You may rely upon one thing - Ill never engage in creating kings again; its too great a strain.Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrenc...Loe edasi...
In the spring of 1965, British novelist Ethel Mannin decided to see America the hard waytraveling by bus from New York to California and back. Her outsiders perspective in An American Journey provides an eye-opening view on both Americas recent...Loe edasi...
This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Explorati...Loe edasi...
From the Vanity Fair and New York Times contributor comes a “masterful blend of humor, heartache, and unforgettable landscapes” (Adrienne Brodeur, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Game) recounting the solo, cro...Loe edasi...
An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda now available in English for the first time Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them ...Loe edasi...
Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a story of landscapes and lives, of memory and rediscovery. Britain seen from a seat by the window, through the eyes of someone coming home....Loe edasi...
The wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student.In 1552, sixteen-year-old Felix Platter left Basel, Switzerland, and journeyed 370 miles to Montpelier, France to study medicine. His journals chro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753706)
Xu Xiake (1587-1641) is Chinas most famous traveler and travel writer. His extended journeys throughout Ming-dynasty China, undertaken over some three decades, are documented in his diaries, which include first-hand observations that are valuable c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753690)
Experience dramatic mountain vistas and karst caves with Chinas most famous travel writerXu Xiake stands as Chinas most distinguished traveler and travel writer, whose extensive journeys through Ming-dynasty China offer a unique w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Hardie Grant US, ISBN-13: 9781964786445)
This essential Paris coffee table book takes the reader on a journey, district by district, through Paris with nearly 350 lush illustrations, stories and short histories....Loe edasi...
Radnorshire, a county rural and remote. The lives of its sparse population continue to be shaped by the wild landscape of valleys and mountains in ways that for Britain now lie in the past. Yet down the centuries Radnorshire has fascinated and inspir...Loe edasi...
An entrancing and highly unusual account of a journey to the ends of the earth in search of a dream.Imogen Herrad sets off in search of the descendants of the nineteenth-century colony of Welsh settlers in Patagonia, in the deep south of Argentina, a...Loe edasi...
News from Tartary is the account of an illegal, six-month journey from Beijing to Kashmir in 1935. The physical resilience which took Fleming and his Swiss companion, Ella Maillart, across some of the world’s most inaccessible mountain passes and des...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781805265634)
Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the j...Loe edasi...
This volume presents Schliemann’s 1865 travel diary from China and Japan, capturing a rare view of East Asia in transition. With an annotated translation and contextual introduction, it reveals the experiences of a privileged European trader before h...Loe edasi...
This volume presents Schliemann’s 1865 travel diary from China and Japan, capturing a rare view of East Asia in transition. With an annotated translation and contextual introduction, it reveals the experiences of a privileged European trader before h...Loe edasi...
