Search Results for ‘Russia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 18 matches found
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| Author: | Paul Grogan |
| Publisher: | Virgin Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 130496 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
An account of the first source-to-sea descent of Siberia's 4,400km Amur River, known in China as the Black Dragon. After wading upstream for five days, the two adventurers began their epic four-month...
| Author: | Charlotte Hobson |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 106993 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Charlotte Hobson spent a year in Voronezh between 1991 and 1992 as a Russian language student. Her book tells about a crucial year in the life of Russia and the countries that were part of the USSR...
| Author: | Astolphe De Custine |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Catalogue number: | 110805 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 2 weeks |
The Marquis of Custine portrays Russian institutions and Russian people's everyday life in the Eighteenth Century. Banned in Russia by the Czars as well as by the Communist Regime, the Letters were...
Russia - A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People
| Author: | Jonathan Dimbleby |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 165336 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. Even today it remains a country little understood by the West. But as a resurgent world power, with an...
| Author: | Dervla Murphy |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 160305 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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In Silverland, award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s intrepid midwinter journey takes her from Moscow to the Russian Far East. Travelling by slow train, Murphy journeys through the...
| Author: | Asne Seierstad |
| Publisher: | Virago |
| Catalogue number: | 164774 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A compelling, intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of Chechnya today, “The Angel of Grozny”, it is another arresting piece of work from Asne Seierstad, the bestselling author of “The Bookseller...
| Author: | Eric Newby |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 51879 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
In 1977 Eric Newby finally has the opportunity to organise a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. He mounts the Rossija with his wife Wanda, the interpreter and Agency man Misha and Otto, a German...
The Journals of a White Sea Wolf
| Author: | Mariusz Wilk |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 117527 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
The Solovetski Islands are a remote, lonely archipelago in the south of Russia's White Sea. Isolated and unknown, they represent Russia in miniature. The Polish journalist Mariusz Wilk, whose surname...
| Author: | Anna Reid |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Catalogue number: | 113043 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
| Author: | Philip Marsden |
| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Catalogue number: | 77588 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Marsden starts in Moscow and journeys South East, meeting monks, mystics, icon painters, Russian special forces soldiers fresh from Chechnya, a priest who prayed hard and built a church from scratch...
| Author: | Dervla Murphy |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 137691 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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Through Siberia by Accident is Dervla Murphy’s book about a journey that didn’t happen - and what happened instead. Suffering from multiple minor injuries, Murphy found herself stranded...
| Author: | Griff Rhys Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 127310 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them...
A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
| Author: | Robert Service |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 117499 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A dizzying sweep through an eventful hundred years in this fascinating country. The author provides a balanced viewpoint on the rulers and the ruled from the era of Nicholas II to the era of Yeltsin...
| Author: | Laurent De Brunhoff |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 136173 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 3 weeks |
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...
| Author: | Orlando Figes |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 117498 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This encyclopedic cultural history of Russia is epic in its intentions. Figes delves into Russian culture and examines the characters that helped shape it, discovering that Russia's identity is embodied...
The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales
| Author: | Malachy Doyle |
| Publisher: | Barefoot Books |
| Catalogue number: | 136360 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 4 weeks |
In 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...
The Russian Question: At the End of the 20th Century
| Author: | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 50306 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
A distinguished writer assesses Russia's position now that the Soviet system is gone. Solzhenitsyn addresses the past and provides some ideas for the future in this provocative book on Russia and its...
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 121953 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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“Among the Russians” is a marvellous account of Colin Thubron's solitary journey by car from St Petersburg and the Baltic States, south to Georgia and Armenia.
A gifted writer and intrepid...
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