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Travel Writing

In the spring and summer of 1931, the author travelled to Morocco. Escaping the furore that surrounded the publication of his controversial book on Hitler, he also intended to explore the culture of the Berbers of Morocco. This title offers an account of Morocco in the '30s as well as of Europe's involvement and attitudes towards it.

Focuses on the seasons; the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day; the smell of the earth after rain; Muslim saints, Indian temples, war and old age. This title deals with themes such as: Happiness (simple pleasures, like the author's father's passion for the view from his cabin in Canada); and, more.

Bayonets to Lhasa

The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. This title presents a portrayal of this curious episode and its charismatic protagonists that illuminates what is now seen as a key moment in the Great Game, the repercussions of which continue to be felt throughout the region.

The Divine Supermarket

Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations – often bizarre and sometimes terrifying – of its religious spirit.

The Flying Carpet Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuctu to Everest and Beyond Cover

Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet.

Falling for Icarus A Journey Among the Cretans Cover

On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and built a plane and tried to fly.

The Lycian Shore cover

In the early 1950s, following the trail of ancient Persian and Greek traders, Freya Stark set out by boat to explore the Lycian coast. For all those who now follow in her wake, there can be no better, more evocative or knowledgeable guide to this, Turkey's most enchanting coast.

The Glorious Adventure Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus Cover

New Foreword by Tahir Shah. As epic and eventful as The Odyssey and one of the most captivating travel books of the 20th century, The Glorious Adventure evokes the romance of another time, when heroes and gods walked the earth.

Brazilian Adventure The Classic Quest for the Lost City of Z Cover

In the summer of 1925 Colonel Fawcett - soldier, spy and legendary explorer - embarked on a journey into the dark and uncharted heart of Brazil in search of the lost 'City of Z'. He was never seen again. In 1932, "The Times" advertised for 'guns' to join an expedition to find Fawcett. This title describes that expedition.

Italian Journeys From Venice to Naples and Beyond Cover

Describes author's adventures across Italy - from Genoa, a hotbed of nationalistic fervour and the city from which Garibaldi had led the Expedition of the Thousand only a year before; to the cultural and political powerhouse of Naples, which had only just become part of the Kingdom of Italy and from there to Rome.

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