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Paperback. This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSP; RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006550334
- ISBN
- 9780006550334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. * Strong ecological themes plus a romantic dream fulfilled in this autobiographical account by the famous Kon-Tiki explorer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Section: 16, B&W. BIC Classification: 1QSPS; BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349109879
- ISBN
- 9780349109879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest travelogues published in early modern England. This edition abridges Crudities' more than 900 pages to a manageable size, focusing on episodes most likely to be of interest to students. Editor(s): Palmer, Philip S. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- abridged edition annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554813230
- ISBN
- 9781554813230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.85
€ 29.99
€ 26.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 406 pages, 26 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; WN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042206
- ISBN
- 9780226042206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.62
€ 48.99
€ 38.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 93 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 184. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 93
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780845348451
- ISBN
- 9780845348451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.17
€ 98.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763543040
- ISBN
- 9788763543040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.93
€ 34.99
€ 25.93
Hardcover. A travelogue and a personal reassessment of the a formative chapter in Lord Byron's short life. Series: Literary Traveller. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWA; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 116 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906598778
- ISBN
- 9781906598778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Takes readers on a dangerous, surprising and entertaining journey as a thousand miles of the little-known South-East Seaboard unfold at six miles an hour - the golden marshes of the Carolinas, the incomparable cities of Charleston and Savannah, and the lost arcadias of Georgia and Florida. Num Pages: 432 pages, Line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; WSSN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553818161
- ISBN
- 9780553818161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. When they retired, Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrow boat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim. Aliens, vandals, and the walking dead all stand between three innocents and their goal. Num Pages: 432 pages, Line drawings. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553816693
- ISBN
- 9780553816693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages, 40 b&w photographs plus maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WSZC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Interlink Signal
- Number of pages
- 279
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Spi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908493033
- ISBN
- 9781908493033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Recreates the retreat from southern Belgium to the Marne during the opening month of the Great War Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBWN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Signal Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909930025
- ISBN
- 9781909930025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Hardback. Both American-born Batham and her British husband grew up aboard boats and are experienced and accomplished seafarers. After several years of sailing the South Pacific Islands, they settled temporarily in Japan in the mid- 1990s. Two-and-a-half years later, in 1997, they set sail again, on a 14-month, 10,000 mile journey back to their home in New Z Num Pages: 224 pages, 64 colour photographs, maps. BIC Classification: 1QSP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574091823
- ISBN
- 9781574091823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.80
€ 32.99
€ 28.80
Paperback. In the late 1970s the author set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into the depths of fear and reached the heights of euphoria. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140054101
- ISBN
- 9780140054101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
€ 16.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain and a witty, affectionate journey back to the past, when Ted would hitchhike across the country visiting friends (and girlfriends). Num Pages: 256 pages, Section: 32, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349122618
- ISBN
- 9780349122618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
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€ 11.92
Num Pages: 352 pages, 40 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556527210
- ISBN
- 9781556527210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.72
€ 27.99
€ 25.72
Paperback. A gritty, hilarious and often touching memoir of a year spent living in the immigrant melting pot of London's East End. Num Pages: 288 pages, one map. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719565564
- ISBN
- 9780719565564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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€ 11.76
Paperback. Tells the story of Tahir Shah, a writer and film-maker in his 30s, married, with two children, who was beginning to wilt under British city life. Woven into the narrative is the author's own journey of self-discovery, of learning about a grandfather he hardly knew, and of coming to love the multi-faceted, contradictory country that is Morocco. Num Pages: 368 pages, Line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HBM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780553816808
- ISBN
- 9780553816808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.83
€ 15.99
€ 11.83
Paperback. Collects traditional stories of Morocco that are recounted by an eccentric cast of characters: from master masons who work only at night to Sufi wise men who write for soap operas and Tuareg guides addicted to reality TV. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Bantam United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553818765
- ISBN
- 9780553818765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
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€ 13.49
Paperback. A critical anthology of African and Asian travel writing, revealing the contribution made to the genre by non-European travellers and writers. Editor(s): Khair, Tabish; Edwards, Justin D.; Leer, Martin. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 13. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Signal
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955122
- ISBN
- 9781904955122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.87
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€ 19.87
Paperback. Robert Falcon Scott's 1901-4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration, creating a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E Peary. This book studies the purpose, composition, and real accomplishments of the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803216396
- ISBN
- 9780803216396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10