Classic Travel Writing
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Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Isabella L. BirdCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society, visit...
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Following the Equator
Mark TwainCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Mark Twain enjoyed immense public popularity during his lifetime, and was already one the best-known authors in America when, in 1895, he set out o...
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Naturalist on the River Amazons
Henry Walter BatesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Henry Walter Bates and his co-naturalist Alfred Russet Wallace embarked together in 1848 on an expedition to the forests of the Amazon in search of...
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The Feast: The Summer Holiday Seaside Crime Classic
Cathy RentzenbrinkCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99This summer holiday vintage crime classic exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel invites us to solve the puzzle as detectives: perfect for...
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Pictures from Italy
Charles DickensCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his...
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Winter in Majorca: Translated and Introduced by Robert Graves
George SandCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Travellers in Turkish Libya 1551-1911
John WrightCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places...
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Charles Garnier - Journey to Spain 1868
Editorial Nerea S.A.Current price €96.89Original price €113.99Current price €96.89Original price €113.99Save 15% -
The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy
Antal SzerbCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writersIn August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-...
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Robert Louis StevensonCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood vis...
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Travels with Henry James
Hendrik HertzbergCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companio...
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Inland Voyage
Robert Louis StevensonCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood vis...
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances TrollopeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner' In Domestic...
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Peaks and Bandits: The classic of Norwegian literature
Alf Bonnevie BrynCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In 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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Mostly Mischief Paperback: Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level
Major H. W. TilmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail LermontovCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Cauca...
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An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, a...
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A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage
Elizabeth Robins PennellCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. You...
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Mischief in Patagonia Paperback: An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
Major H. W. TilmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
A Nile Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient tim...
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Isabella Bird
D IrelandCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50This is a lavish pictorial record produced in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). It features 200 unique photographs take...
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English Hours: A Portrait of a Country
Henry JamesCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of t...
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A Book of Voyages
HarperCollins PublishersCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick OB...
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Snow on the Equator Paperback: Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey
Major H. W. TilmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
The Spirit of London
Paul Cohen-PortheimCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A reissue of a truly classic title on the Batsford backlist. First published in 1935, it is a wonderful snapshot of our capital before the Second W...
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The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
Elias CanettiCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In ...
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The Writer Abroad: Literary Travels from Austria to Uzbekistan
British Library PublishingCurrent price €13.59Original price €16.99From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderl...
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Journal of a Few Month''s Residence in Portugal: And Glimpses of the South of Spain
Dora WordsworthCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
Wanderings in Three Continents
Sir Richard Francis BurtonCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton in the aspect in which he was known best to the world - as a traveler and...
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Travels through France and Italy
Tobias SmollettCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50In 1763, Tobias Smollett set sail from Folkestone to Boulogne. He would not return to England for two years, during which time he travelled extensi...
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In Pursuit of Spring
Edward ThomasCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99In mid to late March 1913, as the storm clouds of the Great War which was to claim his life gathered, Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapha...
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The Malay Archipelago
Alfred WallaceCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist's scientific e...
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