Travel writing Books
HarperCollins Publishers In the Empire of Genghis Khan A Journey Among Nomads
Book SynopsisAs a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar.Trade Review‘One of the best travel books of the year.’ Sunday Times ‘Humane and funny…an excellent book with sharp, compassionate observations on the lives of people struggling with the weight of history.’ Spectator ‘Stewart is a sensitive, observant traveller, and a gifted writer…in this entertaining, colourful and moving book he reveals both the sad absurdity of this beguiling land and the heartbreaking pathos of its modern history.’ Sara Wheeler, Literary Review ‘A classic travel story, beautifully written…’ Wanderlust
£11.39
HarperCollins Publishers African Laughter
Book SynopsisWriting inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.Trade Review‘An eloquent statement, one of the strengths of this account of a nation’s tragedy is that Doris Lessing evokes not sadness but laughter. She describes this as “the marvellous African laughter born somewhere in the gut, seizing the whole body with good-humoured philosophy. It is the laughter of poor people”.’ TLS ‘Innumerable conversations - of Africans, among them poets and teachers and cooks; of whites, some of whom have “taken the Gap” to South Africa then returned, disillusioned - contribute to Doris Lessing’s picture of the new Zimbabwe. Enthralling, significant and provocative.’ Independent ‘“African Laughter” conveys a country and its people more completely than any other book I have read. It is filled with stories, anecdotes, newspaper cuttings , poems, obituaries, songs, even Doris Lessing’s synosis for a film - the cumulative effect is extraordinary. As well as a remarkable immediacy, the narrative has an irrepressible physical vigour which reflects perfectly the vitality of the Zimbabwean people.’ Daily Telegraph
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt Women Travellers and Their World
Book SynopsisWhat drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection? This and other accounts of travel are included in this book.
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Travels in an Old Tongue Touring the World Speaking Welsh
Book SynopsisThe idiosyncratic and witty travelogue of a young Welsh-speaking woman who travels the globe in search of Welsh communities.
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HarperCollins Publishers Beyond the Coral Sea Travels in the Old Empires of the SouthWest Pacific
Book SynopsisA romantic and adventurous journey to the hidden islands and lagoons beyond Papua New Guinea and north of Australia.Trade Review‘Everything you wanted to know about cannibalism but were afraid to ask is here.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Filled with tales of wonder, sadness and extraordinary behaviour.’ Sunday Times
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HarperCollins Publishers In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs A Memoir of Iran
Book SynopsisA superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.Trade Review'A mixture of history, reportage and analysis, this book helps to understand the "enigma inside a puzzle" that is Iran today … fascinating' Financial Times 'Riveting … I was intrigued and impressed … de Bellaigue has done his research well and reports meticulously' Literary Review
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HarperCollins Publishers The Gates of Africa Death Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu
Book SynopsisThe history of the African Association, the world’s first geographical society, dedicated to the exploration of the interior of a continent known only through legend and vague report.Trade Review‘Enthralling. One of the most fascinating accounts of exploration that I’ve read in a long time.’ Jim Blackburn, Wanderlust ‘In “The Gates of Africa”, Anthony Sattin has excelled himself’.’ Conde Nast Traveller ‘Absorbing, highly readable and in places ironically humorous, a well-rounded and definitive study.’ Martin Booth, Sunday Times ‘An extraordinary panorama of adventure, scholarship, intellectual enterprise and ideological conviction, enlivened by frequent splashes of eccentricity and beautifully written throughout.’ Jan Morris
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HarperCollins Publishers THE TRIBES TRIUMPHANT Return Journey to the Middle East
Book SynopsisA powerful and insightful narrative of a journey – once violently interrupted and here resumed – through one of the most compelling regions on earth.Trade Review‘Fascinating…intriguing…Glass is skilled at bringing people alive…an important book.’ Sunday Times ‘Charles Glass reads like Taki with an explosives belt. Yet this attention to social form becomes a strength when it shows how a generation of insult by both British and Israeli occupiers has brought a traditional Arab society to the end of its tether…Even the ruling passions of Glass’s life and writing, which are good food and pretty women, contribute balance to the book.’ Spectator ‘He writes stylishly…the most absorbing passages in the book trace Glass's progress through Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza…Glass enlivens his text with some intriguing asides.’ Daily Mail ‘Anyone who is interested in the continuing agony of the Middle East should read this book.’ Literary Review ‘An eloquent and sensitive journey…with trademark flowing style and laconic humour.’ Oldie
