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...
A Dozen Dirty Dumplings is a candid, darkly funny and often uncomfortable account of travel before the world became curated, convenient and constantly connected. Crossing 13 Asian countries overland in the early 1980s, accidental adventurer Chris Pr...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...
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...
(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...
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...
This annotated diary describes the politics, cultural richness and practicalities of elite educational travel in England during the early reign of Charles II.Prince George of Denmark is best known to Anglophone historiography for h...Loe edasi...
First published in 1947, Over the Hills and Far Away takes the reader back to the holidays of olden times and then in the footsteps of the first holiday-makers on the European Continent in the 17th century. First publish...Loe edasi...
First published in 1939, Language Hunting in the Karakoram describes the journey taken by the author to the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, and Karakoram, and details the author’s experiences when she resided in Hunza with her husband...Loe edasi...
Since the circulation of Brevìsima Relacin de la Destruccin de las ndias by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Black Legend (Leyenda Negra), the recurrent image of the Spanish Empire as an absolutist political entity due to its criminal...Loe edasi...
A first-hand survival story of an unusually daring and ambitious expedition on foot through 1,200 miles of East Central Africa. It conveys the immediacy of the experience, from life-threatening encounters to moments of perfect peace....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon Element, ISBN-13: 9781668065426)
Drawn from intimate interviews by a former ICU nurse, this collection shares 100 personal stories that explore love, pain, resilience and hope, offering readers a powerful reminder of our shared humanity through deeply felt glimpses into the lives of...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through variou...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through various...Loe edasi...
Anthology of travel writing about South America. An enchanting scrapbook of travellers’ personal narratives, both historical and contemporary. Covers the Amazon rainforest, Andean cloud forest, Galapagos, Machu Picchu, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego....Loe edasi...
First published in 1969 Brazil: Land Without Limits offers its readers the full flavour of this enchanting land that is Brazil. Malcolm Slesser travelled through Brazil during a year as a lecturer at the University of Rio de Janeiro and bri...Loe edasi...
A classic travelogue exploring the meeting point of Irelands landscape and legends, by Britains foremost female surrealist painter“Colquhoun has a very beguiling pen. . . To Irish landscapes she brings a painters eye, writing particular...Loe edasi...
A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781617976674)
Illustrated publications and the role of market forces in shaping representations of Egypt at a time when European colonial interests in the region were at their peak, with 80 color and black and white illustrations In the nineteenth cent...Loe edasi...
Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and alluring history, medievalist Anthony Bale invit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108842693)
This collection reveals how travellers, writers and readers discovered Britain and Ireland as sites of tourism during the heyday of the continental Grand Tour. Essays from across disciplines consider how diverse travellers deployed comparative frames...Loe edasi...
A journey across Greece, Turkey and the Middle East, which retraces the one made by Pythagoras some 2500 years ago in his quest to discover the theory of everything....Loe edasi...
A bibliophile’s journey through Dublins rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors’ watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish natives, and tourists alike....Loe edasi...
Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt’s engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trailblazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years...Loe edasi...
A Dozen Dirty Dumplings is a candid, darkly funny and often uncomfortable account of travel before the world became curated, convenient and constantly connected. Crossing 13 Asian countries overland in the early 1980s, accidental adventurer Chris Pr...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...
I woke to a metallic rasp as the small hatch in the cell door swung open. ‘Walker!’ barked a guard. ‘Bweestra!’ Be quick! As I neared the door, a pair of handcuffs were brandished. I presented my wrists through the hatch, pal...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...
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...
