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This House of Sky (Paperback, 1st Harvest/HBJ ed): Ivan Doig This House of Sky (Paperback, 1st Harvest/HBJ ed)
Ivan Doig
R549 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R94 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Doig's life was formed among the sheepherders and other denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. New Preface by the Author.

Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II (Hardcover): Stephen Bending Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II (Hardcover)
Stephen Bending
R15,009 Discovery Miles 150 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.

The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize (Paperback): ,Julia Parry The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize (Paperback)
,Julia Parry
R309 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R40 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

** Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize ** Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands, Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey and Francesca Wade's Square Haunting. A death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of letters. Dusty with age, they reveal a secret love affair between the celebrated novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the academic Humphry House - Julia's grandfather. So begins a life-changing quest to understand the affair, which had profound repercussions for Julia's family, not least her grandmother, Madeline. Julia traces these three very different characters through 1930s Oxford and Ireland, Texas, Calcutta in the last days of Empire, and on into World War II. With a supporting cast that includes Isaiah Berlin and Virginia Woolf, The Shadowy Third opens up a world with complex attitudes to love and sex, duty and ambition, and to writing itself.

City of Djinns - A Year in Delhi (Paperback, Reissue): William Dalrymple City of Djinns - A Year in Delhi (Paperback, Reissue)
William Dalrymple 2
R335 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R86 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alive with the mayhem of the present and sparkling with William Dalrymple’s irrepressible wit, 'City of Djinns' is a fascinating portrait of a city.

Watched over and protected by the mischievous, invisible djinns, Delhi has, through their good offices, been saved from destruction many times over the centuries. With an extraordinary array of characters, from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj, Dalrymple’s second book is a unique and dazzling feat of research. Over the course of a year he comes to know the bewildering city intimately, and brilliantly conveys its magical nature, peeling back successive layers of history, and interlacing innumerable stories from Delhi’s past and present.

92 Acharnon Street (Paperback, 2nd ed.): John Lucas 92 Acharnon Street (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
John Lucas
R396 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R101 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Greece has always had its admirers, though none seems to have cherished the Athenian tavernas, the murderous traffic and the jaded prostitutes, the petty bureaucratic tyrannies, the street noise and the heroic individualists with the irony and detachment of John Lucas. '92 Acharnon Street' is a gritty portrait of a dirty city and a wayward country. Yet Lucas' love for the realities of Greece triumphs- for the Homeric kindness of her people towards strangers, for the pleasures of her table and for the proximity of islands in clear blue water as a refuge from the noise and pollution of her capital city. This is Greece as the Greeks would recognise it, seen through the eyes of a poet.

Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I (Hardcover): Stephen Bending Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I (Hardcover)
Stephen Bending
R8,717 Discovery Miles 87 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This seven-volume facsimile set comprises first-hand accounts of France in the 1790s. Helen Maria William's letters narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace. Charlotte West (who, like Williams, celebrated the fall of the Bastille but was later imprisoned by the Republic) records the corruption, paranoia and violence of the Terror both in the provinces and in Paris. All texts, the majority of which have never been republished, are reproduced in full, augmented by a substantial general introduction to each set, headnotes, endnotes, and a consolidated index in the final volume. Selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from the unparalleled Chawton House Library collection; each facsimile page has been digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.

Shipwrecks (Paperback): Maureen Attwooll Shipwrecks (Paperback)
Maureen Attwooll
R180 Discovery Miles 1 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Among the Believers - An Islamic Journey (Paperback): V. S. Naipaul Among the Believers - An Islamic Journey (Paperback)
V. S. Naipaul 1
R365 R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Save R80 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.' - Sunday Times 'His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realizing those perceptions on the page. His travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century.' - Martin Amis, author of Time's Arrow.

The Cruise of the Betsey and Rambles of a Geologist (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Hugh Miller The Cruise of the Betsey and Rambles of a Geologist (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Hugh Miller; Introduction by Dr Michael A. Taylor; Notes by Dr Michael A. Taylor
R790 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R75 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This account shows the full range of Hugh Miller's interests - the lyrical description of the scenery and accounts of beautiful fossils show a deep affection for the Scottish landscape, while his role as a serious religious journalist and social crusader is highlighted in his discussions on the Disruption and the Highland Clearances.

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster... The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard (Paperback)
Michael G. Brennan
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'. Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons. The extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms, including personal diaries (Montagu), family letters (Hammond) and formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his servant, Robert Moody), and how these texts should now be interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections of prints, engravings, curiosities, coins and antiquities assembled by such travellers.

