Essays & Travelogues

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If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007162130Author Pete McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 125g

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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.AwardsRunner-up for Discover Great New Writers (Nonfiction) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780446698894Author Eric WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Warner Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119371Author Dan MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352420Author Levison WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781681377063Author Anna BadkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992767167Author Barrie MahoneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint The Canary Islander PublishingPublisher The Canary Islander Publishing

In 2008, the Chinese government cracked down on protests throughout Tibet, and journalist Amy Yee found herself covering a press conference with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his exile home in India. She never imagined a personal encounter with the...

BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for...

If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922634764Author Washington IrvingFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 567g

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 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 9780985639808Author Jon BreakfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Key West PressPublisher Key West PressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904881803Author Laura J. StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Summertime PublishingPublisher Summertime PublishingWeight(grams) 341g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671779979Author Mary Lee SettleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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Istanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988858503Author Terry TarnoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Avian PressPublisher Avian PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912615698Author Emma DespresFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Emma DespresPublisher Emma DespresWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934161695Author John McKinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Olympus PressPublisher Olympus PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604512Author Lesley ChoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

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)...

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 9780679744788Author Patricia StoraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 339gDimensions(mm) 207mm *...

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...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with numerous personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings. Both an...

In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031030Author Pico IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604673Author Michael SchauchFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030873Author Julian BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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...

In this unique book, part eulogy, part history, part travelogue, Charlie English goes in search of the best snow on the planet. Along the way he explains the extraordinary hold this commonplace phenomenon has over us, and reveals the ongoing drama of our...