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Reflections in a Sailor's Eyes - A Lifetime Exploring Earth (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Jack Binder Reflections in a Sailor's Eyes - A Lifetime Exploring Earth (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Jack Binder
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Travels in Ireland, Part 3 (Paperback, Revised edition): Johann Georg Kohl Travels in Ireland, Part 3 (Paperback, Revised edition)
Johann Georg Kohl
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Travels in Ireland, Part 4 (Paperback, Revised edition): Johann Georg Kohl Travels in Ireland, Part 4 (Paperback, Revised edition)
Johann Georg Kohl
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Travels in Ireland, Part 2 (Paperback, Revised edition): Johann Georg Kohl Travels in Ireland, Part 2 (Paperback, Revised edition)
Johann Georg Kohl
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Flat Country, with Hills (Paperback): Edward Arruns Mulhorn A Flat Country, with Hills (Paperback)
Edward Arruns Mulhorn
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Travels in Ireland, Part 1 (Paperback): Johann Georg Kohl Travels in Ireland, Part 1 (Paperback)
Johann Georg Kohl
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Unknown Chum (Paperback): Aguecheek My Unknown Chum (Paperback)
Aguecheek; Foreword by Henry Garrity; Charles Bullard Fairbanks
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kenya, Land of Contradiction - Among the Nilotic, Bantu and Cushitic Peoples (Paperback): Roger Stoakley Kenya, Land of Contradiction - Among the Nilotic, Bantu and Cushitic Peoples (Paperback)
Roger Stoakley
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Journey to Ararat (Paperback): Friedrich Parrot Journey to Ararat (Paperback)
Friedrich Parrot
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Balthazar - Introduced by Alaa Al Aswany (Paperback, Main): Lawrence Durrell Balthazar - Introduced by Alaa Al Aswany (Paperback, Main)
Lawrence Durrell; Introduction by Alaa Al Aswany
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by Alaa Al Aswany (bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building). Every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position ... As the threat of world war looms over the city of Alexandria, an exiled Anglo-Irish schoolteacher unravels his erotic obsession with two women: Melissa, a fragile dancer, and Justine, a glamorous married Egyptian woman. Through conversations with Balthazar, a doctor and mystic, these intricate love affairs are cast in an ominous, sinister new light, as his private fixations become entangled with a mysterious murder plot ... One of the twentieth century's greatest masterpieces, rich in political and sexual intrigue, Lawrence Durrell's 'investigation of modern love' in the Alexandria Quartet set the world alight. Published in 1958, a year after the sensational Justine, the kaleidoscopic Balthazar burns just as brightly today. 'Legendary ... Casts a spell ... A fine storyteller. Reader, watch out!' Jan Morris, Guardian 'A brave and brazen work ... Lush and grandiose.' Independent 'One of the very best novelists of our time ... [such] beauty.' New York Times Book Review VOLUME TWO OF LAWRENCE DURRELL'S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

The Story of the World in 100 Moments - Discover the stories that defined humanity and shaped our world (Paperback): Neil Oliver The Story of the World in 100 Moments - Discover the stories that defined humanity and shaped our world (Paperback)
Neil Oliver
R406 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC History From Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first steps on the moon, discover the 100 moments that defined humanity and shaped our world forever. Neil Oliver takes us on a whistle-stop tour around the world and through a million years to give us this unique and invaluable grasp of how human history pieces together. From the east to the west, north to south, these 100 moments act like stepping stones allowing us to make sense of how these pivotal events have shaped the world we know today. Including many moments readers will expect - from the advent of the printing press to the birth of the internet - there are also surprises, and with them, some remarkable, unforgettable stories that give a whole new insight on our past. From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places, this is outstanding new history of how our world was made from 5000 BC to the present. ********************* Praise for Neil Oliver 'Neil Oliver writes beautifully - bringing the past to life and letting us see ourselves in a new light.' - Professor Alice Roberts 'Brilliantly demonstrates Neil's mastery of the broad sweep of British history and landscape.' - Dan Snow 'Highly-crafted...a vivid, pungent history.' - TLS 'Compelling' - Daily Mail

The Uncommercial Traveller (Hardcover): Charles Dickens The Uncommercial Traveller (Hardcover)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Daniel Tyler
R483 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of 'the Uncommercial', Dickens wanders the city streets and brings London, its inhabitants, commerce and entertainment vividly to life. Sometimes autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven with adult memories, the sketches include visits to the Paris Morgue, the Liverpool docks, a workhouse, a school for poor children, and the theatre. They also describe the perils of travel, including seasickness, shipwreck, the coming of the railways, and the wretchedness of dining in English hotels and restaurants. The work is quintessential Dickens, with each piece showcasing his imaginative writing style, his keen observational powers, and his characteristic wit. In this edition Daniel Tyler explores Dickens's fascination with the city and the book's connections with concerns evident in his fiction: social injustice, human mortality, a fascination with death and the passing of time. Often funny, sometimes indignant, always exuberant, The Uncommercial Traveller is a revelatory encounter with Dickens, and the Victorian city he knew so well.