For Love or Money (Paperback): Jonathan Raban For Love or Money (Paperback)
Jonathan Raban
R408 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R101 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul Theroux 'For Love and Money ... is as good a book as there is about the writing life. Delighted that it will be safeguarded in print by Eland.' Tim Hannigan This collection of writing undertaken for love and money is about books and travel, and makes for an engrossing and candid exploration of what it means to live from writing. Jonathan Raban weighs up the advantages of maintaining an independent spirit against problems of insolvency and self-worth, confesses to travel as an escape from the blank page, ponders the true art of the book review, admires the role of the literary editor and remembers with affection and hilarity events from his eccentric life at the heart of literary London. Reading it is like embarking on a humane, rigorous and witty conversation.

In Stevenson'S Samoa (Hardcover): Marie Fraser In Stevenson'S Samoa (Hardcover)
Marie Fraser
R5,075 Discovery Miles 50 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2006. A traveller's tale set in the islands of Samoa with the legendary traveller Robert Louis Stevenson as guide, this book is valuable not only for its enjoyment as a tale of adventure, but also for its record of Stevenson himself - a literacy figure more commonly seen as author and not subject.

1968 and I'm Hitchhiking Through Europe (Hardcover): Joe Mack 1968 and I'm Hitchhiking Through Europe (Hardcover)
Joe Mack
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Join Joe Mack on his journey through ten countries as Europeans and fellow Americans talk about the events of 1968 that are worth remembering and sharing.

Camp Life and Sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina (Hardcover): Snaffle Camp Life and Sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina (Hardcover)
Snaffle
R4,100 R3,360 Discovery Miles 33 600 Save R740 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This largely unknown travel book, written by a sporting and hunting enthusiast in 1896, recalls his journey with his wife and two dachshunds in what was then a largely unknown part of Europe. Not even Thomas Cook had conducted tours east of Trieste, and our two travelers were exploring territory less well known to the Victorian traveler at the time than Egypt or Brazil.

Japan Extolled and Decried - Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): C.P. Thunberg Japan Extolled and Decried - Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
C.P. Thunberg; Edited by Timon Screech
R3,932 Discovery Miles 39 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Carl Peter Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed one year, the maximum continuous term permitted for a European at the time. He travelled to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun's private physician, Katsuragawa Hosshu, a notorious rake. They maintained a correspondence even after the Swede had returned to his homeland. Thunberg's 'Travels' appeared in English in 1795 and was never reprinted. This edition makes available once again Thunberg's extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.

The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant (1647-1656) (Paperback): Michael Brennan The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant (1647-1656) (Paperback)
Michael Brennan; Richard Bargrave
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert Bargrave (1628-61), recording his extensive travels as a merchant. This manuscript (now Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 799), describes four separate journeys made by Bargrave: his sea voyage from England to Constantinople; an arduous return journey overland from Constantinople to England, via Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Germany, and the Low Countries; extensive travels, for both commercial and cultural purposes, in Spain, Sicily, Italy and the Morea; and a return journey from Venice to Margate, via Trento, Innsbruck, and Augsburg, including his visit to Heidelberg where he met the exiled English royalist community at the court of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia. The introduction to the edition gives detailed consideration to the political, religious, and personal affiliations of the Bargraves, a prominent Kentish family, with special reference to their experiences of overseas travel. While abroad, Robert also twice met up with his cousin, John Bargrave (c. 1610-80), the noted traveller and antiquarian. The introduction also provides an assessment of the historical, literary, and geographical importance of Robert Bargrave's journey; a survey of his extensive musical and dramatic interests; and the first detailed account of the provenances of both MS Rawlinson C 799 and now a lost earlier draft of this journal, identified here as the Eastry Court Manuscript. The edition includes seventeen illustrations, Bargrave family trees, and a selective bibliography of primary and secondary sources consulted.

Eat, Pray, Love - One Woman's Search for Everything (Paperback, Export and UK open market ed): Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love - One Woman's Search for Everything (Paperback, Export and UK open market ed)
Elizabeth Gilbert
R245 R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Save R43 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So, she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

An Area Of Darkness (Hardcover): V. S. Naipaul An Area Of Darkness (Hardcover)
V. S. Naipaul
R299 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R65 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul's strikingly original responses to India's paralyzing caste system, its acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. This may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.

The Broadway Travellers (Hardcover): Eileen Power, E. Denison Ross The Broadway Travellers (Hardcover)
Eileen Power, E. Denison Ross
R96,851 Discovery Miles 968 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published between 1926-1931, with the invaluable addition of introductions and explanatory notes, maps and appendices, this series makes available in English inaccessible texts of travel from around the globe. 'The variety of the Broadway Travellers becomes more remarkable and refreshing with every new addition to the series. It is possible to range from Bristol to Darien, from China to Peru and to pick a Puritan, a Moslem, a Jesuit or a footman for one's guide. The English denounce the Spanish, the Spanish watch the French, and the Portuguese fight the Dutch. The drama of the three great centuries of discovery - the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth - are revealed by the shrewdest of observers' - The New Statesman.

