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Goddess in the Stones(2017) LEWIS, NORMANNorman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal cVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Moroccan Trilogy(2021) THARAUD, JEROME,THARAUD, JEANUnique eyewitness account from 1917 of Morocco as a French protectorate.Vezava: Mehka21,03 € -
Hunting Mr Heartbreak(2018) RABAN, JONATHAN'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of nonfiction at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert MacfarlaneVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Arabia through the Looking Glass(2018) RABAN, JONATHAN'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin ThubronVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
For Love or Money(2018) RABAN, JONATHAN'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul TherouxVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Book of Puka-Puka(2019) FRISBIE, ROBERT DEAN,WELLER, ANTHONYPuka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms below. It is the most remote, and probably the most beautiful, of all the Cook IslVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Not a Hazardous Sport(2018) BARLEY, NIGELNot a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of Caterpillars (both published by Eland).Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Travels in a Dervish Cloak(2018) WILKINSON, ISAMBARDA funny, hashish? and whisky?scented travel book from the frontline, full of open?hearted delight and a poignant lust for lifeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cut Stones and Crossroads(2020) WRIGHT, RONALD,MANGUEL, ALBERTORonald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Time Among the Maya(2020) WRIGHT, RONALD,IYER, PICOTime Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.' Jan Morris, IndependentVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ride to Khiva(2017) BURNABY, FREDAn immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spontaneous affection for the Cossack troopers and Tartar, Khirgiz and Turkoman tribesmen that he encountersVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Borderlines(2021) NICHOLL, CHARLESTravels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Affair of the Heart, An(2019) POWELL, DILYSDilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun?baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, campVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cumbria and Lake District Coast(2021) SENE, KEVINThe coastline of Cumbria stretches for almost two hundred miles from Morecambe Bay to the Solway Firth and passes through the Lake District National Park along the wayVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Single-Sentence Shakespeare(2022) GORTER, COURTNEYThis amusing approach to Shakespeare's classic dramas features the plot of each of the Bard's 39 plays reduced to a single descriptive sentence.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
Speaking in Tongues(2016) SANDERS, ELLA FRANCESEver feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head? This book brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life witVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Career Girls(2018) MCGILL, TShe’s made herself a tick-off calendar that she intends to hand down the maternal line. How much has changed since women were first allowed to cast off their pinnies and embark on the excitements of office life?Vezava: Trda15,41 €
