Travel writing Books
Penguin Putnam Inc Hand Drawn Vancouver
Book SynopsisA beautiful book of whimsical sketches of Vancouver, accompanied by thoughtful observations and snippets of overheard conversations.
£16.96
HarperCollins This House of Sky
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£17.84
The University of Chicago Press Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
Book SynopsisExplores images of the tropical world - maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts - produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume contains eleven illustrated essays.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Dispatches from Dystopia
Book SynopsisWhy are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place? This book narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. It also examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.Trade Review"Brown is among our most visionary historians: a scholar, writer, and traveler who forces us to think of awfulness as a kind of opportunity and emptiness as another kind of thriving. Dispatches from Dystopia should be read by anyone interested in the fate of modernity in places that were once thought to be at its forefront. But it is also a set of essays on the art and science of sense-making: when to go to the archives and when to ignore them, how to hear and smell a place, and why our stories about someone else's past end up being some version of our own." (Charles King, author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams)
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Moon Come to Earth
Book SynopsisFocusing on scenes as broad as a citywide arts festival and as small as a single paving stone in a cobbled walk, this title renders Lisbon from a perspective that varies between wide-eyed and knowing. It reveals the author's struggles with (and love of) the Portuguese language as well as an awkward meeting with Nobel laureate Jose Saramago.Trade Review"A good part of the reason I feel so passionately positive about The Moon, Come to Earth is how well Graham is able to convey his compassionate, generous, and comic spirit to the reader. Unfailingly endearing, whether he's trying to figure the number of cobblestones in Lisbon or trying to find an ATM to buy tickets for a futebol match, Graham becomes the reader's traveling surrogate in the best sense. But this book is as much about parenthood as it is about Portugal, with Graham's daughter Hannah as the most constant figure in the narrative. The portrait of this father-daughter relationship is about as lovely as l've seen." - Robin Hemley, author of Do-Over!"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Well Always Have Paris American Tourists in
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how images of Americans' love/hate relationship with France came to flourish in the United States shapes a story of one nation's relationship to another from a historical perspective and explores the complex dichotomy between an American appreciation for French culture and French anti-Americanism.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Dancing at the Dead Sea
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A powerful narrative on the critically important topic of the world's environmental hotspots. This is not a pessimistic tirade, but instead a factual commentary that will convince many, written by a gifted writer with an independent mind. I recommend this book without reservation." - Richard Leakey; "A vigorous and highly personal account of environmental crisis at crucial centres around the world.... An impressive investigative odyssey." - Penelope Lively"
£999.99
University of Chicago Press Traveling in Place
Book SynopsisArmchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? No passport, no currency, no security screening required - the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In this book, the author celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms.Trade Review"Bernd Stiegler introduces us to a history of travelogues, all written by trailblazers who measure the span of their adventures by the number of paces between the fireside armchair and the window casement. Stiegler shows the degree to which the room of the writer has become a microcosm, already stocked with enough exotic detail to place itself at the infinite disposal of our curiosity. The book suggests that, no matter how far any wandering sightseer might travel, what really embarks upon the trek is our imagination." -Christian Bok, author of Euonia"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta
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£999.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dairylandia Dispatches from a State of Mind
Book SynopsisSteve Hannah's chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip. He found himself in Wisconsin, a distinctly different place from the east coast where he was born and raised. Dairylandia recounts Steve Hannah's burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, “State of Mind”.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Istanbul The Collected Traveler
Book SynopsisTHE COLLECTED TRAVELERFor Travelers Who Want More Than a GuidebookBringing The Collected Traveler along on your trip is like having your own savvy personal tour guide who knows the place intimately. This unique guide to one of today's hottest tourist destinations combines fascinating articles by a wide variety of writers, woven throughout with the editor's own indispensable advice and opinions-providing in one package an unparalleled experience of an extraordinary place. THIS EDITION ON ISTANBUL FEATURES:• Seductive, colorful, and in-depth articles that illuminate the dazzling treasures and monuments of Istanbul, from the Grand Bazaar to the Sultans' palaces; the delights of Turkish cuisine; the rich pageant of Istanbul's history; and the people and personalities that define it today. • More personal pieces that take the reader beyond the usual tourist highlights, offering intimate reports on everything from th
£18.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Gun Guys
Book SynopsisDan Baum is a gun fanatic. He is also Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey. In Gun Guys, he takes us on a guided tour of gun stores and gun shows, shooting ranges and festivals, contests and auctions, trying to figure out what draws so many of us to guns in the first place. Is it just part of being American? Introducing a wide cast of characters, Baum shows both sides of the gun culture in America, bringing an entire world vividly to life, and in doing so helping to find a middle ground in the gun debate, where actual conversation can take place.
£14.36
Random House USA Inc Oaxaca Journal
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£14.45
Thomas Dunne Books Seeking Sicily
Book SynopsisSicily has a timeless allure, and much of what one sees there today has changed little over the centuries. With Sicily's literary greats as a guide, the author discerns what lies behind the soul of its inhabitants, touching on history, archaeology, food, art, and politics.
£21.84
Back Bay Books Union A Democrat a Republican and a Search for
Book Synopsis Two friends—a Democrat and a Republican—travel across America 'on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation . . . to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives' (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad. In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan was fresh off his service in the Marines and feeling a bit out of place at Yale Law School. Chris was yearning for a sense of mission after leaving Washington D.C. Over the months, Jordan and Chris's friendship blossomed not in spite of, but because of, their political differences. So they decided to hit the road in search of reasons to strengthen their bond in an era of strife and partisanship. What follows is a three-year adventure story, across forty-four states and
£12.34
Fsg Originals Impossible Owls Essays
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£15.30
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Carsick
Book SynopsisCarsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America''s most beloved weirdo.John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads I''m Not Psycho, he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks o
£16.20
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Flaneuse
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk. Virginia Woolf called it street haunting; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's l
£16.20
Random House USA Inc The Middle Passage
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£14.40
Random House USA Inc Horizon
Book SynopsisONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIANFrom pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, t
£16.15
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Bayou Farewell
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£15.30
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman
Book SynopsisPolly Evans had a mission: to learn everything possible about the howling, tail-wagging world of sled dogs. Fool’s errand? Or the adventure of a lifetime? The intrepid world traveler was about to find out.In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventured to Canada’s far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. But though she was prepared for the cold, she never anticipated how profoundly she’d be affected by that blissful and austere place. In a pristine landscape patrolled by wolves and caribou, the wannabe musher was soon learning the ropes of arctic dogsledding, careening across the silent tundra with her own team of yapping, leaping canines. Shivering but undaunted, Polly follows the tracks of the legendary Yukon Quest, a dogsledding race more arduous than the Iditarod, witnessing a life-and-death spectacle she’ll never forget. Along the way she makes a stop at the Santa Clause hous
£12.60
WW Norton & Co Midnight in Siberia
Book SynopsisTravels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.Trade Review"[An] epic journey by rail." -- Andrew McCarthy - New York Times Book Review"In this picaresque story of adventure, David Greene reaches beyond Putin’s Kremlin across Siberia to show us Russian life in the Raw—the gritty stoicism, surprising warmth and generosity, black humor, and resilience of the narod, the average people. A storyteller with a human touch, Greene finds Russians tested by tragedy and war as he joins them in their cramped apartments, jammed trains, and gulping beer and pickled horse sausage in their steam baths, facing an uncertain future with an unexpected streak of inner wildness. His Russians are stolidly patriotic and, even now, drawn mostly to strong leaders, resigned to tough justice and preferring stability and harsh rule to the chaotic uncertainties of democracy, their personal lives ‘full of poetry, pain, and laughter.’" -- Hedrick Smith, author of The Russians and Who Stole the American Dream"Greene is a great storyteller, and what a story he has to tell. A fascinating and thought-provoking journey deep into Russia’s physical vastness and soul. Greene’s landscape is inhabited by a cast of characters that light up both and would have made Anton Chekhov proud. A first-rate tale that puts you aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad on the journey of a lifetime." -- Aaron David Miller, distinguished scholar, Wilson Center, and author of The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President"Beautifully written… The sharply observed vignettes, combined with the moving, elegiac quality of the prose make it a hard book to put down. David Greene’s travels provide insights and context for some of the more dramatic recent events in Russia that will appeal to both the casual traveler and the seasoned observer." -- Fiona Hill, coauthor of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution"Complex… thought-provoking." -- Publishers Weekly"Describe[s] the Russia of the vast interior…. An impressionistic book, a book about people along the way." -- Bruce Ramsey - Seattle Times"A mesmerizing, confounding, comforting and thought-provoking book." -- Kevin Begos - Associated Press
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Outside 25 Classic Tales and New Voices from the
Book SynopsisTrue stories of wild places and extreme endeavors from the magazine that invented adventure writing as we know it.Trade Review"A blend that is exciting, thoughtful, poignant, whacky and always sparkling....Essential reading." -- Tom Meade - Providence Journal-Bulletin
£15.55
WW Norton & Co Indonesia Etc Exploring the Improbable Nation
Book Synopsis"A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read." —Simon Winchester, Wall Street JournalTrade Review"Exuberant and wise…Pisani is an exceptionally resourceful observer of the ongoing battle to define Indonesia." -- Pankj Mishra - The New Yorker"Beautifully written, richly entertaining." -- The Economist"A rollicking good adventure…To read Indonesia Etc. is to grow rather fond of both author and country." -- Pallavi Aiyar - Los Angeles Review of Books"For anyone about to visit the place, [Elizabeth Pisani’s] book is an essential companion." -- Misha Glenny - Guardian"Intrepid and passionate…Profound, lasting, a masterpiece of its genre—and so much fun!" -- Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season and Farewell, Fred Voodoo
£14.24
Random House USA Inc Among the Believers An Islamic Journey
Book SynopsisThe Nobel Prize-winning author gives us – on the basis of his own intensive seventeen month journey across the Asian continent – an unprecedented revelation of the Islamic world. • “A brilliant report…. A book of scathing inquiry and judgment, whose tragic power is being continually reinforced by current events” (Newsweek).With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books and won him international acclaim (“There can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses him” – Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review), Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam – in a book that combines the fascinations of the great works of travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original, and idiosyncratic political mind. He takes us into four countries in the throes of “Islamization&r
£15.30
Houghton Mifflin The Old Patagonian Express By Train through the
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£17.99
Harmony/Rodale How to Be Married What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents about Building a Happy Marriage
Book SynopsisEveryone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world where you no longer need to be married? How does an independent, strong-willed feminist become someone’s partner—all the time?In the tradition of writers such as Nora Ephron and Elizabeth Gilbert, award-winning journalist and nationally bestselling author Jo Piazza writes a provocative memoir of a real first year of marriage that will forever change the way we look at matrimony. A travel editor constantly on the move, Jo journeys to twenty countries on five continents to figure out what modern marriage means. Throughout this stunning, funny, warm, and wise personal narrative, she gleans wisdom fro
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc The Innocents Abroad
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£7.95
Penguin Books Ltd Down the River Plume
Book SynopsisDown the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur of nature gives rise to meditations on everything from the life of Henry David Thoreau to the militarization of the open range. At the same time, it is an impassioned condemnation of what is being done to our natural heritage in the name of progress, profit, and security. Filled with fiery dawns, wild and shining rivers, and radiant sandstone canyons, it is charged as well with heartfelt, rampageous rage at human greed, blindness, and folly. It is, in short, Edward Abbey at his best, where and when we need him most.Trade Review“Abbey’s unique prose voice… is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions… alternately misanthropic and sentimental, enraged and hilarious.”—People “The man, quite simply, is a master.”—The Bloomsbury Review “A record as important and lovely as Muir’s or Thoreau’s.”—New York Post “One of our foremost Western essayists and novelists. A militant conservationist, he has attracted a large following—not only within the ranks of Sierra Club enthusiasts and backpackers, but also among armchair appreciators of good writing. What always made his work doubly interesting is the sense of a true maverick spirit at large—a kind of spirit not imitable, limited only to the highest class of literary outlaws.”—The Denver Post “Abbey is a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion.”—Wallace Stegner “In his own inimitable fashion, Abbey prevails among the scant handful of our best and brightest fresh-air scribes.”—Chicago Sun-TimesTable of ContentsPreliminary NotesPART I: Thoreau and Other Friends1 Down the River with Henry Thoreau2 Watching the Birds: The Windhover3 Meeting the Bear4 Planting a TreePART II: Politicks and Rivers5 Notes from a Cold River6 MX7 Of Protest8 Thus I Reply to Rene DubosPART III: Places and Rivers9 Running the San Juan10 In the Canyon11 Down There in Sonora12 Aravaipa Canyon13 Fool's TreasurePART IV: People, Books, and Rivers14 River Rats15 Footrace in the Desert16 Reviewing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance17 Paul Horgan's Josiah Gregg18 My Friend Debris19 FloatingPostscript
£14.45
The University of Michigan Press A Journey to the East
Book SynopsisA representative to the US Centennial in Philadelphia, Li Gui went on to style himself as the first Chinese official to circle the globe, and his travel diary offers a fascinating window into the Chinese view of the West in the late 19th century.Trade ReviewLi Gui's meticulous account of what he saw and did during his round-the-world trip iin 1876 makes a splendid addition to our understanding of the late Qing knowledge of the globe. Charles Desnoyers' introduction is also evocative and richly detailed, setting the scene perfectly for his own fluent translation of the original text." --Jonathan Spence, Yale University
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Waltzing the Magpies
Book SynopsisThis is Pickering's second book about Australia, following on 'Walkabout Year', published in 1995. 'Waltzing the Magpies' recounts the year that the author and his family spent in western parts of Australia.
£999.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Pursuit of Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Gayford is a great travelling companion. Where art criticism can be pompous, wordy and jargon-filled, here he’s warm, honest, confiding, intelligent, yes, but never talking down to his reader' - Shiny New Books'Martin Gayford is a perceptive and informed critic who has been writing about art for several decades and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject … Gayford’s light touch makes it a thumping good read' - The Artist'An admirable book … one of [Gayford’s] talents is the ability to convey the essence of an artist’s work, a style or an art movement in clear, concise passages that contain no jargon' - Country Life'A charming short book about [Gayford’s] peregrinations and how different contexts have affected his thinking about the art and the artists' - Michael Prodger’s Books of the Year, Sunday Times'The experience of reading Gayford’s travelogue is buoyed along by his crisp, lucid prose … In its understated way, the book offers a kind of modern-day equivalent to Herodotus – with Gayford dutifully trudging the earth, reporting on things both incidental and profound' - Times Literary Supplement
£20.17
Random House USA Inc The Longest Silence
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£15.30
Mariner Books The Last Train to Zona Verde
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£16.79
Mariner Books Deep South
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£16.19
Cengage Learning, Inc The Tao of Travel by Theroux Paul 2012
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£15.19
Random House USA Inc A Place in the World
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£16.15
Random House USA Inc Tales of A Female Nomad Living at Large in the
Book SynopsisThe true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world.“Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people’s lives. This is an amazing travelogue.” —BooklistAt the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe.In 1986, Rita sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. Rita’s example encourages us all to dust off our dreams and rediscover the joy, t
£13.99
Houghton Mifflin Riding the Iron Rooster By Train Through China
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£17.09
Penguin Putnam Inc Eat Pray Love One Womans Search for Everything
Book SynopsisOne of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time.This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
£20.25
Random House USA Inc Toujours Provence
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog Boy—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite get away from it all, you can surely have a very good time trying.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Encore Provence New Adventures in the South of
Book SynopsisIn his most delightful foray into the wonders of Provençal life, Peter Mayle returns to France and puts behind him cholesterol worries, shopping by phone, California wines, and other concerns that plagued him after too much time away.In Encore Provence, Mayle gives us a glimpse into the secrets of the truffle trade, a parfumerie lesson on the delicacies of scent, an exploration of the genetic effects of 2,000 years of foie gras, and a small-town murder mystery that reads like the best fiction. Here, too, are Mayle's latest tips on where to find the best honey, cheese, or chambre d'hìte the region has to offer. Lyric, insightful, sparkling with detail, Encore Provence brings us a land where the smell of thyme in the fields or the glory of a leisurely lunch is no less than inspiring.
£15.15
Penguin Random House LLC On Persephones Island
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£999.99
Random House USA Inc Passage to Juneau
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£999.99
The History Press Ltd Band on the Bus
Book SynopsisThis light-hearted account follows the group on their trip across deserts and mountains, as they undertook an incredible expedition that would be impossible today.
£20.94
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Spirits of Dallas The Haunting of the Big D
Book SynopsisJourney through the spirit-filled streets of Dallas, Texas. Relive spine-tingling tales of the phantom hitchhiker, cowboy ghosts of Preston Road, and the grave-robbing monster of Ghost Mountain. Visit the hidden ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel, where phantoms still dance the night away. Explore the creepy history of the wax museum murders and stay the night in the infamous, blood-soaked Reindeer Manor. All these and more spooky adventures await you in the Big Dif you dare visit!
£13.29
