Search Results for ‘Germany’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 12 matches found

Cycling Back to Happiness - Adventure on the North Sea Cycle Route

“Cycling Back to Happiness” is a hugely entertaining and truly inspirational piece of travel writing, an extremely personal story that will have you hooked from start to finish.
'Don't let your biggest...

Danube

There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his...

Springtime For Germany: Or How I Learned to Love Lederhosen

Suffering from weltschmerz - world-weariness - travel journalist Ben Donald is invited to travel to Germany to rediscover his missing wanderlust. He had grown sick of the global kitsch represented by...

Staziland

Anna Funder’s “Staziland” is a spirited & rigorous historical account of life in East Germany, told with a passion and skill that makes it read almost like a novel. Funder examines the nature of the...

Babar's World Tour

The latest from venerable storyteller and brilliant artist Laurent de Brunhoff has Babar's family on a world tour! They visit a number of countries around the globe.
First stop is Italy where they learn...

Schindler's Ark

Schindler's Ark tells the now-famous story of the Oskar Schindler, who for a brief period in an otherwise undistinguished life became a hero and a saviour. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German...

The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales

Follow a journey to magical and memorable lands with this anthology of classic fairy tales from cultures around the world.
This marvellous collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known fairy tales...

A Year in the Scheisse

“A Year in the Scheisse” is the memorable and hilarious story of an English journalist's adventures - including his encounters with women - as he tries to get to grip with the Germans.
‘It was time...

Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany (1944)

“Instructions of British Servicemen in Germany” is a genuine reproduction of what was an indispensable wartime guide.
Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part...

Continental Drifter

Financed by a bet with a Yeovil linen draper, court jester Thomas Coryate's 1608 journey to Venice and back was an unlikely template for the Grand Tour.
Almost four hundred years later, Tim Moore put...

A Woman in Berlin

“A Woman in Berlin” is a harrowing and moving account of Berlin in the final days of war: it is the diary of an anonymous woman attempting to navigate the chaos and horrors of the 8-week period from...

Goodbye to Berlin

"Goodbye to Berlin" contains six sketches of individual's lives in pre-Hitler Berlin: the author's landlady, Sally Bowles, a working class family and a Jewish family. Many of the characters cross over...