Travel writing Books
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Gooseberry Patch The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles in Pursuit of
Book SynopsisMany people dream of leaving the workaday world for a life of simplicity and freedom, and Margaret Hathaway and her then-boyfriend Karl did just that. In The Year of the Goat, the reader can jump in the “goat mobile” with them as they ditch their big-city lifestyle to trek across forty-three states in search of greener pastures and the perfect goat cheese. Along the way, the reader is introduced to a vivid cast of characters—including farmers, breeders, cheese makers, and world-class chefs—and discovers everything there is to know about goats and getting back to the land. But readers beware: When it comes to goat cheese, it can be love at first bite.
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Enchanted Rock Press, LLC The Earth Beneath My Feet: A 7,000-Mile Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature
Book Synopsis The Earth Beneath My Feet tells the extraordinary true story of a 7,000-mile solo walk. Hiking from Calabria in Italy to the top of Norway, Andrew Terrill reveals the wild side of Europe that most people miss. A compelling travel narrative about a challenging physical journey, The Earth Beneath My Feet also explores ''the journey within'' - a passionate search for belonging within the natural world. Like millions of people, Andrew Terrill grew up on the edge of a big city. But for Terrill, a young man in his early twenties, suburban life lacked purpose and meaning. What Terrill craved was a life of simplicity, freedom and adventure, and after surviving a near-fatal fall in the Swiss Alps, that was the life he chose.In May 1997, despite lacking the funds, Terrill left his London home and travelled to the southernmost point of Calabria, Italy. Once there, he turned north and began walking. His destination, the North Cape at the top of Norway, lay unimaginably far away.Leaving civilisation behind, and frequently even trails, Terrill journeyed deep into the ''other'' Europe, the hidden wilderness Europe, a parallel continent that still exists beyond road''s end. Travelling alone, he hiked the length of the Apennine mountain range - a forgotten side of Italy few outsiders ever know - continued across the Alps, through the forests of Central Europe, and then on towards the vast northern wildernesses of Arctic Norway. With every step, Terrill immersed himself in the natural world, seeking a deeper connection with it. The 18-month journey became a voyage of discovery, unveiling the secrets and treasures of Europe''s least-known places. The miles brought hardships and struggles, pushed Terrill to his limits, but ultimately led to unimaginable rewards.The Earth Beneath My Feet describes the first eight months of this epic walk. It takes readers the length of Italy during a searing-hot summer, and then across Austria into the depths of a fierce Alpine winter. The book introduces many of Europe''s wildest and most beautiful locations - environments little touched by the modern world - as well as the colourful characters who live alongside the wild. It describes the full experience of travelling on foot through nature, and of living outside in all conditions. And it chronicles a journey of immense growth, of overcoming a sheltered upbringing and finding connection with something bigger and wilder.The Earth Beneath My Feet is a narrative filled with freshness, optimism, wonder and youthful enthusiasm - an inspiring true story by a young man who chose to embrace life and live it to the full.Featuring 80 evocative black and white photographs, and 8 maps, The Earth Beneath My Feet will satisfy anyone who feels the call of adventure, who has the urge to travel, who loves nature, and who feels a desire to live the life they know deep down they are meant to live. The second half of this journey, told in On Sacred Ground, will follow on June 1 2022.