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HarperCollins Publishers The Hungry Cyclist Pedalling the Americas in Search of the Perfect Meal
Book SynopsisOver 100,000 miles to cover, one man, one bike and one hungry stomach.Trade Review“An all-you-can-eat-ride-by buffet through lands the bike forgot.” Tim Moore “I’m not sure whether I’m more impressed by Tom going solo, slow and through some of the world’s most notorious bandit country, or for getting hungry enough to eat a guinea pig.” John McCarthy "A glorious account of the madness that lies at the heart of long distance cycling and an intriguing insight into the extra miles we, who are obsessed with pedal power,will go to secure the meal of our dreams." Jon Snow
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HarperCollins Publishers WHAT THE TRAVELLER SAW
Book SynopsisThis outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby’s travels all over the globe – and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds.Trade Review‘One of the sharpest, funniest and most boisterously entertaining of all travel writers’Jeremy Lewis, Sunday Times ‘Eric Newby seems to have an inexhaustible secret supply of that serendipity on which both travel writer and photographer depend’Charles Nicholl, Daily Telegraph
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers THE GREAT AMERICAN BUS RIDE
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HarperCollins Publishers On the Shores of the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisWith his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this is an adventure not to be missed, by Britain's best-loved travel guide, and father of the genre.Trade Review‘One of the most stimulating and rewarding travel books to be seen for a long time' Spectator 'A splendid book . . . With its generosity, quirkiness, encyclopaedic love of facts, wisdom, humour, sense of history and change, this is a lot more than even the very best of travel books. Its author is a Ulysses, the book an Odyssey' Guardian 'Newby, the most companionable of literary vagabonds . . . Surely his best work since “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush”' Scotsman 'Whatever Newby writes, I read with uncritical pleasure. The Newby travels are classics of their kind' Financial Times 'A new book by Eric Newby is something of an event…It is a feast that combines and juxtaposes many different textures and flavours . . . A superb reporter, Mr Newby paints marvelously detailed portraits. . . An unrivalled eye for the ridiculous and, although this is essentially a serious book, it is frequently very, very funny. . . He is an extremely elegant writer, beautifully paced and rhythmic . . . For Newby admirers, this particular event is a memorable one, and it should also recruit a lot of new admirers to his ranks' Daily Telegraph 'Any book by Eric Newby is a must for me. But “On the Shores of the Mediterranean” is a particular favourite…The man's books are a marvelous tonic on dark and dismal British days' Barbara Dickson, Mail on Sunday
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HarperCollins Publishers Ramble On
Book SynopsisThis fascinating ramble through the history of walking delves into our relationship with the British countryside.Ramble On' tells the story of how country walks were transformed from a small and often illegal pastime to the most popular recreational activity in the country.From the brave band of hikers who scaled the off-limits peak Kinder Scout in 1932, via the intricate Lake District guides of Alfred Wainwright, to the resistant landowners (including the notorious Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, Madonna and Jeremy Clarkson) who have done their level best (and worst) to keep walkers off their land this is the definitive history of rambling.Perfectly capturing the sense of exhilaration on reaching the summit of a blustery hill-top path, Ramble On' is for anyone who has ever pulled on a pair of walking boots or is partial to the taste of Kendal mintcake.Trade ReviewPraise for ‘Ramble On’: ‘McKay makes an agreeable tramping companion. For McKay walking is a serious pleasure, which is as it should be’ Tom Fort, Sunday Telegraph ‘Ramble On is a fascinating and lovingly written book that gets to the heart of a pursuit enjoyed by thousands throughout the British Isles every weekend’ Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times ‘Excellent history of the pastime … McKay’s gripping story of the struggle is enlivened by atmospheric descriptions of his own rambles and is rich in anecdote’ John Harding, Daily Mail ‘Sinclair McKay aims to convey the essence of this story through visits to some of the often inspiring places in which it has been acted out.’ Guardian Chronicles the changing relationship between landowners and roamers, and branches out into B&B, Wordsworth, Wainright, shifting patterns of class and the history of walking togs’ Country Life ‘Charming book – part of a history of British walking, part of a memoir of McKay’s wanderings.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Highly companionable … McKay gives a fascinating account of how walkers have since the Thirties battled landowners for the right to roam across Britain. In McKay’s version, walking is a political act and the Rambler’s Association is an advanced guard of egalitarians.’ Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year ‘This book should inspire you to don your walking boots and head for the hills’ Choice Magazine, Paperback Book of the Month
