On the Narrow Road to the Deep North
£14.99Lesley Chan Downer set off in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho, Japan’s most cherished poet, to explore the country’s remote northern provinces.
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The station
£14.99The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927
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Muscat and Oman
£14.99Ian Skeet travelled across the vast sand deserts and arid highlands of Muscat and Oman in 1966-8, preparing the wary inhabitants for the coming of oil, visiting its isolated walled cities, fortified oasis communities and independent-minded Bedouin tribes.
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Life at full tilt
£25.00Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy’s travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for over fifty years, including descriptions of her beloved Afghanistan in 1963, of the Peruvian Andes, of South, West and East Africa and most recently of the troubled territories of Palestine and Israel.
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The narrow smile
£14.99The Narrow Smile is a portrait of the Pathan and their highland home on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan frontier.
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Hard lying
£14.99Weldon was mapping the deserts of Egypt when war broke out. Working from out of a steam yacht based on Port Said or Famagusta, he ran a network of spies and confidential agents onto the Levant coast behind Turkish lines. He was a fluent Arabic speaker and could conduct personal interviews on the shore, as well as landing and taking off agents – all conveyed by small boats through the surf under the cover of night. This vivid tale of adventure becomes eyewitness history
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Brazilian adventure
£14.99First published in 1933, Brazilian Adventure is Peter Fleming’s account of his expeditionary search for the lost Colonel. Peter Fleming was the brother of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series and was literary editor of The Times.
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On Travel and the Journey Through Life
£9.99This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand years of wit and wisdom: from Martha Gellhorn to Confucius and from Pliny to Paul Theroux.
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Bengal Lancer
£12.99The memoir of a young cavalry officer in India in the British Empire and his search for spiritual fulfilment.
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Hunting Mr Heartbreak
£12.99First published in 1990, Hunting Mister Heartbreak is a discovery of the many faces of America, from New York to Florida, from rural Alabama to Seattle.
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For love and money
£12.99First published in 1987, Raban writes about reading and travelling, fleshing out London literary life in the ’70s and ’80s.