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Travel writing
Brand: Quercus Publishing
"A lyrical 'book of days' . . . A bejewelled mosaic" Financial Times"Humane, insightful and deeply cultured" Times Literary SupplementThough a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to..
19.14£ 19.32£
Brand: Cicerone Press
In this stunning large-format book, British mountaineer Alan Hinkes describes for the first time in one place his experiences of climbing all 14 of the peaks over 8000m: the world's highest mountains, in the Himalaya and Karakoram. While the photogr..
36.37£
Brand: Icon Books
A TIMES BESTSELLER'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIOWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.Not many ..
14.11£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin's wrote before..
15.70£
Brand: Gill Books
Come travelling with Francis Brennan around the world and back again. 'I have often been in awe of all the wonderful things I've seen: the bustling cities, the strange and wonderful wildlife, the beautiful monuments, the fantastic scenery and, most ..
17.90£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a..
15.36£
Brand: Icon Books
For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking outthe ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings - he attempts to rescue a ..
11.36£
Brand: Eland Publishing
Over 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 Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were ..
18.06£
Brand: Eland Publishing
A 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 Northern Ireland in order to try and sort out her ow..
19.16£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A 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, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic ..
13.49£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
A Suitcase Full of Koalas is a modern, edgy travel book set to test your wits and memory for detail. Gallivanting around London and somewhere distinctly south of the great capital in a sleepy seaside village, the author finds herself handing out tin..
17.85£
Brand: The School of Life Press
The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation or rich in memory. This is an atlas that gathers together some of the most enchanting and reinvigorati..
27.25£
"This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered - if I may hope to be remembered at all!" Amelia B Edwards, 1877. A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology f..
45.20£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Thomas Pennant's first tour of Scotland started at Chester in 1769. Passing through Yorkshire and Durham he paid a brief visit to the Farne Islands in a coble - 'a hazardous species of boat' - entering Scotland at Berwick. Proceeding via Edinburgh t..
21.74£
Brand: Profile
Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th Anniversary It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Fr..
14.34£
Brand: Transworld
'Short of doing it yourself, the best way of escaping into nature is to read a book like A Walk in the Woods.' New York TimesIn the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike..
13.98£
Brand: Faber & Faber
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging from New York to Venice, Sydney to Berlin, and the..
17.89£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart.Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made th..
13.66£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out beyond the capital and on to 'the roads and the by-roads' to see Britain as a 'living ..
15.48£
Brand: John Murray Press
Almost French takes readers on a tour fraught with culture clashes but rife with insight and deadpan humour - a charming true story of what happens when a strong-willed Aussie girl meets a very French Frenchman.Backpacking around Europe, twenty-some..
10.10£ 12.50£
Brand: Sandstone Press Ltd
Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C. J. Schüler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted from it and traded along the way. Schüler reflects on the ..
11.13£ 11.36£
Brand: ORO Editions
The region of Bundelkhand in India faces enormous challenges in development. With a population of 18 million people, it has one of the lowest human development indices in India. Groundwater, which the vast majority of people rely on for domestic and..
27.60£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John MortimerWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his travels with an intense curiosity. His frank ..
13.98£
Brand: Random House
'A magnificent achievement' Nikolai Tolstoy, The TimesAmong the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron gra..
13.66£