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Life at Full Tilt: The Selected Writings of Dervla Murphy Dervla Murphy 9781780602110
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.72Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy s travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for over fifty years, including descriptions of her... -
Silverland Dervla Murphy 9780719568299
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Silverland 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.12In 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Through 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... -
Tibetan Foothold by Dervla Murphy 9781906011642
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.12Dervla 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... -
On a Shoestring to Coorg Dervla Murphy 9781780600123
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.12This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little... -
The Waiting Land Dervla Murphy 9781906011659
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.75In "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... -
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba Dervla Murphy 9781906011468
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.12"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... -
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy 9781906011352
Booksplease Price: $54.48Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and three young granddaughters and you have a Swallows and Amazon like adventure in the Caribean as they... -
A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza Dervla Murphy 9781780600673
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.75Over 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... -
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy 9781906011413
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Braving 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... -
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s Dervla Murphy 9781780600116
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.11A 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... -
Wheels within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller Dervla Murphy 9781906011406
Booksplease Price: $40.79A 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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Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy 9780719566646 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.50Through 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... -
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan by Dervla Murphy 9781906011666
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48One 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... -
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The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy 9781906011468 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.93"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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58Following 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... -
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru Dervla Murphy 9780719565168
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco,... -
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher David McClay 9781473662704
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The 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... -
Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers by Alastair Humphreys
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.52** 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... -
A Training School for Elephants Sophy Roberts 9780857528377
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $32.41'A modern-day Freya Stark' - Tatler'Roberts' writing is beguiling' - The i'Roberts is a wonderfully lyrical writer' - Observer'An author of courage, patience, erudition, and a sympathetic imagination... -
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25"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... -
Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel by Rosita Boland
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.95'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... -
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O'Hanlon
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.69In 1986, Redmond O'Hanlon decided to undertake a four-month trip through Venezuala, up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon Basin. The trip involved the risk of contracting dysentery, rabies and... -
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Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World by Anne Mustoe 9780753504260 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $3.65'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: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75When 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... -
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Redmond 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... -
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Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon 9780140276688 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $3.84Redmond 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... -
Interviews with Writers: 1990-2026 Martin Doyle 9781843519751
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $34.11Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for more than 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different... -
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird 9780860682677
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $14.64'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64David 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.75Mary 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... -
Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley by W. B. Carnochan 9780804760980
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $47.56From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with... -
Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers: An anthology of intrepid journeys for every day of the year: Volume 4 Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849949194
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $31.26Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing.Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find... -
Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Out 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.16Whether 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $3.92'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... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.89'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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.22George 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...