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Peter Nasmyth has lived in and travelled extensively throughout Georgia for the last 32 years. Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is his fascinating account of this historically rich and drama loving country, based on his travels and hundreds of w...

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Detta är en utgåva av ett urval av de brev som utväxlades mellan Jacob Jonas Björnståhl och medlemmar av familjen Rudbeck under åren 1768-1778, då Björnståhl var lärare och mentor åt Adolf Rudbecks och Sigrid Eva Strombergs två söner Adolf Fredrik...

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History of a Six Weeks Tour (1817) is a travelogue by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Composed of journal entries, letters, and a poem, History of a Six Weeks Tour was published anonymously with a preface by Percy. Detailing their stay in S...

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A delightful and charming story celebrating Christmas in Lagos, a modern West African city.  This picture book explores the sights and sounds of Lagos at Christmas through the eyes and words of a little Nigerian girl writing a Christmas ...

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'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' Guardian The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid...

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The last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is an ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation. The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8t...

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Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cummings On Chap...

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A 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 collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages beg...

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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities was first published in Turkish as Be ehir in 1946 and revised in 1960. It consists of five essays, each focused on a city significant in Anatolian history and in Tanpinar's emotional life. Part history,...

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The 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 volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age...

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'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the worlds largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far Eas...

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Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' ...

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The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing,...

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This summer holiday vintage crime classic exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel invites us to solve the puzzle as detectives: perfect for fans of Celia Fremlin's Uncle Paul, Agatha Christie, or Richard Osman ... 'I am loving it...

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Mary Wollstonecrafts reseberättelse från sommaren 1795 skildrar Skandinavien på gränsen till en ny tid. Hon kommer från revolutionens Paris och de politiskt radikala kretsarna i London för att studera hur livet ser ut i Europas periferi, få distan...

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John Muir upplevde 1869 en fantastisk sommar i Sierra Nevada, i det område som nu är Yosemite nationalpark i Kalifornien. Han följde med en fårhjord som skulle drivas på bete där. I dagboksanteckningar skildrar han upplevelserna av livet som fårah...

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In 1925, Fernando Pessoa wrote a guidebook to Lisbon for English-speaking visitors, and wrote it in English. The typescript was only discovered amongst his papers long after his death, but has not hitherto been made available in the UK or the USA....

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'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light' Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore...

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A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated every page. This second collection of his journalism brings together pieces f...

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Elin Wägner (1882-1949) brukar räknas till de så kallade Tiotalisterna, med sitt samhällsfokuserade författarskap. Wägner var även verksam som journalist. Till hennes mest kända och uppskattade skönlitterära verk hör bl.a Norrtullsligan och Pennsk...

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Following on from the author's autobiography, "The Life of My Choice", this book provides a record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya. Since his first visit to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger has made a series of long journeys on foot wit...

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An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africas past. The most enthralling account out of Africa for years. Daily Mail. Livingstones Tribe is excellentTaylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion. Financial Times At the books ...

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An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the countrys most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the centurys greatest living explorer. At the age of twenty-three, three years after atten...

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Swift's scornful satire, written "e;to vex the world rather than divert it"e;, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'...

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'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to p...

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?Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!?Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he s...

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Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recoun...

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David Crane has given us the definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest heroes and explorers.'It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more...For God's sake look after our people.'These were the final words written in Scott's diary o...

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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy chi...

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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robins...

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