Walled Gardens is a journey both in time and place – to the south of Ireland in the 1940s and 50s. An Irish household, too late to benefit from the last years of the Ascendancy,...more
The idea of Moorish Spain captures the modern imagination, with its tales of knowledge shared across the borders of medieval Islam and Christendom, and of courts resounding to t...more
OUT NOW - A cult classic, The Way of the World is one of the most beguiling travel books ever written. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistani rubbish heap, i...more
No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting awestruck travellers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crus...more
The land of the Iranians, known to European travellers for centuries as Persia, is a land riven by mountain-ranges, made inhospitable by deserts, yet rich in plains, forests and...more
Japan: Through Writers' Eyes From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho: the most recent addition to Eland's through writers...more
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