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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron 9780099437222 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.84A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: $16.76$11.73A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the... -
Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes by Clive Oppenheimer 9781529351095
RRP: $32.25$18.91*As heard on DESERT ISLAND DISCS*CHOSEN AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023'If Michael Palin had been a volcanologist, this is the book he would have written... A darn good read.'LITERARY REVIEW'What the French adventurer Jacques Cousteau was to... -
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan by Dervla Murphy 9781906011666
RRP: $19.34$12.64One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas - on the Pakistan side of the disputed border with... -
The Horse Boy: A Father's Miraculous Journey to Heal His Son by Rupert Isaacson
RRP: $14.18$9.18Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken when they learned that their two-year-old son Rowan was autistic. And with each passing day, Rowan's growing isolation, his... -
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 9781784161835 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$3.91It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in... -
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
RRP: $14.18$10.02It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in... -
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
RRP: $20.63$14.98At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the Italian island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 expecting sun, sea and good food, but they were totally unprepared for the lifelong effect of this most extraordinary of Mediterranean... -
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
RRP: $14.18$10.02**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape.The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert... -
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson 9780857524201
RRP: $16.76$11.73Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of humankind, is a land of stunning landscapes,... -
The Italians by John Hooper
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an affogato' The Telegraph'This portrait of a nation is required reading for anyone heading to... -
The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd by Merryn Glover 9781846975998
RRP: $14.18$9.44Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: $19.34$14.13An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian... -
Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy by Tim Moore
RRP: $14.18$10.02A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages,... -
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: $12.89$9.17Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas. ... -
The World According to Clarkson: The World According to Clarkson Volume 1 by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything in The World According to Clarkson.Jeremy Clarkson has seen rather more of the world than most. He has, as they say, been around a bit. And as a result, he's got one or two things to tell us... -
Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat by Sarah Outen
RRP: $14.18$9.55SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling,... -
Paris by Julian Green
RRP: $11.60$8.32'The most bizarre and delicious of travel books' Observer Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on... -
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World by Jessica Vincent 9781800079960 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$7.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World by Jessica Vincent
RRP: $14.18$9.55Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century – as judged by some of the most respected travel writers in the world: Levison Wood, Monisha Rajesh,... -
Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers by Dr Chris Thorogood 9780241632628
RRP: $32.25$22.73The incredible story of one man's obsession to find and protect the world's largest flowers As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. He crafted life-size replicas in an abandoned cemetery,... -
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond by Cynthia Zarin 9781914198700 [USED COPY]
$9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198700Author Cynthia ZarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond by Cynthia Zarin 9781914198700
RRP: $9.02$6.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198700Author Cynthia ZarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 9781035038572
RRP: $14.18$9.69Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the... -
From Source to Sea: Notes from a 215-Mile Walk Along the River Thames by Tom Chesshyre
RRP: $14.18$9.55Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps.He's walking the length of the river from the Cotswolds to the North Sea - a winding journey of... -
Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths 9780141006444 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$3.26WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer... -
Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths
RRP: $14.18$10.02WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer... -
Wild about Dorset: The Nature Diary of a West Country Parish by Brian Jackman
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804690321Author Brian JackmanFormat PaperbackImprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel GuidesWeight(grams) 130g -
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Toibin
RRP: $12.89$9.38In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Toibin walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on... -
Skating To Antarctica by Jenny Diski
RRP: $14.18$9.55'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?) This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny... -
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
RRP: $14.18$10.02In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands, 'a memorial to a vanished past, a tribute to a once magnificent people'. The Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by... -
Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon
RRP: $16.76$11.73Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way RoundIn the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries... -
Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawks
RRP: $16.76$11.73'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet led to Tony Hawks having one of the most unforgettable... -
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy 9781780600673
RRP: $16.76$11.09Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From... -
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland by Alistair Moffat 9781838854386
RRP: $25.80$17.36The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the... -
The Golden Door: Letters to America by Adrian Gill
RRP: $12.89$8.77Britain's most readable journalist takes on his biggest challenge - America.Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be 'not born'. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when... -
The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World by Andy Sharp 9781786786739
RRP: $25.80$17.22This terrific book is a guide to the occult world, featuring 10 itineraries and maps of magical tours across the globe. Spanning countries and continents in pursuit of occult themes, it is meant to be pursued by the astral or armchair traveller rather... -
Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $14.18$9.55Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and... -
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
RRP: $14.18$8.35The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim...