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The Novels by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.49A collected edition of Bruce Chatwin's acclaimed, captivating novels - On the Black Hill, Utz and The Viceroy of Ouidah - with an introduction by Hanya YanagiharaWhile Bruce Chatwin is best known as... -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $25.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142422571Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73As Seen on BBC Between the CoversThis is Chatwin's unforgettable novel of a man in war-torn Communist Prague, driven to protect his collection of porcelain figurines at any cost.Bruce Chatwin's... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.94'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin 9780142437193
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $23.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437193Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.13On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only... -
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $33.41Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to... -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient... -
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Chatwin's brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he meets along the way. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In... -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.16Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient... -
On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769712 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.16On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only... -
What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to... -
Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 by Bruce Chatwin
Booksplease Price: $42.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140256987Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Anywhere out of the World: The Work of Bruce Chatwin by Jonathan Chatwin
Booksplease Price: $49.43By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of 48, Bruce Chatwin had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. Though his career spanned merely twelve years, his impact and... -
On the Black Hill: A Novel (Penguin Ink) by Bruce Chatwin 9780143119067
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $37.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119067Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician ..... -
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the... -
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' The Times ... -
The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Incandescent.' Andre Aciman'A magician.'... -
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.54WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2019One third of the earth's land surface is desert, much of it desolate and inhospitable. What is it about this harsh environment that has... -
Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy,... -
Take a Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9780099490555 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $6.93Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant,... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.00'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable'... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.05A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair 9780861543731
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning... -
A Little, Aloud: An anthology of prose and poetry for reading aloud to someone you care for Angela Macmillan 9780701185633
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable... -
Take A Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9781784704605
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant,... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133472
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject... -
In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466086
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford 9780099772910 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.91Australia 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... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133489
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $21.38Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject... -
Horizon by Barry Lopez
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the... -
A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land by Jeremy Seal
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a... -
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Carl Thompson 9780367365295
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $104.66As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our... -
Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice Corinne Fowler (Lancaster University, UK) 9781138547964
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77Despite 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: $57.71By 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... -
Travel Writing Casey Blanton 9780415938938
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant... -
Heart of Darkness: Vintage Voyages by Joseph Conrad
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Follow a dark and powerful journey up the Congo River in Conrad's sharp and incisive exploration of the damages of imperialism. Life on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness;... -
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner 9780552775083
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The...