Essays & Travelogues

**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019** 'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140017151Author Elspeth HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 207g

Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes,...

Nowadays, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the mouse, tap the screen, flick the channel and it's on to the next thing. But Dave Gorman thinks it's...

In villages unseen by outsiders since before the revolution, Phillip Marsden encounters men and women of courage, dazed by the century's turbulence. He meets such figures as the Yezidi Sheikh of Sheikhs, Pushkin the wandering doctor and an exiled...

This is the author's account of his south-to-north journey through Wales, starting in Cardiff. Leaving the outskirts of the capital with backpack and map, he followed a route up into the Valleys, through deserted coalmines, to the Black Mountains and...

After ten years in New Zealand, Joe Bennett asked himself what on earth he was doing there. Other than his dogs, what was it about these two small islands on the edge of the world that had kept him - an otherwise restless traveller - for really much...

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Have you ever walked into a half-empty restaurant in France, only to be told that it's complet? Attempted to say "merci beaucoup" and accidentally complimented someone on their cute backside? Been taken to what you've been assured is the...

This upbeat nitty-gritty memoir, based on the author's 2001 trail journal, chronicles one man's hike the whole length of the Appalachian Trail, beginning just north of Atlanta and finishing six months later in Maine. The journey included adventures with...

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; In UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the...

Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is...

Myriad wonderful characters populate the pages of Anne Mustoe's fascinating book as she pedals along three very different, but equally evocative, roads - the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Adriatic, the Santa Fe Trail from the Missouri River to New...

James Cameron was no stranger to India when he travelled there with his wife in 1972. His work as journalist and his new family brought him a closer understanding of the country he already loved. He also met new people, travelled to unfamilar areas and...

What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection? What did Hester Stanhope and Gertrude...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872876566Author Reg ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SETTLE PRESSPublisher SETTLE PRESS

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380188010Author Ajit HarisinghaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Bibliophile South AsiaPublisher Bibliophile South Asia

Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual perspectives. Unique locations, hidden corners and unusual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699640Author Matthew BaylisFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Travel writer Jim Perrin is a regular contributor to "The Great Outdoors", "Climber" and "The Daily Telegraph". This volume collects the best of his recent work and covers venues as far apart as Garhwal and Montana,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903070253Author Jonathan BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint TravellersEye LtdPublisher Eye BooksWeight(grams) 297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903070079Author Gail HaddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TravellersEye LtdPublisher Eye BooksWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993364303Author Ben AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Not Bad BooksPublisher Not Bad Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956430533Author Graham FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Shuvvy PressPublisher Shuvvy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952190851Author Mike McQueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Peak PublishingPublisher Wild Country Press

A mountaineering yearbook from the Alpine Club, including articles, expedition reports, book reviews, obituaries, memoirs, geography and history.Book InformationISBN 9780948153761Author Stephen GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Ernest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948153709Author Ed DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Ernest PressPublisher Ernest Press

This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The introduction discusses Forster's career. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904166122Author Ceri StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Dreamstar BooksPublisher Write Word Publishing

In this stunning and inspiring guide, Kate Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society, takes you on a wild journey across Britain, braving the elements to experience first-hand some of the most awe-inspiring corners of the landscape. From waterfalls...

Christopher Howse has spent more than two decades exploring Spain. For him, its centuries-old cathedrals, monasteries and shrines demand pilgrimage more than tourism. In a journey across the Castilian interior he follows in the footsteps of El Cid and St...

An eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain's railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation's stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea...

Isobel and Lou moved to Montalcino and became Isabella and Luigi ten years ago and they have now been embraced by the locals and immersed in their antiquated customs and age-old feuds. In BEL VINO Isabella takes the reader on a winding journey to...

When Isobel Dusi visited Italy with her Australian husband Lou, little did they imagine that life would change forever. But, utterly besotted with the fragrant warmth and good-natured conviviality of Southern Tuscany, they decided to sell up their lives...

PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest? Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds? Why Parisian men feel compelled to pee in the street? How...

When you've broken 25 of the USA's most absurd laws, what do you do next? If you're Rich Smith, you return to the scene of the crime, and then: attend the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, which includes such treats as the Hobo bake sale, a giant...

Instead of scaling the Himalayas, trekking across the Antarctic or traipsing through the Brazilian rainforest, Robbie Coltrane has set himself a uniquely British challenge. Armed with a map, a classic car and a sense of adventure, he'll be exploring...

Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. Even today it remains a country little understood by the West. But as a resurgent world power, with an energy-rich economy, we ignore Russia at our peril. In...