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Viva Mallorca!

Viva Mallorca!


Peter Kerr



About the Author Peter Kerr is the author of a number of titles, including From Paella to Porridge, Snowball Oranges, Thi...
James Herbert's Dark Places: Locations and Legends

James Herbert's Dark Places: Locations and Legends


James Herbert, Paul Barkshire



James Herbert's Dark Places: Locations and Legends...
At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula

At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula


David Yeadon



At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula...
Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey to Find the Perfect Wave

Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey to Find the Perfect Wave


Tom Anderson



About the Author Tom Anderson is the author of Riding the Magic Carpet and was awarded a Welsh Arts Council Bursary for t...
Elephants, Tigers and Tappers: Recollections of a British rubber planter in Malaya

Elephants, Tigers and Tappers: Recollections of a British rubber planter in Malaya


A.I.S.P, Michael Thorp



About the Author Michael Thorp is an Associate member of the Incorporated Society of Planters, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Si...
Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars


Paul Fussell



Review "This is the most interesting and insightful book that I have read on travel writing, and my students seem to agre...
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America


Bill Bryson



Amazon.com Review A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no e...
Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR

Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR


Robert Edelman



From Library Journal Edelman (history, Univ. of California at San Diego) offers this well-documented, scholarly coverage ...
As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey

As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey


Alan Epstein



Review "Epstein captures the essence of la dolce vita...[and] also holds a mirror to America." -- --Minneapolis Star Tri...
Live From Jordan: Letters Home From My Journey Through the Middle East

Live From Jordan: Letters Home From My Journey Through the Middle East


Benjamin Orbach



Review "It's a wonderful tale -- not of danger and intrigue, but of good friends and interesting, hospitable people." -A...
Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Ship Industry

Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Ship Industry


Ross A. Klein



About the Author Ross Klein has taken more than 30 cruises in all parts of the world, comprising over 300 days. An Associ...
Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel (Reaktion Books - Critical Views)

Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel (Reaktion Books - Critical Views)




From Library Journal Although both of these books are written by academics and cover the history of travel, their focuses...
A Voyage Round the World (2-Volume Set)

A Voyage Round the World (2-Volume Set)


Georg Forster



A Voyage Round the World (2-Volume Set)...
Some Like It Cold (Summersdale Travel)

Some Like It Cold (Summersdale Travel)


Neville Shulman



Some Like It Cold (Summersdale Travel)...
The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.)

The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.)


Dan White



From Publishers Weekly Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from M...
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island

Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island


Diccon Bewes



Review Financial Times Book of the Year 2010 --Financial Times About the Author Diccon Bewes is an experienced ...
Off the Rails

Off the Rails


Chris Hatherly, Tim Cope



About the Author Tim Cope has written travel pieces for newspapers & magazines, & had many of his photographs published. ...
Journeys

Journeys


Jan Morris



Review "Vastly memorable essays prove Morris a first-rate travel writer and a master of lucid, evocative prose."--Booklis...
Days Like Floating Water, A Story of Modern China

Days Like Floating Water, A Story of Modern China


Susan Edwards Mckee



Review What we have, in my opinion, in Days Like Floating Water is an extraordinarily well written, almost lyrical, memoi...
La Bella Vita : Life, Love and Food in Southern Italy

La Bella Vita : Life, Love and Food in Southern Italy


V. Adamoli



Review "'This lovely book is a piece of tender sociology, charting the changes made when free love and fast food came to ...
Strabo: Geography, Books 10-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 211)

Strabo: Geography, Books 10-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 211)


Strabo



Strabo: Geography, Books 10-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 211)...
RiverTime: Ecotravel on the World's Rivers

RiverTime: Ecotravel on the World's Rivers


Mary A. Hood



From Visually, audibly, even olfactorily, rivers are magnets for the senses and for the soul. In this profound and pensi...
The Risk in Being Alive: One Man's Adventures Across the Planet

The Risk in Being Alive: One Man's Adventures Across the Planet


Brian Hancock



About the Author Brian Hancock is an expert in sails, sailmaking, and offshore ocean racing. He is a regular feature writ...
Riding the Ice Wind: By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica

Riding the Ice Wind: By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica


Alastair Vere Nicoll



Review "This is a heart-led account of one of the longest, hardest polar journeys of recent years. It is a testament that e...
A Rope of Vines: Journal From a Greek Island (Library of Wales)

A Rope of Vines: Journal From a Greek Island (Library of Wales)


Brenda Chamberlain



About the Author Brenda Chamberlain is the author of Bardsey in Tide Race, The Green Heart, and The Watercastle. ...
The Troad (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)

The Troad (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)


J.M. Cook



The Troad (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)...
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark

Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark


Dayton Duncan



From With bicentennial observances of the Corps of Discovery's epic trek set to unfold over the next two years, the alre...
In Trouble Again

In Trouble Again


Redmond O'Hanlon



In Trouble Again...
A Search in Secret Egypt

A Search in Secret Egypt


Paul Brunton



About the Author Paul Brunton (1898-1981) is widely recognized as one of the 20th century’s most eloquent and reli...
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History


Robert D. Kaplan



Amazon.com Review From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, a...