THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE and Other Writings by Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchan ...Show more
Granite Island:Portrait Of Corsica: Portrait Of Corsica by Dorothy Carrington
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'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. "Granite Island", much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably viv ...Show more
Moron to Moron : Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure by Tom Doig
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In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Armed with spandex unitards, Chinese steel-frame mountain bikes, unidentifiable meat product and a woefully ...Show more
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
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The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism. " Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long been acknowledged as the d ...Show more
The Places in Between by Stewart Rory
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A brilliant account of a death defying walk through AfghanistanRory Stewart's sparsely poetic, highly acclaimed account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been hailed as a modern classic of travel writing. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible, mountainous route, Ste ...Show more
Mr Snack and the Lady Water: Travel Tales from My Lost Years by Brendan Shanahan
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After a decade spent on the road, renowned travel writer Brendan Shanahan is back with Mr Snack and the Lady Water, a collection of darkly funny and unexpected travel writing. In the title piece, Shanahan embarks on what is supposed to be a luxury cruise, only to find himself on a three-day endurance te ...Show more
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
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Category: Travel Writing
Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. During her "Month By The Sea", Dervla develops an acute ...Show more
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, A History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh
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Category: Travel Writing
The most famous neighborhood in the world, Greenwich Village has been home to outcasts of diverse persuasions for more than four hundred years, from half-free African slaves to working-class immigrants, artistic bohemians to politicians. Illustrated with thirty-two pages of black-and-white photos, "The ...Show more
The Exotic Booze Club: The Misadventures of a Travelling Film Maker by Brian Armstrong
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Category: Travel Writing
At seven years old, the young Brian Armstrong was captivated by the pages of an old, yellow-bordered magazine . It wasn't just the bare-breasted tribeswomen that attracted his attention. Pictures of far-off jungles, exotic wildlife and intrepid explorers prompted the boy to declare 'That's what I'm goin ...Show more
The Pharaoh's Shadow by Anthony Sattin
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In a ruined temple along the Nile, Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later that day, a policeman stops his taxi to ask to borrow a mobile phone to call his mother. The ancient rubs up against the modern just as dramatically as when Flaubert wrote ...Show more
Ghosts of Spain - Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett
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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator General#65533;simo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of General Franc ...Show more