Classic Travel Writing
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Two Mountains and a River Paperback: I Made a Resolve Not to Begin Climbing Until Assured by a Plague of Flies That Summer Had Really Come
H. W. TilmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
A Visit to America
A.G. MacdonellCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50In 1934, at the peak of the Great Depression, A. G. Macdonell embarked on a journey across America. This travelogue is the deliciously scathing pro...
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Ibn FadlanCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subseq...
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To The Hebrides: Samuel Johnson''s Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell''s Journal of a Tour
James BoswellCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Samuel Johnsons Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswells Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the be...
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland''s History-Making Race Around the World
Matthew GoodmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
On Foot Through Clydesdale
Iain C. LeesCurrent price €12.79Original price €15.99First published in 1932, Iain C. Lees''s book On Foot through Clydesdale is a fascinating and delightful introduction to the history, folklore, tra...
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An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting of Eu...
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Constantinople
Edmondo de AmicisCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as th...
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Mischief in Greenland: Only a Man in the Devil of a Hurry Would Wish to Fly to His Mountains
H.W. TilmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
South!
Sir Ernest Henry ShackletonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. So...
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A Long Walk with Lord Conway: An Exploration of the Alps and an English Adventurer
Simon ThompsonCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In 1894, Martin Conway became the first man to walk the Alps 'from end to end' when he completed a 1,000-mile journey from the Col de Tende in Ital...
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Voyage to Lisbon, Legal Papers, and Poems
Henry FieldingCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99The Voyage to Lisbon is Fielding's last work, a piece of travel writing depicting his journey, for his health, to the place where he died. The othe...
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The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia: Travel Accounts of the 16th to the 21st Century
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €50.99Original price €59.99For people nowadays, the constant exchange of people, goods and ideas and their interaction across wide distances are a part of everyday life. Howe...
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In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal
David ConstantineCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspire...
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments: Discover the stories that defined humanity and shaped our world
Neil OliverCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC HistoryFrom Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first st...
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way: Discover the 1960s trend for buying land on a Greek island and building a house. How hard could it be?
Nancy SpainCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - in...
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Lawrence DurrellCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and r...
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Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir - A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture
Gertrude BellCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
In Search of London
H. V. MortonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Here H. V.Morton begins his wandering in the City, where Roman London began, and follows, westwards, the course of London's seventeenth and eightee...
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Peel Me a Lotus
Charmian CliftCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalym...
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3 Secondi a Bogotá: La vera storia di due viaggiatori con zaino e sacco a pelo caduti nelle mani degli inferi Colombiani.
Mark PlayneCurrent price €20.34Original price €24.50Current price €20.34Original price €24.50Save 17% -
My First Summer in the Sierra
John MuirCurrent price €9.95Original price €11.99My First Summer in the Sierra is the incredible true story of John Muirs iconic time spent working in the California mountain range of the Sierra N...
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3 Secondi a Bogotá: La vera storia di due viaggiatori con zaino e sacco a pelo caduti nelle mani degli inferi Colombiani.
Mark PlayneCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Current price €14.10Original price €16.99Save 17%