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Silverland Dervla Murphy 9780719568299
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond... -
In Ethiopia with a Mule Dervla Murphy 9781906011673
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not... -
Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead.Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia... -
The Waiting Land Dervla Murphy 9781906011659
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural... -
Tibetan Foothold by Dervla Murphy 9781906011642
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan... -
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba Dervla Murphy 9781906011468
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio... -
A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza Dervla Murphy 9781780600673
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the... -
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s Dervla Murphy 9781780600116
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of... -
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy 9781906011413
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the... -
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan by Dervla Murphy 9781906011666
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western... -
Wheels within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller Dervla Murphy 9781906011406
Booksplease Price: £20.92A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian... -
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The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy 9781906011468 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.53"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio... -
Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine Dervla Murphy 9781780600703
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in... -
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher David McClay 9781473662704
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family business over seven generations. Intended both to entertain and inspire, Dear Mr Murray is a collection... -
For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into... -
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For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.80For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into... -
Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers by Alastair Humphreys
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96** WINNER OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY CHILDREN'S TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 AND LONG-LISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019**Hand-picked by adventurer Alastair Humphreys, this compilation retells the... -
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything... -
You Can't Hide the Sun: A Journey through Palestine by John McCarthy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.41"Fascinating and timely" Jeremy BowenHeld hostage for many years by terrorists in Lebanon, John McCarthy is all too familiar with the pain and injustice of being denied your home. Determined to... -
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Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World by Anne Mustoe 9780753504260 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.87'You don't have to be twenty, male and an ace mechanic to set out on a great journey. I've cycled round the world twice now. I'm not young, I'm not sporty, I never train and I still can't tell a... -
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the... -
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants by Anne Mustoe 9780753509838
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Myriad wonderful characters populate the pages of Anne Mustoe's fascinating book as she pedals along three very different, but equally evocative, roads - the Amber Route from the Baltic to the... -
Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel by Rosita Boland
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69'Utterly engaging.' - Sunday TimesFrom her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the... -
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Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon 9780140276688 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million... -
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird 9780860682677
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.51'There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird' SPECTATOR'Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to... -
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals by Jonathan Scott 9781784770815
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about... -
The Turkish Embassy Letters: 1716-1718 Mary Wortley Montagu 9781780600390
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and a society wit... -
Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats... -
Travel Writer's Way: Turn your travels into stories Jonathan Lorie 9781784776046
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Whether you want to be the next Bill Bryson, set up a brilliant blog or simply make the best of your travel journal, this book will lead you along the travel writer's way. The Travel Writer's Way... -
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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple 9780006375951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.01'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... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9780141393032
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.29George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of... -
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... -
Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran Lois Pryce 9781473669987
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Warm, funny . . . It's had my whole family howling with laughter and shedding a few tears' - Shappi Khorsandi, Guardian'A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting tale' -... -
Paddle: A long way around Ireland by Jasper Winn 9780956003881
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in... -
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this... -
Astra: The Gaia Chronicles Book 1 by Naomi Foyle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Is-land is a Gaian paradise in the middle of a blasted world - but its success comes at a dark price.Like every child in Is-Land, all Astra Ordott has ever wanted is to get her Security Shot, do her... -
Bridge Across My Sorrows: The Christina Noble Story by Christina Noble
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Christina Noble's story is one of bravery and resilience in the face of deprivation and abuse on a scale that most would find unimaginable. Her childhood in the Dublin slums barely merits the name:... -
Mama Tina: The Christina Noble Story Continues Christina Noble 9781848548428
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 1989, driven by a dream and the memory of her own past, Christina Noble travelled 6,000 miles to Vietnam, a country of great beauty where the terrible legacy of war is still being felt. Against... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel...