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Hardback. In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650807
- ISBN
- 9780745650807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was highly a acclaimed Japanese poet and translator from classical Japanese. She was also a prominent feminist. In 1928 she was invited to travel around areas with a strong Japanese presence in China's northeast. This is her account of that journey. Translator(s): Fogel, Joshua A. Num Pages: 128 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJG; GTB; JFSJ1; WTH; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123181
- ISBN
- 9780231123181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.80
€ 133.80
Paperback. Describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves.. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 3H; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141398358
- ISBN
- 9780141398358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.74
€ 5.74
Paperback. Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general. Translator(s): Abbott, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212. 228 pages. Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; WTLC. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight: 212. Translator(s): Abbott, Elizabeth.
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Number of pages
- 228
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847492920
- ISBN
- 9781847492920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
hardcover. This book portrays the singular and everyday Tuscany as seen by a tranquil English Traveller, a lover of art and fine food, prodigal with adjectives, full of good sense. Illustrator(s): Rauch, Andrea. Num Pages: 96 pages, over 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490. Good clean copy. Scoring in pencil to half title
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Mandragora Italy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000176
- ISBN
- 9788885957817
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However, on the death of her parents, she undertook an extraordinary decision: with no prior knowledge of the region, she set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological interests. Editor(s): Turner, Lynnette. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; HBTQ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439426
- ISBN
- 9780141439426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. The author has travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the Great Game. This title provides an account his travels. Editor(s): Hopkirk, Kathleen. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011710
- ISBN
- 9781906011710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1HFD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474. 376 pages, 1 map, 1 port. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFD; WTL. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 25. Weight: 474.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871040
- ISBN
- 9780907871040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. 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 Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270. 208 pages. 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 Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTL. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 13. Weight: 266.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011697
- ISBN
- 9781906011697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. This engaging blend of history and travel will appeal to visiting tourists, area residents seeking weekend diversions, history buffs, and armchair travelers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 23, 23 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415147
- ISBN
- 9781421415147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.47
€ 30.99
€ 26.47
Hardcover. Arthur R. Borden's translation of J.A. Moerenhout's Travels to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean has been made from the 1942 reprint of the original 1837 French edition. It is an important anthropological document; Moerenhout was both an excellent reporter and a good artist. Num Pages: 564 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MB; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- UPA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819188984
- ISBN
- 9780819188984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.17
€ 186.17
Paperback. In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on journeys through Cevennes and America where he wrote 'Travels With a Donkey' and 'The Amateur Emigrant'. Editor(s): MacLachlan, Christopher. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439464
- ISBN
- 9780141439464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. The bestselling first volume of Tim Mackintosh-Smith's masterful journey in the footsteps of fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battutah Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QFM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848546752
- ISBN
- 9781848546752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.53
€ 17.99
€ 13.53
Paperback. Provides occasional articles about some of the places in the world that interested the author. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts from a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571240906
- ISBN
- 9780571240906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGA; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Liberties Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781907593420
- ISBN
- 9781907593420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.56
€ 15.99
€ 12.56
Paperback. Presents a story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways. This book provides an account of a mismatched couple and of the people they meet and places they visit. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099503125
- ISBN
- 9780099503125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Americans who inhabited it. What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141186108
- ISBN
- 9780141186108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.80
€ 11.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- VintagrBooks,2008
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Later printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141021140
- ISBN
- 9780141021140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 5AH; WZG; YNA; YNL; YNM. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 205 x 165. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509856565
- ISBN
- 9781509856565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.55
€ 23.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. Num Pages: 296 pages, port. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374. 296 pages, port. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WTL. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 20. Weight: 370.
- Publisher
- Eland
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871774
- ISBN
- 9780907871774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. A story about the author's 3,000-mile solo walk across an entire continent, from Namibia's Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 pp f/c insert. BIC Classification: 1H; WTL; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715637678
- ISBN
- 9780715637678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Describes the author's three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Combining humour with erudition, this title provides an account of this journey. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140276688
- ISBN
- 9780140276688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.91
€ 20.99
€ 16.91
Hardcover. No special equipment required, just one standard-sized baking tin used throughout, to make 24 squares or slices Num Pages: 128 pages, Over 300 photographs. BIC Classification: WBVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 964.
- Publisher
- Lorenz Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754832843
- ISBN
- 9780754832843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Runners in barefoot-style shoes feel reborn by running more naturally, much like early man did for millions of years. Suitable for runners, this title offers evidence why this minimalist approach to running is here to stay, and is not merely some passing fad. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15. BIC Classification: WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616083748
- ISBN
- 9781616083748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.89
€ 18.99
€ 17.89