Penguin Great Journeys
Series details
| Relevant titles in series: | 0 (out of 8) |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback Mini |
Penguin's Great Journeys is a series of pocket paperbacks, each of them an extract from a historic classic travelogue. Writers such as Thesiger, Twain, Chekhov, Kapuzinsky, Marco Polo and even Herodotus are featured, offering the highlights from historic journeys of discovery and adventure.
The Great Journeys series allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Bringing you over 150 years of experience in travel