£11.39
HarperCollins The Essential Lewis Clark 18041806
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Cooks Tour
Book SynopsisFrom the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain''s New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe''s greatest cuilnary adventuresBourdain shows himself to be one of the country''s best food writers. His opinions are as strong as his language, and his tastes as infectious as his joy. -Sam Sifton, New York Times Book ReviewThe only thing gonzo gastronome and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, What would be the perfect meal?, Tony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail, and in the process turns the notion of perfection inside out. From California to Cambodia, A Cooks'' Tour chronicles the unpredictable adventures of America''s boldest and bravest chef.Fans of Bourdain will find much to love in revisting this classic culinary and trave
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HarperCollins Seasons in Basilicata
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc River Town
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HarperCollins State by State
Book SynopsisFeatures a state by state celebration of America including: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, and Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island.Trade Review"[State by State] is a funny, moving, rousing collection, greater than the sum of its excellent parts, a convention of literary superdelegates, each one boisterously nominating his or her piece of the Republic." -- New York Times Book Review "This fascinating collection, inspired by guides in the 1930s and 1940s, includes original essays on each of the states by some of the country's finest (mostly younger) writers." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Self-consciously modeled after state guides sponsored by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, this ambitious effort features a terrific roster of writers." -- Kirkus Reviews "Fascinating." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Odds are, reading STATE BY STATE, that you'll fall for every state a little, even if they remain tremendously hard to explain." -- Los Angeles Times "This eclectic collection of essays describing the ordinary people and places within our 50 states is as essential as the Rand McNally atlas. Alternately brash and bashful...each literary foray in State by State is well worth the trip. Grade: A." -- Entertainment Weekly "An enjoyable journey: 50 essays, cartoons and mini-plays, plus an afterward about Washington, DC and a fascinating appendix...all in all, it makes one yearn for a driver's license and a stretch of open highway." -- New York Post "Ideal nightstand reading and a welcome reminder of the pluribus behind the unum." -- Salon.com
£12.89
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Abundance
Book SynopsisIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author herself“A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers, having been “re-framed and re-hung,” with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon.The Abundance reminds us that Dillard’s brand of “novelized nonfic
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Book Synopsis“A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind.” —New York TimesNewly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary—think Nancy Mitford-meets-Nora Ephron—chronicling author Helene Hanff’s “bucket list” trip to London (at the age of fifty-five!) after the unexpected success of her memoir 84 Charing Cross Road. When she’s invited to London for the English publication of her wildly successful book, 84 Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—New York writer Helene Hanff is thrilled to realize a lifelong dream. The trip will be bittersweet, because she can’t help wishing Frank was still alive, but she’s determined to capture every moment
£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Touching My Fathers Soul A Sherpas Journey to the
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HarperCollins The Best Strangers in the World
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HarperCollins Thrilling Cities
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HarperCollins Rebel with a Clause
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Book Synopsis“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknownWritten as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the color blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts,
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc Travels with Charley in Search of America
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Snow Leopard penguin Orange Collection
Book SynopsisPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.The Snow Leopard In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into t
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Oxford University Press Abroad
