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For Love or Money Jonathan Raban 9781780601403
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier... -
Hunting Mr Heartbreak: A Discovery of America Jonathan Raban 9781780601373
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of non-fiction at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert Macfarlane 'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman RushdieFollowing in the... -
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey through Brazil Moritz Thomsen 9781780601038
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11Unflinchingly honest about his family, his failures, his already broken health at the age of sixty?three and the loss of the hopes he once had for himself, Thomsen is also sickened by the corruption... -
A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis Norman Lewis 9781780602318
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his... -
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith 9780907871286
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with... -
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education Sybille Bedford 9780907871798
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her... -
Old Glory: An American Voyage Jonathan Raban 9781780601366
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple 'The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris,... -
Travels in a Dervish Cloak Isambard Wilkinson 9781780600789
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $29.78Since 9/11 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes about radical Islam, the geo-political alliances of Pakistan and the identity of the Taliban. What has been lacking is Travels in a... -
Death's Other Kingdom Gamel Woolsey 9780907871194
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male... -
Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Out 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... -
The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood by William Woodruff 9781906011260
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community. But after Lancashire's supremacy in... -
The View from the Ground: Peacetime Dispatches,1936-87 Martha Gellhorn 9781780601045
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.30If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a... -
The Hill of Devi: An Englishman serving at the Court of a Maharaja E. M. Forster 9781780601601
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a 'record of a vanished civilization.' Through letters from his time visiting and... -
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru Ronald Wright 9781780601571
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour and good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an ultimate purpose to... -
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico Ronald Wright 9781780601588
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67The Maya of Central America created one of the most dazzling civilizations on this earth, which is often compared to Ancient Greece. The Maya had a delight in creation, expressed in art,... -
Muscat and Oman: The End of an Era by Ian Skeet 9781780602240
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $15.75The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan Said bin... -
Welcome to Paradise Mahi Binebine 9781780602356
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that will take them to a new life in Europe. As we... -
Rites: A Childhood in Guatemala by Victor Perera 9781906011246
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906011246Author Victor PereraFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint -
People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants Tony Parker 9781906011192
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.62Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities - including a vagrant, two... -
Journey into the Mind's Eye Lesley Blanch 9780907871545
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.14Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving... -
Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine Dervla Murphy 9781780600703
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.62Following 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... -
The Innocent Anthropologist Nigel Barley 9781906011505
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people... -
The Village in the Jungle Leonard Woolf 9780907871293
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if Thomas Hardy had... -
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal Mary Taylor Simeti 9781780601076
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11This is a year of Sicilian life, its seasons and its sacred festivals, its gorgeous fruits and demanding family life, its casual assassinations and village feasts, its weather and the neighbours. It... -
The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd 9780907871033
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attachE in Peking. But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a... -
Coasting Jonathan Raban 9781780601380
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The... -
Warrior Herdsmen: Life with the Dodoth of Northern Uganda Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 9781780601106
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda. It is also an adventure story, for during this period the Dodoth... -
Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 9781906011116
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.30Through a dialogue between two lovers, a young physicist in England and an anthropologist in Germany, Nicholas Mosely retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. The destructive power... -
Arabia: A Thousand Years of Arabic Verse by T.J. Gorton 9781906011208
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.45Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It spread and developed wherever the Arabic language came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo as well as in the Arabian... -
One People Guy Kennaway 9781780601960
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11First published in 1997, it would be hard to find a publisher today for a white, male expatriate writing about the realities of life in a Jamaican hamlet.To make matters worse, Guy Kennaway wrote One... -
The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men by Robert Byron 9781780602219
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live in... -
The Face of War: Writings from the Frontline,1937-1985 Martha Gellhorn 9781780601052
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.94James Cameron admired Martha Gellhorn above all other war-reporters 'because she combined a cold eye with a warm heart'. The Chicago Times described her writing as 'wide ranging and provocative, a... -
My Early Life by Winston Churchill 9780907871620
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Winston Churchill wrote this account of the first 25 years of his life in 1930. It reveals him struggling with Latin grammar at prep school, charging the Dervishes at Omdurman and preparing his first... -
Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 Veronica Doubleday 9781780601977
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat. This Afghan city sat close to the Persian frontier... -
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Elliot Paul 9781780600741
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780600741Author Elliot PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth Norman Lewis 9780907871729
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67Norman Lewis arrives in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The starving population has devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women have been driven to... -
The Way of the World Nicholas Bouvier 9780907871538
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11A Cult Classic, "The Way of the World" is one of the most beguiling travel books ever written. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, it tells of a friendship between a writer and an... -
Arabia through the Looking Glass Jonathan Raban 9781780601397
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron 'One of the most humane and visionary of all travel... -
Smelling the Breezes: A Journey through the High Lebanon in 1957 Ralph Izzard 9781780601984
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67Smelling the Breezes is an inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be achieved in a family holiday. Rather than give a leaving party, Ralph and Molly Izzard had their own... -
On Travel and the Journey Through Life Barnaby Rogerson 9781780602042
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand...