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Travel writing
Paperback. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. This title offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north. Translator(s): Stone, Caroline C.; Lunde, Paul. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; RGR; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455076
- ISBN
- 9780140455076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. An important document about Black Africa written by a non-European medieval historian. He wrote disapprovingly of sexual integration in families and of hostility toward the white man. His description is a document of the high culture, pride, and independence of Black African states in the fourteenth century. Editor(s): Hamdun, Said. Translator(s): King, Noel Quinton. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3H; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Markus Wiener Pub
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Expanded edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558763364
- ISBN
- 9781558763364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.84
€ 32.84
Paperback. Ibn Battuta was famous in his own lifetime during the 14th Century as the greatest traveller of the age. Here, the author reviews Ibn Battuta's journeys and discusses the major themes of his travels. He also examines the financing of Ibn Battuta's adventures, and how geography and natural history are presented by him. Series: Makers of Islamic Civilization. Num Pages: 160 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845113940
- ISBN
- 9781845113940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.16
€ 26.16
Paperback. Offers a journey through the 21st century's warzones and hotspots in the company of the intrepid Mueller who asks awkward questions of perpetrators, victims and optimists alike. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BTM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846271519
- ISBN
- 9781846271519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Features facts and stories about thirteen traditional Welsh counties. This volume is packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures. It also seeks out their heritage, their monuments, their memories and their secrets. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 17. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785031021
- ISBN
- 9781785031021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. New York is one of the most photographed and talked about cities in the world. In this title, the author unearths much that is unexpected and unremembered in this metropolis where history is made on a daily basis. It helps you learn about the extraordinary people who built New York into one of the world's great cities in just 400 years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785034688
- ISBN
- 9781785034688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Takes you through the counties of England. This guide explores Saxon churches, reflective of simple faith; Norman churches with rugged arches and powerful pillars, stamping their authority, gothic churches with their soaring arches; Decorated and Perpendicular churches made glorious with Early English style and craftsmanship. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AMN; HRCC2; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785036576
- ISBN
- 9781785036576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. It's 1989, and the author and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's. This title tells the story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091935962
- ISBN
- 9780091935962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. When author first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. In this book, he brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241237175
- ISBN
- 9780241237175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Peter Allison brought you Don't Run, Whatever You Do & Don't Look Behind You. How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; WNC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288. And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America. 264 pages, Illustrationsstrations, map. Peter Allison brought you Don't Run, Whatever You Do & Don't Look Behind You. How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLS; WNC; WTL. Dimension: 136 x 216 x 18. Weight: 292.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857885668
- ISBN
- 9781857885668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. The word 'off-grid' refers to places or people without mains water, power or phone line. Off-grid locations can range from private islands to tree-houses. All are outside or in between the criss-crossing lines of power, water and phone that delineate the civilised world. This book is about that physical sense of off-grid. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: RNT; WK; WSZV; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553818192
- ISBN
- 9780553818192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. FOREWORD BY SIR RANULPH FIENNES Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WTD; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 207 x 12. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845284909
- ISBN
- 9781845284909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. A delightful and moving homage to the 'most beautiful house in Taormina, Sicily' and the colourful people of the local community by the modest, independent and generous woman who has inhabited it for over fifty years Num Pages: 288 pages, Section: 8, Colour. BIC Classification: 1DSTC; BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860496486
- ISBN
- 9781860496486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. One man's search for the beer that built the British Empire: the original IPA Num Pages: 356 pages, map. BIC Classification: WBXD2; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330511865
- ISBN
- 9780330511865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.82
€ 15.99
€ 11.82
Paperback. Taking one event from each decade of the twentieth century, the author visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. He goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. He goes to Orgreave and Windsor, Wembley and Wootton Bassett, assembling a unique cast of Britons along the way. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091926496
- ISBN
- 9780091926496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Ng, Lee Po. Num Pages: 220 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789881900319
- ISBN
- 9789881900319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Hardcover. Gives a description of the individual steps of the "Odyssey", starting in troy and finishing in Ithaca. This title includes the countries of Turkey, Tunisia, Malta, Italy and of course Greece. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Series: Red Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1QRM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 122 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905791392
- ISBN
- 9781905791392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a great Mediterranean city. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176 224pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330373562
- ISBN
- 9780330373562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.38
€ 14.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres & great strangeness. Six years later, after Roger Deakin's early death, Robert Macfarlane returned to the holloway. The book is about those journeys and that landscape. Illustrator(s): Donwood, Stanley. Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DBKEWT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 150 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571310661
- ISBN
- 9780571310661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.64
€ 12.99
€ 10.64
Paperback. A re-issue of the original classic in which P.J. O'Rourke takes on the role of tour guide with hilarious results. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: WH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264. 352 pages. A re-issue of the original classic in which P.J. O'Rourke takes on the role of tour guide with hilarious results. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WH; WTL. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight: 260.
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611855791
- ISBN
- 9781611855791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76