£14.95
Enchanted Rock Press, LLC The Earth Beneath My Feet: A 7,000-mile Walk of Discovery into the Heart of Wild Nature
£24.65
Artisan Creative Gone to Look for America
£12.34
City Village Books Pilgrim Cello
£11.95
Extremis Publishing Limited The Robin Hood 500 Route
£14.99
Fremantle Press Heading South
Book SynopsisFreelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey across Australia. Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian Pacific, Overland and Spirit of Queensland, he covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics to the desert and from big cities to ghost towns. Tims journey is one of classic travel highs and lows: floods, cancellations, extraordinary landscapes and forays into personal and public histories -- as well as the steady joy of random strangers encountered along the way.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Travels and Identities: Elizabeth and Adam Shortt in Europe, 1911
Book SynopsisElizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful career as a professor of politics and economics at Queen's University in Kingston. In 1908 Adam Shortt relocated his family to Ottawa to take up a commission to oversee civil service reform under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. There he convinced his superiors that an onsite investigation of four European countries would expedite his effort to improve Canada's bureaucracy, and in June 1911 he and Elizabeth embarked on their trip. This book chronicles their Atlantic crossing and extended visit to England, as well as trips to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. The Shortts were generally pleased with England and its values, but Elizabeth was sharply critical of the behaviour of British nurses. Her diaries and letters, here reprinted, critiqued the lands and peoples she visited in Europe. Leading foreign feminists such as Lady Chichester and Mrs. Maud of the Mothers' Union in England sought her advice, as did Alice Salomon in Germany, the corresponding secretary of the International Council of Women. The diaries and letters presented in this volume reveal the multifaceted nature of Adam and Elizabeth Shortt, from public figures to difficult employers to a couple who couldn't help but live beyond their means. Peter E. Paul Dembski's introduction paints a picture of a couple who lived as moderate liberals with occasional conservative or radical views, and who blended science and an adherence to Protestant Christianity into their thinking. Their travel experiences, during a period of building political upheaval, provide a valuable snapshot of preâFirst World War European society and culture.Trade Review"...this is an enjoyable and insightful book. The Shorttsswriting shows the cultural and domestic lives of early-twentieth-century professionals,highlighting the interests and worries of an ambitious, important, and interesting couple.Buttressing intellectual history with gender analysis and privileging a womans point ofview are welcome additions to a field and period often dominated by great men." - David Banoub, Dalhousie University. British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1
£27.38
Iguana Books In the Belly of Oz
£12.34
Guernica Editions,Canada A Gelato A Day Volume 50
Book SynopsisA Gelato A Day is a collection of travel tales that highlights the good, the bad and the not-really-that-ugly of the family travel experience. These stories go beyond holidays-gone-wrong to dive thoughtfully into the deeper parental and family connections that can occur when we take ourselves (or are taken out of) our daily routines and comfort zones. More often than not, entering unfamiliar places, spaces and situations encourages us to open up to one another or react in ways that may surprise, delight or frustrate those we hold most dear.
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Must Have Books Fifty Years Below Zero
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Indepenpress Publishing Ltd African Approaches: Roads to a Far Off Place
£19.56
Eland Publishing Ltd The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A
Book SynopsisThe Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool presents the unexpected face of Syria. Based on five journeys, undertaken over as many years, Kociejowski's book is entirely concerned with the slow journey towards friendship. So we learn nothing about coups or conspiracies, iconic monuments or historic travellers. Instead we meet a chance handful of Syrians, such as Myrna, a Christian faith-healing stigmatic, Yasser, a Palestinian refugee and political activist, Abu al-Tahib, a prince of fools, a modern desert father, Paolo Dall'Oglio, and the street philosopher and the holy fool of the book's title. It was written during the era of conversation, before the use of mobiles, and long before the current civil war. Saluted as a travel classic on first publication (just 12 years ago) it is now in danger of becoming a testament to the last of the old Levant.
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Eland Publishing Ltd Travels in a Dervish Cloak
Book SynopsisSpellbound by his grandmother s Anglo Indian heritage and the exuberant annual visits of her friend the Begum, Isambard Wilkinson became enthralled by Pakistan as an intrepid teenager, eventually working there as a foreign correspondent during the War on Terror. Seeking the land behind the headlines, Bard sets out to discover the essence of a country convulsed by Islamist violence. What of the old, mystical Pakistan has survived and what has been destroyed? His is a funny, hashish? and whisky?scented travel book from the frontline, full of open?hearted delight and a poignant lust for life.
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Benediction Classics Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 3
£25.49
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd The Cape Crusaders: Driving a Red Dennis Fire Engine from the Tip of Europe to the Bottom of Africa
Book SynopsisIn 1987, seven people embarked on a three month charity expedition to drive an old red Dennis fire engine from the northern tip of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa. After almost five months, 37,000km, 21 countries, and a journey through rainforest, bush veldt, deserts and urban developments, the author was one of five who completed their odyssey. The Cape Crusaders is his engaging account of the at times hazardous trip, including being mugged, arrested, having two near fatal accidents and a severe case of cerebral malaria. A must for any armchair adventure traveller.
