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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727788Author John GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439249420Author Brian LawrensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437651Author Ibn BattutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937506274Author Andrew StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Vajra PublicationsPublisher Vajra Publications

Alpine expert Kev Reynolds has spent fifty years exploring mountain landscapes and thirty writing about his experiences. Here he shares some of the high points of a full life as a wanderer and writer. Kev is the leading international authority on many...

"Since the beginning, my philosophy has been 'shoot with a camera not with a gun.'" Geoffrey Kent had nothing but an East African shilling and an old Land Rover when he pioneered the luxury tent safari business in 1962 with his parents in Nairobi. Today...

Money as a weapon. Money as revenge. Money as a substitute for sex and love. Money as status ... This intriguing and extraordinarily well-written book is cheering for those of us who aren't rich, and will go happily to our graves without ever pulling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062309969Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercer's memoir of discovery, growth, and awakening in 1978 Nepal, which was then a mysterious country to most of the world. After arriving in Nepal, Mercer, an American nurse, spent a year traveling on foot-often in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926089Author Sergio EspositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926089Author Sergio EspositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

A vividly intense and personal saga.... It stirred such powerful emotions..." -Marina Romanov, grandniece of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search for Her Father's Russia is the story of one woman's journey...

Cambridge, 1961. A group of students set off on the trip of a lifetime. Against the backdrop of the Cold War they travel through the Soviet Union to the Middle East, South Asia and on to Africa. Their mode of transport? The iconic VW Kombi. This book...

First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum set off alone from Boston in April 1895 and went on to join the ranks...

First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum set off alone from Boston in April 1895 and went on to join the ranks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527240759Author Oliver GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Sarsen PressPublisher Revilo Language Cards

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140053203Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 107mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092921Author Maggie DownsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869777Author Roz ChastFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 402g

There is no greater misunderstanding than to think that one travels alone.On this epic journey through China, Cambodia and Vietnam, political columnist Carsten Jensen travels in order to find out about the Tiananmen Square massacre, the killing fields of...

Pinballing around the major cities of the world, from where it all began in the projects of Brooklyn and the Bronx to the excessive madness of Tokyo, from the random violence of Johannesburg, to the shanty towns of Rio, Whitbread Award-winning writer...

In 2013 Sue Bathurst went to Kyrgyzstan to ride a horse in the jailoo - the nomads' mountain pastures. She fell in love with the country, sometimes described as the most beautiful country in the world, and with its people. In this book she not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992691295Author Andrew Alan SmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Andy SmartPublisher Andy SmartDimensions(mm) 216mm * 131mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719302Author Nicholas Dylan RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606994658Author Alexander TherouxFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 765g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027107Author Bill PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba and Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life and work. This book, the first full-length study on the subject, explores Hemingway's visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily,...

Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost-not yet,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578705705Author Alan E SparksFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Rainy Day Publishing IncPublisher Rainy Day Publishing IncWeight(grams) 152g

In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is Frazier's account of the city over the thirty years, a book as full of vitality and charm as the city it describes. It features...

In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is Frazier's account of the city over the thirty years, a book as full of vitality and charm as the city it describes. It features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027343Author Bill PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Thomas Pennant's first tour of Scotland started at Chester in 1769. Passing through Yorkshire and Durham he paid a brief visit to the Farne Islands in a coble - 'a hazardous species of boat' - entering Scotland at Berwick. Proceeding via Edinburgh the...

In 1977, a twenty-year-old naive American takes a break from his university studies to undertake an epic nine-thousand-mile overland journey from Munich to Kathmandu. With his camera and his journal, he records and recounts his journey, wanderings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618082483Author Lawrence MillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2010 and Nobel Prize 2006. Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570621178Author Rudolph WurlitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878972Author David CogginsFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806538Author Linh DinhFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.