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Venice, An Interior by Javier Marias
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.76An essential companion for every traveller to Venice, this is the hidden city revealed in a gorgeous non-fiction account by one of Europe's greatest living writers, Javier MariasCentury after... -
Literature and the Human: Criticism, Theory, Practice by Andy Mousley 9780415614672
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of... -
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles.'Thubron on top form. Richly... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned... -
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious... -
Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice Corinne Fowler (Lancaster University, UK) 9781138547964
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized... -
Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace by John Gimlette 9780099502388
Booksplease Price: £27.48By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. The future of our world had been contested here, in the hinterlands of France and across the German plains. But what's become of the... -
In Siberia by Colin Thubron 9780099459262
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' ObserverThis is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth... -
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar' by Paul Theroux 9780141015729 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a journey from London to Asia by train. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Thirty years ago Paul Theroux... -
Among The Russians by Colin Thubron
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A magnificent achievement' Nikolai Tolstoy, The TimesAmong the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A... -
The Collected Stories: World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells; the Consul's File; the London Embassy; by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Collected Stories is a collection of award-winning writer Paul Theroux's short stories, each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that will captivate readers the world over... -
Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature... -
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**TOP TEN BESTSELLER**'I would rather read Colin Thubron than any other travel writer alive' John Simpson Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity... -
Behind The Wall by Colin Thubron
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin, and travelling... -
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Fredrik Sjoeberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'Fredrik... -
The Lost Heart Of Asia by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Discover 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... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat 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... -
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
Between Extremes by Brian Keenan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with... -
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Between Extremes by Brian Keenan 9780552145954 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.97In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with... -
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre contains... -
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux 9780140249798
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity,... -
Venice Jan Morris 9780571396634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The best book about Venice ever written' (Sunday Times) - Jan Morris' bestselling travel writing classic is an essential guide to this magical city, newly introduced by Tracy Chevalier.Whether the... -
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
No Telling by Adam Thorpe 9780099428831
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply... -
A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in South America Sara Stewart 9781784779856
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A Long Way South: travel narrative about a woman's adventures in Latin America in 1974/5. Journeying through vast landscapes on local buses, boats and trains, these memoirs are as much about... -
The Ascent Of Rum Doodle: Vintage Voyages by W E Bowman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult favourite. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men... -
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a... -
The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well-loved figures in the long... -
Mirror To Damascus: 50th Anniversary Edition by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love',... -
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Discover the ultimate in classic 1930s travel writing.'A writer of breathtaking prose - prose whose sensuous, chiselled beauty has cast its spell on English travel writing ever since' William... -
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux'Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux's interests... -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology... -
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar' by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a journey from London to Asia by train. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Thirty years ago Paul Theroux... -
Confessions of a Map Dealer by Paul Micou 9781846551499
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'My first mistake was to be heterosexual.'Such is one of several complaints in the first of four conversations between Henry Hart - who is a married father of two young girls - and his long-time... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Anthony Thwaite
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and... -
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in... -
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff 9780007553723
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre ...