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Polity Press Travel in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisMost of us today know little about the conditions under which people travelled in early modern Europe. Travellers' accounts from the period generally omit detailed descriptions of the state of roads, the discomfort of a carriage or a coach, or the harshness of a landscape, even though these formed the everyday reality of travel for most people.Trade Review'Rarely have I read a book as full of intriguing nuggets about the everyday life of the past and with as much potential to trigger engrossing flights of fancy as Travel in Early Modern Europe.' Literary Review 'His range shows through in the geographical reach of his text.' The Journal of Transport History 'A most welcome addition to the rapidly-growing English-language literature on the history of travel. It is not only scholarly and original, but readable and lively. It has itself the qualities of good travel books - apt quotations, picturesque detail, and a great deal of human interest.' Journal of Social History 'Maczak has marshalled the sources with magnificent erudition to provide a vivid and comprehensive account of the circumstances and attitudes that conditioned early modern travel ... Maczak makes fascinating use of multilingual phrasebooks for travellers ... a marvellous analysis of travellers and relics ... this is an important book of superb scholarship and sharp insight, which will be very welcome in English translation for early modern historians.' American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction to the English Edition. 1. Roads and Their Traffic. 2. Inns and Their Hospitality. 3. The Cost of Travelling. 4. Hygiene. 5. Frontiers. 6. The Travelling Community. 7. Instructions and Good Advice. 8. Dangers. 9. The Role of Books in Travellers' Daily Lives. 10. Scholars: Visiting and Visited. 11. Art and Artists. 12. Catholics, Protestants and Relics. 13. The Boundaries of the Permissible. 14. Tourists and Measurements. 15. Great Expectations and Everyday Impressions. 16. Conclusions Deduced From Travelling. Bibliography. Notes. Index.
£60.00
Little, Brown Book Group Slow Coast Home 5000 miles around the shores of England and Wales
Book SynopsisJosie Dew''s love of cycling has taken her across the world, travelling everywhere from Japan and Mexico to Iceland, India and Algeria. In her latest book, she sets off on another quirky and riotous ride, choosing to circumnavigate the coastline of the British Isles. And she discovers that her homeland can be as surprising and full of incident as anywhere she has ever been. Beginning in Portsmouth, Josie sets off in a clockwise direction after a Shetland grandmother warns her that she''ll end up meeting the devil if she travels anti-clockwise. Through rain, hail, floods, bitter temperatures, minor earthquakes and dusty drought, Josie pedals on, eventually returning to Land''s End to complete Stage One of her remarkably lengthy odyssey along 5,000 miles of seaside, estuaries, creeks and islands. But is all as it seems? Who is the mysterious builder who appears at all the wrong moments? Who are the two-wheeled taggers-on lurking in her wake? What did she find at PuckpTrade ReviewDew excels at recreating and evoking the quaint and sometimes bizarre idiosyncratic behaviour and events she encounters * - Adventure Travel *Josie Dew needs little introduction...her writing is chattery and matter of fact * Cycling Plus *
£27.48
Little, Brown Book Group Travels In A Strange State
Book SynopsisBy most people''s standards, Josie Dew is hugely adventurous. By American standards, she is completely insane. For Americans drive everywhere: through cinemas, restaurants, banks, even trees. But driving past Josie as she pedalled across America was a new and alarming experience.On her eight-month journey Josie experienced it all; race riots in Los Angeles, impossible heat in Death Valley, Sexual Tantric Seminars in Hawaii. From Utah to the Great Lakes, via improbable places like Zzyzx and Squaw Tit, her two-wheeled odyssey brought her into contact with all the wonders and worries of this larger-than-life country.Highly entertaining, richly informative, TRAVELS IN A STRANGE STATE is a personal memoir of an improbable journey, revealing the United States as it is rarely seen - from the seat of a bicycle.Trade Reviewan action packed and entertaining tale... * 19 Magazine *it is her well-developed sense of the ridiculous which makes her adventures so entertaining. * TODAY *You might not let your daughter do it. But then again, if she could produce such an entertaining book as this, you just might. * GUARDIAN *
£999.99
Little, Brown Book Group Giant Steps The Remarkable Story of the Goliath Expedition From Punta Arenas to Russia
Book SynopsisIn Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times. His plan is as simple as it is extraordinary: to walk up the Americas, across the Bering Strait, through Asia, Russia and Europe, back through the Channel Tunnel and returning to Britain in 2011. It is a journey of remarkable endurance -- 20 miles a day, 3,000 miles a year, 36,000 miles in total. By the time Karl returns, he will have crossed four continents, twenty-five countries, a frozen sea, six deserts and seven mountain ranges. But more than that, unlike other similar expeditions, Karl is attempting it single-handed: no huge support teams, no large sponsorship deals, this is the inspiring true story of a man facing remarkable odds -- and winning.Trade ReviewIt is an odyssey worthy of Ulysses himself, a saga fit for the old Nordic Gods ... the spirit of young British men and women to do amazing and slightly crazy things is not yet crushed, but still alive and well * Frederick Forsyth *Enthralling * MIRROR *Inspiring true story of a man facing remarkable odds -- and winning * WOMAN'S OWN *A harrowing, occasionally hilarious ride, a wild, one-man carnival of extremes...an extraordinary book * IRISH EXAMINER *
£25.50
Orion Publishing Co Kevin McClouds Grand Tour of Europe
Book SynopsisChannel 4's Kevin McCloud shows us how to experience the highs - and the lows - of a grand tour through France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.Trade Reviewthis hedonistic romp shows that even in today's cynical society, Europe is still a place of excitement and wonder. * HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER *
£18.57
New Generation Publishing Innocent In Africa
£15.57
New Generation Publishing Ltd Astronavigation from Square One to Oceanmaster
£25.49
Headline Publishing Group Britty Britty Bang Bang One Mans Attempt to Understand His Country
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£21.82
AuthorHouse How to Buy an Excellent Used Car A Companion Guide for Women
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£12.80
AuthorHouse The Sacred Places of Wales A Modern Pilgrimage
£11.67
AuthorHouse SeaMail The True Story of a Young Couples Cruise Through the Millennium
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£12.72
AuthorHouse How to Save Buying a New Car
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AuthorHouse Best Travel Columns Ever Written
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AuthorHouse Beware of Badnews Bearing BBQs Travel Tidbits Acquired Trekking the Globe
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AuthorHouse Cruising Endless Summer Exumas
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AuthorHouse 5 Cents to Spare A 1936 Around the World Travel Adventure
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AuthorHouse Killer Camels from Kuwait The Saudi Stories
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AuthorHouse Ins and Outs of the Used Car Business How to Buy Without Getting Screwed
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AuthorHouse R R With Florida Attractions Volume I Reading Readiness with Florida AttractionsA Florida Attraction Guide Which Includes a Childrens Guide Which Includes a Childrens Educati
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AuthorHouse Fixing My Last Millennium
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AuthorHouse Streets of the Near West Side Second Edition
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AuthorHouse Prince of the Air Around the World in 33 Days
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Supercharging Turbocharging and Nitrous Oxide
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£22.49
Motorbooks International How to Restore Your Chevrolet Pickup Motorbooks Workshop
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£25.44
Motorbooks International Porsche HighPerformance Driving Handbook
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£28.04
Motorbooks International Hot Rod Body and Chassis Builders Guide Motorbooks Workshop
Book SynopsisAs with building any car, the chassis is the first step - get this wrong on a hot rod and the car won't handle well, and may possible even destroy itself. Next is the body, and this is what everyone sees and makes a hot rod a hot rod. This title walks the reader through the process of building the hot rod of a car.
£19.99
Motorbooks International Motocross and OffRoad Motorcycle Setup Guide
Book SynopsisCovers the basic tasks of maintenance, modification, and setup that confront all dirt bike riders and owners, whatever the model. From changing a tire on a 4-stroke, replacing a chain, set up suspension components, lubricating a cable on a ten-year-old 2-stroke bike, this title provides information needed in an easy-to-follow format.
£22.94
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Leanings The Best of Peter Egan from Cycle World
Book SynopsisSince his work first graced the pages of "Cycle World" magazine in 1977, the author has taken his readers on one unforgettable adventure after another. This title presents a collection of his favorite feature articles and columns from "Cycle World" magazine.
£21.03
Motorbooks International Practical Fabrication and Assembly Techniques
Book SynopsisPractical Fabrication and Assembly Techniques guides enthusiasts through the most essential processes for assembling a high-performance engine, car, or motorcycle.
£16.99
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc How to Troubleshoot Repair and Modify Motorcycle
Book SynopsisIn How to Troubleshoot, Repair, and Modify Motorcycle Electrical Systems, motorcycle expert Tracy Martin provides crystal-clear, fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions for every electrical repair imaginable on a bike.
£26.60
Motorbooks International AMA Ride Guide to America Volume 2 More Favorite Motorcycle Tours in the USA
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£16.99
Motorbooks The Motorcycle Safety Foundations Guide to Motorcycling Excellence Second Edition Skills Knowledge and Strategies for Riding Right
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£25.44
Motorbooks International The Upper Half of the Motorcycle On the Unity of Rider and Machine
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Running Press,U.S. Hamburger America
Book SynopsisLike a Road Food specifically for burgers, this classic guide to America's greatest hamburger joints returns with a completed revised edition--and an updated package featuring 50 brand new places from coast to coast.
£20.90
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Seashells of Delmarva
£13.29
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Seashells of Cape Cod the Islands
£13.29
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Drinkin Up the Pacific Northwest
£17.09
Random House USA Inc A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body “The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes—and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there’s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But
£16.15
Crown Publishing Group Bella Tuscany
Book SynopsisFrances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. A sabbatical from teaching in San Francisco allowed her to return to Cortona—and her beloved house, Bramasole—just as the first green appeared on the rocky hillsides.Bella Tuscany, a companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, is her passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening connection to the land, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of art, food, and wine, and the rewards and occasional hear
£22.08
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Im a Stranger Here Myself Notes on Returning to
Book SynopsisA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, it was clear my people needed me). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to a
£16.15
Crown The Magic of Provence Pleasures of Southern France
Book SynopsisWhen Yvone Lenard returned to her native France and purchased a house in a hilltop village of Provence, an enchanted world of food, wines, and unusual adventures-including chicken rustling, flirtatious advances from neighbors, and a séance-opened up before her. This is her account of the spell cast on her by Provence, from her first morning’s visit by a charming prince bearing a jug of the village’s vin rose to the growth of her friendship with a duchess in the local chateau. Lenard shares tales of travels to St. Tropez and visits from American friends who find unexpected romance and magic in Provence. Told with verve, wit, and Lenard’s deep understanding of the French language and culture, this memoir includes tales of others who have been drawn to the region, including Vincent van Gogh, Brigitte Bardot, and Princess Caroline of Monaco. Ways to re-create the magic of the region’s sensuous way of life include recipes for food and drinks, as well as tips for
£14.74
Crown Publishing Group (NY) Bill Brysons African Diary
Book SynopsisFrom the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body comes a travel diary documenting a visit to Kenya. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. In the early fall of 2002, famed travel writer Bill Bryson journeyed to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. He arrived with a set of mental images of Africa gleaned from television broadcasts of low-budget Jungle Jim movies in his Iowa childhood and a single viewing of the film version of Out of Africa. (Also with some worries about tropical diseases, insects, and large predators.) But the vibrant reality of Kenya and its people took over the second he deplaned in Nairobi, and this diary records Bill Bryson’s impressions of his trip with his inimitable trademark style of wry observation and curious insight. From the wrenching poverty of the Kibera slum in Nairobi to the meticulously manicured grounds of the Karen Blixen house and the human fossil riches of the National Museum, Bryson registers the striking contrasts of a postcolonial society in transition. He visits the astoundingly vast Great Rift Valley; undergoes the rigors of a teeth-rattling train journey to Mombasa and a hair-whitening flight through a vicious storm; and visits the refugee camps and the agricultural and economic projects where dedicated CARE professionals wage noble and dogged war against poverty, dislocation, and corruption. Though brief in compass and duration, Bill Bryson’s African Diary is rich in irreverent, poignant, and morally instructive observation. Like all of this author’s work, it can make the reader laugh, think, and especially, feel all at the same time.
£12.75
Crown Hollywood The Movie Lovers Guide
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£16.14
Crown Mediterranean Summer
£12.99
Random House USA Inc The Sweet Life in Paris Delicious Adventures in
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city and after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he finally moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world en France.From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David's story of how he came to fall in love with—and even understand—this glorio
£16.15
Crown The Lunatic Express
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Crown The Woman Who Fell from the Sky An American Womans Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth
Book SynopsisI had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel? Hadn’t I once arrived in Ireland with only $10 in my pocket and made it last two weeks? Surely I could handle a walk through an unfamiliar town. So I took a breath, tightened the black scarf around my hair, and headed out to take my first solitary steps through Sana’a.—from The Woman Who Fell From The Sky In a world fraught with suspicion between the Middle East and the West, it's hard to believe that one of the most influential newspapers in Yemen—the desperately poor, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, which has made has made international headlines for being a terrorist breeding ground—would be handed over to an agnostic, Campari-drinkin
£12.99
