Travel writing
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Travel writing
Paperback. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. This title reprints his journal, in a shortened form, that shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Editor(s): Browne, Janet; Neve, Michael. Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140432688
- ISBN
- 9780140432688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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€ 11.02
Paperback. Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781906011659
- ISBN
- 9781906011659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.62
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Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 117 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910266304
- ISBN
- 9781910266304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late 19th century and over 100 years Derek Lundy, his great-great nephew, has re-created that journey. In this work, he palces Benjamin on board the Beara Head with a community of fellow seamen as they perform the dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrationsmap,port. BIC Classification: WSSN3; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001385
- ISBN
- 9780099286622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 1FCA; 3JJPG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418. 320 pages. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 1FCA; 3JJPG; WTL. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 22. Weight: 416.
- Publisher
- Eland & Sickle Moon Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871538
- ISBN
- 9780907871538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
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Paperback. Written by Robert Lloyd Praeger, Ireland's greatest field botanist and published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5,000 miles across hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns, sifting fossil bones and exploring cattle-trampled tombs. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 35. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Gill
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848891944
- ISBN
- 9781848891944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.21
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Paperback. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320. 241 pages. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WTL. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 20. Weight: 318.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 241
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871781
- ISBN
- 9780907871781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.27
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€ 13.27
Paperback. John Muir's journals provide a unique marriage of natural history with lyrical prose and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; BG; DNF; RNK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 42. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862415860
- ISBN
- 9780862415860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.11
€ 23.99
€ 16.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Albatross Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780920256688
- ISBN
- 9780920256688
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.52
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€ 15.52
Paperback. Presents an account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. This book details scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from explorers. Num Pages: 720 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BTP; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099530374
- ISBN
- 9780099530374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
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Paperback. A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b/w plates, With index. BIC Classification: 1FBX; BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006531210
- ISBN
- 9780006531210
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.96
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Paperback. An interesting and amusing account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003625
- ISBN
- 9781847170484
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The world through the eyes of the author is never less than Technicolor, and always uninhibited, rebellious and on the edge. This work presents the story of his angry, narcotic-fuelled bike trek around the world. Along the way he visited Buenos Aires, where 'revolutionary' means the angry poor invading the presidential palace. Num Pages: 416 pages, col. Illustrations, col. ports. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 30. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846053115
- ISBN
- 9781846053115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.70
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Paperback. The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause celebre of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; HBTP; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785352423
- ISBN
- 9781785352423
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.60
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Paperback. The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people of the village and they began to tell her their stories. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099549420
- ISBN
- 9780099549420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
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€ 11.85
Paperback.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007291908
- ISBN
- 9780007291908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447276272
- ISBN
- 9781447276272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.73
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Paperback. More toe-curling adventures from the oil fields. Hectic, hellraising and hilarious, world-class rig-pig Paul Carter's at it again: breaking machinery, defying death and causing mayhem - Just another glorious day in the oilfield! Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: KNBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857885637
- ISBN
- 9781857885637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
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Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 169 x 9. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910021590
- ISBN
- 9781910021590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Editor(s): Johnstone, Vici. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927575734
- ISBN
- 9781927575734
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.80
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Paperback. Blends memoir and nature writing, tracking the Platte River valley for one calendar year, ushering readers through its diverse and changing landscape and the plants, animals, and humans that call the ecosystem home. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803276796
- ISBN
- 9780803276796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.76
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Paperback. The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of Peru. Num Pages: 128 pages, map and one or two drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719566851
- ISBN
- 9780719566851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. An entertaining narrative that encapsulates the complete experience of walking the West Highland Way. It brings to life one of the classic Long Distance walks. Num Pages: 144 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; BM; WSZC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Whittles Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849950879
- ISBN
- 9781849950879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
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Paperback. A sea-faring 'prequel' to "Driving Over Lemons". Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WSSN3; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Sort of Books
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956003843
- ISBN
- 9780956003843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
€ 13.99
€ 11.49