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The Novels by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91A 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: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142422571Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49As 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
Booksplease Price: £6.03'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Booksplease Price: £6.03On 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... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin 9780142437193
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437193Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91Bruce 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.90Bruce 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Chatwin'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... -
What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In 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: £20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140256987Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher... -
What Am I Doing Here by Bruce Chatwin 9780140115772
Booksplease Price: £18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140115772Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher... -
Anywhere out of the World: The Work of Bruce Chatwin by Jonathan Chatwin
Booksplease Price: £23.54By 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: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119067Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lose 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 ..... -
The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lose 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.'... -
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose 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 ... -
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Lose 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... -
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99WINNER 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose 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,... -
John Pawson, Making Life Simpler by Deyan Sudjic 9781838666194
RRP: £79.95Booksplease Price: £52.79The only comprehensive book on the fascinating life and work of the celebrated architectural designer, John Pawson This visual biography brings together John Pawson's architecture, life, clients,... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.00'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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.31A 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74We 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... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133472
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Something 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... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133489
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Something 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... -
Heart of Darkness: Vintage Voyages by Joseph Conrad
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Follow 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;... -
Horizon by Barry Lopez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'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... -
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Carl Thompson 9780367365295
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £47.74As 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... -
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads Paul Theroux 9780241969359
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWinner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to America, exploring the... -
Travel Writing Casey Blanton 9780415938938
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Blanton 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... -
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: £43.51Why 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... -
A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land by Jeremy Seal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The 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 Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner 9780552775083
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15What 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... -
Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice Corinne Fowler (Lancaster University, UK) 9781138547964
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Despite 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: £27.49By 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... -
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
Booksplease Price: £9.17In 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...