Search Results for ‘Balkans’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 12 matches found
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| Author: | Claudio Magris |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 94608 |
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There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his...
| Author: | Michael Palin |
| Publisher: | Phoenix |
| Catalogue number: | 165644 |
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In "New Europe" Michael Palin sets off to discover the half of Europe that until recently has been largely out of bounds. Shown in BBC TV documentaries, the famed travel writer and comedian explores...
| Author: | Misha Glenny |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 91783 |
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| Author: | Nicolas Bouvier |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 156275 |
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Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...
| Author: | Tony Wheeler |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
| Catalogue number: | 154804 |
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Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive and dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “When Mr Bush produced his ‘Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was...
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)
| Author: | Kenneth Cain |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press |
| Catalogue number: | 142468 |
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It's the early 1990s and three young people, working for the UN and Red Cross in Cambodia, become friends in the heady atmosphere of the country's first democratic elections. All of them have been attracted...
The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania
| Author: | Robert Carver |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 82119 |
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Travelling by bus, on foot, by mule and horse, staying with Albanians in their houses and crumbling Stalinist tower blocks, Robert Carver meets Vlach shepherds and village intellectuals, ex-Communist...
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
| Author: | Marcus Tanner |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 102092 |
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As Croatia's past and present defy simple categorization, Marcus Tanner's book provides a full and impartial account of its rise, fall, and rebirth from its medieval origins to today's tentative peace...
| Author: | Noel Malcolm |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Catalogue number: | 75807 |
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"Brilliantly researched and argued ¿ A magisterial work of history ... an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding and knowledge of a contemporary crisis ¿ this is [also] a profound and...
When the Alps Cast their Spell
| Publisher: | Neil Wilson Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 127886 |
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In “When the Alps Cast Their Spell” the mountaineer and writer Trevor Braham illustrates aspects of the character and achievements of some of the early Victorian climbers, and their response to the...
Croatia - Through Writer's Eyes
| Author: | Peter Frankopan |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 145388 |
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“Croatia - Through Writers’ Eyes” contains work from some of the greatest travel writers of our time, even finding space to hold some of literary great Evelyn Waugh’s musings on this amazing country...
| Author: | Riccardo Orizio |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 119187 |
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