Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour.
Seinen Reisen nach Zentralasien ließ Sven Hedin mit diesem Band seine Fahrt in den Nahen Osten folgen, die in der Hauptsache in einer Exkursion zum Euphrat, dem Besuch von Bagdad mit den Ruinen Babylons und von Mosul mit den Ruinen Ninives bestand, alles höchst anschaulich und lebendig geschildert.
Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock's informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.
Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed are wonderfully vivid and perceptive descriptions of two great Italian cities, told through their history and art, revealing Mary McCarthy to be one of literature's greatest travelling companions.
Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world.
