TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.
The Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history - tied together by the unique experience of returning from exile.
A novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.
The essential guide to exploring Britain's last remaining historic lines, Britain's Heritage Railways is ideal for anyone planning or looking for a nostalgic railway trip.
From the award-winning author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed.
Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years.
Many know Ilya as an artist, musician, writer, or athlete, but in this book, he reveals an unexpected side: an ancient historian and traveler, inviting readers on a fascinating journey through the ancient cities of Anatolia and Northern Cyprus.
Der Zweck der beschriebenen Expedition war die Besitznahme der franzosischen Niederlassungen an der Westkuste von Afrika, vom Cap Blanc bis zur Mundung des Gambia, wie sie durch die Pariser Vertrage von 1814 und 1815 bestimmt worden war.
Un calido dia del verano de 1946, cuando tenia veinte anos, empece a escribir un ensayo sobre la nostalgia sentada en un amarre junto al mar en el Molo Audace, en Trieste.
When Your Mother Calls You Home is an autobiographical travel memoir that weaves the author's painful experiences with domestic violence, abuse, heartbreak, a near-death experience, loss, and trauma, with the beautiful tales of heart-opening human connection and cultural exchange that unfolded on her journey from Ecuador to the United Kingdom, on to Italy and finally India.
Der Herzog der Abruzzen, der sich durch seine Polarfahrt auf der "e;Stella polare"e; bereits einen Namen gemacht hatte, legt in diesem Buch Bericht ab uber eine zweite groe Reise, die er vom April bis Dezember 1909 in der Gletscherkette des Ruwenzori ausgefuhrt hat.
En Las cuatro estaciones de la Vida - Ushuaia en primera persona: Cumbres del Sur, Raul Torres nos invita a acompanarlo en una travesia unica por las montanas de Tierra del Fuego.
En esta segunda entrega de la Ruta del Samurai, el autor se embarca en la busqueda del pensamiento samurai como influencia directa de la sociedad japonesa actual, y a partir de alli, procura entender sus distintas manifestaciones sociales y culturales.
