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Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.92'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... -
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85Hailed 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... -
On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby 9780007367917
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90With 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... -
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.40'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 Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85A 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,... -
A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby 9780007367900
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85This 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... -
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby 9780007597833
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby 9780007367924 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.87'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. ... -
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.81WINNER 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... -
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places by Alastair Sawday
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A 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: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.62A 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58'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... -
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.26Enjoy 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. ... -
A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor 9781780228648
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02'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... -
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Guide to Greece: Southern Greece by Pausanias 9780140442267 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €5.60Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for... -
Guide to Greece: Southern Greece by Pausanias
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for... -
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Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes 9780553812503 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.34Continuing 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... -
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Continuing 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A 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. ... -
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For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €2.14For 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... -
For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84For 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... -
Walking to the Sun: A Journey through America's Energy Landscapes by Tom Haines 9781512600957
RRP: €27.31Booksplease Price: €19.27On a winter day in 2013, Tom Haines stood in front of his basement furnace and wondered about the source of the natural gas that fueled his insulated life. During the next four years, Haines, an... -
The British Partisan: Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy by Michael Ross 9781526750358
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.12Below 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02This 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... -
Francis Of Assisi by Adrian House 9780712668149
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) was the least dogmatic of saints, seeing himself as God's troubadour or fool. His life was rich in its succession of dramas. After his debauchery as a young playboy,... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.40A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.6410th 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02For 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,... -
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One Man and a Mule: Across England with a Pack Mule by Hugh Thomson 9780099592570 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.98In the Middle Ages, mules were used to transport goods across Britain. Strong, sturdy and able to carry a good 160lbs of weight, they made ideal walking companions - as long as you didn't ask them to...