Results for: books tagged ‘Travel’
Among the Cities: Jan Morris
‘Years and years ago, observing that nobody in the history of man had ever seen and described the entire urban world, I resolved to do it myself ...’It was thirty ... More
Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand: Geoffrey Moorhouse
Starting near the roof of the world on the Soviet Union’s border with China, Geoffrey Moorhouse’s journey through Central Asia winds across mountains, steppes and desert as well as the ... More
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Lawrence Durrell
Caesar's Vast Ghost: Lawrence Durrell
Provence, where Lawrence Durrell lived for thirty years, is the motif of this final work, published just before his death. It is a highly personal and unusual book, part travelogue, ... More
The Dark Heart of Italy: Tobias Jones
In 1999 Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a country riven by skulduggery, where crime is ... More
Dead Man's Chest: Nicholas Rankin
First published to widespread acclaim in 1987, Nicholas Rankin’s account of a journey in pursuit of Robert Louis Stevenson has won plaudits ever since for its blend of scholarship and ... More
Europe: Jan Morris
Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is ... More
The Faber Book of Exploration: Benedict Allen
What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To emerge dazed, dying yet triumphant, from the Amazon? Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration ranges across ... More
The Fearful Void: Geoffrey Moorhouse
From the outset misfortune was never far away; and as he moved further into that 'awful emptiness' the physical and mental deprivation grew more intense. More
Ghosts of Spain: Giles Tremlett
Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe’s most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo ... More
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