Essays & Travelogues

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937949385Author Bishu PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint BOOKS HIMALAYAPublisher BOOKS HIMALAYA

Charles Darwin joined HMS Beagle when he was just 22 at the request of Captain FitzRoy, who wanted to have a naturalist on board. The ship set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 and returned nearly five years later on 2 October 1836. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299324841Author John HildebrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760901Author Lei DianshengFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121473Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486842134Author George KennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398446991Author Martin KyrleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970913340Author Matthew Mills StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Odysseus BooksPublisher Odysseus BooksWeight(grams) 440g

How to Clean a Fish describes an extended family stay in Portugal, full of food, adventure, and the search for home. Offered the opportunity to live in Costa da Caparica for an extended period, Esmeralda Cabral jumped at the chance to return to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386906892Author Goutam, Michael Ghose, HaggiagFormat HardbackImprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi Books

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171922147Author Dr. Ashish GuptaFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint DattsonsPublisher Dattsons

Light-hearted and moving story of the beautiful friendship between John Fleming and Hugh Honour, the last great British eccentrics, and Susanna Johnston, centring around the Villa Marchio in Tuscany where they had made their lifeReviews`The last in a...

This book is made up of twelve articles, sometimes brilliant but always interesting, contributed in honour of the seventieth birthday of John A. Wilson by his students and colleagues of the Oriental Institute. Contents: Zur Übersetzung der Präpositionen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398467804Author Todd CrowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925815603Author Julie SpriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 140g

The first ever travel book showing you how to travel using your intuition - your best ever travel guide. You don't need money to experience the wonder of the world, only time. Even a free afternoon is enough to propel you along the silver path of your...

The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Covering much of southwestern Wisconsin, its contours were deeply carved from bedrock, not by ice but by many...

Full of humor, profundity, and obsession, these are tales of writers on peregrine paths. Some set out in search of legends or artistic inspiration; others seek spiritual epiphany or fulfillment of a promise. Their journeys lead them variously to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398441545Author Patti TrickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne Paquet delves into the social history of travel. Now a...

Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison seek to understand...

In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as vital links in the establishment of new trade routes to the African interior. In...

In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as vital links in the establishment of new trade routes to the African interior. In...

Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin James Brant, the British Consul at Erzeroum. Holmes provides a wonderfully intimate portrait of the...

The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. Contributors examine how, in an...

The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. Contributors examine how, in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533205Author Rachel PolonskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

White Savages in the South Seas is a book about Polynesia after the cruise ships have sailed, the jet has flown off into the sunset and the maitai curtain has droppeed on a dream that was more performance than reality.Writing with zest, humor and great...

The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild...

"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the TreeIn the tradition of Oliver...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632280190Author Phil CousineauFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva EditionsWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528915687Author Fil BufaloFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

When Sean Mallen finally landed his dream job, it fell on him like a ton of bricks. Not unlike the plaster in his crappy, overpriced London flat. The veteran journalist was ecstatic when he unexpectedly got the chance he'd always craved: to be a...

From the author of Letters of Transit, Reading the Rails, and Appalachia Spring comes this delightful account of a journey across the People's Republic of China, in search of the men who shaped its modern history. Along the way Matthew Stevenson visits...

Because Japan , is a truly unabashed account of the less publicised side of life in Tokyo for a 'foreigner'. The book offers a witty, vivid and honest insight into the daily life of a British Expat over the course of two years. The author narrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944990Author Cedric GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 5mm

Neon South is an off-the-beaten-path Latin American travel narrative that unfolds like a novel, shadowing locals all too aware of how outside influences, from colonialism to globalism, have changed their lives. From the drug cartel-controlled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618658947Author Paul TherouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...