Travel and holiday Books
BIS Publishers B.V. How to be a Better Tourist: Tips for a Truly
Book SynopsisVacations are made of freedom. Pure freedom. Our busy lives, full of obligations, mean that vacations may be the only times we can do whatever we want, wherever we want. So just how weird is it that we all spend that precious time doing the same things? That we descend en masse on the same cities, cluster around the same attractions and all visit the same picturesque neighbourhoods that can’t actually handle the influx? How to Be a Better Tourist offers a fresh perspective on making your vacation truly worthwhile. After all, what if all your vacations seem to be getting more and more the same? What if being a tourist is suddenly no longer quite as innocent as it first seemed? Or what if your long list of must-sees in fact stresses you out? As the writer Elbert Hubbard poignantly put it, “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” Find out why you should perhaps stay at home. Understand why you also need to work while on vacation. Read why tourists should visit supermarkets and residential districts too. Our typical vacation behaviour - visiting the maximum number of highlights in the minimum amount of time - is rarely the most rewarding. How to Be a Better Tourist helps you get the most out of your stay without damaging the soul of your destination. Because, ultimately, an imaginatively considered vacation is a genuinely rewarding experience.
£13.49
I Love the Seaside The Surf & Travel Guide to Chile
Book SynopsisFor this edition, they teamed up with adventure-seeking Marte Louwes and Chilean local surfer Vicente Gracia, who found the best addresses along Chile's endless shores, and a few inland too. They stargazed in the arid desert in Norte Grande, drove through green hills to stay in the lively surf hubs of Central Chile, then continued south to the Lake District's ancient forests before exploring the Chiloé archipelago in North Patagonia. In their own words: "There is so much raw beauty out there that needs to be seen. The endless coast of Chile and the constantly changing views, landscapes and climates. We were pleasantly surprised by the awesome coffee places, vegan-friendly food bowls and beautiful beach bars we discovered along the way. Our dream is to share with you our love for Chile's people, waves, coastline, food and travel. To connect the local community with a greater likeminded community."
£26.96
Paris Grafik Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Map
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£7.59
Trema Forlag Performing Grounds
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£28.50
Matthias Kamann How to be Swedish: A Quick Guide to Swedishness -
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£16.62
Alpha Edition An Australian in China: Being the Narrative of a
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£12.84
Alpha Edition From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches of Ceylon
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£15.05
Alpha Edition Luxembourg; the grand duchy and its people
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£19.84
Alpha Edition Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in
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£23.86
Alpha Edition Narrative of the expedition of an American
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£25.12
HarperCollins India A-Z of Indian Cities: Ahmedabad to Zunheboto
Book SynopsisExplore 26 Indian cities through illustrated maps, uncovering local traditions, festivals, myths, and cuisine. Experience the diversity and heritage of India on a joyride through both familiar and lesser-known destinations.
£4.86
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited An American Girl in India:: Letters and
Book SynopsisTwenty-two-year-oldWendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963, on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the country. Over the coming year a lot of it spent inTagore''s Shantiniketan she would fall completely in love with the place she had till then known only through books. The India she describes in her letters back home to her parents is young, like her, still finding its feet, and learning to come to terms with the violence of Partition. But it is also a mature civilization which allowsVishnu to be depicted on the walls in a temple to Shiva; a culture of contradictions where extreme eroticism is tied to extreme chastity; and a land of the absurd where sociable station masters don t let train schedules come in the way of hospitality.The country comes alive though her vivid prose, introspective and yet playful, and her excitement is on full display whether she is telling of the paradoxes of Indian life, the picturesque countryside, the peculiarities of Indian languages, or simply the mechanics of a temple ritual that she doesn t understand.And amid her studies she manages to travel, north to the Mughal forts and south to the ancient temples, and make new friends the feisty Chanchal from Lahore and the affable Mishtuni, as well as some very famous ones including Jamini Roy and Ali Akbar Khan. Those who have read and admiredWendy Doniger will be delighted to find much of her later work anticipated in these letters, and the few who haven t will get to see, through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed and witty young scholar, India as they have never seen it before.
£20.89
Double 9 Booksllp The Cruise Of The Snark
Book SynopsisThe Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictitious, represented book by Jack London chronicling his cruising experience across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Going with London on this journey was his better half Charmian and a little group. London showed himself heavenly route and the fundamentals of cruising and of boats throughout this experience and portrays these subtleties to the peruser. During the journey they visited fascinating areas including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. His first-individual records and photos give knowledge into these remote spots toward the start of the twentieth hundred years.
