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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
Tales from Nowhere 3e by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Simon Winchester; Don George; Tim Cahill; Jason Elliot; Pam Houston; Pico Iyer; Rolf Potts; Anthony Sattin; Danny Wallace
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Unexpected stories from unexpected places. Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the ...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
The Country of Larks - A Chiltern Journey by Gail Simmons
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Travel writer and journalist Gail Simmons follows in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson as she walks from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to Tring in Hertfordshire via Great Missenden and Wendover, tracing not only the changes in the landscape of the last 150 years but also those yet to come with t ...Show more
The Marsh Lions: The Story of an African Pride by Brian Jackman; Jonathan Scott
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
A bestseller when first published in 1982, The Marsh Lions portrays a vivid picture of life and death on the African savannah through the story of a pride of lions in Kenya's world-famous Masai Mara game reserve. The story is essentially a true one. All the central characters are real, and most of the i ...Show more
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
Category: Reference | Series: Pallas Athene Travel Literature Ser.
In the early 1850s, John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, a history of Venetian architecture. He asserted the moral and aesthetic superiority of Venice's medieval buildings over structures from the Renaissance period. Ruskin's engaging and beautifully crafted prose inspired his Anglo-American read ...Show more
Travel Write - Select Entries from 20 Years of the Bradt Travel-Writing Competition by Celia Dillow
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
For over 20 years Bradt Travel Guides has been running an annual travel-writing competition which now attracts hundreds of entrants each year. Thanks to Bradt's status as the largest remaining independently owned travel publisher in the UK and one of the most respected travel publishing brands in the wo ...Show more
West with the Light by Brian Jackman
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
'Don't send him to Torremolinos; it's not his kind of tundra.' Such was the mantra of The Sunday Times when considering assignments for Brian Jackman, for whom deserts, rain forests and mountain ranges have always been more enticing habitats.After decades spent travelling and writing about the places an ...Show more
Wild Abandon - A Journey to the Deserted Places of the Dodecanese' by Jennifer Barclay
Category: Biography | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
"A vivid and intoxicating account of these beautiful islands" - Victoria Hislop. "A must-read for anyone who loves the Greek islands" - Richard Clark 'There's something about abandoned places which moves me and captures the imagination.' So says seasoned travel writer Jennifer Barclay as she walks with ...Show more