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Travel writing

Paperback. In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. This is the story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth. Editor(s): Hovde, Carl F.; Howarth, William L.; Witherell, Elizabeth Hall. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 440 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Revised edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118789
ISBN
9780691118789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.44

Paperback. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? This book offers a traveler's tale of Germany while testing the limits of the travel narrative as a literary form. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSBH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126173
ISBN
9780691126173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.59

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

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

€ 66.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774803922
ISBN
9780774803922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453304
ISBN
9780801453304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.71

Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues. Num Pages: 272 pages, 23. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486326
ISBN
9780801486326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.26

Paperback. Twenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe 1000 miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the ice would melt. To survive they would have to be safely on land before that happened. They were led by Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922). This title presents the history of the Antarctic expedition led by Shackleton. Num Pages: 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803219441
ISBN
9780803219441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. Explores the deeper cultural assumptions through which Americans view the larger world Num Pages: 208 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803271418
ISBN
9780803271418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.75

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
€ 19.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WFBQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 204 x 22. Weight in Grams: 932.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Swallow Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804011693
ISBN
9780804011693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KLS; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816656356
ISBN
9780816656356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.35

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.38

Hardback. He locates an increasingly articulate and refined sense of simplicity and virtue among these visitors and a gradual disappearance of their feelings of awe and inferiority. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 171 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408996
ISBN
9781421408996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.87

Paperback. The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. The author collects some of the most memorable and moving of these stories and weaves them around his own story of a 2,500-mile snowmobile expedition across Arctic Alaska and Canada. Num Pages: 320 pages, 193 colour plates, 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 1MTN; HBTB; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Alaska Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602231634
ISBN
9781602231634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.13

Paperback. Break into Travel Writing, Make it Pay the Easy Way. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: CBWJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780999449
ISBN
9781780999449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.96

Paperback. Re-examining the strange and ordinary world of air travel, one flight at a time. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WGM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782798187
ISBN
9781782798187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.34

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.49

Hardcover. The first literary geography of the Putumayo, exploring its history and enduring significance through literature of and on this Colombian region by Latin American, US and European writers. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 262 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; DSBH5; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319747
ISBN
9781846319747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.16

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846944444
ISBN
9781846944444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.33

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