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Ways Of Escape by Graham Greene 9780099282594 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.41With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last... -
Ways Of Escape by Graham Greene
RRP: £10.99£7.77With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last... -
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
RRP: £10.99£7.77'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with... -
Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor' Wall Street JournalWatermark is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice... -
Bread And Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia by Tony Anderson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they shared a common mountain culture, and to test the old idea of... -
A Search In Secret India: The classic work on seeking a guru by Paul Brunton 9781844130436
RRP: £12.99£9.09'He found many marvelous things...But now and then a man of real spirituality set his feet on the way that finally led him to what he had looked and hoped for.' New York Times Book Review The late Paul Brunton was one of the twentieth century's... -
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language by Dianne Hales 9780767927703
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767927703Author Dianne HalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Spanish Steps by Tim Moore
RRP: £12.99£9.09Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.Being larger than a cat,... -
Alexis De Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835 by Emmet Larkin 9780813207193
RRP: £14.95£13.91Alexis de Tocqueville visited Ireland in the company of his good friend Gustave de Beaumont in July and August of 1835. At the time of his visit, Tocqueville had just acquired an international reputation with the publication of the first two volumes of... -
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova 9781783783205
RRP: £9.99£6.70Winner of the the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018 Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the 2017 Highland Book Prize Winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017 ... -
Congo by David van Reybrouck
RRP: £14.99£9.70FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY 'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world's most critical failed... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: £12.99£9.09The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of... -
Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99£7.77"Am I giving the impression that I don't like the Veneto? It's not true. I love it. But like any place that's become home I hate it too."How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first... -
My Twenty-Five Years In Provence by Peter Mayle
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101974285Author Peter MayleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Hidden Places: An Inspired Traveller's Guide by Sarah Baxter
RRP: £14.99£9.26Wander off the beaten track to uncover the world's most secret destinations through insightful text and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations: discover an ancient gateway to the Mayan underworld, a mysterious underwater monument sunken off the Ryukyu... -
The Lost Heart Of Asia by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover Colin Thubron's journey through central asia in the wake of the fall of the iron curtain.Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling... -
All At Sea: One man. One bathtub. One very bad idea. by Tim FitzHigham
RRP: £9.99£7.11All At Sea is a celebration of the epic absurd, an attempt to explain just how out of hand things can become from a very simple starting point. The book follows the author's death-defying 200-mile journey in his antique Thomas Crapper bath - not just... -
Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers by Jim Rogers 9780471495529
RRP: £13.99£9.60This book is about the author's amazing trip across six continents and the world economy and society. It discusses who's sinking and who's swimming, which countries are on the rise and which are collapsing, where you can make a million and where you... -
1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting
RRP: £18.99£16.51A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORT LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing' The Telegraph '[a] fascinating and often touching book... Wonderful' The Times ... -
The Bone Cave: A Journey through Myth and Memory by Dougie Strang 9781780278353
RRP: £14.99£9.80This is a book about stories - old stories of people and place, and of the more-than-human world. A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they're set... -
The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook
RRP: £12.99£9.49Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the... -
Midnight In Sicily by Peter Robb
RRP: £10.99£7.77Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, for... -
The Last Days of the Bus Club by Chris Stewart
RRP: £9.99£7.40It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloee is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero we... -
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart
RRP: £9.99£6.85Chris Stewart's sea-faring 'prequel' to Driving Over Lemons was launched into the hardback bestseller list in May, where it's been bobbing about happily ever since. Sort of Books plan to make this paperback plain sailing too. It will be published in the... -
Eurydice Street: A Place In Athens by Sofka Zinovieff
RRP: £8.99£6.08Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny and inquiring account of her... -
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
RRP: £9.99£7.27Colm Toibin's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities - a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the... -
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani 9780006550716
RRP: £12.99£8.48Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs... -
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: £10.99£7.40This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus... -
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux 9780141189147
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala... -
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs,... -
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
RRP: £27.99£20.01Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region. A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates,... -
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky 9780571237814 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.53When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky... -
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
RRP: £12.99£8.56When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky... -
Clarkson on Cars by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Jeremy Clarkson gets under the bonnet in Clarkson on Cars - a collection of his motoring journalism.Jeremy Clarkson has been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions on the BBC's Top Gear for twenty years.No one in the... -
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times What 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... -
Death In The Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway 9780099909101
RRP: £9.99£5.47A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and... -
Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger 9780753808580
RRP: £9.99£6.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger 9780753808580 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.17A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In... -
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps: In Search of the World's Most Hideous Beasts by Dom Joly
RRP: £10.99£7.40Dom Joly sets off round the world, but this time he's not looking to holiday in a danger zone - he's monster hunting. Ever since he was given a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World for his ninth birthday Dom has been obsessed with the world of... -
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) by Paul Carter
RRP: £9.99£6.80A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He...