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Isabella Bird(2015) IRELAND, DCelebrating the achievements of Isabella Bird, this is a lavish pictorial record of her last great journey through China, in the closing years of the 19th century.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days(2014) BLY, NELLIEBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the author was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race aroundVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Malay Archipelago(2014) RUSSEL WALLACE, ALFREDOf all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Grand Tour(2013) CHRISTIE, AGATHAUnpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 EmpireVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus(2021) DURRELL, LAWRENCEInto the brewing political storm enters Lawrence Durrell, yearning for the idyllic island lifestyle of his youth in Corfu. He settles into a dilapidated villa, and with his poet's eye for beauty - and passable Greek - vividly captures the moods and atmoVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Uncommercial Traveller(2021) DICKENS, CHARLESIn this series of sketches Dickens brings the city of London and its inhabitants vividly to life. His travels take him to the workhouse, the theatre, and further afield to the Liverpool docks and the Paris morgue. Combining autobiography with reportage, tVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain(1978) DEFOE, DANIELCovers Britain in the early eighteenth century.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Travels with a Typewriter(2010) FRAYN, MICHAELIn mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Artistic Places(2021) HODGE, SUSIETake an artistic pilgrimage to some of the world's most inspirational places for aesthetes and creatives with Artistic Places.Vezava: Trda22,42 € -
Bengal Lancer(2021) YEATS-BROWN, FRANCISThe memoir of a young cavalry officer in India in the British Empire and his search for spiritual fulfilment.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Smelling the Breezes(2022) IZZARD, RALPH,IZZARD, MOLLYAn inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be achieved in a family holiday, a 300 mile walk through the Lebanese mountains.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Hard Lying(2023) WELDON, LEWENWeldon was mapping the deserts of Egypt when war broke out. Working from out of a steam yacht based on Port Said or Famagusta, he ran a network of spies and confidential agents onto the Levant coast behind Turkish lines. He was a fluent Arabic speaker andVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
One People(2022) KENNAWAY, GUYGuy Kennaway's novel about Jamaican life and culture is set in the fictional village of Angel Beach. It is an affectionate and hilarious description of a small community where everyone knows everyone's business, poverty is a way of life and dreams of escaVezava: Mehka18,21 €
