WELCOME TO ELAND BOOKS
1931–2022
Celebrating and remembering the life-force that was Dervla Murphy, who has died at home at the age of 90. Thank you for your friendship, your principled wisdom, your questing conversation and your unflinching books. 22nd May 2022
Eland (1982-2022): Celebrating our differences for 40 years
Eland houses an unrivalled collection of books about the world and its societies. The titles explore the magic of our cultures, their humour, their common humanity and their inspiring differences. For the price of a good bottle of wine our travel books offer inspiration for passionate exploration – in the company of authors who really know, and who know how to tell it.
We have an annual subscription service, where for an annual fee we send you all our books, as they come hot from the printing press – for full details go to our books page
Our latest reissues: Guy Kennaway’s One People, E. M. Forster’s The Hill of Devi and Veronica Doubleday’s Three Women of Herat
2022 is Eland’s 40th anniversary, to read our 40th anniversary press release click here and to listen to Barnaby Rogerson talking about the Eland list listen here to Anthropology-lite on Ryan Murdock’s Personal Landscape’s podcast
LISTEN WITH ELAND
To hear tributes to Dervla Murphy, winner of the Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2021, from Michael Palin, Colin Thubron, Hilary Bradt, Lois Pryce and the Eland team click here
Travel Writing World is an award-winning podcast. In a wide-ranging conversation Jeremy Bassetti talks to Ronald Wright about Peruvian history and his travels within Latin America. To listen click here Jeremy has also interviewed Monica Connell, author of Against a Peacock Sky, about her extraordinary account of two years spent in a remote Nepalese village in the early 1980s. To listen click here His latest podcast features Charles Nicholl on ‘Story Structure and ‘Borderlines’ To listen click here
Al Hakawati (the Storyteller) The HandsUp Foundation is a charity raising funds & awareness for aid to Syria. Anthony Sattin joins Petroc Trelawny and Brigid Keenan in reading from an Eland classic. To listen click here
The Slightly Foxed podcast Listen to our publisher Barnaby Rogerson on the art of travel writing here and Justin Marozzi on his bookshelf in Tripoli and Gerald Hanley’s Warriors here
“... a nearly extinct integrity, an eccentric passion for quality and a wonderful survivor. We are all in its debt.”
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RT @timiswriting: Finally, I have my hands on this. What an adventure, what a writer. Thank you, @ElandPublishing #DervlaMurphy 📚 https://t.co/YqEK4cHJF5
Norman Lewis wrote thirteen novels and thirteen works of non-fiction, mostly travel books . . .