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Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent. Volume III: Southern Arabia and Persia(2010) BENT, MABELMabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare was the extraordinary wife of the English explorer and archaeologist James Theodore Bent. In the early 1880s the couple began a fifteen-year series of highly-regarded geographical, archaeological and ethnographical researchesVezava: Mehka56,08 € -
Travel Chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent. Volume II: The African Journeys(2012) BENT, MABELMabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare, the wife of English archaeologist and explorer James Theodore Bent, kept a series of notebooks on her travels. Volume II (of III) relates to the following journeys: Egypt (1885); Zimbabwe (1891); Ethiopia (1893); Sudan (1896Vezava: Mehka52,28 €
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Journeys of a German England(2009) MORITZ, CARL PHILIPIn 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner, this title offers insight into what has or hasn't changed over the years. In a series of letters home he describes his amazement at the number of English peopleVezava: Mehka23,27 €
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Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark(2009) WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARYLetters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes revVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains(1982) BIRD, ISABELLA L.'This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey' Dervla Murphy, Irish TimesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Short Walk in the Hindu Kush(2010) NEWBY, ERICA classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Condor and the Cows(2013) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Constantinople(2013) AMICIS, EDMONDO DEA remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author's ship approaches the harbour - Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtakiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Europe(2006) MORRIS, JANEurope has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Unsuitable for Ladies(2001)This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion that women shouldn't travel, by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imaVezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Patrick Leigh Fermor(2013) COOPER, ARTEMISThe authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography AwardVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Gentleman In The Parlour(2001) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSETWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Don Fernando(2000) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSETConsidered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinionsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos(2014) PATRICK FERMOR LEIGHVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Middle Passage(2011) NAIPAUL, V.S.A personal and emotional travel book from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
