| Author: | Anne Mustoe |
In 1987, at the age of 54, Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bicycle and set off around the world. She cycled through Europe, India, Thailand and Malaysia, and then from the Far East to the USA - a journey of 12,000 miles that lasted 15 months. This book tells her story. Paperback (B-Format)
| Author: | Paterniti, Michael |
'A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain' - two men, an amazing 4,000-mile road trip, and the most celebrated brain of the 20th century! This extraordinary travel book tells the true story of how in 1997 writer Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of ... read more
| Author: | John Updike |
| Series: | Popular Penguins |
John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school. Now twenty-six, his life seems full of traps, the biggest being his pregnant wife and two-year-old son. He sets out to escape, but it's not clear if Rabbit is really following ... read more
| Author: | Joe Queenan |
Cultural commentator as well as fearsomely amusing film critic, Queenan's biting style and incisive wit have become the trademarks of his writing - and Queenan Country promises to be no different. One semi-tropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of... read more
| Author: | Mark Twain |
A satirical chronicle of the author's 1895 tour around the world describes the wonders and people he encountered en route and presents a portrait of nineteenth-century travel and customs, in a travelogue enhanced by the author's unique humor, curiosity, and observations. Reprint.
| Author: | Jennifer Cox |
They say there's someone for everyone. But what if 'The One' lives in Winnipeg rather than Wimbledon? Or Port Stanley instead of Livingstone? Or, even in Eden... New South Wales? How far would you go to find them? Paris, Tokyo, San Francisco? As a seasoned travel writer and broadcaster, Jennifer has embarked on plenty of ... read more
| Author: | Alexa Thomson |
Imagine you are a young woman with a stellar career but an increasing dissatisfaction with life. Imagine that your idea of a 'remote location' is the distance between a taxi rank and a shoe shop. How do you shrug off your growing ennui? Simple. You apply for the position of cook in the coldest place on earth: Antarctica. Ant... read more
| Author: | Peter Hessler |
412 pages, maps, notes This text presents an account of American aid worker Peter Hessler's time spent in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River during the late 1990s, a time of great change for China. He observes the natural beauty of the area and shares the lives of the local people. He directs a production of "Hamlet" ... read more
| Author: | Martin Edmond |
Luca Antara is a rich tapestry of history and the present. Essentially, it parallels the life of the author, an
| Author: | Jason Webster |
This is a romantic, utterly alluring leap into Spanish sunshine, remote mountains and rural life.Jason Webster had lived in Spain for several years before he and his partner, the flamenco dancer Salud, decided to buy a deserted farmhouse clinging to the side of a steep valley in the eastern province of Castellon, near the sac... read more
| Author: | Raban Jonathan |
Charting a course through the Pacific Northwest, through American history and recent world events, "Driving Home" is a must for fans of Jonathan Raban, as well as the perfect introduction to anyone not yet familiar with his writing. For over thirty years now, Jonathan Raban has written about movement; about people and places ... read more
| Author: | Marlena de Blasi |
From the author of the best-selling A Thousand Days in Venice. Love, food, renovations, recipes and wine - this is a gorgeously lush and evocative account of when Marlena moved with her beloved Fernando to the beautiful town of Orvieto, in Umbria. The realtor can only push open the massive wooden doors to the apartment and... read more
| Author: | Mirabel Osler |
269 pages In years gone by, the traveller in France could rely on coming across a restaurant where the tables were ready-laid with heavy cotton napkins, a carafe of wine and a basket of freshly baked bread, and where the ensuing meal would encompass recipes of remarkable local dishes handed down from generation to generat... read more
| Author: | Stephen Smith |
The Columbia Stephen Smith uncovers on his extraordinary journey - surreally beautiful, unfathomably savage, seedily glamourous and mercilessly corroded by the trade in drugs. One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for... read more
| Author: | Bob Goddard |
Land Of The Long Wild Road is an off-beat, observant and humorous journey around New Zealand. Bob and Viv Goddard ride two small off-road motorcycles on gravel tracks, drovers' routes and four-wheel-drive trails into the wilderness of this fabulous and unspoiled country. With hilarious encounters and manic mishaps, they survi... read more
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| Author: | Laurie Gough |
From a remote beach in the South Pacific, Laurie Gough recalls her award-winning journey across the globe. Drinking the hallucinogen kava aound a campfire, sleeping in a California redwood or rolled up in a rug, hitchhiking with an Austrian goatherd, fighting off a cab driver in Kuala Lumpur, living in a Hare Krishna templ... read more
| Author: | Anne Mustoe |
A man praying to the Hindu monkey-god, Hanuman, at a roadside shrine in India inspires a bicycle journey across the entire sub-continent. Paperback
| Author: | Billy Connolly |
The best-loved comedian in Britain heads off on the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Having always dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66, Billy Connolly is finally heading off on the ride of a lifetime. Travelling all 2,488 miles of this epic road, known as 'The Main Street of Amer... read more