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12 produkter
Travels into the Interior of Africa
Av Mungo Park
Häftad, 2003
156 kr
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Mungo Park's account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent. Though he failed in the object of his mission – to chart the course of the Niger River – he succeeded in leaving a unique record …
My Early Life
Häftad, 2002
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
176 kr
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Winston Churchill wrote this account of the first 25 years of his life in 1930. It reveals him struggling with Latin grammar at prep school, charging the Dervishes at Omdurman and preparing his first political speech for a Conservative fete.
Face of War
Writings from the Frontline,1937-1985
Häftad, 2016
209 kr
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James Cameron admired Martha Gellhorn above all other war-reporters 'because she combined a cold eye with a warm heart'. The Chicago Times described her writing as 'wide ranging and provocative, a blend of cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern'. But …
Lighthouse
Av Tony Parker
Häftad, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
171 kr
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An extraordinary collection of interviews with lighthouse keepers and their families, in their own words – a record of a vanished profession and avanished Britain of the 1970s. Described by William Golding as "one of the mostfascinating social documents I have ever read". It captures the delights …
Jigsaw
An Unsentimental Education
Häftad, 2005
166 kr
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This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her …
On a Shoestring to Coorg
Häftad, 2014
179 kr
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This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans meander their way slowly south from Bombay to the …
Common Stream
Häftad, 2015
149 kr
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This is the story of a village in East Anglia, astride its common stream, a saga of continuity and change which stretches back across a landscape of two thousand years. It took Rowland Parker thirteen years of detective work to piece this jigsaw together, combing his way through records of …
Saints of Sind
Av Peter Mayne
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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Saints of Sind is an exploration of the mystical Sufi shrines and hereditary saints of Pakistan s Indus valley. Half anthropological quest, it is also half the pilgrimage of an Englishman determined to immerse himself in the ways of a dervish seeking the ultimate truth. Peter Mayne has an …
Tibetan Foothold
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got herself to India by July 1963, immersed …
Where the Indus is Young
A Winter in Baltistan
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas - on the Pakistan side of the disputed border with Kashmir. For three months they travelled along …
Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia
Häftad, 2012
179 kr
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Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts and Chetwode's compelling account - warm, witty and candid - is informed by her …
