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A Tourist in Africa
- £30.00
- The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959. Events and sights are described with perception and clarity, and the history associated with a particular place is often discussed.
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (Phoenix Library)
- £10.00
- The first of Huxley's travel essay collections: 22 essays in four sections: 'Travel', 'Places', 'Works of Art' and 'By the Way'
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Among The Mountains: Travels Through Asia: Travels In Asia
- £60.00
- Wilfred Thesiger, this centuryÕs greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote…
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An Egyptian Journal
- £10.00
- Golding's account of his journey down the Nile. Colour & monochrome photo illustrations, map.
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An Inland Voyage
- £8.00
- An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature.
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Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
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Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
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Classical Landscape with figures
- £12.00
- Lancaster's great travelogue through Greece, wonderfully told and illustrated with many b/w drawings and 8 colour plates
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Cumberland and Westmorland (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE (1914Ð1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chiefly for poetry, Nicholson wrote much in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. This book of…
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Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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Golden Earth. Travels in Burma
- £22.00
- Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breathtaking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist belief spares even the rats, where the Director of Prisons quotes Chaucer and where three-day theatrical shows are staged to celebrate a monk taking…
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I Never Knew That About London (Illustrated)
- £25.00
- In this lavishly illustrated book bestselling author Christopher Winn takes you on a captivating journey around London. Travelling through the villages and districts that made up the world's must dynamic metropolis, I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape…
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Italian Journeys
- £25.00
- This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is…
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- £20.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Speke's classic account of the expedition to discovery the source of the Nile in Uganda.
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Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
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Letters from Iceland
- £45.00
- As the cover says, "This book takes the form of a series of letters, some in verse, written from Iceland in the summer of 1936. The recipients of the letters include Lord Byron, a tourist, an employee of Shell-Mex, a member of the Oxford City Council, a Cambridge lady don,…
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Letters from Italy
- £25.00
- Karel _apek (1890 -1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He also published a number of travel books, of which this was the first (originally published in Czech in 1923).
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Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
- £12.00
- Lady Wortley Montagu travelled through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and…
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Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Motel Nirvana: Dreaming Of The New Age In The American Desert
- £12.00
- A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
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Near East
- £15.00
- Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs
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New York
- £50.00
- After four visits during the 1920s, Paul Morand wrote a profile of the city of New York in 1930. This English translation came out the following year. Theodore Purdy, Jr. wrote about the book: "There is a good deal in it that is inaccurate, and the spellings of American names…
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Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
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No Picnic on Mt Kenya
- £25.00
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian. The 1994 film The…
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Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
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A Tourist in Africa
- £30.00
- The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959. Events and sights are described with perception and clarity, and the history associated with a particular place is often discussed.
- Add to basket
-
A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
- Add to basket
-
Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
- Add to basket
-
Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (Phoenix Library)
- £10.00
- The first of Huxley's travel essay collections: 22 essays in four sections: 'Travel', 'Places', 'Works of Art' and 'By the Way'
- Add to basket
-
Among The Mountains: Travels Through Asia: Travels In Asia
- £60.00
- Wilfred Thesiger, this centuryÕs greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote…
- Add to basket
-
An Egyptian Journal
- £10.00
- Golding's account of his journey down the Nile. Colour & monochrome photo illustrations, map.
- Add to basket
-
An Inland Voyage
- £8.00
- An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature.
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
- Add to basket
-
Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
- Add to basket
-
Classical Landscape with figures
- £12.00
- Lancaster's great travelogue through Greece, wonderfully told and illustrated with many b/w drawings and 8 colour plates
- Add to basket
-
Cumberland and Westmorland (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE (1914Ð1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chiefly for poetry, Nicholson wrote much in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. This book of…
- Add to basket
-
Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
- Add to basket
-
From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
- Add to basket
-
Golden Earth. Travels in Burma
- £22.00
- Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breathtaking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist belief spares even the rats, where the Director of Prisons quotes Chaucer and where three-day theatrical shows are staged to celebrate a monk taking…
- Add to basket
-
I Never Knew That About London (Illustrated)
- £25.00
- In this lavishly illustrated book bestselling author Christopher Winn takes you on a captivating journey around London. Travelling through the villages and districts that made up the world's must dynamic metropolis, I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape…
- Add to basket
-
Italian Journeys
- £25.00
- This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is…
- Add to basket
-
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- £20.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Speke's classic account of the expedition to discovery the source of the Nile in Uganda.
- Add to basket
-
Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
- Add to basket
-
Letters from Iceland
- £45.00
- As the cover says, "This book takes the form of a series of letters, some in verse, written from Iceland in the summer of 1936. The recipients of the letters include Lord Byron, a tourist, an employee of Shell-Mex, a member of the Oxford City Council, a Cambridge lady don,…
- Add to basket
-
Letters from Italy
- £25.00
- Karel _apek (1890 -1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He also published a number of travel books, of which this was the first (originally published in Czech in 1923).
- Add to basket
-
Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
- £12.00
- Lady Wortley Montagu travelled through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and…
- Add to basket
-
Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
- Add to basket
-
Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
- Add to basket
-
Motel Nirvana: Dreaming Of The New Age In The American Desert
- £12.00
- A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
- Add to basket
-
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
- Add to basket
-
Near East
- £15.00
- Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs
- Add to basket
-
New York
- £50.00
- After four visits during the 1920s, Paul Morand wrote a profile of the city of New York in 1930. This English translation came out the following year. Theodore Purdy, Jr. wrote about the book: "There is a good deal in it that is inaccurate, and the spellings of American names…
- Add to basket
-
Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
- Add to basket
-
No Picnic on Mt Kenya
- £25.00
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian. The 1994 film The…
- Add to basket
-
Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
- Add to basket
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