Travel Writing

Philip Ells / Where The Hell Is Tuvalu?

 How does a young City lawyer end up as the People's Lawyer of the fourth-smallest country in the world, 18,000 kilometres from home? We've all thought about getting off the treadmill, turning life on its head and doing something worthwhile. Philip...

Peter Robb / A death in Brazil

  Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil...

Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated

Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer.  This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937.  Condition - Book -...

Kira Salak / Four Corners

  Following the route taken by British explorer Ivan Champion in 1927, and amid the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak travelled across this remote Pacific island - often called the last frontier of adventure travel - by dugout canoe and...

Alan Biggins / Selling French Dreams (Large Paperback)

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Tony Wheeler / Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing

  Lonely Planet believes good travel writing travels beyond facts and maps - there are stories and inspirations to be shared. This title includes stories from popular Lonely Planet anthologies such as 'On The Edge', 'By The Seat Of My Pants',...

Danny Wallace / Friends Like These (Large Paperback)

  Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a cliche. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints for lattes and had even contemplated buying coasters. Something wasn't right - he was feeling...

Fearghal O'Nuallain / The Kindness of Strangers : Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow

 Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richerTravel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we...

Boris Johnson / The Dream of Rome

 Focussing on how the Romans made Europe work as a homogenous civilisation and looking at why we are failing to make the EU work in modern times, this is an authoritative and amusing study from bestselling author Boris Johnson.In addition to his...

David Herman / Ireland (Hardback)

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Louis Theroux / The Call of the Weird

 After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras...

Katie Wood / Globetrotter's Bible 1994

  Once the preserve of the few, seeing the world has now become the delight of the many. Never before has it been so easy and cheap to travel the world, whether on a round-the-world ticket, a discounted long haul flight, or by overlanding. This...

Sofka Zinovieff / Eurydice Street : A Place In Athens

  Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny and inquiring account...

Chris Moon / One Step Beyond (Hardback)

  Ex-soldier Chris Moon is a hero for our times. After leaving the army, he found that he missed the challenge of military life and became a mine-clearance operative. In Mozambique, he lost a leg and arm when a mine exploded. This is an account...

Adharanand Finn / Running with the Kenyans (Large Paperback)

  "Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year" - This is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest races, from the Olympics to big city marathons, Runner's World...

Mike Carter / All Together Now? (Large Paperback)

 'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles...

Josie Dew / A Ride In The Neon Sun : A Gaijin in Japan (Hardback)

  Josie spent eight months cycling round Japan, starting with Tokyo - the hustle and bustle of a very busy city with masses of cars, neon lights and fast food takeaways. Tokyo has a population of 27 million. Then she went on to the country,...

Martin Fletcher / Silver Linings : Travels Around Northern Ireland (Hardback)

  Northern Ireland has made headlines around the world for three decades. The province has become synonymous with conflict, terrorism and tortuous efforts to forge peace. But what is life there really like? In this enchanting and highly original...

Helen Russell / The Year of Living Danishly : Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

 * NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTER *'A hugely enjoyable romp through the pleasures and pitfalls of setting up home in a foreign land.'- GuardianGiven the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: Denmark,...

Peter Biddlecombe / Never Feel a Stranger

  Dogs tucked into handbags, verbally polluted airline companions, electronic hotel door keys and ridiculous money pouches worn by xenophobic English tourists - these are just a few of Peter Biddlecombe's least favourite things. He has dragged...

Edward Enfield / Freewheeling Through Ireland

  'At one moment you seem to be in the Lake District; then you could be on the moon; then you are in a wilderness; and then beside a Norwegian fjord.' When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged...

John Ryan / Stories You Wouldn't Tell Your Mother : Backpacker Tales (Large Paperback)

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Charley Boorman / Right To The Edge (Large Paperback)

  Charley Boorman returns with a brand-new adventure, travelling from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Japan...by any means! Using quad bikes, hovercrafts, wooden scooters, canoes, paragliders and of course his...

Tobias Jones / Utopian Dreams

  Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, loneliness and depression, is...

Tiziano Terzani / A Fortune-Teller Told Me

 Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and...

Paul Gleeson / Little Lady One Man Big Ocean: Rowing the Atlantic (Hardback)

  Two non-rowers take on one of life's great challenges: the Atlantic. Paul Gleeson & Tori Holmes enlist the help of Irishmen Eamonn and Peter Kavanagh to train them for the 2005/06 trans-Atlantic race. The race itself turned into a...

Helena Frith Powell / More More France Please

  What do you do when a semi-feral dog bites off the nose of a guest at your first French dinner? What when the well dries up? What do you say to your French mistress? Where to go if you don't want to see any compatriots? In "More More France...

Kyle MacDonald / One Red Paperclip (Large Paperback)

 A red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise to make the trade I will come and visit you,...

Ernesto Che Guevara / The Motorcycle Diaries (Large Paperback)

 A new edition from Ocean Press of the young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary is publishedto coincide with the new movie from Robert Redford and Walter Salles based on thebooks.New features of this newedition include:a new,...

Simon Garfield / On The Map

 Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps...

Ben Judah / This is London

 This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before...

Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback)

 In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but...

Sanjeev Bhaskar / India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

 Sanjeev Bhaskar, the comedian and writer behind The Kumars at No. 42 embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev's characteristic humour and unique take on the country form the heart of this beautifully written...

Christopher Moriarty / On Dublin's Doorstep

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Michelle De Kretser / Brief Encounters : Stories of Love, Sex and Travel

  This collection of stories from 22 authors from around the world concerns travel romances. A tourist in Peru falls for her handsome guide; a writer explores the ambiguities of his relationship with a Japanese woman; and a beautiful Italian on a...

Gloria Steinem / My Life on the Road

 THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICAGloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were...

Patrick Leigh Fermor / The Broken Road : From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

 The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age...

Pat Boran / The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (Large Paperback)

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Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback)

 Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of...

E.OE. Somerville / In the Vine Country

  Somerville and Ross wrote many travel books charting their experiences throughout Ireland and abroad. In the Vine Country is an account of a tour through the Medoc county, where they discover the pleasures of harvest - a glass of mout, freshly...

Adrian Gill / The Best of A. A. Gill

 For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our...

Brendan McManus / Redemption Road : Grieving on the Camino (Large Paperback)

 An Irish Jesuit priest walks the Camino as he struggles to come to terms with his brother's suicide, finding remption at the end of his journey.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Alex Garland / The Weekenders : Travels in the Heart of Africa

  What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of...

V. S. Naipaul / An Area of Darkness

 AN AREA OF DARKNESS is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, always concerned - of his first visit to India, the land of his forbears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay,...

Conor Woodman / The Adventure Capitalist

 Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for...

Levison Wood / Eastern Horizons

 Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history...

Francis Gimblett / In and Out of Africa : In Search of Gerard Depardieu

 Francis Gimblett is "The Wine Adventurer" and this book sees him discovering wine-making on the wild side. A journey that starts at a London talk show and ends in North Africa's Atlas mountains, this is the story of people making extraordinary wine...

Tim Moore / French Revolutions

  Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows,...

Rory Coveney / Voyage of Hope : Sail Chernobyl (Hardback)

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Hilary Bradt / Dingle Peggy

 The continuation of the journey on horseback through the west Ireland described in Connemara Mollie. With her replacement pony, Peggy, the author travels from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, south down the coast of Co. Cork, before turning...

Patricia OReilly / Writing for the Market

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Kathryn Thomas / Off the Beaten Track (Large Paperback)

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