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Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the... -
A Traveller's Life by Eric Newby 9780007367870
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in... -
On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby 9780007367917
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this... -
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry... -
Departures and Arrivals by Eric Newby 9780007413539
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22'Whatever else we remember of our travels, we remember our departures and arrivals. Often they are the most enduring of all our memories of them.' From one of Britain's best-loved travel... -
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. ... -
A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby 9780007367900
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their... -
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956,... -
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby 9780007597833
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Merry Dance Around the World by Eric Newby 9780007413546
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, 'A Merry Dance around the World' is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure. Covering everything from the birth of Eric... -
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Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby 9780007367894 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.57Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After 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... -
Venice Jan Morris 9780571396634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The best book about Venice ever written' (Sunday Times) - Jan Morris' bestselling travel writing classic is an essential guide to this magical city, newly introduced by Tracy Chevalier.Whether the... -
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places by Alastair Sawday
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one... -
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places by Alastair Sawday 9781408708521
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.56A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one... -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains... -
A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor 9781780228648
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan SunKinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara... -
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas. ... -
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Continuing Frances Mayes's account of her love affair with Italy, Bella Tuscany presents the author now truly at home there, meeting the challenges of learning a new language and touring regions... -
Exiles: Three Island Journeys by William Atkins 9780571352999
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. ... -
Journeys in Ireland: Literary Travellers, Rural Landscapes, Cultural Relations by Martin Ryle
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland. The focus is on work by English travellers who visited Ireland for pleasure, from the 'scenic... -
Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £11.78The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in... -
The Dragonfly Diaries: The Unlikely Story of Europe's First Dragonfly Sanctuary Ruary Mackenzie Dodds 9781908643551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Britain is home to some forty species of dragonfly, and public interest in their plight is high right now thanks to their primeval beauty, aerobatic grace and a growing realisation of their... -
Saints of Sind Peter Mayne 9781780602103
Booksplease Price: £22.41Saints of Sind is an exploration of the mystical Sufi shrines and hereditary saints of Pakistan s Indus valley. Half anthropological quest, it is also half the pilgrimage of an Englishman determined... -
The British Partisan: Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy by Michael Ross 9781526750358
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Below are reviews of From Liguria With Love (original edition of A British Partisan) A gripping account of the many months spent behind enemy lines living with Italian people who daily risked their... -
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John... -
Empires of the Indus: 10th Anniversary Edition by Alice Albinia
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.8910th anniversary edition with new PrefaceOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia... -
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719567780
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on,...