Book SynopsisA book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.Trade Review"This is the most interesting and insightful book that I have read on travel writing, and my students seem to agree."--Jonathan Smith, Texas A & M University"Abroad is an exemplary piece of criticism. It is immensely readable. It bristles with ideas. It disinters a regal lost masterpiece from the library stacks. It admits a whole area of writing-at last!-to its proper place in literary history."--The New York Times Book Review"What Fussell has done-brightly, wittily, with bravura display of critical methods-is to reclaim for travel writing a large measure of literary respectability."--Newsweek"[Fussell's] book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasure of the open road."--Time"An absolutely dazzling continent of sociology, literary criticism, cultural history, biography and amusing anecdote, so borderlessly fused that we hardly realize what great intellectual distances we are covering."The New York Times"[A] witty book that bristles with outrageous assertions....Fussell obviously enjoys the act of writing about his reading, which is what makes the book so lively."--The Tribune (London)
£19.99
Oxford University Press Fossils Finches and Fuegians Darwins Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle
Trade ReviewA colorful and lively account of this history-making scientific adventure. * Kirkus Reviews *Handsomely illustrated with sketches and paintings made by Darwin and others associated with the Beagle, this is an excellent introduction to the events that led 20 years later to On the Origin of the Species. * Publishers Weekly *A comprehensive and detailed account of Charles Darwin's five- year global voyage of discovery.... Greatly enhanced by helpful maps, recent photographs, relevant illustrations, and arresting color plates. * Library Journal *There is a real need for an account like this that brings together all aspects of the Beagle voyage in chronological order, and which adds (as this does) information from the archival records that is interesting and relevant, while still letting Darwin's pleasant character and his animated appreciation of what he was seeing emerge. Scrupulously balanced, accurate, and informative, this book reads wonderfully well. * Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place *Altogether, Keynes has succeeded in providing a rich and even sumptuous perspective on one of the great scientific adventures shaping the modern age. This is a story to which everyone can relate * a story that portrays an amiable and industrious young man who increasingly surprises himself (and us all) by his remarkable ability to ask the right questions, and ultimately to relate the disparate facts of a humble observer to a grand and revolutionary vision of the evolution of life on earth. Keynes's fascinating account of Darwin's Wanderjahre, and the momentous consequences of this youthful adventure for the history of science, is a real winner.Frank J. Sulloway, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives *An absolutely splendid read that is at once engaging and informative, filled with the minutiae of science history not found anywhere else, as well as the biggest ideas in all of science. Evolutionary theory is one of the half dozen most important ideas in the history of western thought, and Keynes brings to light the fermentation of Darwin's vision of that dangerous idea during his five-year voyage. * Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the author of The Borderlands of Science and In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Road to Oxiana
Book SynopsisIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry. His statements revived the public''s interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores. Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers. This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places In Between,Trade ReviewCertainly the wittiest book, and perhaps the wisest, to have been written in English about Iran. * Christopher de Robert Byron was born in England in 1905 into a family distantly *
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Random House USA Inc In Xanadu
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St Martin's Press False Papers Essays on Exile and Memory
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St Martin's Press 99 Drams of Whiskey The Accidental Hedonists Quest for the Perfect Shot and the History of the Drink
Book SynopsisEducates the readers on whiskey's place in the history of the world. This title discusses the fine art of distilling and the proper ways to drink whiskey, and provides tasting notes on different brands.Trade Review"99 DRAMS OF WHISKEY is part travelogue, part distillery guide, and part history book. It is deeply personal, and told in Kate Hopkins humorous, engaging, and inimitable style." Kevin Erskine, author of the Instant Expert's Guide To Single Malt Scotch"
£20.64
Griffin Publishing French Toast An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
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Little, Brown & Company Skeletons on the Zahara
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Pan Macmillan Facing the Frozen Ocean
