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| Author: | Brian Blessed |
| Publisher: | Boxtree |
| Catalogue number: | 92823 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Brian Blessed fulfills one of his childhood dreams, to visit the land frozen in time of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. This is his compelling account of the journey, the description of the fascinating...
| Author: | Alexander von Humboldt |
| Series: | Penguin Great Journeys |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 154260 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
"Jaguars and Electric Eels" presents extracts from the work of Alexander von Humboldt, chronicler of the New World. A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey...
| Author: | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 16793 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford, and accompanied by three trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river voyage into the interior...
The Hacienda: My Venezuelan Years
| Author: | Lisa St. Aubin de Teran |
| Publisher: | Virago |
| Catalogue number: | 76559 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
At just 17 the author went to live on her new husband's hacienda deep in the Venezuelan Andes. There her husband (a bank robber and aristocrat) more or less leaves her to fend for herself. She lived...
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