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A Connemara Journey by Hilary Bradt
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Hilary Bradt's classic account of a journey through Ireland on horseback in the 1980s published for the first time in a single volume.In 1984, Hilary Bradt achieved an ambition from her pony-mad childhood to undertake a long-distance ride. This warm, funny and heart-wrenching account centres on the grow ...Show more
Beastly Journeys - Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals by Dervla Murphy; David Attenborough; Jonathan Scott; Gerald Durrell; Hilary Bradt; Mark Shand
Category: Nature | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, f ...Show more
Britain in a Bottle - A Visitor's Guide to Gin Distilleries, Whisky Distilleries, Breweries, Vineyards and Cider Mills by Rupert Wheeler; Ted Bruning
Category: Food & Wine | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Expert authors Ted Bruning and Rupert Wheeler have scanned England, Scotland and Wales to bring you this unique and comprehensive guide to Britain's breweries, cider mills, vineyards, and whisky and gin distilleries. All the businesses they have selected welcome visitors. So, whether you fancy tasting w ...Show more
Call of the Kingfisher Bright Sights and Birdsong in a Year by the River by NICK PENNY
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Call of the Kingfisher is the enchanting debut from composer and wildlife recordist, Nick Penny. This love letter to a short stretch of Northamptonshire's River Nene celebrates all the wild things that live there, especially the kingfishers. Uniquely, it comes with bonus audio content to complement the ...Show more
Christian The Lion: The Illustrated Legacy by Rendall, John
Category: Biography | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
In 1969, at the height of swinging London, two carefree young Australians - John Rendall and Anthony 'Ace' Bourke - bought a lion cub from Harrod's. It was the start of an extraordinary journey. After raising the cub in their Chelsea flat, and exercising him after dark in the gardens of a local church, ...Show more
From the Lion's Mouth - A Journey along the Indus by Iain Campbell
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Iain Campbell has been fascinated by mountains for as long as he can remember. In his new book, he tells the story of a journey following the course of the Indus River from its mouth in the mudflats of Karachi through the Karakorum, Kashmir and the Himalayas to its source in Ladakh on the Indian side of ...Show more
Galapagos Crusoes: A Year Alone With the Birds by BRYAN NELSON
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
A new, updated version of the celebrated 1968 title, Galapagos: Islands of Birds, by the renowned late ornithologist Bryan Nelson, with additional, previously unpublished reminiscences and lively and irreverent memories from his wife June. This timely reissue breathes new life into a classic work of nat ...Show more
Inuit Way: A Journey across Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago by E. A. S. COOPER
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Living and hunting with the Inuit in northwest Greenland in the summer, winter and spring months, Edward Cooper journeys to the Arctic islands with his travel companion in search of a note left by the little-known explorer, David Haig-Thomas. Suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, fighting off hun ...Show more
Juicy Crones - Free for the Strangest Adventure by Jay Courtney
Category: Guidebooks | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
'The average woman will live 30 years after menopause. You can have lots of fun in that time. This is our third act, the time that many women learn to ROAR! I'm now marinating in all the things I love most and writing about them.'After retiring from a distinguished career in education and health, Jay Co ...Show more
Minarets in the Mountains - A Journey into Muslim Europe by Tharik Hussain
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
A magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn't. Muslim Europe.Londoner Tharik Hussain sets off with his wife and young daughters around the Western B ...Show more
My Family and Other Enemies by Mary Novakovich
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
My Family and Other Enemies is part travelogue, part memoir that dives into the hinterland of Croatia. Mary Novakovich explores her ongoing relationship with the region of Lika in central Croatia, where her parents were born.. 'Lika is little known to most travellers - apart from Plitvice Lakes National ...Show more
Taverna by the Sea - One Greek Island Summer by Jennifer Barclay
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
The Taverna by the Sea is an enchanting, funny, poignant travel memoir about answering the call of adventure by taking on the challenge of running a Greek beach taverna. During a walking holiday on the island of Karpathos, a chance encounter with a Greek-American hotel owner results in a once-in-a-lifet ...Show more