Michael HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ragbagger PressPublisher Ragbagger PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789949901548Author Justin PetroneFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Petrone Print OUPublisher Petrone Print OUWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Travel writing is a genre monopolised by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic", it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references. This...

Following in the footsteps of John Steinbeck, Cacucci travels through endless expanses of desert, salt mountains and rows of cacti with thorns so sharp that they can impale thirsty birds... Written with humour and heart, this is an insight into an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788232524Author Con CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Get to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island-and their unusual stories and secrets-through this fascinating, intimate collection of portraits."This book beautifully describes the residents of tiny Shiraishi Island as well as telling how Amy...

Step through the iron gates of one of London's most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead.Literary investigator Chris McCabe pushes back the tangled ivy and hacks his way through the poetic history of south-east...