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Cairngorms(2014) BAKER, PATRICKCairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vividVezava: Mehka15,67 € -
What Am I Doing Here?(1998) CHATWIN, BRUCEIn this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journeyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dust Diaries(2005) SHEERS, OWENWhen Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sky Burial(2005) XINRANAs a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
North of South(1996) NAIPAUL, SHIVAIn the 1970s the author travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. This title describes his journeys.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Long Ride Home(2014) ISAACSON, RUPERTRowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year almost to the day since Rowan's improvementVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Rural Rides(2001) COBBETT, WILLIAMWilliam Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the encroaching cities and sufferings of the poor. Ian Dyck places these accounts in the context of Cobbett'sVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Great Hedge of India(2002) MOXHAM, ROYThe bestselling account of the author's quest for a lost wonder of the world, The Great Hedge of India.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Innocent Anthropologist(2011) BARLEY, NIGELOffers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Livingstone(2013) JEAL, TIMAn extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorerVezava: Mehka29,33 € -
D. H. Lawrence and Italy(2007) LAWRENCE, D. H.In these impressions of the Italian countryside: "Twilight in Italy", "Sea and Sardina", and "Etruscan Places", the author transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Turkish Embassy Letters(1994) MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEYLady Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was described by a contemporary, as 'one of the most extraordary shining characters in the world...'. Her newly edited letters tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
