Travel writing
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Travel writing
Hardback. This account of the last years of Robert Louis Stevenson's life explores his search for health and the fulfilment of his ambition of crossing oceans in tall ships. There are pictures of the ships he sailed on, and tales of the characters he met. Num Pages: 304 pages, 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSP; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574091304
- ISBN
- 9781574091304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.84
€ 31.99
€ 28.84
Hardcover. Inspired by the discovery of his childhood copy of Treasure Island, The Mail on Sunday's Frank Barrett embarks on a literary quest around Britain, from Eliot's East Coker to Austen's Bath, Winnie-the-Pooh's Hartfield to Dracula's Whitby. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 222 x 29. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Aa Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749577070
- ISBN
- 9780749577070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.64
€ 11.64
Paperback. Describes the author's three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Combining humour with erudition, this title provides an account of this journey. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140276688
- ISBN
- 9780140276688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.38
€ 20.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. A story about the author's 3,000-mile solo walk across an entire continent, from Namibia's Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 pp f/c insert. BIC Classification: 1H; WTL; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715637678
- ISBN
- 9780715637678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. Num Pages: 296 pages, port. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374. 296 pages, port. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WTL. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 20. Weight: 370.
- Publisher
- Eland
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871774
- ISBN
- 9780907871774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.93
€ 16.99
€ 12.93
Paperback. Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- VintagrBooks,2008
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Later printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141021140
- ISBN
- 9780141021140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.58
€ 14.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observes America, and the Americans who inhabited it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186108
- ISBN
- 9780141186108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Presents a story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways. This book provides an account of a mismatched couple and of the people they meet and places they visit. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099503125
- ISBN
- 9780099503125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGA; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Liberties Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781907593420
- ISBN
- 9781907593420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.56
€ 15.99
€ 12.56
Paperback. Provides occasional articles about some of the places in the world that interested the author. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts from a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571240906
- ISBN
- 9780571240906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. The bestselling first volume of Tim Mackintosh-Smith's masterful journey in the footsteps of fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battutah Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QFM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848546752
- ISBN
- 9781848546752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 12.99
€ 15.00
€ 12.99
Paperback. In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on journeys through Cevennes and America where he wrote 'Travels With a Donkey' and 'The Amateur Emigrant'. Editor(s): MacLachlan, Christopher. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439464
- ISBN
- 9780141439464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.06
€ 11.99
€ 10.06
Paperback. Series: Stanfords Travel Classics. Num Pages: 97 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781909612624
- ISBN
- 9781909612624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 6.23
€ 9.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. In 1763, Tobias Smollett set sail from Folkestone to Boulogne. He would not return to England for two years, during which time he travelled extensively through much of France and Italy. This title presents a revealing portrait of 18th century Europe at a time when Marie Antoinette had just become queen of all France. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DST; 3JF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848853058
- ISBN
- 9781848853058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.97
€ 14.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. The author buys an elephant named Tara and rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270. 208 pages. The author buys an elephant named Tara and rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 13. Weight: 266.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011697
- ISBN
- 9781906011697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.79
€ 17.99
€ 12.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1HFD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474. 376 pages, 1 map, 1 port. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFD; WTL. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 25. Weight: 474.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871040
- ISBN
- 9780907871040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.93
€ 16.99
€ 12.93
Paperback. The author has travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the Great Game. This title provides an account his travels. Editor(s): Hopkirk, Kathleen. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011710
- ISBN
- 9781906011710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.44
€ 19.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Yeats, Jack B. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 b&w drawings. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Serif
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897959657
- ISBN
- 9781897959657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.95
€ 13.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However, on the death of her parents, she undertook an extraordinary decision: with no prior knowledge of the region, she set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological interests. Editor(s): Turner, Lynnette. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; HBTQ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439426
- ISBN
- 9780141439426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.64
€ 19.99
€ 14.64
Paperback. Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general. Translator(s): Abbott, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212. 228 pages. Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; WTLC. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight: 212. Translator(s): Abbott, Elizabeth.
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Number of pages
- 228
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847492920
- ISBN
- 9781847492920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.33
€ 13.99
€ 11.33