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Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban 9780330346290
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An entrancing travelogue from celebrated writer Jonathan Raban.First published in 1999, Passage to Juneau is an account of Raban's personal journey from Seattle to the Alaskan Capital by boat through... -
Spinoza by Gideon Segal 9781138731196
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This title was first published in 2002. This collection of essays aims to present a wide range of interpretations of central themes in Spinoza's philosophy. Philosophical interpretations of Spinoza... -
Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban 9780330292290
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22A stunning success...Raban takes us floating through the heart of America...more successful than 99% of the books about America since De Tocqueville's Democracy in America' New York Times 'Mr Raban... -
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth 9780394752181
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £10.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards Narrative Travel Book Category 1983.Book InformationISBN 9780394752181Author... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is... -
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot 9780330371629
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan is widely acknowledged as the most influential contemporary work of Afghanistan. Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan's isolation from... -
Notes For Travellers In Egypt by Budge 9781138977303
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.29First published in 2008. This encyclopaedic work on ancient Egypt was specially commissioned by Thomas Cook for their Egyptian tours. Today, it is unrivalled as a reliable general source for those... -
Internal Migration in the Developed World: Are we becoming less mobile? Tony Champion (Newcastle University, UK) 9780367245269
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory... -
Red Dust by Ma Jian
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his... -
Camp Life and Sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina by "Snaffle"
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.97First Published in 2005. This largely unknown travel book, written by a sporting and hunting enthusiast in 1896, recalls his journey with his wife and two dachshunds in what was then a largely... -
The Companion Guide to New York (n/e) by Michael Leapman 9781900639323
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.24`The perfect guide to this tremendous city' OBSERVER Written with unfailing common sense, as well as insight and affection... the perfect guide to this tremendous city OBSERVER A true... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John... -
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple 9780006544159
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.15One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the... -
Product Information Management: Theory and Practice by Jorij Abraham 9783319380391
Booksplease Price: £46.74Product Information Management is the latest topic that companies across the world are deliberating upon. As companies sell online, they are confronted with the fact that not all information... -
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain 9780747558217
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of "Kitchen Confidential", sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional... -
Trans-Siberian Handbook: The Trailblazer Guide to the Trans-Siberian Railway Journey Includes Guides to 25 Cities by 9781912716081
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.17New 10th edition - all routes have been retravelled and fully updated. This 10th edition features extra colour sections and even more maps. A trip across Siberia on the longest continuous railway... -
Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads by Richard Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Richard Grant has never spent more than twenty-two consecutive nights under the same roof. Motivated partly by his own wanderlust and partly by his realisation that America is a land populated by... -
Egypt & The Nile Deborah Manley 9780955010569
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.97No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting awestruck travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crusaders and Napoleon,... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as... -
Constructing Cultural Tourism: John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze by Keith Hanley 9781845411558
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.28This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural... -
Constructing Cultural Tourism: John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze by Keith Hanley 9781845411541
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.19This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural... -
Mastering International Negotiation Skill Sets Thomas A. Cook 9781482226157
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £49.53A must-read for senior executives navigating global uncertainty, this book delivers a powerful analysis of the trade disruptions triggered by Covid-19 and the broader economic consequences of tariffs... -
E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience David Travis 9780415258340
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £73.50Top performing dotcoms share a common feature. It isn't a new software plug-in or a design gadget or any other piece of technology. These sites share a passionate focus on usability. This book is... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and... -
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot 9780330486576
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Drawing on three years of travel and research, Mirrors of the Unseen offers a rare and timely portrait of Iran, introducing us to the sublime architecture of Isfahan, the forests of the north, the... -
off the wall: flying thoughts: hotel, restaurant and bar design. Dreimeta 2003-2018 Armin Fischer 9783899862980
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.94A beautifully photographed compendium of inventive and inspiring work created over the last 15 years by the award-winning German interior design firm Dreimeta. This book explores their unique... -
Adult Supervision Required: Private Freedom and Public Constraints for Parents and Children by Markella B. Rutherford 9780813561134
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.58Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today's parents and... -
The Oxford Book of the Sea by Jonathan Raban 9780192801944
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.12It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The... -
Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession by Friedman 9780062225863
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062225863Author FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Queen Of The Elephants by Mark Shand 9780099592013
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Mark Shand trekked 300 miles across East Benghal and Assam on the back of an elephant with Parbato Barua, the foremost and only female elephant trainer in all India. This book describes the... -
Tourism in Egypt Through the Ages: A Historical Guide by Charlotte Booth 9781399043564
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Let's go on a journey through 5,000 years of tourism in Egypt starting with the pre-2011 economic height, back through the Thomas Cook cruises in the nineteenth century to the ancient Egyptians... -
A Cruise on the Nile: Or the Fabulous Story of Steam Ship Sudan Jean-Francois Rial 9782226488084
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £41.42This sumptuous book invites you to follow the course of the Nile and Egyptian history on board a floating historical monument, the Steam Ship Sudan. At 100 years old, and made of wood and copper, it... -
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the... -
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire by Simon Winchester 9780141011899
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from... -
The Wreck at Sharpnose Point by Jeremy Seal 9781447267959
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52This is a captivating mystery of the best kind - the sort that really happened. While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the village of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, Jeremy Seal stumbled... -
Market Harborough & Around Through Time by Stephen Butt 9781445615233
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Tourism was born in Market Harborough in 1841 when Thomas Cook, a local cabinetmaker, set off towards Leicester and had his dream of worldwide working-class travel. The town was born to serve... -
Andalucia: A Cultural History by John Gill 9781904955443
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andaluca has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilisations for... -
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart Diccon Bewes 9781857886511
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the... -
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game John Ure 9781849016674
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia - from the Caucasus to Kabul. This was the stage of open... -
Lillian Lorraine: The Life and Times of a Ziegfeld Diva Nils Hanson 9781476675275
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59After a meteoric ascent on Broadway that began with Ziegfeld's 1910 Follies, Lillian Lorraine went on to become one of the most famous entertainers in America. Her passionately lived life made her a...