£13.49
Double 9 Booksllp A Voyage to Abyssinia
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£10.44
Double 9 Books Twilight In Italy
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£11.39
Double 9 Books An Englishman's Travels in America
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£11.39
Double 9 Books First Across the Continent
Book SynopsisFirst Across the Continent, by Noah Brooks, is an enthralling historical narrative of the extraordinary trip of the United States' first transcontinental railroad. Brooks takes readers on an enthralling journey through the challenges, achievements, and personal tales that shaped this massive project. The book digs into the bold idea of uniting the United States' East and West coastlines via a single continuous railroad line. Brooks eloquently depicts the visionaries, engineers, laborers, and financiers who helped to make this huge endeavor a reality. He highlights the enormous physical challenges faced, such as dangerous terrain, adverse weather conditions, and the vast distance that had to be overcome. Brooks mixes personal histories of those involved among the technical intricacies of construction, providing insight into the lives of the people who worked relentlessly to make the dream of a transcontinental train a reality.
£13.59
Double9 Books Llp Redburn His First Voyage
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£15.29
Amaryllis The Walk with Four Spiritual Guides: Krishna
Book SynopsisA Walk with Four Spiritual Guides by Andrew Harvey explores teachings of Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Ramakrishna, offering translations and commentary to provide deeper insight into their wisdom for today.
£7.19
Yoda Press Coldnoon
Book SynopsisThe Way of the World is a captivating travel book about a writer and artist's journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s, exploring travel as a path to self-discovery. With vivid descriptions and charming illustrations, it offers a unique perspective on friendship and adventure.
£7.20
Orange Books International Catering technology + food science
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£62.69
Amsterdam University Press Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in
Book SynopsisGuided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural ‘Petit Tour’ of global significance. As they zigzagged across a debatable land between Italy and Austria, Victorians discovered a unique geography characterized by untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys. The discovery of this landscape blended aesthetic, scientific, and cultural values utterly different from those engendered by the bombastic conquests of the Western Alps achieved during the ‘Golden Age of Mountaineering’. Filtered through memories of the Venetian Grand Tour, the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites is revealed through a series of distinct cultural practices that paradigmatically define a ‘Silver Age of Mountaineering’. This book shows how these practices are more ethnographic than imperialistic, more feminine than masculine, more artistic than sportive — rather than racing to summits, the Silver Age is about rambling, rather than conquering peaks, it is about sketching them in an intimate interaction with the Dolomite landscape.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tools for Unravelling Heritage Part One: Matrices of Topographic Memory 1. The Alps and the Grand Tour 2. The Laboratory of the Picturesque 3. The Golden Age of Mountaineering Part Two: The Invention of the Dolomites 4. The Silver Age of Mountaineering 5. Titian Country 6. Picturesque Mountains 7. Dolomite Close-Ups 8. King Laurin's Garden Epilogue: Messner Country Bibliography Index
£116.85
Xpat Scriptum Publishers The Undutchables
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£18.95
Books on Demand Karjalan kutsu: Kulttuuriretkiä I. K. Inhan ja
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£28.40
Books on Demand Kap Verde
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£21.76
BoD - Books on Demand Mkkikirja
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£12.51
Melissa Publishing House Landscapes in Greece
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£67.50
Cordee Mountaineering in Slovenia: The Julian Alps and
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£26.00
GEAart, d. o. o. Over the Blue Planet: Around the World with an
Book SynopsisOver the Blue Planet celebrates the diversity of the Earth as seen and photographed during the round-the-world flight of pilot Matevz Lenarcic in 2012, and his flight over the North Pole in 2013.The book celebrates the 71% of the Earth's surface which is covered with water; not only sea but also rivers, waterfalls, lakes, wetlands and ice. Pilot and photographer Matevz Lenarcic has caught the complete spectrum of colours, silhouettes and panoramas which can only be experienced from up above. The perspective is captured on 380 pages in this large format book in which the photographs are complemented with texts about his experience of flying across the globe. However, the 'Blue Planet' is not merely about water. It also showcases mountains, plains, forests, valleys over seven continents, three oceans, Mt. Everest, 100 national parks, six crossings of the Equator, and the North Pole.The flights were carried out in an ultralight aircraft with minimal fuel consumption. The purpose was also to measure black carbon for research purposes, one of the main reasons for global warming
£18.00
Odyssey Books Kazakhstan: Nomadic Routes from Caspian to Altai
Book SynopsisSpectacular photography, rich historical background, and essential travel information are combined in this indispensable reference for the immense, diverse, remote region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. A country larger than Western Europe, Kazakhstan's vast expanse encompasses the Great Steppe, the heights of the Tien Shan in the south, the exquisite lakes and valleys of the mystical Altai mountains in the northeast, and the archaeologically rich desert coast of the Caspian Sea in the west. With independence and the discovery of oil has come rapid modernization, and Kazakhstan today stands as Central Asia's most stable and forward-thinking nation.
