Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Anthologies’ - 27 matches found
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1000 Books to Change your Life
| Publisher: | Time Out Group |
| Catalogue number: | 157129 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
1000 Books to change your life celebrates the transforming power of literature. More than 50 leading novelists, writers and critics draw the arc of a life lived in books, from birth to death. With...
| Author: | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 158572 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“The Ends Of The Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing On The Arctic and the Antarctic” features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works...
| Author: | Adam Jacot De Boinod |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 150604 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...
| Publisher: | Travelers' Tales |
| Catalogue number: | 91676 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
"Death, vast and mysterious, surrounds us whether we give it little thought or a great deal of thought." This book is a conversation with great writers about living and dying. What does death have to...
| Author: | Robert Macfarlane |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 168470 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In "The Wild Places" by Robert Macfarlane, the author embarks on a series of beautifully described journeys in the remaining wildernesses of Britain and Ireland. The result is both an intellectual and...
| Publisher: | Allen Lane |
| Catalogue number: | 160702 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Drawing on the collective wisdom of over three-hundred languages, “Toujours Tingo” has discovered all kinds of actions and objects, tastes and noises that English simply doesn’t have the vocabulary...
| Author: | Lynda Murphy |
| Publisher: | Frances Lincoln |
| Catalogue number: | 149189 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Celebrating the timeless pleasures of reading, casting an irreverent eye over the foibles and eccentricities of booklovers and revealing the reading habits of a host of famous writers, this compendium...
| Author: | Eric Newby |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 126182 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Eric Newby¿s enthusiasm for his subject shines through in his anthology. The tales collected in this treasure-trove of the bizarre, the touching, the profound and the farcical have a scope and range...
A Merry Dance Around the World
| Author: | Eric Newby |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 57116 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Want to read one of Eric Newby's books but don't know where to start? This is the definitive Newby reader, with key extracts from titles published up to 1995: A Traveller's Life, The Last Grain Race...
| Author: | Tove Jansson |
| Publisher: | Sort of Books |
| Catalogue number: | 148835 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling "The Summer Book", here is "A Winter Book" collection of some of Tove Jansson's best-loved and most famous stories, taking its cue from over five different...
| Author: | Jan Morris |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 127092 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Celebrating fifty years of travel writing and reportage, this book gathers together a hugely evocative collection of Morris's own work. The articles and extracts contained within this anthology offer...
| Author: | Doris Lessing |
| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Catalogue number: | 143268 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection, by Nobel-Prize winner Doris Lessing.
In this superb volume of African stories, Doris Lessing paints a magnificent portrait of the country...
Grand Canyon: True Stories of Life Below the Rim
| Publisher: | Travelers' Tales |
| Catalogue number: | 133644 |
| Availability: | Not available |
With contributions from Barry Lopez, David Brower, Edward Abbey, Colin Fletcher, amongst others. The stories recounted here cover everything from rafting and hiking to the natural beauty of the wildlife...
| Publisher: | Virgin Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 123243 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Some summer holiday experiences are impressed upon the memory in a way that can be instantly and vividly recalled, given the right trigger, owing to their life changing, profoundly illuminating nature...
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 127094 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Benedict Allen has collected some of the best writings by famous and lesser known but nonetheless remarkable figures of explorers.
Travelling Hopefully: A Golden Age of Travel Writing
| Publisher: | Mercer Oliver Wyman |
| Catalogue number: | 145575 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Nowadays, while the impulse to travel remains as strong as ever, travel has changed out of all recognition. It is difficult, not to say almost impossible, to be a traveller in this age of airplanes...
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 125948 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This is a gathering of Patrick Leigh Fermor¿s most evocative writings, culled from his books, journalism and letters, many of which are published here in paperback book form for the first time.
Contained...
| Publisher: | Profile Books |
| Catalogue number: | 162700 |
| Availability: | Not available |
“Going Dutch in Beijing” is a book that answers many questions, and arguably force the world’s population into a poverty of embarrassments, for such is the usefulness of this book, regular travellers...
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii
| Author: | Susanna Moore |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 159135 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Susanna Moore cannot remember her first encounter with the sea – it has always been part of her life. “Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii” is a marvelous book detailing how she grew up in Hawai’i in...
| Author: | Peter Whitfield |
| Publisher: | Wychwood Editions |
| Catalogue number: | 163099 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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“A Universe of Books” is an outstanding publication by Peter Whitfield, a book born out of love and respect of all books before it.
What was the most powerful tool ever to have...
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