Klassiska reseskildringar

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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Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again!T...

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This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they f...

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A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so f...

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'Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it' - DIANA HENRY'Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing - this book will get you hooked' - YOTAM OTTOLENGHIThe nation's 'taster in chie...

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The summer of 2018: England sweltered in the most sustained heatwave for 42 years, the government tore itself apart over deals and no deals, and hundreds of miles away, in a taciturn and strange state, the national football team did the unthinkabl...

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A classic of travel writing, ?A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush? is Eric Newby?s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chao...

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?Slowly Down the Ganges? is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ?A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush? and ?Love and War in the Apennines?. Told with Newby''s self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre...

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Hailed as Newby''s ''masterpiece'', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby''s imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the ...

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William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world?s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stor...

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A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England?Wales border: Britain?s deepest faultline.There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, r...

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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie?s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibit...

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?The finest book ever written about England and the English? Stuart Maconie?J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.? Dame Judi DenchThree years before George...

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Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - an...

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Brought to you by Penguin.As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labou...

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Brought to you by Penguin. ''We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk about the first City in the British Empire ...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of East of Croydon written and read by Sue Perkins. A few years ago I was asked if I''d like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical...

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Brought to you by Penguin. From much-loved historian Neil Oliver comes a whole new insight on our past, told through 100 remarkable, unforgettable stories. In his brilliant and excitingly ambitious new book, Neil Oliver takes us on a whistlestop t...

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The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza Ta...

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Typee; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva (which Melville spel...

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"Ovanligt välskrivna och kloka reportage om livet och samhället i Amerika... Att sedan bli påmind om en stark begåvad kvinna är alltid en stor inspiration." Cecilia Persson, BTJ "En lika modig som rolig bok!" Bella Stenberg, Göteborgs Posten "Mots...

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När Ida separerat från mannen och barnen vuxit upp tyckte hon att det var dags att förverkliga sin dröm. Hon gav sig på egen hand ut på en äventyrlig jordenruntresa. Och några år senare ännu en. Låter det som en nutida story? Jo, men nej ... för I...

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Kinesiska San Mao hade ända sedan hon var barn drömt om att resa i öknen. Drygt 20 år gammal gav hon sig iväg för att leva nomadliv i Europa, Sydamerika, USA och - inte minst - i Sahara. Hennes fria kringflackande vagabondliv i början av 1970-tale...

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Fredrika Bremer la grunden för den svenska kvinnorörelsen. Men visste ni att hon också var en hängiven resenär? Hon reste långt, länge och på egen hand. Två år i mitten av 1800-talet flackade hon runt i Nordamerika. Därefter blev det fem år på res...

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Om Phileas Fogg i Jules Vernes populära bok reser jorden runt på 80 dagar ska jag göra det snabbare! Så tänkte den unga amerikanska journalisten Nellie Bly och gav sig av. Resan blev en kamp mot klockan och tidtabellerna. Hela tiden är hon på vipp...

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I 1920- och 30-talens koloniala tillvaro i Främre Orienten skulle en fin brittisk dam gå på tebjudningar och umgås med andra britter. Freya Stark struntade i det. Hon lärde sig prata de lokala språken, klädde sig i arabiska kläder, hoppade upp på ...

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Hade Annie Londonderry levt idag hade hon varit en världskänd influencer på Instagram. Hon visste hur man skapade uppmärksamhet när hon 23 år gammal gav sig av för att vinna ett vad som skulle kunna göra henne 10 000 dollar rikare. För att underlä...

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