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Mother Land is a brilliant debut autobiographical novel with a literary style that recalls such coming-of-age novels as Catcher in the Rye and The Kite Flyer.

Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine

The author buys an elephant named Tara and rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love.

This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans meander their way slowly south from Bombay to the southernmost point of India, Cape Comorin.

A cast of poets of spellbinding intensity bring this much loved region of Italy to life to show us two opposing natures of Italy, united by their differences.

Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. This title brings together the best in their Spanish hosts, informed by personal fascination for horses, religion and Spain.

In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.

For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. This title groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the delights and tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands.

A journey through time: from a scattering of cottages along a pre-roman horse track, to a medieval parish and staging post for travellers, onwards into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats and an 18th century resort of pleasure gardens eventually transformed by a warren of railway lines.

A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.

Winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008. A sharply observed and passionate portrait of Greece as Greeks would see it.

In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner, this title offers insight into what has or hasn't changed over the years. In a series of letters home he describes his amazement at the number of English people who wore spectacles, the amount they drank, and the dreadful food they ate.

Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. This book is accompanied by several of his images of Japan. It is a distillation of his lifelong quest for Japan and his travels.

For two thousand years in China, the empires of politics and of the written word cohabited and depended on one another. This collection gathers poems about four venerable cities - Chang'an (now Xi'an), Luoyang, Beijing and Hangzhou.

There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. This book combines the sensibility of a native from the island of South Uist with the eye of a travelling scholar of architecture.

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Brings together the author's lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.

Presents an introduction to the Imperial capital of the Tsars. This book recreates one glittering day in the life of St Petersburg in its heyday.

Tells the story of a street in London's docklands and of the family who lived on it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelwright family (originally dockers) lived there until its demolition in the 1960s, when it was replaced with tower blocks.

From Oscar Wilde to Rudyard Kipling, from Jonathan Swift to WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett: the city of Dublin has enchanted and inspired some great poetry. This is a companion for a visit to the Fair City.

From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho, this work brings together a chorus of voices from Japan and across the globe. It is a source book for those visiting Japan for the first time and for expatriates.

Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea.

A new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France.

An account of the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar, as Jan Morris accompanied the Sultan on his royal progress, with the winds of change - oil and revolution - in the background.