Essays & Travelogues

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.

Chasing Hornbills charts Simon Fenton's further adventures in Senegal. Now a father, and expanding his business interests to include a taxi firm and a restaurant, he continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations that made Squirting Milk...

'Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.'Fredrik Sjoeberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest...

Leaving behind Thailand after the 2004 Tsunami, Ben, aged 19, made a life challenging journey without GPS or mobile phone to cross 11 countries in 8 months covering at least 16,000 miles, not including the occasional detour or missed direction. This is...

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In 1810, the orientalist scholar Charles Stewart translated and published an extraordinary travel narrative written by a Persian-speaking Indian poet and scholar named Mirza Abu Talib Khan. At the turn of the century, Abu Talib travelled from India to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lakeland Book of the Year Awards Michael Berry Prize for Guides, Walks and Places 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781904524694Author Robin BrayFormat HardbackPage...

Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and...

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...

Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis.At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded as one of India's finest writers - returned to his native India after finishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925820584Author Nathan James ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

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Following in the hallowed footsteps of Bryson, Fry and Palin, Ron Culley has produced a travel book that is at once fascinating, delightful and very funny. Whether writing about America's Route 66, the Arctic Circle, European rail journeys, Africa's...

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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) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Travel writing is a genre monopolised by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic", it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references. This...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785430602Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint WanderlustPublisher WanderlustWeight(grams) 136g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450776Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 868Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm)...

Drawn by the mysterious mount Etna, Thomas Meyer sets off on a quest to discover the secrets of the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Stromboli. The Sicilian region is not only famous for the drama of its live volcanoes, but also for its associations...

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...

Robert Twigger goes to the Far East in search of the world's longest snake - 'echoes of Gerald Durrell's trips crossed with Redmond O'Hanlon's foray into the heart of Borneo . . . a fantastic book' DAILY MAILAbout to be married, Robert Twigger decides on...

This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt-where, when he was 24, Butor spent a...

"A timely and much-needed reminder that healthy living today doesn't have to be so complicated." -Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones In this insightful, full-color tour of Jamaica, Norway, Hawai'i, Japan, India, and Brazil, journalist Annie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156033749Author Jen Lin-LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Harvest PublicationsPublisher Harvest PublicationsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

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'Foreigners who spend time in Russia soon learn that there are actually two Russias - one public and the other private. The public Russia is typically cold and dark, backward and wary. The private Russia - the Russia of tea at a friend's kitchen table or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916092228Author Debra SchimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Bearsac PressPublisher Bearsac PressWeight(grams) 381g

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 9781590480380Author Magdalene M WealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Long Riders' Guild PressPublisher Long Riders' Guild PressWeight(grams) 327g

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