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Three Men on the Way Way(2013) BROWN, HAMISH M.An entertaining narrative that encapsulates the complete experience of walking the West Highland Way. It brings to life one of the classic Long Distance walks.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
Missionaries(2013) LEWIS, NORMANBrings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne(2006) DARLINGTON, TERRYWhen they retired, Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrow boat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet JVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Seven-Tenths(2007) HAMILTON-PATERSON, JAMESSeven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition which includes the acclaimed essay Sea Burial.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
River of Time(1996) SWAIN, JONBetween 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Songlines(1998) CHATWIN, BRUCEBruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Guerra(2007) WEBSTER, JASONWhen Jason Webster and his wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
Celestine(1996) TINDALL, GILLIANWhen Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette. This is Tindall'Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
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: Mehka18,21 € -
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 €
