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Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing by Patrick Holland 9780472087068
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in... -
The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations"Some years later, George... -
Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices by Douglas A. Vakoch 9780367892623
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal,... -
Nothing Is Wrong: A Novel by Mark R. Thornton 9781648210181
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25This novel takes the reader on a journey into contemporary Tanzanian life in an honest and unsentimental way, from the bustling towns to its vast, dangerous wilderness. Set in Tanzania, Nothing Is... -
The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht: Memoirs of America's Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist Cyril H. Wecht 9781476684246
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17For six decades, Pittsburgh-based forensic scientist Cyril Wecht has been an outspoken authority when horrible things happen to everyday people-murders, childhood deaths, tragic accidents and police... -
Why I Like This Story Jackson R. Bryer 9781640142145
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read, or re-read, the stories... -
Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry by Thomas Larson 9780804012126
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.76Today, the surprisingly elastic form of the memoir embraces subjects that include dying, illness, loss, relationships, and self-awareness. Writing to reveal the inner self-the pilgrimage into one's... -
Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives by John D. Barbour
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10Western Buddhist travel narratives are autobiographical accounts of a journey to a Buddhist culture. Dozens of such narratives have since the 1970s describe treks in Tibet, periods of residence in a... -
Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.33Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie by Annick Smith 9780803217515
Booksplease Price: £34.85It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the... -
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman 9780393345414
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.99When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote... -
The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat by Richard Mahler 9780300122251
Booksplease Price: £60.98In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, an intimate portrait of the endangered, exotic, and elusive jaguar When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are... -
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White... -
Selous in Africa by Robert J Ross 9788897737643
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £48.38The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is Africa's oldest and largest protected area. Proclaimed in 1896 and bigger than Switzerland, the Selous is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Selous... -
One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Quest to Preserve Quiet by Gordon Hempton 9781416559108
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.73In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our... -
One More Warbler: A Life with Birds by Victor Emanuel 9781477312384
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America's leading birders. He has observed more than six thousand species during travels that have taken him to every continent. He founded the largest... -
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers by Brooke Allen 9781566637510
Booksplease Price: £13.26In her lively refutation of modern claims about America's religious origins, Brooke Allen looks back at the late eighteenth century and shows decisively that the United States was founded not on... -
This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë Deborah Lutz 9781399417082
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The first comprehensive biography of Emily Bronte in over two decades.Emily Jane Bronte was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she... -
The Gospel of Freedom and Power: Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II by Sarah E. Ruble 9781469618937
Booksplease Price: £33.35In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate. From religious periodicals and Sunday sermons to novels and anthropological monographs,... -
James Prosek Ocean Fishes: Paintings of Saltwater Game Fish by James Prosek
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £30.69The captivating watercolors of James Prosek, the artist the New York Times calls "the Audubon of the fishing world." In the tradition of his acclaimed Trout: An Illustrated History, renowned... -
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times by Paul Loeb
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.67What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly overwhelming odds? In ... -
Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley 9780691122199
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.75Bengal tigers in the jungles of India. Birds of Paradise in the wilds of New Guinea. Penguins on frozen beaches in Antarctica. These and other charismatic and endangered species find homes within the... -
The Essential Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans 9780415927543
Booksplease Price: £51.01Here, Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost Latino scholars, collects his best essays into one volume. As a Mexican Jew whose native languages are Yiddish and Spanish, Stavans writes in English to limn... -
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers , biologist Thor Hanson... -
Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars by Christopher Merrill
Booksplease Price: £26.91Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue,... -
All That Is by James Salter 9781035063550
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.82'Enthralling' - John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea'Effortlessly beautiful, funny, sexy and wise' - Julie Myerson, Books of the Year, ObserverAll That Is explores a life unfolding... -
Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars by Christopher Merrill 9780742516861
Booksplease Price: £26.61Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue,... -
Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda by Scott Peterson 9780415930635
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most... -
The Creative Spark: How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams Michael Shapiro 9781609521769
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"Knowledgeable, probing, and thoughtful." -Foreword Reviews Smokey Robinson * Barbara Kingsolver * Francis Ford Coppola * David Sedaris * Jane Goodall and other luminaries reveal the secrets to... -
In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada 9780802148988
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Set in a wild and immaculate landscape threatened by industry and environmental degradation, a compassionate and gripping exploration of one of the world's most baffling mysteries-the existence of... -
In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada 9780802129352
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial... -
Death of a Rebel: The Charlie Fenton Story by Scott Donaldson 9781611476248
Booksplease Price: £46.28Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismatic teacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in... -
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All That Is by James Salter 9781447238270 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.20All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his...