Travel writing Books
Quercus Publishing All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise
Book Synopsis"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer is a marvellous example" HORATIO CLAREOn the small island of Surin, near the naval border of Thailand and Myanmar, an indigenous people known as Moken 'sea gypsies' struggle to maintain the same timeless existence as their ancestors. As real estate developers, oil exploration and industrial tourism reshape the waters they call home, Sayarer receives a mysterious offer from an idealistic Luxembourger determined to tell a tale of the Moken on film, and in search of a writer to detail the efforts of his motley crew. Events unfold in a reality strangely different to that version captured by the lens. In the quest for indigenous wisdom, cameras and tripods clutter bamboo huts, while fishing trips and dives are staged beneath the waves. With the quest for paradise seeming ever more artificial, award-winning author, Julian Sayarer instead begins listening to the stories of Laurie, an old sailor, with a life on the water behind him, and in whose ship the crew sail out into the Andaman Sea.Trade Review`On The Road for the Occupy generation' Open Democracy; `A brilliantly thoughtful writer' Sara Wheeler
£999.99
Medina Publishing Ltd Beyond that Last Blue Mountain
Book SynopsisHarriet's parents hoped that, after leaving boarding school and doing `the Season', she would meet and marry a suitable young man. But she was to disappoint them. Just after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she set off for Peshawar to see for herself the plight of thousands of displaced Afghan refugees. Determined to do something about their dire situation, Harriet set up a small silk weaving project for illiterate Turkmen refugees, and was sent by UNESCO to Mazar-i-sharif to work with Afghanistan's last remaining silk ikat weavers. During those years she was arrested by the KHAD, narrowly missed being blown up, survived acute bacterial meningitis in a Kabul hospital, and rescued an abandoned pi-dog puppy who became her devoted companion. At the end of the first Gulf War she travelled with the Peshmerga in the newly-liberated Iraqi Kurdistan. Then in 1994 she joined a group of unemployed builders and decorators driving convoys of food and aid from Croydon to the Muslim enclaves in Bosnia Herzegovina. Much has been written about conflicts in these countries, by war correspondents, diplomats and military personnel, but this is a different story. It is about young woman from a sheltered and privileged background travelling and working alone, in and around war zones, frequently with no financial or practical support, at a time of increasing Islamic fundamentalism. Harriet left her traditional, comfortable home and chose to live a life of adventure and danger helping refugees who had nowhere else to turn. She continues to raise money for charity through her business selling oriental textiles and remains friends with the refugees she helped in Afghanistan. However, she is now married, to just the sort of husband her parents always hoped for.
£999.99
Monsoon Books Inside the House of the Raja: My journey to a
Book SynopsisForgotten in Thailand's troubled Deep South, on the border of Muslim Malaysia, stands a dilapidated wooden palace once home to a Malay ruler, the last of his dynasty.
£8.54
Valley Press Gatecrashing Europe
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£12.99
£14.99
The Endless Bookcase Diamond Quarantine: A cruise wrecked by Covid-19
Book SynopsisThis book is a truthful, honest and fascinating account of being quarantined on the cruise ship Diamond Princess. It was the first cruise ship to be hit by Covid-19. This was the first major event of the coronavirus outbreak. The story draws heavily on a detailed diary kept by the author and includes the lead up to the holiday of a lifetime. It shares what it felt like being confined for 19 days in a small cabin room with no balcony or window, and the challenges that followed. After being repatriated from Japan to the Wirral in Liverpool, and enduring another quarantine, the author finally makes it back home.
£15.75
September Publishing The Condor's Feather: Travelling Wild in South
Book Synopsis'A thrilling, deeply emotional and authentic bird-lover's travelogue.' James Lowen, author of Much Ado About Mothing 'One spring morning, as the cuckoos were arriving in England, we departed. At Tilbury Docks we slowly edged our Toyota camper into a shipping container and, like a heron scooping a frog from a marsh, our container was hoisted high over the dockside. Inside was everything we needed, our new life bound for South America.' After a vicious attack left Michael Webster in treatment for years, it was only his love of nature - in particular birds - that truly healed. Repaying this debt to nature, he and his wife embarked on their trip of a lifetime, travelling through South America; immersed in the wild, following and filming birds. For over four years Michael and Paula travelled the length of the Andes, the greatest mountain chain on Earth. From penguins in Patagonia, up beyond the hummingbirds of the equator, to the flamingos of the Caribbean. They endured dust storms, thundering gales, icy mountain tops and skin-searing heat, and tested the limits of their physical and mental strength as they lived wild, month after month, camping under galaxies of diamond stars. The Condor's Feather is testament to the possibility of new adventures, new friendships and new hope.Trade Review'A thrilling, deeply emotional and authentic bird-lover's travelogue. Michael Webster conveys just why South America's rare birds and wildlife need saving - and provides inspiration for all of us to do our bit to help.' - James Lowen, author of Much Ado About Mothing and editor of Neotropical Birding
£13.49
Haus Publishing Dickenss Kent
Book SynopsisIn Dickens's Kent, Peter Clark follows the writer's footsteps.
£9.49
Monsoon Books The Glass Islands: A Year in Lombok
Book SynopsisWhen Australian Mark Heyward decides to build a home and raise a family on the island of Lombok, east of Bali, he has little idea of what is to come. Riots and battles, mythical princesses, magical voyages, birth and death, love and loss ? the story takes us into the heart of Indonesia, a country where Mark has lived on and off for twenty years, but never on an island like this. The call to prayer echoes in the valleys as the sun drops behind the island. The oceans answer to the tug of the moon, the seasons turn, the rains come and go. Some things never change. The love of a man for his wife, for his children; his desire to build, to create, to leave a mark on this good earth; his struggle to survive, his love of life, his fear of death. This is the heart-warming story of one family''s attempt to build a new life in paradise.
£9.49
Headpress Walk This Way
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£12.34
YouCaxton Publications 220 Rides
£12.08
Leitmotif Editions The Ruins of the Reich: Travels in Germany Past
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£13.49
Unicorn Publishing Group Travels of a Painter
Book SynopsisSince 1961 James Reeve has been exhibiting and selling his paintings, first in Florence, then in Madrid. From 1974 onwards he has travelled widely, often with subsequent London gallery exhibitions. Here he vividly describes and illustrates the characters he meets and the adventures which unfold in Haiti, Madagascar, India, Australia, Jordan, the Yemen and Mexico. As his cousin, the historian, Antonia Fraser remarks in a letter to him: ‘Dearest James, When God gave you your great artistic talent She [sic] made a big mistake, contrary to what is generally thought.’ ‘This is because you are really meant to be a brilliant writer.’ And so now, badgered by Antonia Fraser and other writer friends, James Reeve has at last put his talents together in a series of self-contained short stories recalling travels, anecdotes and encounters which he has illustrated with his vividly colourful vignettes. Always travelling with the purpose of work, in Italy James meets Harold Acton. In the Australian Outback he draws among other things dumps and decrepit dwellings, and there too is Madam Tongere catching a Wichetty grub. He meets Princess Elizabeth of Toro in Uganda and is captured by pygmies in the Congo forest. He paints the fearsome Mrs Gilbert Miller’s portrait in Palm Beach and travels in Rajasthan with Diana Wordsworth, a last relic of the Raj. At last, weary of wandering, he discovers a distant cloud-forest village in Mexico, where Edward James, as the only other Englishman, had preceded him. There he built a house. Living in Mexico for 35 years, among his friends are Doña Olive, the retired prostitute, and the Dominican nuns of an enclosed order who let him in to teach them how to make marmalade.Trade Review"Narrative artist James Reeve has never kept a diary, instead writing his long, detailed letters home from his extensive, worldwide travels. Finding these by chance in a trunk, carefully tied up with string and dated and labelled by his mother, he has used them as the basis for this part-memoir, part-travelogue and illustrated it with vividly colourful vignettes of experiences and encounters." * Artmag *"James Reeve belongs to that rare breed of artists who can write. . . . It is a delightfully entertaining, if often shocking, memoir, an escapist antidote to our lockdown times. . . . Reeve has an eye for vivid detail and captures the absurdity of life with aplomb. . . . The book is as quirky as it is quixotic, and all human life is here." * Daily Mail (UK) *
£18.75
Microcosm Publishing Railroad Semantics #3: Oregon Trunk, Fallbridge,
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£7.99
Feral House,U.S. Several Ways To Die In Mexico City: An
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£19.79
YDP Creative Inc Marble Notebook A4: Black Marble College Ruled Journal
£9.49
Burro Books Donkeys On My Doorstep: Hoofing it in the
Book SynopsisThe fourth in a humorous travel series of six books about how to live the dream in a Mediterranean country.The author explores different local cultural themes in each title.
£9.49
Burro Books A Bull On The Beach: Enjoying The Good Life in
Book SynopsisThe fifth in a humorous travel series of six books about how to live the dream in a Mediterranean country. The author explores different local cultural themes in each title.
£9.49
Burro Books A Chorus Of Cockerels: Walking on The Wild Side
Book SynopsisThe fifth in a humorous travel series of six books about how to live the dream in a Mediterranean country. The author explores different local cultural themes in each title.
£9.49
Books on Demand Journal de bord dune odyssée mélanésienne
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£17.17
BoD - Books on Demand Partir marcher vivre sans plafond
£14.31
Les Editions Du Cenacle Aden Arabie
£8.46
Piper Verlag GmbH Der nackte Berg
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£13.77
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH Everest Solo Der glserne Horizont
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£18.36
BoD - Books on Demand In den Wind geschrieben
£12.34
Books on Demand Unterwegs in Uganda: Reiseimpressionen
£9.71
Books on Demand Hongkong lieben lernen: Der perfekte Reiseführer
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£12.31
Books on Demand Straßburg lieben lernen: Der perfekte Reiseführer
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£13.18
£12.83
Books on Demand Marrakesch lieben lernen: Der perfekte
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£11.97
Books on Demand Palermo lieben lernen: Der perfekte Reiseführer
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£12.31
Books on Demand Wie Gott in Bielefeld: Der luxuriöse Reiseführer
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£20.80
Books on Demand Mehr als Anime und Sushi: 14 kurze Tokyo-Erlebnisse, die noch lange im Gedächtnis blieben
£7.99
£25.55
BoD - Books on Demand Solotravel
£16.72
£16.65
ACC 450 Years of the Spanish Riding School
Book SynopsisThis is the only authorised anniversary volume on 450 years of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. A must-have for equestrian enthusiasts.
£46.75
SORRY PRESS Sorry Siracusa
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£18.00
Spector Books Überfahrt
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£19.80
Tuttle Publishing Japanese Traditions: Rice Cakes, Cherry Blossoms
Book SynopsisPacked with colorful illustrations and fun facts about Japanese culture, celebrations, language and history, this multicultural children's books will delight children and parents alike!A wonderful look at Japanese culture and family life, Japanese Traditions is an intricately illustrated romp through the childhood reminiscences of author/illustrator Setsu Broderick. Told via a series of short text blocks and lighthearted illustrations based on cats, Japanese Traditions displays seasonal festivals and activities such as O-Bon (Festival of the Souls), O-hanami (cherry blossom viewing) and preparing for the New Year.While enjoying the charming illustrations of a family of Japanese cats, the author shares her warm childhood memories of many Japanese customs, such as gathering around the kotatsu (heated table) to stay warm, throwing soybeans to keep away ogres and hanging handmade teru-teru-bozu (fine-weather) dolls out the window to stop the rain. There are also many traditional Japanese foods, toys, games and celebrations taught through the illustrations. All in all, Japanese Traditions provides a magical feast for children of all ages.Trade Review"While the text includes factual information about customs, food, games, festivals, and other cultural topics, the narrative is conversational. Soft, appealing cartoon illustrations of the cuddly, expressive cats dressed in traditional Japanese clothing are full of detail and humor." --School Library Journal"But the real value of this book is the masterful way it combines loads of vocabulary words and customs with the tenderness of the author's memories and the hilarious and busy drawings, making it a treat for both younger and older kids. And for anyone who wonders how life in Japan used to be when people lived closer to the earth, the seasons and each other, this is a sweet, fun, entertaining primer." --The Japan Times"Japanese Traditions is completely charming. Children, parents, and teachers will enjoy perusing the playful illustrations and learning about traditional Japanese culture." --Leslie Swartz, Senior VP, Boston Children's Museum and co-author of Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats
£12.59
Txalaparta, S.L. En Viaje Por Sudamerica
£20.12
Humboldt How Do I Imagine Being There?
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£23.75
Humboldt The Arrow of Time: Notes from a Russian Journey
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£28.50
Humboldt Hamatli & Patriae
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£26.60
Humboldt Towards the Altar of a God Unknown: Liberian
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£19.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Once Upon a Time I Went To . . .: A Stimulating
Book SynopsisTravelling is one of the most exciting things you can do. Getting lost in a beautiful forest or visiting every museum in a city; whatever your idea of a perfect trip is, it will always enrich your life. This book helps you to enjoy your trip to the fullest and gives you the opportunity to write down your favorite new memories.It's perfect for people who love to travel, but want some help exploring. If you want to get more out of your trip, Once Upon a Time I Went is a book they should definitely take with them when they travel.It's a notebook with prompts to make the most of your trip and it's full of questions and assignments to help you explore a new city or country
£12.34
Bloomsbury India Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire:
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£80.75
Meta4Books vzw Venezia: An evocative and atmospheric photo book,
Book SynopsisThis love letter in photographs to the unique beauty and mystery of Venice is an evocative compilation of vintage photographs, prints, and ephemera. It is a tactile ode to the sensuality of the city, filled to the brim with all manner of Venetian memorabilia: 19th century photographs, engravings, hand-coloured magic lantern slides, vintage postcards, old luggage labels, keys from long-lost luxury hotels, golden ducats from the 18th century, Carnival ball invitations. With gilt-edged pages and antique Venetian lettering, it is not a travel or walking guide, but an atmospheric pilgrimage that pays homage to this ever-fascinating city. Serge Simonart’s engaging commentary on Venetian history and culture introduces each subject with affection and insight. "Every day, a nervous traveller visiting the City of Doges for the first time asks the best way to get to their hotel. ‘The shortest or the most beautiful?’, I once heard the concierge at Hotel Des Bains ask. The tourist who opted for the most beautiful route is still wandering around the city. This is a unique photobook in which to wander and lose oneself.” - Serge Simonart
£31.20
