Classic Travel Writing
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Stalin''s Nose: Across the Face of Europe
Rory MacLeanCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Through war and revolution, decay and regeneration, Stalin's Nose is a surreal and darkly comic ride and a portrait of Europe like no other. Rory ...
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A New Voyage Round the World
William DampierCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumn...
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The Apprentice Tourist
Mário de AndradeCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'My life's done a somersault,' wrote acclaimed modernist writer Mário de Andrade. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, he finally embarked on a ...
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The Nomad''s Path: Travels in the Sahel
Alistair CarrCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50An account of a journey across an inhospitable region with former Tubu rebels at a time of Tuareg insurgency, when explosions from landmines rocked...
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Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City
Hilary Sumner-BoydCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best. This ...
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Letters from Iceland
Louis MacNeiceCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concer...
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A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695: A Late Voyage to St Kilda
Martin MartinCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin's A Description of the Western Islands of Sc...
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The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom
Alfred BarnardCurrent price €43.34Original price €50.99Around the year 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of Harper's Weekly Gazette, a journal which featured facets of the wine and spirit trade. In ord...
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Well Met! Friends and Travelling Companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles: Journals of Travels in Egypt, Petra and the Near East, 1854
David KennedyCurrent price €48.44Original price €56.99Throughout the two years of a grand tour as far as Australia and New Zealand (1852-4), Rev Thomas Bowles kept a daily journal, ultimately filling o...
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Coryat''s Crudities: Selections
Thomas CoryateCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryates five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest trav...
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Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
Ronald RidleyCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on ...
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Peaks and Bandits: The classic of Norwegian literature
Alf Bonnevie BrynCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set...
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Hearn''s Japan: Writings from a Mystical Country, Volume 3
Lafcadio HearnCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
From the Elephant''s Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings
Jillian TamakiCurrent price €36.54Original price €42.99the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content ...
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Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large
Michael FraynCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the plac...
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Into The East: Three Journeys Through India & Nepal
Christopher M OchsCurrent price €18.71Original price €23.99Current price €18.71Original price €23.99Save 22% -
Ocean Rhythms Kindred Spirits: An Emerson-Inspired Essay Collection on Travel, Nature, Family and Pets
Sheree K NielsenCurrent price €15.59Original price €19.99Current price €15.59Original price €19.99Save 22% -
Stickeen - Legacy Edition: A Story About A Dog And A Glacier In Alaska
John MuirCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Current price €23.38Original price €27.50Save 15% -
Stickeen - Legacy Edition: A Story About A Dog And A Glacier In Alaska
John MuirCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Current price €15.29Original price €17.99Save 15% -
The Detour: Turning the Tide
Ben J. HarrisCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Leaving behind Thailand after the 2004 Tsunami, Ben, aged 19, made a life challenging journey without GPS or mobile phone to cross 11 countries in ...
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The Divine Heart of Darkness: Finding God in the Shadows
Catherine BirdCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Current price €18.69Original price €21.99Save 15% -
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Matsuo BashoCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow ...
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By the Big Cedar Tree: A Wilderness Trip Led to a Discovery That Changed Their Lives Forever. Will Their Forty-Year Old Secret Be Exposed?
J W EmburyCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Current price €15.76Original price €18.99Save 17% -
Madrid: A Traveller''s Reader
Hugh ThomasCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present...
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The Sea is so Great: A small boat voyage in the Pacific Ocean
Alan NebauerCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
The Story Of My Boyhood And Youth (Legacy Edition): The Formative Years Of John Muir And The Becoming Of The Wandering Naturalist
John MuirCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Current price €26.98Original price €32.50Save 17% -
Russian Frontiers: Eighteenth-Century British Travellers in the Caspian, Caucasus and ...
Beatrice TeissierCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The vast and expanding Russian empire of the eighteenth century was inhabited by a great number of peoples. This book, part anthology, part comment...
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Bradshaws Handbook
George BradshawCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'. When Michae...
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Go Greyhound, Go!: A Journey Through Sixties America
Paul WatkinsCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15%