£16.10
Gefen Publishing House Israel for Perplexed Beginners
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£16.19
Citykat Stories Tel Aviv City Stories: Tel Aviv City Stories - An
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£17.09
Citykat Stories Jerusalem City Stories: An Activity City Guide
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£17.09
Gefen Books Israel 201: Your Next Level Guide to the Magic
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£18.89
Kodansha Europe Head Office Secrets Of Bali
£20.40
Kodansha Europe Head Office Himalayan Pilgrimage
£25.65
Kodansha Europe Head Office Land Of Jade A Journey From India Through Northern Burma To China
£24.30
Kodansha Europe Head Office Buddist Himalaya Travels And Studies In Quest Of The Origins And Nature Of Tibetan Religion
£25.65
The American University in Cairo Press Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide
Book SynopsisCairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor. This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments.Trade Review"Anyone interested in knowing more about Cairo's Islamic architecture should pick up the excellent Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide."--Lonely Planet"Any visitor to Cairo who wants to see the monuments should not be without it."--Bernard O'Kane, author of "The Mosques of Egypt""This book ought to be in the luggage of every visitor to Cairo. Furthermore, once home, lovers and students of Cairo's architecture will find it a convenient and accurate quick reference as well as a cherished souvenir of many profitable and enjoyable rambles among the monuments of Cairo."--Journal of the American Research Center in EgyptTable of ContentsAcknowledgments How to Use This Book 1. Historical Summary and Chronology 2. Architectural and Ornamental Summary 3. The Island of Roda and Old Cairo 4. The Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun and Sharia Saliba 5. The Madrasa of Sultan Hasan and Bab al-Wazir 6. From the Mosque of Sultan Hasan to Bab Zuwayla (Darb al-Ahmar) 7. Bab Zuwayla to Sharia Saliba 8. The Southern Cemetery 9. Sharia Port Said-On and Off 10. Bab Zuwayla to the Mosque of al-Azhar 11. Al-Azhar Square to Bab al-Futuh and Back 12. The Citadel 13. The Northern Cemetery 14. Al-Husayniya and the Mosque of Baybars I 15. Bulaq Glossary Islamic Calendar and Principal Feasts Bibliography Index Maps
£23.74
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt Inside Out
Book SynopsisThe drama of history and the confluence of geography and climate have made Egypt one of the most sought-after travel destinations in the world. But what is that elusive something that makes it unlike anywhere else on earth? In Egypt Inside Out, Trevor Naylor and Doriana Dimitrova escape the crowds and clamor to take us a on a lyrical exploration of place, bringing us the country in all its captivating regional diversity: the wistfulness of Alexandria, the serenity of Aswan, the energy of Cairo, the lushness of Fayoum, the magic of Siwa, the haunting purity of river and desert. Photographing villages, towns, and cities from the cool, intimate interiors of hotels and homes, and from on board boats, taxis, and trains, they transport us to Egypt’s hideaways and dappled shadows, its groves and temples, dazzling colors and sublime light, and the vast splendor of its landscapes and monumental architecture. Written by an author who has known Egypt for more than thirty years, and illustrated with beautifully observed photographs, Egypt Inside Out is a unique journey through the ever-present allure of an extraordinary country.Trade Review"A real picture of what Egypt is like today." —May El Habachi, Oasis Magazine"[A]n excellent guide to the ancient land."—Shepherd Express"The inside-out perspective evokes the experience of being there, inviting readers to embrace an almost meditative travel discipline of slowing down to take in the details and complexities of Egypt, moment by moment. . . . taking the reader on a picturesque journey northward along the Nile, from the Nubian culture and archeological richness of Aswan to the temples at Luxor and all the way to Cairo and Alexandria along the coast."—J. Trevor Williams, AramcoWorldTable of ContentsIntroduction – Seeing Egypt Our Way Looking Downriver – Nubia and AswanEast and West – Luxor and the Nile from both sides Cairo Through Fayum to the Deserts Facing the Sea – Alamein and Alexandria Along the Coast to Siwa Sinai - Sea and Spectacle
£28.49
Editorial Dahbar / Cyngular Asesoria 357, C.A. El Ladron De Recuerdos: Un Viaje Por Rio En
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£11.14
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Colouring Singapore Postcard: Book 1
Book SynopsisThe Colouring Singapore Postcards are adapted from William Sim’s popular Colouring the Lion City book. Now travellers can have a handy souvenir of their visit to Singapore. Each book of 20 postcards features tourist attractions such as the Singapore Zoo, Raffles Hotel as well as other aspects of the country that are popular interest with visitors. Each postcard includes a short write up on the back giving details of what is featured. What’s more, visitors can colour and personalise the postcards before mailing them to friends and relatives.