Book SynopsisBear Grylls spent three years with the British Special Forces. During this time he had a horrendous parachuting accident in southern Africa, breaking his back in three places. Two years later he overcame the odds to become one of the youngest British climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and this story forms the basis for his bestselling memoir, Facing Up. Bear Grylls is one of the most successful motivational speakers on the world circuit. Looking for another adventure, Bear tackled the treacherous North Atlantic seas in Facing the Frozen Ocean. Bear Grylls is one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure and one of the most successful motivational speakers on the world circuit.Trade ReviewAn epic story of hardship, friendship and faith. * Daily Telegraph *Riveting. * Daily Express *Grylls is certainly proof that the age of great explorers has not completely passed us by. * Scotsman *
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Little, Brown Book Group Valley Of The Casbahs A Journey Across the Moroccan Sahara
Book SynopsisThe four-hundred-and-fifty-mile long Draa River Valley in the Moroccan Sahara contains some of the most sumptuous oases and searing desert of the Arab world, starting in the moonscape gorges of the Anti Atlas Mountains through to a green sea of date palms over which rise the many-towered casbahs of ochre coloured clay, medieval in aspect and sheltering a life medieval in character. It is a region richer historically and ethnically than anywhere else in North Africa. The river stretches to the mosaic of dunes and parched land known as hammada - the domain of Bedouin and Blue Men and isolated Berber tribes - and pours through the desert into the Atlantic, where it ends its course. Jeffrey Tayler follows the Draa by foot and on camel, recounting stays in casbah homes, weddings, visits to mosques and marabouts and nights in hashish dens. It is a journey marked with extremes - of weather, as Tayler survives intense heat and sandstorms and potentially lethal local tribesmen - and one which Trade ReviewTayler imparts a sense of immediacy to his travels, while reflecting on a nomadic way of life in fast decline. * NORTHERN ECHO *A delightful and thought-provoking snapshot of Moroccan life. * DAILY EXPRESS *He vividly recreates his trek, balancing the beauty with the gritty. * INK *It is easy to see why Tayler counts Bill Bryson amongst his fans * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
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Little, Brown Book Group Another Long Day On The Piste
Book SynopsisWriter, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of umpteen travel disasters, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a disastrous season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous, hard-drinking ex-students.Dismally unfashionable and hopeless at skiing, Randal finds that his stay in the charming Alpine backwater of mont St Bernard brings a whole host of new opportunities for domestic catastrophe, romantic rejection and public humiliation, including a stint as a chalet girl and an encounter with a Russian oligarch and his hair-raising entourage.Wry, self-deprecating and deliriously funny, ANOTHER LONG DAY ON THE PISTE is a rollercoaster of a travel adventure and essential apres-ski reading.Trade ReviewUnremittingly calamitous, self-deprecating and entertaining * DAILY MAIL SKI + SNOWBOARD *Highly entertaining . . . there is much pointed irony and satire to enjoy * THE TIMES *...side-splittingly funny... Randall is a gifted raconteur... * FRENCH NEWS *timely and humorous * DAILY MIRROR *
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Mariner Books Rebel with a Clause
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher. —Mary Norris[Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she enlightens and illuminates. This is lovely work. —Benjamin DreyerAn unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS Evening News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.In
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Lulu.com Adventures of a Mountain Man The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
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Lulu.com Adventures of a Mountain Man The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Greek House
Book SynopsisWhen Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. This narrative is about his relationship to Sifnos, writing with warmth about its residents and the house he bought in a hilltop farm village.
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Random House USA Inc The Caliphs House
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Rainy Day Publishing Inc Into the Carpathians
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iUniverse Walking to Singapore A Year Off the Beaten Path in Southeast Asia
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iUniverse A Week In Porlamar Margarita Island Venezuela
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iUniverse My Celtic Soul Our Year In the West of Ireland
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iUniverse Tahiti Report An Indepth Very Intimate Look at Tahiti Before the Jets Came 1960 and Today 2000 A Lighthearted Very Intimate Look at Tahiti Before the Jets Arrived 1960 and Today 2000
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