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Eland has, quite unwittingly, become a travel information centre. Customers and journalists ring up, win our attention by praising our books then progress to the real issue at hand: the address of a reliable Moroccan travel agent, whether northern Mali is safe, which book they should give their niece who is travelling to Argentina in 24 hours, where to acquire an Indian tent or the address of a good bookshop within walking distance of their hotel in Istanbul.

In the process of responding - while also gently trying to redirect the conversation back to an Eland title - we have been also building up a store of knowledge which now gets transferred to our website. You can now look up our hand-picked selection of bookshops, in Britain and abroad, recommended travel agents, learned societies, seminars, cultural tours, travel-writing courses, as well as festivals, weather and Indian tents at any time of the day or night - free from any referrals, product-endorsements, commission kick-backs or advertising.

We have also added a non-Eland travel book store - titles that we admire but have been produced by other publishers, bought second-hand, picked up at the end of their print-run at a trade-only remainder fair or that we once reviewed. Stock levels are very variable, so they are sold on a first come, first served basis.

The titles are:


The Future in America

HG Wells


American Notes

Charles Dickens


Envoy Extraordinary

Sir William Hamilton


North America I

Anthony Trollope


North America II

Anthony Trollope


A Traveller's Companion to Florence

Edward Chaney (Editor)


A Traveller's Companion to Dublin

Thomas & Valerie Pakenham


Idle Days in Patagonia

WH Hudson


Havana: Cities of the Imagination

Claudia Lightfoot


Athens: Cities of the Imagination

Michael Llewellyn Smith


San Francisco: Cities of the Imagination

Mick Sinclair


Brussels: Cities of the Imagination

Andre de Vries


Old Calabria

Norman Douglas


Vathek

William Beckford


Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia

Christopher J Walker


A Biography of Robert Byron

James Knox


The Sword and the Cross

Fleming Fleming


Black Earth City

Charlotte Hobson


The Journal of William Beckford in Portugal & Spain 1787 – 1788

Boyd Alexander (Editor)


Journal of a Residence Among The Negroes in the West Indies

Matthew Lewis


Desert Traveller: The Life of Jean Louis Burckhardt

Katherine Sim


Journey for our Time: The Journals of the Marquis de Custine, Russia 1839

Simon Sebag Montefiore


Traveller’s History of North Africa

Barnaby Rogerson


Journey to the Orient

Gerard de Nerval


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