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Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham 9781783781904
RRP: $12.89$9.44Winner of the National Geographic Reader's Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2018 Shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year 2018 'For all the islomaniacs out there, Patrick Barkham's... -
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky
RRP: $28.38$20.15Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created her own, taking us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. Perfect maps jostle with cryptic tales... -
The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet by Sylvain Tesson
RRP: $19.34$14.64Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2019 A New York Times Best Book of 2021 'Extraordinarily beautiful... a long last loving glance at the planet.' Carl Safina, author of Becoming Wild The Art of Patience sees the renowned French adventurer and writer... -
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash
RRP: $12.89$8.86WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2021 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction' William Dalrymple 'A beautiful... -
Oz Clarke's World of Wine: Wines Grapes Vineyards by Oz Clarke 9781910904961
RRP: $51.60$35.40Oz Clarke is recognized the world over as one of the leading experts on wine and this new book, Oz Clarke's World of Wine, is an entertaining yet authoritative guide to the world of wine that has grown out of all recognition in the last 20 years. ... -
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane 9781783789306
RRP: $14.18$8.71'A wonderful evocation of Britain's natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness' The Times Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? From... -
Yes Man by Danny Wallace 9780091896744
RRP: $19.34$14.13One word. Unlimited consequences.The book that inspired the major film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear... -
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones 9780571302932
RRP: $16.76$11.04An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy.When Tobias Jones first travelled to Italy, he expected to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors and famous writers. Instead, he... -
I Never Knew That About Ireland by Christopher Winn
RRP: $19.34$14.13Take the ultimate trip around IrelandBestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, to discover the tales buried deep in Irish history. Packed full of myths and legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $14.18$9.55The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across... -
Edgelands by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: $14.18$10.02The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same... -
The Unconquered by Scott Wallace
RRP: $24.50$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307462978Author Scott WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Guerra by Jason Webster 9780552772815
RRP: $15.47$10.87After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... -
Full Circle by Michael Palin 9780753823255 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$2.41Michael Palin's terrific account of his journey through 18 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, published by Phoenix for the first time.For almost a year, Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the world's largest ocean, in a... -
South From Granada by Gerald Brenan
RRP: $12.89$9.17Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the bestselling Driving Over Lemons, in Penguin Modern Classics... -
A Therapeutic Atlas: destinations to inspire and enchant by The School of Life
RRP: $28.38$20.52The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation or rich in memory. This is an atlas that gathers together some of the most enchanting and reinvigorating... -
The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing that Changed a Child's Life by Rupert Isaacson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Heart-breaking, uplifting and full of adventure, The Long Ride Home is the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Horse Boy. Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism -... -
Tropic of Capricorn by Simon Reeve 9781846073861 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95In Tropic of Capricorn, bestselling author Simon Reeve embarks on a 23,000-mile trek around the southernmost border of the tropics - a place of both amazing beauty and overwhelming human suffering. Heading east through Africa, Australia and South... -
Tropic of Capricorn by Simon Reeve
RRP: $16.76$11.73In Tropic of Capricorn, bestselling author Simon Reeve embarks on a 23,000-mile trek around the southernmost border of the tropics - a place of both amazing beauty and overwhelming human suffering. Heading east through Africa, Australia and South... -
Venice for Pleasure by Jan Morris 9781843681083
RRP: $21.92$14.89"None of Venice's innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima's character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate...Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter... -
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
RRP: $16.76$11.09When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of... -
An Italian Education by Tim Parks
RRP: $16.76$11.73How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating... -
English Wine by Oz Clarke
RRP: $25.80$17.72Fully revised and updated by Oz, with new entries on key wineries, vineyards and producers from around the country. 'It's brilliant. Exactly what's wanted. -' Hugh Johnson One of the great pleasures of wine... -
Three Letters from the Andes by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $12.89$7.69In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to... -
The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike by Kate Rawles
RRP: $24.50$17.07'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR'Searing observations focused on our need to protect biodiversity - A tour de force' SIR TIM SMIT OBE,... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: $14.18$8.41The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute... -
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian... -
Great British Journeys by Nicholas Crane 9781474607780 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers.Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation... -
Great British Journeys by Nicholas Crane
RRP: $14.18$8.35Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers.Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation... -
The Great Indian Food Trip: Around a Subcontinent à la Carte by Zac O'Yeah 9781911723066
RRP: $23.21$20.82The Great Indian Food Trip is an entertaining, erudite adventure of eating, drinking and travelling. This is how Zac O'Yeah has come to understand the Indian subcontinent, his home of thirty years. O'Yeah's fast-paced yet profound account charts a... -
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
RRP: $21.92$15.84In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in... -
The Travels by Marco Polo 9780241253052
RRP: $14.18$10.02A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east.Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he... -
The Way Of The White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda
RRP: $25.79$18.42'It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' New Statesman The Way of the White Clouds is the... -
The Backpacker by John Harris 9781840247718 [USED COPY]
$17.47Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger...John's trip to India starts badly when he finds himself... -
Italian Journey 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
RRP: $16.76$11.73In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love... -
Notes From A Big Country: Journey into the American Dream by Bill Bryson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with... -
Walking Away by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.18$9.52Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite... -
Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age by Daniel Klein 9781780744124
RRP: $10.31$7.10Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. But in the process, are we missing out on a distinct... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: $14.18$10.02TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation... -
Across a Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring by Roger Morgan-Grenville
RRP: $24.50$16.55SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 2023'Roger Morgan-Grenville, one of Britain's leading conservationists' - The HeraldA veteran nature writer walks the length of Britain in pursuit of spring, and of hopeFed up with bleak headlines of...