Essays & Travelogues

Ever since Paul Theroux embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing. This is truer than ever in the twenty-first century. As the environmental implications of relentless...

The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places...

England's views are remarkable for their beauty and variety. With his usual insight and authority, bestselling author Simon Jenkins picks one hundred of the very best from the white cliffs of Dover to Hadrian's Wall -- and explains the fascinating...

A rolling stone may gather no moss, but it d oes gather some funny stories. Read about Nigel Barley takin g a monkey to the movies in Cameroon, Donna Marazzo trying t o use a high-tech Italian toilet, and Richard Sterling eatin g fried bugs in Burma...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722596Author Richard CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843235699Author Jamie OwenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC...

In her mid-thirties Karen has it all: a career as a fashion editor, a handsome boyfriend, a fab flat in west London and an array of gorgeous shoes. But when her `plus one' leaves, she wonders if there is more to life than high fashion. So, she hangs up...

Life is never simple for PR consultant Anna Nicholas as she attempts to cut loose her ties with London for a more manana existence in rural Mallorca with her family. Despite nearing her dream to open a cattery, she is thrown off course by the abduction...

'It was time, the editor told me, for a more modern approach to Germany... The three of us were the backbone of the British press corps. No cliche about Germany left the country without us having given it our seal of approval.' Laugh-out-loud funny, this...

Autumn has arrived for the Kerrs on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca...The year's third season, 'winter spring', finds Peter, under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife Ellie, struggling to shake off the relaxed Spanish tranquiloness that...

Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca's Mayoral. However, even after the trials, tribulations...

With an Introduction and Notes by Bernard Waites, The Open University. In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels...

'If you fall far enough, it's hard to know when you hit bottom. The air gets sucked out of you on the way down.' This is the inspirational story of an incredibly determined sailor refusing to give up his dream in the face of massive odds. Just as he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524593179Author Paddy RooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain. Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The...

Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both...

For hundred of years this sentence has tantalized and inspired Europeans. Jonathan Raban followed in the steps of Hector St John de Crevecoeur -- Mr Heartbreak -- and several million other emigrants to discover America and the immigrant experience afresh...

In the early 80s Colin Thubron wrote a bestselling book about his travels around the Soviet Union in an old Morris Minor. In the late 90s, post Soviet Union, he decided to explore Siberia - this time by truck, by bus, by boat. The result is a wonderfully...

Benjamin Zephaniah decides he has had enough of London. So he takes off to China, specifically to Shaolin Temple, the spiritual home of martial arts and kung fu. Benjamin wants to take on an instructor who will teach him more about kung fu. But finding a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513219110Author Washington IrvingFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103303Author Rc ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 272g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669865278Author Pizarro LovelaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620068915Author Daniel E Van TasselFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Sunbury Press, Inc.Publisher Sunbury Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412001335Author John CockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford Publishing

After Hurricane Katrina laid bare the fragility and environmental peril of South Louisiana, author Ian McNulty set out on a series of daytrips to delve into the area's diverse cultural landscapes. He explored communities staked up and down the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596058231Author Robert Louis StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420962710Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241325497Author Thomas NewbiggingFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596054264Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543748604Author Jim CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing SingaporeWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669872306Author Pat ListonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783750410329Author Michael SchildmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate...