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Travels into Bokhara

Before Thesiger, T.E.Lawrence and Richard Burton, there was an even greater traveller in the heroic British tradition of the recklessly adventurous, amateur scholar - Alexander...more



Poetry of Place: Tuscany & Umbria
by Gaia Servadio

Gaia Servadio is an Italian writer, long settled in Britain, who has retained a passionate relationship with her motherland and those who have expressed this in verse. The cast ...more



Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan
by Dervla Murphy

One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart ...more



Tibetan Foothold
by Dervla Murphy

Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, Full Tilt, is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience...more



The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal
by Dervla Murphy

In The Waiting Land (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilizatio...more



Goodbye Buenos Aires
by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Goodbye Buenos Aires is a vivid and earthy celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative...more



92 Acharnon Street
by John Lucas

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION - WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARD 2008 - Somewhere in the world there may be a noisier street than Acharnon Street; but I hope...more



An Ottoman Traveller
by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong  Kim

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION Evliya Çelebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckis...more



China: City & Exile
by Alexander Monro

Gathers poems about four of China''s venerable cities - Chang''an (now Xi''an), Luoyang, Beijing, and Hangzhou. To the Chinese, the city was a depiction of the Confucian ideal o...more



A Pattern of Islands
by Arthur Grimble

A Pattern of Islands is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, ...more



The Fields Beneath
by Gillian Tindall

TIME OUT – BOOK OF THE WEEK 26 May -1 June 2011

The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath: It has been said that ‘ God made the country and man made the town', but this is not...more



The Innocent Anthropologist
by Nigel Barley

The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society...more



When Miss Emmie Was in Russia
by Harvey Pitcher

A Russian Upstairs, Downstairs, but one scented with the cordite and fear of revolution, and with a cast of devotedly loyal and capable British governesses. Miss Emmie i...more



Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
by Dervla Murphy

When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set o...more



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