Travel & Places

Travel & Places

Travel & Places

Travel & Places

Travel and adventure, road trips to explorations and endeavours. The world at large can be enjoyed from the comfort of your armchair through the pens of intrepid travellers.
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DOING BUSINESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
DONNA MARSH    Book Number: 89796
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Sub-titled 'A Cultural and Practical Guide for All Business Professionals', this new edition updates and expands valuable cultural and practical information and is necessary reading for all profess...
VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
CHARLES DARWIN    Book Number: 25257
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Darwin's writings as an independent naturalist on the HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 capture the natural world's beauty in his own sublime language. In a travel journal which takes us from the co...
SKYLINES
YOLANDA ZAPPATERRA    Book Number: 90842
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Extremely beautiful silhouette artworks decorate the landscape pages of this compilation of one-of-a-kind buildings - fortresses, palaces, sacred sites, monuments, skyscrapers and cultural hotspots...
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG NATURALIST
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH    Book Number: 90904
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Welcome paperback reprint of a book first published in 1980 under the title 'The Zoo Quest Expedition: Travels in Guyana, Indonesia and Paraguay.' In 1954 a young David Attenborough had the opport...
JOURNEYS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH    Book Number: 90905
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A companion to 90904 Adventures of A Young Naturalist, the book was first published in 1981 under the title 'Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of A...
ARABIA: A Journey Through the Heart of the Middle East
LEVISON WOOD    Book Number: 90907
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The award-winning TV adventurer and travel writer's enthralling account of his 5,000 mile expedition around the Arabian Peninsula, from Iraq to Lebanon, in the winter of 2017. He gives a vivid pic...
IMPOSSIBLE OWLS: Essays from the Ends of the World
BRIAN PHILLIPS    Book Number: 91069
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Witty and whimsical, The New Yorker wrote that the book 'leads us to some remarkable, unpredictable places, from the Alaskan wilderness to a supermarket parking lot in Southern Japan, from an old m...
AUTUMN IN VENICE: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
ANDREA DI ROBILANT    Book Number: 91118
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One of the most wrenching and scandalous love stories in all of literary biography, the author finely details the last productive years of Ernest Hemingway in a kaleidoscopic succession of relation...
ROWING THE PACIFIC: 7,000 Miles from Japan to San Francisco
MICK DAWSON    Book Number: 91126
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A thrilling adventure book by a man who can not only row but can write about near-death experiences and the equipment failures, battling extreme fatigue, frightening storms and an ocean the consist...
WE SWIM TO THE SHARK: Overcoming Fear One Fish At A Time
GEORGIE CODD    Book Number: 91130
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Despite her name, this intrepid explorer had a deep fear of fish, so to overcome her phobia she plots to travel to Thailand, learn to dive and swim with the biggest fish in the world, the mighty wh...
WORLD BENEATH THEIR FEET
SCOTT ELLSWORTH    Book Number: 91133
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Sub-titled 'The British, The Americans, The Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas', this gripping book was shortlisted in 2020 for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. It is an unforgett...
IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT NORTH AFRICA: A History In Six Lives
BARNABY ROGERSON    Book Number: 91154
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For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. His book is a journey into ruins of a la...
MAN WITH HIS HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
RICHARD O. SMITH    Book Number: 91159
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A brilliant blend of biography and a bold book about ballooning, the book is hilarious, entertaining and inspiring about James Sadler, the first Englishman to fly. It is the story of how an uneduc...
NELSON'S BAND OF BROTHERS: Lives and Memorials
PETER HORE    Book Number: 91164
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While there is perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins,...
TRAVELS WITH HENRY JAMES
HENRY JAMES    Book Number: 91178
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The author of such classic novels as The Portrait of A Lady, The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, Henry James (1843-1916) here takes readers from the American towns of upstate New York to villag...
IN BRAZIL
FRAN BRYSON    Book Number: 91310
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A beautifully observed and lyrically written account of seven years' worth of travels through the world's fifth largest country, Bryson fills her narrative with characters, culture and history and ...
SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER CREEPS
DOM JOLY    Book Number: 91527
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Dom Joly sets off around the world and this time he's monster hunting. He explores the Redwood Curtain in Northern California in search of Sasquatch. In Canada he visits Lake Okanagan hoping to c...
ICE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
JON GERTNER    Book Number: 91364
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Sub-titled 'An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future', this is a riveting and urgent account of the explorers and scientists who are racing to understand the rapidly mel...
ZANZIBAR CHEST
AIDAN HARTLEY    Book Number: 91415
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A wrenching account of African horrors, particularly those of Somalia and Rwanda but also at the same time a loving and often evocative account of East Africa where the author grew up. Combining l...
AN ARABIAN JOURNEY:
LEVISON WOOD    Book Number: 91254
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Not many people would choose to tour what is arguably the most dangerous part of the world amidst what was (up until recent events) the deadliest war of the 21st century, but that is exactly what a...
HAMLET GLOBE TO GLOBE
DOMINIC DROMGOOLE    Book Number: 91355
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Two Years 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play. From the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre here is an account of the theatre's extraordinary two year tour bringing Hamlet to every...
NINE CONTINENTS: A Memoir in and Out of China
XIAOLU GUO    Book Number: 91381
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A fascinating portrait of China in the 1980s and 1990s, how the Cultural Revolution shaped families, and how the country's economic ambitions gave rise to great change. Xiaolu Guo is one of the mo...
UNFABLING THE EAST
JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL    Book Number: 91409
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Sub-titled 'The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia', during the long 18th century, Europe's travellers, scholars and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony and openness. In...
LONDON THEN & NOW IN COLOUR
LAINA WATT    Book Number: 91609
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The professional photographer juxtaposes London's streets of old and new, with Roman stones and Saxon churches, Norman fortresses, Tudor palaces and Victorian bridges jostling for space with the fu...
ATLAS OBSCURA: Explorer's Journal
JOE LE MONNIER & JANET VICARIO    Book Number: 91747
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'Let your curiosity be your compass', be inspired by the city guides to Berlin, Budapest, Bueno Aires, Cairo, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo and Mexico to find the hidden magic in 12 o...
THE CHANNEL
CHARLIE CONNELLY    Book Number: 91773
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The symbolism of the English Channel goes way beyond a simple role as a conduit for shipping, trawling and the odd lard-and-lanolin-slathered maniac in goggles and swimming trunks plunging in and m...
ISLAND DREAMS: Mapping An Obsession
GAVIN FRANCIS    Book Number: 91783
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This beautiful book is an explosion of praise for islands, whether tiny like the Shetland island of Unst or the size of Greenland, a country whose ownership was decided by the International Court o...
THREE TIGERS, ONE MOUNTAIN
MICHAEL BOOTH    Book Number: 91742
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Sub-titled 'A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan' the book explores the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighbouring countri...
UNDERGROUND: A Human History of the World's Beneath Our Feet
WILL HUNT    Book Number: 91744
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When Will Hunt was 16 years old he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination exploring undergrou...
PRISONERS OF HISTORY: What Monuments to WW2 Tell Us
KEITH LOWE    Book Number: 91905
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From Berlin to Moscow, Seoul to Hiroshima, the Philippines to Israel, Lithuania to Washington, the Bomber Command Memorial in London, the Shrine to the Fallen, Bologna, the Nanjing Massacre Memoria...
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