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Walled Gardens
by Annabel Davis-Goff

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

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The Way of the World
by Nicolas Bouvier

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

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Egypt and The Nile : Through Writers' Eyes

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



Persia : Through Writers' Eyes
by David Blow

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



Honeymoons
• A beautifully produced hardback.
• The perfect gift for newly-weds.
• Queen Victoria, Byron, Martha Gellhorn, King Charles I and many others reflect on their honeym...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


The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba
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