Travel writing
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Travel writing
paperback. The author began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. This work is an account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered. Editor(s): Andrews, Evangeline Walker; Andrews, Charles McLean. Num Pages: 342 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGR; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259539
- ISBN
- 9780803259539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.82
€ 23.99
€ 21.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRE; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861714858
- ISBN
- 9780861714858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.58
€ 17.99
€ 17.58
Paperback. Series: Curiosities Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 26.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Insiders' Guide United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762743384
- ISBN
- 9780762743384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.97
€ 15.99
€ 13.97
Hardcover. Looks at Japanese culture and family life, based on the childhood reminisces of the author/illustrator. This book helps the readers learn about many Japanese traditions and customs, such as gathering around the kotatsu to stay warm, throwing soybeans to keep away ogres, and hanging handmade teru-teru-bozu dolls out the window to stop the rain. Num Pages: 48 pages, Full-Colour Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WTL. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 229 x 267 x 12. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Hardcover with Jacket
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9784805310892
- ISBN
- 9784805310892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.93
€ 18.99
€ 13.93
paperback. Depicts the nine year quest of an American couple (an agricultural advisor and a writer/webmaster) living on a farm in Michigan, USA, to own and live in a remote Scottish lighthouse keepers home. In the form of e-mails, the book gives an intimate view of the successes and tragedies along the way. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8pp colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; AMG; WGG; WQH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780946487967
- ISBN
- 9780946487967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.42
€ 10.99
€ 9.42
Hardback. A true story of newlyweds on a four-and-a-half year circumnavigation aboard a sailboat. Single for many years, with her children grown, Sharon Ragle found herself facing a solitary future. Little did she know that one step off her familiar path would lead to adventure, romance and a life at sea. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: BG; WSSN3; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574091458
- ISBN
- 9781574091458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.61
€ 26.99
€ 23.61
Paperback. In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. This book follows the adventures of eight American explorers and their dog teams, starting with Elisha Kent Kane and ending with Robert Peary, controversial claimant of the title of first to reach the North Pole. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60 halftones, 15 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 3JH; HBJQ; HBLL; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781602232235
- ISBN
- 9781602232235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
Paperback. Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. This work collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples. Illustrated with photographs, it is a lyrical letter to a lifelong love. Num Pages: 144 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226322025
- ISBN
- 9780226322025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.52
€ 19.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUE; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802122964
- ISBN
- 9780802122964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.38
€ 16.99
€ 15.38
Paperback. BIC Classification: DQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 209 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Granta Magazine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909889033
- ISBN
- 9781909889033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.27
€ 17.99
€ 17.27
Paperback. Traverse Chile's literary and geographic landscape with some of its best writers. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique Valdes, and enjoy the charms of Valparaiso with Pablo Neruda. Editor(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 228 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 183 x 22. Weight in Grams: 255.
- Publisher
- Whereabouts Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781883513139
- ISBN
- 9781883513139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.63
€ 15.99
€ 15.63
Paperback. From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, the author tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571298365
- ISBN
- 9780571298365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.58
€ 15.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way, a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the Yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a modern troubadour, without a penny in his pockets. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571249893
- ISBN
- 9780571249893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.58
€ 15.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. Num Pages: 304 pages, 29 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871407436
- ISBN
- 9780871407436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.79
€ 17.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. Editor(s): Adamson, Richard. Series: Eye Classics. Num Pages: 305 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Eye Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Second Edition, Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903070659
- ISBN
- 9781903070659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.56
€ 14.56
Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, 60. BIC Classification: 1MBF; AJB; AJC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- Damiani
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788862084994
- ISBN
- 9788862084994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.38
€ 36.99
€ 32.38
Paperback. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, this title examines how maps both relate and realign our history. It explores the legendary, impassable mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America and more. Num Pages: 468 pages, 60 ills. BIC Classification: HBTP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 34. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 468
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846685101
- ISBN
- 9781846685101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
€ 17.99
€ 13.17
Paperback. 'I watched the mirror for a last view, for now, of the frozen mountains of Glen Coe. As the road bent and the outline of Buachaille Etive Mor slid into sight, I did what I always did, and always would. I felt for that flutter of awe and that indefinable, unmistakable quickening of the pulse.' Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WSZG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007547906
- ISBN
- 9780007547906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.36
€ 19.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. An important historical record of life at sea during the last quarter of the 20th century, a way of life now vanished. A tale of a highly charged and turbulent life written in a captivating and arresting style. A unique travel story, which paints the world in a way where even the mundane becomes strangely compelling. Num Pages: 192 pages, 18 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BM; HBTM; WGG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
- Publisher
- Whittles Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849952538
- ISBN
- 9781849952538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.07
€ 20.99
€ 20.07
Paperback. How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers and scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. This book tells the story of one scientist, and his quest for the key to this geological mystery. Num Pages: 336 pages, 36 halftones. 38 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; PDZ; RBGF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126203
- ISBN
- 9780691126203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43