A Traveler in Siam in the Year 1655 - Extracts from the Journal of Gijsbert Heeck (Paperback): Gijsbert Heeck A Traveler in Siam in the Year 1655 - Extracts from the Journal of Gijsbert Heeck (Paperback)
Gijsbert Heeck; Translated by Barend Jan Terwiel
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gijsbert Heeck (1619-1669) was a medicinal specialist with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His journal is based on the daily notes he made during his third trip to the East. This volume carries the selections from his journal that deal with Siam, accompanied by the original Dutch text. Heeck reveals how Siamese authorities reacted to a violent confrontation between the Dutch and the Portuguese. He gives a detailed description of the Dutch lodge in Ayutthaya, and also bits of information on the relationships of local Dutch men with indigenous women. His record of villages along the Chao Phraya River specializing in the making of coffins, preparing and selling firewood, painting, and producing earthenware, signal the existence of a complex economy in this part of Siam. Compared with the other seventeenth-century descriptions primarily of the landscape, Heeck's journals provide more information on population, scenery, traffic, trade, and religious establishments than all the others combined. He also provides a unique early perspective on local social arrangements and political intrigue, and on interactions between the Dutch and the locals. Barend Jan Terwiel recently published Thailand's Political History: From the Fall of Ayutthaya until Recent Times.

From Cairo to Baghdad - British Travellers in Arabia (Paperback): James Canton From Cairo to Baghdad - British Travellers in Arabia (Paperback)
James Canton
R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Until the 1880s, British travellers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an Imperial presence in the region, as the British seized power in Egypt, the very nature of travel to the Middle East changed. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves visiting the region as British influence increased. Missionaries, soldiers and spies as well as tourists and explorers started to visit the area, creating an ever bigger supply of writers, and market for their books. In a similar fashion, as the Empire receded in the wake of World War II, so did the whole tradition of Middle East travel writing. In this elegantly crafted book, James Canton examines over one hundred primary sources, from forgotten gems to the classics of T E Lawrence, Thesiger and Philby. He analyses the relationship between Empire and author, showing how the one influenced the other, leading to a vast array of texts that might never have been produced had it not been for the ambitions of Imperial Britain. This work makes for essential reading for all of those interested in the literature of Empire, travel writing and the Middle East.

In Morocco (Paperback): Edith Wharton In Morocco (Paperback)
Edith Wharton
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sirens and Seriemas (Paperback): Paul Brooke Sirens and Seriemas (Paperback)
Paul Brooke
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Within 'Sirens and Seriemas', Paul Brooke explores the wild places of Brazil through photography and poetry. A former biologist and naturalist, Brooke travelled the Amazon and Pantanal regions of Brazil studying culture, history and natural history. The poems address pressing environmental issues such as deforestation, extinction, overhunting, overpopulation, urbanization and wildness. The photographs chronicle the amazing beauty and danger, the culture of Amazonian peoples and multi-colored landscapes.

Mr Marten's Travels in East Anglia - The 1825 Journal of Robert Humphrey Marten (Paperback, Annotated edition): Elizabeth... Mr Marten's Travels in East Anglia - The 1825 Journal of Robert Humphrey Marten (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Elizabeth Larby
R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The small, handwritten volume which is Robert Marten's diary of his travels in East Anglia is carefully conserved in the Norfolk Record Office. Marten writes of Great Yarmouth, where he landed after the journey by steamer from London, of Norwich as the county town of Norfolk and of Cromer, where he and his family enjoyed several days exploring. His picture of the county in September 1825, combined with the detail in his pencil sketches, reveals an early 19th century world to us. Editor Elizabeth Larby has carefully annotated the text, providing a context to further our understanding of the journey and the age.

Letters from Hamnavoe (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): George Mackay Brown Letters from Hamnavoe (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
George Mackay Brown
R237 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Pleasures And Landscapes (Paperback): Sybille Bedford Pleasures And Landscapes (Paperback)
Sybille Bedford
R339 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Sybille Bedford once wrote that travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament - it is what happens to him when he is confronted with a column, a bird, a sage, a cheat, a riot; wine, fruit, dirt; the delay in the dirt, the failing airplane. 'Pleasures and Landscapes' is what happened to Mrs Bedford when, at the peak of her literary powers, she traveled through France, Italy, and the rest of Europe for Vogue, Esquire, and other magazines - eight classic essays that secure her a place at the table with A.J. Liebling and M.F.K. Fisher.