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SilverWood Books Ltd Walking Europe's Edge: Reflections on Portugal
Book SynopsisPortugal is both a celebrated and an unknown land. Millions come to enjoy its beaches and the fashionable coastal cities of Lisbon and Porto. In this sense it looms large in the minds of many. But its out-of-the-way places, its turbulent history and contemporary challenges are little-known outside of the country's boundaries. From autumn 2018 to spring 2019, British journalist Stephen Powell travelled the length of Portugal, following a zigzag path of nearly 1,500 kilometres on foot. Away from the mass tourism, he wanted to form his own unhurried impressions of this very distinctive country. He discovered a very mixed reality. The dark side was the blight of rural exodus that is emptying so many villages. But he also found a profoundly generous, warm-hearted people with time to converse - a gift that is not found everywhere.Trade Review"Stephen Powell's beautifully written account of his life-changing walk through Portugal enriches the reader with his insights and impressions of the country's history, culture, scenery and spirit. For me, the book was a fascinating journey of discovery through Portugal's lesser-known provinces, further enhanced with exquisite illustrations by two of his daughters, Megan and Rachel. Simply wonderful." Valerie Poore, memoir author
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SilverWood Books Ltd Letters from Mozambique
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Independent Publishing Network The Long Walk to Glastonbury: Via the Ridgeway, Avebury and Stonehenge
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Vijay Anand From Curry to Crumpets
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Independent Publishing Network Endless Perfect Circles: Lessons from the little-known world of ultradistance cycling
£12.40
New Generation Publishing Destination Nowhere
£13.62
Little, Brown Book Group The Diary Of 'Helena Morley'
Book SynopsisINTRODUCED BY DIANA ATHILLAn enchanting Brazilian classic. 'No wonder Bishop fell in love with this book . . . No adult writer, however skilful . . . could write with the nonchalant vivacity and ease that she unwittingly commanded' DIANA ATHILL, GUARDIAN 'A delightful, funny and revealing memoir, a little bit of Austen in the Americas' SPECTATOR'When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country' ROBERT LOWELL From Elizabeth Bishop's introduction: 'When I first came to Brazil, in 1952, I asked my Brazilian friends which Brazilian books I should begin reading . . . They frequently recommended this little book, "Minha Vida de Menina" . . . In English the title means "My Life as a Little Girl" or "Young Girl", and that is exactly what the book is about, but it is not reminiscences; it is a diary, the diary actually kept by a little girl between the ages of 12 and 15, in the far-off town of Diamantina, in 1893-1895 . . . The more I read the book the better I liked it. The scenes and events it described were odd, remote, and long ago, and yet fresh, sad, funny and eternally true. The longer I stayed on in Brazil the more Brazilian the book seemed, yet much of it could have happened in any small provincial town or village, and at almost any period of history - at least before the arrival of the automobile and the moving-picture theatre.' Trade ReviewA delightful, funny and revealing memoir, a little bit of Austen in the Americas * Spectator *No wonder Bishop fell in love with this book . . . No adult writer, however skilful . . . could write with the nonchalant vivacity and ease that she unwittingly commanded -- Diana Athill * Guardian *When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country -- Robert LowellHer cosmopolitan life is reflected in the breadth of her writings, all suffused with curiosity and quiet intelligence * Sunday Telegraph *No wonder Bishop fell in love with this book . . . No adult writer, however skilful . . . could write with the nonchalant vivacity and ease that she unwittingly commanded * Diana Athill, GUARDIAN *
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CompletelyNovel.com A Fly Girl: Travel Tales of an Exotic British Airways Cabin Crew
£13.62
Mereo Books Red Lips Bottoms Up
£13.77
Crescent Moon Publishing Twilight in Italy
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Wakefield Press Bound for Vietnam
£13.70
Black Inc. Short Black 4
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Bookwrights Press Motorcycle Yoga
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Brill Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige
Book SynopsisFor the first time in an English language edition published outside Japan, all 55 prints of Hiroshige’s ‘Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido’ are reproduced in full colour, supporting a detailed and intriguing account of the author's rediscovery on foot of the historic 303-mile road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Remarkably, the Old Tokaido can still be found in many locations and photographs of the modern parallel the old.Table of ContentsForeword; Historical perspective; Translations of Hiroshige’s sub-titles; Some features of a Hiroshige print; Map showing fifty-three stages of the Old Tokaido; Introduction; 1. From the shogun’s capital; 2. From Musashi to the province of Sagami; 3. Hot spring haven; 4. Stone pavement; 5. Incoming firearms, outgoing women; 6. The road by the shore; 7. Fuji on the left; 8. Satta Pass; 9. Japanese inn; 10. The Meiji tunnel; 11. The Oi River; 12. The night wailing stone; 13. Typhoon 19; 14. Sorobans, palanquins and post-towns; 15. Fascist salutes and a ghost town; 16. A divine wind; 18. The seven ri ferry; 19. Left for the Grand Shrines, right for the capital; 20. The stone Buddha; 21. Suzuka barrier; 22. The six Jizo; 23. The old apothecary’s shop; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Glossary; Facsimile page from author’s Tokaido diary; Namamugi: site of the Richardson incident; Index
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Eland Publishing Ltd Rites: A Childhood in Guatemala
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Trotamundas Press Ltd Up the Amazon and Over the Andes: Travel and Adventures of an English Woman in Latin America
£14.56
Trotamundas Press Ltd Ana Beker, Amazona De Las Americas: La Extraordinaria Hazana de una Mujer a Caballo Desde Argentina a Canada
£12.40
Trotamundas Press Ltd Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban
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Mosaique Press Man in a Mud Hut
£12.63
Aziloth Books The New Jerusalem
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Summertime Publishing Passage to Persia: Writings of an American Doctor During Her Life in Iran, 1929-1957
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Clink Street Publishing Against All Odds
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Clachan Publishing Valhalla and the Fjord: A Spiritual Motorcycle Journey Through the History of Strangford Lough
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Cuthland Press Introvert Explores
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Leveret Publishing A Alaska Kesugi Ridge
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Leveret Publishing Italy: Valleys of Rock
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Filament Publishing Ltd Children of the Revolution
Book SynopsisChildren of the Revolution is a book of converging worlds. In it you discover the very human weave of courage, perseverance and vision, woven with a delightful touch of humour and surprise. It also has the beguiling pattern of a journey unfolding. And as it unfolds, you learn. And you are inspired. Children of the Revolution, by Feroze Dada, is a story which begins with a chance meeting at a family gathering in Burma (Myanmar) with a freedom fighter from the Pa’O region in the northeast of the country, and which then takes you on to a monastery on the shores of beautiful Inle Lake in Shan State. There, at the Buddhist monastery of Phaya Taung, the head monk Phongyi is passionately caring for and teaching more than 600 orphaned and refugee children of the revolutionary wars. You discover that both the freedom fighter and the Buddhist monk are in their different ways forces of nature, or men of action, and while you learn about their lives, you also find the human goodness that shines in the darkness of war, and you witness the path of the dhamma in the world. You cannot fail to be encouraged by Phongyi’s example to `go beyond one’s imagination because there is no limit’. But at the same time, another story is unfolding, and that is the journey of self-discovery of Feroze Dada, who moves with his Burmese wife MuMu between his metropolitan western life and Taunggyi in the northeast of Burma, where her family live, and in doing so finds a new reality and purpose. Feroze is a man of action too, as you will discover. And he has written an inspirational story which is all the more powerful when you consider that his reasons for making the journey are literally a world away from what transpired. There are no accidents, the law of karma tells us, but we’re not the sole cause of our experiences either.Trade ReviewEndorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
£12.76
Kevin J Lynch The Road to Deal Pier
£13.62
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Survivors Guide to Living in the United States
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