Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Biographies’ - 39 matches found

A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“A Long Way Gone” tells how, at the age of 12 years old, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in his home country of Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognisable by violence. At 13, he was...

A Mad World, My Masters

From small heroes to big villains, Simpson is a master of storytelling, carrying within him a sense of wonder and adventure. Having been at the epicentre of many of the world's flashpoints for over...

Buttertea At Sunrise

Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, "Buttertea At Sunrise" is Britta Das's beautiful memoir, revealing hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West. Often seen as a magical...

Eurydice Street

Part anthropology, part biography and almost part guidebook, “Eurydice Street” brilliantly, light-heartedly and captivatingly tells of author Sofka Zinovieff’s attempts to understand Greece and integrate...

Higher than the Eagle Soars

A highly intimate and epic account of Stephen Venables’s life, culminating in his dramatic ascent of Everest, an event that confirmed him as one of the greatest British climbers of his generation. Stephen...

Mrs P's Journey

This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...

News from No Man's Land

In his third riveting volume of autobiography, John Simpson draws once more on his own extraordinary experiences. He provides a vivid and utterly absorbing account of how news stories arise, are selected...

Semi Invisible Man - The Life of Norman Lewis

This biography by Julian Evans chronicles the life and work of the self-proclaimed ‘Semi-Invisible Man’ Norman Lewis, one of the foremost travellers and writers of the twentieth century. Going far beyond...

Stealing Water

“Stealing Water” tells the tale of author Tim Ecott’s childhood in apartheid Johannesburg in the 1970s; a captivating and, given the situation, surprisingly funny account of an Irish emigré family finding...

Street Without A Name - Childhood and other misadventures in Bulgaria

“Street Without A Name” is a wry, vivid and honest recollection of, and reflection on, modern Bulgaria from poet & travel writer Kapka Kassabova. An irreverent and revealing personal portrait of a little...

The African Dream

In 1964 amid worldwide conjecture, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, hero of the Cuban Revolution, mysteriously left Cuba, where he was a minister in Fidel Castro's government, and surfaced incognito in the heart...

Too Close to the Sun

Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. He was 6 foot 3 inches tall, and once lifted a car out of a ditch unaided...

Younghusband

In this travelling biography, Patrick French tells the story of the man who held the world record for the 300-yard dash, discovered a new overland route from China to India, and organized the early...

The Mapmakers - A History of Stanfords

We are proud to sell this wonderful book, as “The Mapmakers” is quite literally, all about us. One of London’s best known specialist shops, we have been trading in Charing Cross and Covent Garden for...

Women Travelers - A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950

Inspiring stories of a century of pioneering women, with essays by Alexandra Lapierre, the bestselling novelist of “Artemesia”.
An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women...

Captain Scott

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical...

Cherry - A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Despite appalling short sight Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic...

Days from a Different World

In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
'I have already touched on my childhood in...

London - The Biography

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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city.
For him it is a living organism, with...

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is often described as the world’s greatest living explorer, and “Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know” shows that as his life story stands, this is no exaggeration.
From his early military...