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Travel writing
Paperback. In 2007, when Ken Budd was 39, his father collapsed. He'd just finished 18 holes of golf. By the time Ken and his wife got to the hospital it was too late. Over the next few weeks, as grieving friends revealed how Ken's father had impacted their lives, he began thinking about parents, and children, about people. This title presents his portrait. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; JKSN1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061946462
- ISBN
- 9780061946462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.45
€ 16.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. This title reprints his journal, in a shortened form, that shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Editor(s): Browne, Janet; Neve, Michael. Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140432688
- ISBN
- 9780140432688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
The Voyages of Joshua Slocum. A Crew Member's Inside Story of the Bt G...
Walter Magnus . Ed(S): Teller
Hardback. This definitive edition of all of Captain Joshua Slocum's writings is now being reissued in time for the 100th anniversary of Slocum's epic singlehanded voyage. Editor(s): Teller, Walter Magnus. Num Pages: 406 pages, 16pp b/w photos, 10 line drawings, maps. BIC Classification: RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 36. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780911378559
- ISBN
- 9780911378559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.51
€ 31.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781906011659
- ISBN
- 9781906011659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.80
€ 16.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 117 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910266304
- ISBN
- 9781910266304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.29
€ 13.99
€ 11.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572336025
- ISBN
- 9781572336025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.72
€ 25.99
€ 22.72
Paperback. Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late 19th century and over 100 years Derek Lundy, his great-great nephew, has re-created that journey. In this work, he palces Benjamin on board the Beara Head with a community of fellow seamen as they perform the dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrationsmap,port. BIC Classification: WSSN3; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001385
- ISBN
- 9780099286622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 1FCA; 3JJPG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418. 320 pages. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 1FCA; 3JJPG; WTL. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 22. Weight: 416.
- Publisher
- Eland & Sickle Moon Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871538
- ISBN
- 9780907871538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.95
€ 16.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Written by Robert Lloyd Praeger, Ireland's greatest field botanist and published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5,000 miles across hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns, sifting fossil bones and exploring cattle-trampled tombs. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 35. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Gill
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848891944
- ISBN
- 9781848891944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.21
€ 14.99
€ 13.21
Paperback. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320. 241 pages. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WTL. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 20. Weight: 318.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 241
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871781
- ISBN
- 9780907871781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.92
€ 16.99
€ 12.92
Paperback. John Muir's journals provide a unique marriage of natural history with lyrical prose and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; BG; DNF; RNK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 42. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862415860
- ISBN
- 9780862415860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.67
€ 21.99
€ 15.67
Paperback / so. Num Pages: maps. BIC Classification: 1DN; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571313102
- ISBN
- 9781571313102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.18
€ 16.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Albatross Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780920256688
- ISBN
- 9780920256688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.14
€ 15.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. The definitive Hubbard, combining her previously unpublished diary, a full biography, and new maps that break down her daring canoe trip day by day Num Pages: 544 pages, 19 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCF; 1MTN; 3JJC; BJ; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen´s University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773540293
- ISBN
- 9780773540293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.14
€ 45.14
Paperback. Presents an account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. This book details scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from explorers. Num Pages: 720 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BTP; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099530374
- ISBN
- 9780099530374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.67
€ 19.99
€ 14.67
Paperback. In The Writer Abroad, Lucinda Hawksley takes us on a literary journey around the world, through extracts from Arthur Conan Doyle in Australia, Joseph Conrad in the Congo, Charles Dickens in Italy, Henry James in France, Mary Wollstonecraft in Sweden, and many more. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- British Library Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712357876
- ISBN
- 9780712357876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.07
€ 21.07
Paperback. A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b/w plates, With index. BIC Classification: 1FBX; BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006531210
- ISBN
- 9780006531210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.64
€ 16.99
€ 12.64
Hardcover. In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, Theodore Roosevelt Abroad is the first full account of this important time in history. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; 3JJ; HBTB; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102774
- ISBN
- 9780230102774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.05
€ 57.05
Paperback. An interesting and amusing account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003625
- ISBN
- 9781847170484
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause celebre of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; HBTP; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785352423
- ISBN
- 9781785352423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.12
€ 20.99
€ 19.12
Paperback. The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people of the village and they began to tell her their stories. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099549420
- ISBN
- 9780099549420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Num Pages: 352 pages, 40 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556527210
- ISBN
- 9781556527210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.17
€ 25.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447276272
- ISBN
- 9781447276272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.52
€ 14.99
€ 11.52
Paperback. More toe-curling adventures from the oil fields. Hectic, hellraising and hilarious, world-class rig-pig Paul Carter's at it again: breaking machinery, defying death and causing mayhem - Just another glorious day in the oilfield! Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: KNBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857885637
- ISBN
- 9781857885637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82