Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Biographies’ - 47 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...

Fishing in Utopia - Sweden and the Future that Disappeared

Andrew Brown’s Fishing in Utopia is part autobiography, part social analysis of Swedish society outside Stockholm from the years of socialism to the liberal government of today. The urge of nature brings...

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...

News from No Man's Land

SIGNED COPIES! 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...

Not Quite World's End - A Traveller's Tales

SIGNED COPIES! The book’s full title gives a new reader an idea as to just what to expect from John Simpson; “Not Quite World’s End - A Traveller’s Tales” is an optimistic voice in seemingly pessimistic...

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...

Stange Places, Questionable People

SIGNED COPIES! John Simpson's eventful career as a BBC reporter has put him on the spot to witness the Tiananmen Square massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism through Eastern...

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...

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...

Tribe

Now available in paperback, "Tribe" tells the story of Bruce Parry's time spent understanding 15 remote native tribes around the world, a remarkable journey that became a successful BBC series. Over...

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...

Bomb, Book & Compass

In “Bomb, Book & Compass” celebrated historical author Simon Winchester tells the amazing story of Joseph Needham, the pre-eminent Western scholar and chronicler of China. Before fate intervened, Joseph...

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...