Classic Travel Writing
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Ibn BattutahCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native ...
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The Travels
Marco PoloCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collec...
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Piers of the Homeless Night
Jack KerouacCurrent price €5.94Original price €6.99'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat wri...
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The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
Agatha ChristieCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christies extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to ...
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The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Patrick Leigh FermorCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volume...
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Poems for Travellers
Gaby MorganCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Poems for Travellers transports you to lands far and near in the company of some of the world's greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and...
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The Hill of Devi: An Englishman serving at the Court of a Maharaja
E. M. ForsterCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a 'record of a vanished civilizatio...
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Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
Jeremy JenningsCurrent price €36.54Original price €42.99A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travelsmost of them, aside from his journey to America, barely kn...
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A Thousand Miles up the Nile
Amelia B. EdwardsCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered if I may hope to be remembered at all! Amelia B Edwards,...
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Occupational Hazards
Rory StewartCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Devastating - The Sunday TimesAbsolutely absorbing - Ken LoachBy September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begu...
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In The Footsteps of a Roman Legion: Walking the Via Egnatia
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99In the Footsteps of a Roman Legion - Walking the Via Egnatia (2021) On a blistering September morning in 2016, intrepid friends in their sixties ...
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Canterbury And Other Tales: Treading Ancient Trails
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Treading Ancient Trails Seeking solace after the death of her husband, Kim Letson discovers a passion for long- distance walking. Through historic...
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Pomegranates at 4800 Metres: Journeying at Home and Away
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Journeying at Home and Away Pomegranates at 4800 Metres is a vibrant tapestry woven with themes of love, courage and generosity. Kim Letsons husb...
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Florence has won my Heart: Literary visitors to the Tuscan capital, 1750-1950
Mark RobertsCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Current price €27.63Original price €32.50Save 15% -
On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel
Andrew HumphreysCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile, new in paperbackSince Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile...
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All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
Mike ParkerCurrent price €13.83Original price €17.50A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scen...
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East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia inspired by her BBC 1 series ''The Ganges''
Sue PerkinsCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Follow Sue Perkins' extraordinary adventures across southern Asia in this fabulously funny travelling tale - inspired by her BBC 1 documentary seri...
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Lost and Found in China
Pang GouGouCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Lost and Found in China takes you on a journey to China but to destinations that are very much off the beaten track. They include Tibet and the sta...
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Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East: Travel, Politics and the Idea of Empire
Lisa McCracken LacyCurrent price €113.89Original price €133.99Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle E...
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Searching for My Shangri La: Travels in S E Asia
John StanilandCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99Searching for My Shangri La is the authors second of book on the region, after Midlife Meanderings in SE Asia. It is about continuing an independen...
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With the Empress Dowager
Katharine CarlCurrent price €26.55Original price €31.99A first person account of time spent with the Empress Dowager when commissioned to paint her portrait for the St. Louis Exposition in 1903. Part of...
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Paris: A Literary Anthology
Pan MacmillanCurrent price €13.76Original price €16.99Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and arti...
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