Jewish Travellers (Hardcover, abridged edition): Elkan Nathan Adler Jewish Travellers (Hardcover, abridged edition)
Elkan Nathan Adler
R5,120 Discovery Miles 51 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1930. The wandering Jew is a very real character in the great drama of history. He has travelled as nomad and settler, as fugitive and conqueror, as exile and colonist and as merchant and scholar. Of necessity bilingual and therefore the master of many languages, the Jew was the ideal commercial traveller and interpreter.
Based on the volume of 24 Hebrew texts of Jewish travellers by J D Eisenstein, this volume begins with the ninth century. After the sixteenth century geographical discoveries had made the whole world familiar to most people. Consequently, the wandering Jew becomes less the diplomatist or scientist but still remains a link between the scattered members of the Diaspora. The volume ends in the middle of the eighteenth century and taken as a whole provides a survey of Jewish travel during the Middle Ages. For this translation, some of the texts have been abridged, whilst retaining many of the original notes.

Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman - John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779) (Hardcover, illustrated edition): John MacDonald Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman - John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779) (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
John MacDonald; Introduction by John Beresford
R7,153 Discovery Miles 71 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1927. John Macdonald (1741-96) was born, and died, a Scottish Highlander. First published at the time of the French Revolution, these memoirs of his days in service provide a rich panorama of life in the company of blind fiddlers, maid-servants, the Scottish aristocracy, soldiers, historians, Oriental Princes, servants of the East India Company and men of great wealth, including James Coutts the banker. In 1768 - as the result of an errand - it fell to Macdonald to witness the death of Laurence Sterne.
'Simply packed with interest' Sunday Times
'..a model of genuine writing' Evening Standard
'Deserves a high place among autobiographies.' Nation

Nova Francia - A Description of Acadia, 1606 (Hardcover): Marc Lescarbot Nova Francia - A Description of Acadia, 1606 (Hardcover)
Marc Lescarbot; Translated by P. Erondelle; Introduction by H.P Biggar
R5,112 Discovery Miles 51 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1928.
'Lescarbot was a man of lively wit, and a practical sagacity and breadth of view far in advance of his time.' Spectator
'This admirable edition reveals to be a lesser-known Montaigne, and Erondelle a second Florio' Daily News
'One must be singularly hard to entertain if Lescarbot fails' Birmingham Post
Nova Francia is an account of the foundation of the first French colony in Acadia in 1606. The author, Marc Lescarbot, had an inquisitive mind and an independent outlook, with a special faculty for clear thinking, and it is this authorial style which gives the work its unique value. To read Lescarbot is to enter again into the outlook of an intelligent Frenchman of the sixteenth century.

Travels in Persia - 1627-1629 (Hardcover): Thomas Herbert Travels in Persia - 1627-1629 (Hardcover)
Thomas Herbert; Edited by William Foster
R7,170 Discovery Miles 71 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When first published in 1928, Herbert's work enjoyed immediate success. The narrative is of considerable importance from an historical point of view, as it gives the only detailed account of the first English embassy to Persia. It also paints a graphic picture of the Perisa and the Persians in the early part of the seventeenth century, with vivid and extensive descriptions of the towns of Abbas, Lar, Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan, Ashraf, Tehran, Qazvin, Qum and Kashan.
This edition is based on the revised edition of 1677, but has in turn been edited so that the version reprinted here includes only what the author actually saw or gleaned at first hand. The notes include identification of places and a glossary of the strange or obsolete terms.

Travels into Spain (Hardcover): Madame D'Aulnoy Travels into Spain (Hardcover)
Madame D'Aulnoy; Edited by R. Foulche-Delbosc
R7,190 Discovery Miles 71 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Of all literary fakes this is surely the most impudent, ingenious, and successful. The Comtesse D'Aulnoy was never in Spain (but) she was a born traveller. Not without reason have the editors of The Broadway Travellers included her fiction in their library of fact. For, despite its falseness, it is intellectually the real thing.' Saturday Review
However her work is judged today, it seems certain that Madame D'Aulnoy was one of the most widely-read and most popular authors of her time. Seeing Spain at a strange moment in her history, it is the end of a great age. The last descendent of Charles V is king; after him the nation is destined to enter upon a new phase, under a new dynasty. After reading this journey we see and touch Spain and the reader can judge the Spanish character from a witness who saw it.

Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage - 1618-25 (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage - 1618-25 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe; Translated by C. B. Bodde-Hodgkinson, Pieter Geyl
R7,138 Discovery Miles 71 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1929.
'Fire and shipwreck, fights ashore and afloat, the pitting of ceaseless patience and resource against fate, these things make one understand why the book, famous in its original tongue, has but to be savoured in translation to gain an equal popularity.' Manchester Guardian
Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was one of the most popular books in which the Dutch seventeenth century public delighted and it continued to be reprinted throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
As well as providing an illuminating insight into the machinations of the Merchants and Directors of the East India Company and the often troubled waters of international trade and diplomacy, the account is a very personal one: of a human being battling against elemental forces, at tremendous odds, tenaciously holding on to life and coming through in the end.

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