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Forgotten Kingdom

Peter Goullart

• Paperback
• Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy tem... Lees meer

Hunting Mr Heartbreak

Jonathan Raban

• Paperback
• 'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of nonfiction at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert Macfarlane Lees meer

Palestine Papers 1917-1922

Doreen Ingrams

• Paperback
• Describes the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate. Lees meer

A Quiet Evening

Norman Lewis

• Paperback | Eland classics
• By happy agreement with the literary estate of Norman Lewis, the previous five collections of Norman s work have been withdrawn, so that all the best ... Lees meer

Croatia

• Paperback | Through Writers' Eyes
• A travel book on Croatia, which presents an abundant culture of Roman remains, Venetian and Hapsburg-era palaces. Lees meer

The Innocent Anthropologist

Nigel Barley

• Paperback
• Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist. Lees meer

The Way of the World

Nicholas Bouvier

• Paperback
• Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enh... Lees meer

Dinner of Herbs

Carla Grissman

• Paperback
• Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. Lees meer

Old Glory

Jonathan Raban

• Paperback
• 'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple Lees meer

Arabia through the Looking Glass

Jonathan Raban

• Paperback
• 'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron Lees meer

Between River and Sea

Dervla Murphy

• Paperback
• Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with... Lees meer

Stamboul Sketches

John Freely

• Paperback
• Freely reveals a superb eye for the telling details. - The Independent Lees meer

Central Asia

• Paperback
• A title, in which, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated by travellers and writers from Marco Polo to ... Lees meer

Persia

David Blow

• Paperback | Through Writers' Eyes
• The land of the Iranians, known to European travelers for centuries as Persia, is a land of mountains, deserts, plains, and forests. The author adds t... Lees meer

The Last Leopard

David Gilmour

• Paperback
• Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what i... Lees meer

The Face of War

Martha Gellhorn

• Paperback
• Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japa... Lees meer

On Persephone's Island

Mary Taylor Simeti

• Paperback | Engels
• With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterranean island she and the Greek goddess of the harvest ca... Lees meer

A Ride to Khiva

Fred Burnaby

• Paperback
• An immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spo... Lees meer

The Purple Land

W. H. Hudson, Andreas Campomar

• Paperback
• `The Purple Land is a very sinister book if read too late in life. It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in... Lees meer

The Fields Beneath

Gillian Tindall

• Paperback
• A journey through time: from a scattering of cottages along a pre-roman horse track, to a medieval parish and staging post for travellers, onwards int... Lees meer

Bangkok

Alec Waugh

• Paperback
• Presents the portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, but also of the dynasty and culture which created it. This work unravels the plots, coups, wars... Lees meer

The Hill of Devi

E. M. Forster

• Paperback | Eland classics
• This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart ... Lees meer

Travels on my Elephant

Mark Shand

• Paperback | Engels
• The author buys an elephant named Tara and rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From... Lees meer

A Plague of Caterpillars

Nigel Barley

• Paperback
• When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village ... Lees meer