A Journey in the Shadow of ByzantiumWilliam Dalrymple follows in the steps of two Byzantine monks. In 587 A.D., just before Islam erupted onto the Middle East, they journeyed from Constantinople to Egypt staying at a...9999903249689Dalrymple, William
Flamingo
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Brita...9999903249115Bill Bryson
Black Swan
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
In this luminous portrait of Paris, celebrated historian Alistair Horne gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world's truly great cities. Horne makes...9999903249221Alistair Horne
Macmillan
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
Ireland to India with a BicycleOriginally published in 1965, it is the diary of her bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, through Iran and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. Murphy's imme...9999903248057Dervla Murphy
Editors Varis
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
An American RomanceIn 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and ...9999903246343Jonathan Raban
Pan Books
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
Twelve Great British Railway JourneysMichael Williams has spent the past year traveling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the "train to the end of the world" run...9999903246329Michael Williams
Vintage
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
Travels with an African SoldierBest-selling memoirist Alexandra Fuller travels with a strangely charismatic Rhodesian war veteran into a modern-day heart of darkness. When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Za...9999903244653Alexandra Fuller
Penguin Press HC, The
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
An Exploration of the Last African WildernessEven in this age of extreme sports and made-for-TV survival games, there still exist places on earth where the most intrepid among us can plunge into truly unknown territory. The a...9999903244516Peter Stark
Ballantine Books
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an affogato' The Tele...9999903241652John Hooper
Penguin
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
On the Tracks of the Great Railway BazaarPaul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a journey from London to Asia by train. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 Thirty y...9999903241560Theroux, Paul
Editors Varis
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
A True StoryThe #1 New York Times bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's dense...9999903239567Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
Sixteen Excursions Into the Lost Delights of Britain's RailwaysA richly observed and researched personal history of the bygone age of Britain's railways.SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote coun...9999903237532Michael Williams
Preface Publishing
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Two Innocents Abroad in SpainWorn down by yet another dreary English winter and with an emotional disinclination for hard - or indeed any - work, Shaun Briley decides that life in Spain has to be a better bet....9999903237211Briley, Shaun
Ebury Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
An inquiry into the human desire to travel and the ways in which the travel experience is affected by anticipation and memory presents a series of thought-provoking and humorous es...9999903235323ALAIN DE BOTTON,
Vintage
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
City of Light, 1919-1939Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living - a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German ...9999903234487Vincent Cronin
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman ?? switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford. ??Alarmingly full of incident, very funn...9999903232049Tim Moore
Editors Varis
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), a...9999903232032Allan Janik Stephen Edels...
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black SeaA splendid book, Magris peppers his journey ... with serendipitous details; they come at us one after the other in brilliant abundance. Danube is not simply a masterpiece of travel...9999903231134Claudio Magris
Editors Varis
jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2024
An amazing story about a journey, and ??? more importantly ??? a return home.Snow geese spend their Summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each Autumn they migrate south, t...9999903228448Fiennes, William
Picador
miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2024
A Darkly Comic Road Trip Through South America'The Gringo Trail' is the backpacker's route through South America that has become a modern legend amongst travellers. This book charts the travels of three characters, none of who...9999903226604Mark Mann
Summersdale Publishers
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
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