Essays & Travelogues

Our memories define our lives. So we owe it ourselves to create as many wonderful memories as we can. Travel is great at creating memories and travel adventures create the most 'memorable' of memories. As they say: 'travel is the only thing we pay...

Whether it is in Madrid's cafe s or in Barcelona's fish markets, van den Brinks takes you on a trip through Spain where tasting and smelling are the key occupations. You will see the shop windows in Madrid displaying pig's trotters, the famous Serrano...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451695021Author Bruce WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

With no apparent sense of humour and their excessive speed when securing sunloungers, the German people and their country have had a terrible reputation among the British since time immemorial (or 1914). So, going where very few travel-writers and...

My great grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do...

My great grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911755Author Don ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

For Stephen Smith, author of UNDERGROUND LONDON, beneath the dales and downs of England's green and pleasant land there exists another country, its equal in beauty and fascination. On his underworld odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh...

Seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling and hearing - if you join Rafik Schami and his sister Marie Fadel on a stroll through their native Damascus, you will discover this Queen of the Orient with all your senses.Book InformationISBN 9781906598297Author Rafik...

Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his wife, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made of reeds. Inspired by the great Thor Heyerdahl, Phil Buck had...

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of...

An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two-first by the Iron Curtain and then by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692198964Author Michelle DamianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Michelle DamianiPublisher Michelle DamianiWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993199394Author Graham FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Little m PressPublisher Little m Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906558062Author Nick GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 197g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602063761Author Norman DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Karen Gershowitz is officially a travel addict—one with more than ninety countries under her belt. In these engaging stories, she brings readers along as her companions as she explores, laughs, and marvels at the richness of other cultures. Whether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945397519Author Ed FerrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142422571Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Bernard Ollivier pushes onward in his attempt to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Great Silk Road."A gripping account. More than just a travel story-this is a quest for the Other."-Alexis Liebaert, L'Evenement Picking up where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936034065Author Susan AlcornFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Shepherd Canyon BooksPublisher Shepherd Canyon BooksWeight(grams) 340g

In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide. Infamous for his bombastic temper and un-PC wisecracks, he is waging a brutal drug war that has killed more than 12,000 people so far. Over the last nine years,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982477725Author Karolina MagdalenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Molecule of HappinessPublisher Molecule of HappinessWeight(grams)...

The world feels increasingly volatile and polarised. Millions of people are displaced or alienated by abuses of power. Our lives are cluttered, stressful and unsatisfying. Our sense of who we are and where we belong is more fragile than ever. ...

In the summer of 2022, feeling disillusioned with working life in London and in search of an outdoor challenge, Matthew Bowmer set off alone to walk the Grande Randonnee 10, a 900-kilometre footpath through the French Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956121035Author Shirley BillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Bosun-PublicationsPublisher Bosun-Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082563Author Adam GopnikFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988656390Author John C WilhelmssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Chaos to Order PublishingPublisher Chaos to Order PublishingWeight(grams) 191g

Exactly half a century old, this timeless illustrated classic artfully captures the 'Madmen' era New York City through a distinctive and charming mid-century aesthetic. The unique essence of New York City was never more poetically celebrated than in...

In the revised edition of this classic collection, thirty writers share their own stories of loving and leaving New York, capturing the mesmerizing allure the city has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits. Their essays often begin as love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893995Author Savi MunjalFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 180mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789381626108Author Rishad Saam MehtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tranquebar PressPublisher Westland Publications LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250017703Author Michael CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

"What's the strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced?" Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question...

23 Sweet FAs records Andy's adventure through Europe, Russia, Iran, India, the Himalayas and the Far East. He encountered a warm welcome from the president of FIFA, witnessed the titanic clash of Iran v Iraq, took tea in the home of the Dalai Lama,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995602755Author Barrie MahoneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint The Canary Islander PublishingPublisher The Canary Islander PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767905763Author Robert Young PeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 349g

Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves's insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she...

Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves's insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786129925Author Conor MacNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers