Essays & Travelogues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720205Author Andrew TodhunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198g

In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared...

Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water". It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up...

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This first hand account of their emotional journey to her father's birthplace provides a beautifully written and very readable account of the geography, history, legend and pure contradiction of Iceland and her people's traditions and modern way of life...

'A fizzingly entertaining and enlightening book' Daily Telegraph'Mesmerising' Geographical Magazine'A fascinating delve into uncharted, forgotten lost places. But it's not just a trivia-tastic anthology of remote destinations but a nifty piece of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035853113Author Catherine BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035853106Author Catherine BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history. Blending his recreation of the military campaign with contemporary testimony and an account of his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513207469Author Jerome K JeromeFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

The very aptly named Mr Pong had the kind of breath that could stun at over ten meters... This wasn't just bad - there was something rotten down there. Something had crawled in and died. Gunter howled with laughter as he saw the look of horror on my face...

In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating...

French Kisses is the final book in the Mill of the Flea series. Or is it? After thirteen years of small adventures, farcical exploits and near-catastrophe in their adopted homeland, the author and his wife are on the brink. The bank is pressing for...

Every year 1000's compete to win the RGS/BBC Journey of a lifetime award and fulfil their travel dreams. Andy Home's dream would be most people's nightmare. Andy went to Siberia, to the Russian industrial mining city of Norilsk where temperatures drop to...

The journeys in this book are tales of adventure on foot and by canoe through some of the last wild places in Scotland. Each journey is haunted by the ghost of another writer - Neil Gunn, Iain Thomson, Rowena Farre - who has left behind the trace of his...

Award-winning food writer Stefan Gates has traveled the world to investigate how people cook, eat and survive in extreme conditions for the acclaimed BBC television series "Cooking in the Danger Zone". He drank radioactive wine with babushkas...

Dan Cruickshank's quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man's achievements. It will also be the story of his travels, and who and what he meets along the way. Whether standing before the solemn heads of Easter Island,...

'An entertaining book, written with Fort's characteristic conversational style... A real pleasure to read' - BBC Countryfile 'Charming...Mr Fort doesn't only focus on the visually delightful in village life, he tells it as it is - without any firm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955366604Author Mac PetrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mac PetriePublisher Mac Petrie

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955752902Author Owen O'LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Word of Mouth Travels LtdPublisher Word of Mouth Travels Ltd

Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family's been attacked by a donkey, had a...

'A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail The A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English motoring and the road of choice to the West Country...

This is an account of three months of flight in a vintage 1942 Stearman bi-plane. Travelling across 48 continental United States, Coonts flies like the legendary barnstormers, painting a picture of the astonishing panorama of landscapes beneath him, from...

Brilliant Australian travel writer Tony Perrottet traces the Mediterranean itinerary of the world's first tourists - the ancient Romans - with the help of an archaic guidebook from the era. Tony's entertaining narrative is combined with a witty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898801276Author Michael PalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint University of Aberdeen Centre for Russian,East & Central European StudiesPublisher...

When poet and biographer Grevel Lindop takes up salsa dancing in rainy Manchester, all he has are size 12 feet and excruciating adolescent memories of ballroom dancing lessons. But salsa has a way of getting into your blood. Intense and intimate, sexy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906768874Author Stanley JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Stacey InternationalPublisher Stacey International

"The Longest Climb" is the utterly compelling account of Dominic Faulkner's expedition from the Dead Sea to the peak of Everest. Dominic and his team, EverestMax, were the first ever to make this journey - a dangerous one, both politically and...

In describing his return to Peloponnesia, Levi draws on both its ancient and its recent past, and discusses the captivating problems of archaeology. The book also provides insights into the author himself - as poet, biographer, traveller and scholar.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852603656Author Hamish M. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Patrick Stephens LtdPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954531607Format PaperbackPage Count 212Weight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786262953Author Liv ArnesenFormat HardbackPage Count 365Imprint Thorndike PressPublisher Thorndike PressWeight(grams) 544g

Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in "Travels in West Africa". In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of...

In his most ambitious journey ever, Heat-Moon and his companion set off aboard a small boat from the Atlantic at New York harbour in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria. Covering some 5000 watery miles, more than any other river traveller has ever...

There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most sterile desert on earth (the Taklamakan) and the strife-torn mountain valleys of...

In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but also...

Sue Arnold returns to Burma and the origins of her grandparents. This account of her travels makes an exotic detective story about a now seldom visited part of the world.Book InformationISBN 9780340660058Author Sue ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Cherry Mosteshar was born in Iran, but has been resident in Britain since early childhood. This book tells of her return to Tehran as a correspondent for "The Independent" and "The Economist". However, she found that she was as much an exile in her own...

As featured in the Channel 4 series, Levin describes his travels from the source of the Rhine in the Alps to the Hook of Holland and explores its history, art and cuisine. His other travel books are "Enthusiasms", "Conducted Tour",...

Enchanted and intrigued by Budapest, the author sketches it with words: its bridges, people, language, literature, history and food. At the turning point in his life he reflects upon a past in which he embraced both fascism and communism. Throughout this...