Yellowstone, Land of Wonders - Promenade in North America's National Park (Hardcover, 0th edition): Jules LeClercq Yellowstone, Land of Wonders - Promenade in North America's National Park (Hardcover, 0th edition)
Jules LeClercq; Translated by Janet Chapple, Suzanne Cane; Foreword by Lee Whittlesey
R967 R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Save R133 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumoured fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.

The Aran Islands (Paperback, Revised): J. M Synge The Aran Islands (Paperback, Revised)
J. M Synge; Edited by Tim Robinson; Introduction by Tim Robinson
R365 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R36 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas. Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, 'If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two.' Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The result is a passionate exploration of a triangle of contradictory relationships - between an island community still embedded in its ancestral ways but solicited by modernism, a physical environment of ascetic loveliness and savagely unpredictable moods, and Synge himself, formed by modern European thought but in love with the primitive.

The Sultan's Organ - The Diary of Thomas Dallam 1599 (Paperback, 1): Mole John 15/04/1945 The Sultan's Organ - The Diary of Thomas Dallam 1599 (Paperback, 1)
Mole John 15/04/1945
R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1598 merchants of the City of London paid for a Present to be given by Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III of Turkey. In return the merchants hoped to secure trading concessions, and the Virgin Queen to turn the Sultan's military might on her Spanish enemies. The Present was a carved, painted and gilded cabinet about sixteen feet high, six feetwideand five feet deep. It contained a chiming clock with jewel-encrusted moving figures combined with an automatic organ, which could play tunes on its own for six hours - or by hand to the point of exhaustion. The Present was dismantled and dispatched on a merchant ship early in 1599. It took six months to get from London to Constantinople. With it went four craftsmen. They were Thomas Dallam the organ builder, John Harvey the engineer, Michael Watson the carpenter and Rowland Buckett the painter. Dallam was just twenty four years old. On their odyssey they encountered storms, volcanoes, exotic animals, foreign food, good wine, pirates, brigands, Moors, Turks, Greeks, Jews, beautiful women, barbarous men, kings and pashas, armies on the march, janissaries, eunuchs, slaves, dwarves and finally the most powerful man in the known world, the Great Turk himself. Faithfully translated into modern prose, unembellished and unedited, this illuminating historical source reads as if its Elizabethan author were alive today.

Supper with the President (Paperback, New): Ian Mathie Supper with the President (Paperback, New)
Ian Mathie
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

West Africa in the 1970s was a volatile melange of old and new; of aspiration, corruption, power and influence. In its midst, Ian Mathie laboured in his role as a water engineer to help improve the lives of ordinary people. His work brought him in contact with presidents, kings, emperors, chiefs and a succession of extraordinary characters. Circumstances contrived to place him at dinners with four heads of state whose rule had immense impact, positive and negative, on their countries and on West and Central Africa: Mobutu of Zaire, Traore of Mali, Senghor of Senegal and Eyadema of Togo. In 'Supper with the President', he recalls the events and the insights they gave him, interweaving those experiences with true stories of other extraordinary brushes with sorcery, slavery, wildlife conservation, desert travel and a jail-break that could only happen in Africa.

Letters from America (Paperback, New): Frederick Brown Letters from America (Paperback, New)
Frederick Brown; Alexis De Tocqueville
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville's later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered. These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account of the American democratic system that remains an important reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest to general readers, scholars, and students alike.

An Adventurous Woman Abroad - The Selected Lantern Slides of Mary T.S. Schaffer (Hardcover): Michale Lang An Adventurous Woman Abroad - The Selected Lantern Slides of Mary T.S. Schaffer (Hardcover)
Michale Lang
R907 R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Save R160 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, travelling within North American borders or beyond to exotic locations was difficult at best and disastrous at worst. Mary Schaffer, born into a Pennsylvania-based Quaker family in 1861, not only conquered international travel but also excelled as an explorer, surveyor and photographer in the backcountry of Canada's Rocky Mountains and the isolated communities of Japan and Formosa (now Taiwan). Michale Lang's new book features more than 200 of Mary Schaffer's colourful, hand-painted lantern slides from the archives of the Whyte Musem of the Canadian Rockies. These unique works of art detail some of the indigenous people and breathtaking landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, along with tribal communities of Japan and Formosa. Schaffer's writing, Michale Lang's accompanying narrative and the book's overall design (inspired by the work of Barbara Hodgson, author and designer of "The Tattooed Map," "No Place for a Lady and Opium") opens a unique window on the Victorian obsession with international travel and discovery.

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