£12.29
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Colouring Singapore Postcards: Book 2
Book SynopsisThe Colouring Singapore Postcards are adapted from William Sim’s popular Colouring the Lion City book. Now travellers can have a handy souvenir of their visit to Singapore. Each book of 20 postcards features tourist attractions such as the Singapore Zoo, Raffles Hotel as well as other aspects of the country that are popular interest with visitors. Each postcard includes a short write up on the back giving details of what is featured. What’s more, visitors can colour and personalise the postcards before mailing them to friends and relatives.
£12.22
Herman and Candelaria Zapp Atrapa tu Sueño: Una historia real donde se
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£17.01
Blacksmith Books Chinese Wet Market Handbook: A Guide to Shopping
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£10.44
Blacksmith Books Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Herveys 1920s Hong
Book SynopsisAs a young American, Harry Hervey dreamt of travelling to Asia. In 1923, he arrived to spend time in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou. His impressions of southern China are lyrical and detailed, atmospheric and informative. From the basement dives of Kennedy Town to the private dining rooms of Queens Road, and Macaos Praia Grande to its fan-tan houses, Hervey is a fascinating flaneur. So too in Guangzhou, a city in tumult, where he encounters those fleeing warlord violence and is granted an audience with Dr Sun Yat-sen. Herveys impressions of China would stay with him for the rest of his life, not least in his treatment for the 1932 movie Shanghai Express. Describes a lost world: the Canton, Macao and Hong Kong of the 1920s. Written by a young American traveller who would later become a renowned screenwriter of the 1930s. Includes his interview with revolutionary leader Dr Sun Yat-sen which is perhaps the last interview Dr Sun gave to an American writer before his death less than a year later.
£9.49
Blacksmith Books Wanderings in China: Hong Kong & Canton,
Book SynopsisInveterate Victorian traveller and prolific artist Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide: from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, from the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Even among her many adventures, Gordon-Cumming''s 1878/1879 trip to Hong Kong was momentous. She arrived just before Christmas 1878 to inadvertently witness the terrible Great Fire of Hong Kong that swept devastatingly through the Central and Mid-Levels districts. She then moved on to explorations of the streets, temples and Chinese New Year festivities in Canton (Guangzhou) before returning to Hong Kong for the horse races at Happy Valley in February 1879. Gordon-Cumming is that rare travel writer who while plunging into the throngs and crowds manages to observe the minutiae of life around her.. Describes the Canton and Hong Kong of the 1870s.A travelogue written by a fearless solo female traveller who was well-known for her books and magazine articles in the late Victorian period. Describes the traditional Chinese New Year festivities.
£9.49
Blacksmith Books Chinese Street Food: A Field Guide for the
Book SynopsisStreet food is the fuel of daily life in China, just as it has been for generations. In every Chinese city, adventurous travellers seeking a deeper understanding of authentic Chinese culture can find unique local street foods unavailable anywhere else in the world. If you want to sample these treasures but dont know where to start, look no further. With full-colour photographs, taste descriptions, Chinese characters and pinyin names of hundreds of foods from 53 Chinese cities, this book gives you all the information you need to find the most delicious local dishes China can offer.
£15.29
