Essays & Travelogues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994058Author John AitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 149mm * 15mm

Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, THE INNOCENTS ABROAD (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's perspective was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974874Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244g

While an anarchist group blows up the equestrian statue of General Gough in Dublin's Phoenix Park during the 1950s, the narrator recalls his mother's Kiplingesque tales of childhood in India, recreating the atmosphere and events of the Irish abroad in...

In recent years, Ireland has enjoyed a newfound prosperity as Europe's most affluent nation. But tucked away in a far corner of the so-called "Celtic Tiger," that other enduring and authentic country-that small, hidden place of simple magic and...

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of The Canterbury Tales might...

*** A MUST READ FOR TRAVELERS TO CROATIA *** Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the lives of three generations of women Katarina, Zora, and Tania over the last 100 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615762531Author Nancy PetraliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Chartiers Creek PressPublisher Chartiers Creek PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408632734Author Stephen GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781578Author Richard BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors...

This, the first title in a new series, Nature Retreats, which presents the most beautifully-designed holiday homes, with stunning mountain views. Travel journalist Sebastiaan Bedaux gathered 30 of the most stylish hideouts in the world in Mountain View...

Times New Romanian provides a picture of Romania today through the individual first-person narratives of people who chose to go and make a life in this country. Each chapter a voice, each story in Times New Romanian provides readers with a look into the...

The first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century history. A...

Hazor was the largest city in Palestine in the Canaanite period and cultural and a commercial centre of some consequence in the Fertile Crescent, as well as being an important bastion of the Israelite Kingdom. Professor Yigael Yadin conducted extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476739236Author Robert MoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm...

Ken Worpole reflects on memories of friends and places he has known and loved. Through a series of letters, this book takes readers to the source of things, charting a route through four generations of family life, the political progress of the left, the...

Ken Worpole reflects on memories of friends and places he has known and loved. Through a series of letters, this book takes readers to the source of things, charting a route through four generations of family life, the political progress of the left, the...

New York is a city for lovers: In Love in New York guides the reader to the most romantic sights and destinations the city has to offer. Whether you want to watch the sun rise over the East River like Woody and Diane or enjoy a Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706134Author Tony HorwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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'The frisky Oss appeared - the dancers and drummers in a kind of shamanic trance (induced by a day of drumming, dancing and beer). They were wilder than ever; the atmosphere was positively Bacchanalian and I felt we had all become lost in a kind of...

In 1865, Lord Dufferin, a young Anglo-Irish peer, commissioned the schooner "Foam" and sailed to the Arctic. The lively style and humour of his account of the voyage won instant success and the book became an Victorian bestseller.Book InformationISBN...

"Beautifully written and astutely observed. This is a marvelous book."-Washington Post"For fans of The Perfect Storm, In the Heart of the Sea, and Bill Bryson on his sassiest days."-Afar Travel Magazine and GuideAboard a sinking cruise ship, a journalist...

J.H. Gray, a young and idealistic Anglican missionary, has been running a Theological College in Madras for five years. In September 1842 he sets off on a three-month trip round south India by palanquin with a team of bearers. They travel often by night...

Well known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. Buckley Jr. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Getting About gathers more than one hundred of his articles about journeys by boat, train, or plane, representing a...

For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep alleys, flower gardens, and forested...

Lying some thirty miles off the Dalmatian coast, the Croatian island of Vis has a long and dramatic history bound up with various European empires, from Ancient Greece and Rome through the Venetian Republic and Austria-Hungary to fascist Italy and Nazi...

Mongolia is a vast country located between Siberia and China, and little-known to outsiders. As Mongolia had long been under Soviet rule, it was inaccessible to Westerners. That was until 1990, when Stephen J. Bodio began planning his trip.As a boy,...

Great for fans of: Suzanne Roberts’s Almost Somewhere, Juliana Buhring’s This Road I Ride.Marianne Bohr and her husband, about to turn sixty, are restless for adventure. They decide on an extended, desolate trek across the French island of Corsica—the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996237000Author Gabi YetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MeanderthalsPublisher MeanderthalsWeight(grams) 449g

From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration from their travels. They recorded their notes in...

From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration from their travels. They recorded their notes in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750062Author William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 302gDimensions(mm)...

The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956. He stayed 20 months and during...

`Blowing Down The Road' documents one person's lifelong ambition to experience the sights, sounds, music, politics and people of America's Deep South and South West and how it inspired a coast-to-coast journey through 21 States and 3 time zones. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915739Author Andy GriggFormat PaperbackImprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media

What happens when a Korean-American preacher's kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a cafe in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning...

Ilija Trojanow's journey from Mumbai to Mecca is told in the tradition of the rihla, one of the oldest genres of classical Arabic literature and describes the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam. 'From the very first moment they realise that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279460Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...