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Blood River(2008) BUTCHER, TIMThe author set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots with the idea of recreating H M Stanley's famous expedition. This book tells of the author's journey and the story of Congo; as he made hVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
City of Falling Angels(2006) BERENDT, JOHNA mystery, a comedy, and a riveting human drama rolled into one, from the bestselling author of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVILVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Riding the Iron Rooster(1989) THEROUX, PAULPaul Theroux left Victoria Station in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experiencedVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Kingdom by the Sea(1985) THEROUX, PAULAfter eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the BVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Fishing In Utopia(2009) BROWN, ANDREW'Fishing in Utopia [winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize] is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story of modern rootlessness and the search for something to believe in' Sunday TimesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Connemara(2007) ROBINSON, TIMThe author, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains,Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Passage To Africa(2007) ALAGIAH, GEORGE* George Alagiah's personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus editionVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Green Road Into The Trees(2013) THOMSON, HUGHWalking right across England, along ancient trackways and green grass roads, Hugh explores the way the country was and the way it is today: the legends, literature and natural world that define us, and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our hisVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Italian Education(2001) PARKS, TIMHow does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at pVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lois on the Loose(2007) PRYCE, LOISYoung and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northeVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Spain(2008) MORRIS, JANNothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain's pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half tVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Caliph's House(2007) SHAH, TAHIRLook into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Three Letters from the Andes(2005) FERMOR, PATRICK LEIGHThe celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of Peru.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Blue River, Black Sea(2010) EAMES, ANDREWThe Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. This title presents an account of the author's journey along itsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Persia(2007) BLOW, DAVIDThe land of the Iranians, known to European travelers for centuries as Persia, is a land of mountains, deserts, plains, and forests. The author adds to our understanding with his selection of three thousand years of descriptive writing. He allows us to viVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Last Train to Zona Verde(2014) THEROUX, PAULHeading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, the author makes a final journey along Africa's western edge.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
