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by Bill Bryson
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of ...
ISBN: 9780552997034
Binding: Paperback Book
$19.95
One Woman's Search for Everything
by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges ...
ISBN: 9780747585664
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.95
Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. for Fun.
by Mark Thomas
'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?' The Israeli separation barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under international law and its impact on life in the West ...
ISBN: 9780091927813
Binding: Paperback Book
$19.95
by Tim Baker
All surfers dream of shedding responsibilities and answering the siren song of the ocean swells. For most, it is an ideal that recedes as age advances - as family, career and provider commitments overwhelm the wanderlust of youth. But what if you ...
ISBN: 9781864712124
Binding: Paperback Book
$34.95
by Peter Allison
Peter Allison takes on South America in this hilarious book about walking pumas (can be dangerous), chasing jaguars (can be elusive) and finding love (can be tricky).
ISBN: 9781742375168
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
by Robert Pirsig
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER'S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974.The story of the narrator, his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from ...
ISBN: 9780099786405
Binding: Paperback Book
$12.95
by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered ...
ISBN: 9781408809365
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs
She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
by Paul Carter
A take no prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of ...
ISBN: 9781741146981
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.95
One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil
by Paul Carter
At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was he f**k! With his manic life left ...
ISBN: 9781741757026
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia
by Ailsa Piper
"Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty." With these words Ailsa Piper's journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking through olive groves and under translucent pink blossoms, ...
ISBN: 9780522861396
Binding: Paperback Book
$29.99
The Man Who Cycled the Americas
by Mark Beaumont
In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days. His race against the clock took him through the toughest terrain and the most demanding of conditions. In 2009, Mark set out on his second ...
ISBN: 9780552163972
Binding: Paperback Book
$19.95
Journeys Back to the Golden Age of Motoring
by Richard Wilson & Nigel Richardson
Richard Wilson follows some of Britain's best drives from the Wye Valley to Rob Roy's Highlands, in this BBC TV tie-in. Back in the fifties, motoring was a liberating experience. Before motorways, traffic jams and road rage, the leisurely Sunday ...
ISBN: 9780755319015
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
by Paul Theroux
This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical ...
ISBN: 9780141044262
Binding: Paperback Book
$19.95
Calling Time on the Grand Project
by Iain Sinclair
In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012. Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence ...
ISBN: 9780141039640
Binding: Paperback Book
$22.95
One Man's Personal Journey Round the Subcontinent
by Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar, the comedian and writer behind The Kumars at No. 42 embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev's characteristic humour and unique take on the country form the heart of this beautifully written ...
ISBN: 9780007247394
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
by Eric Newby
'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre ...
ISBN: 9780007367887
Binding: Paperback Book
$21.99
Everything Is Going to Be Great
An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour
by Rachel Shukert
<p> When she lands a coveted nonpaying, nonspeaking role in a play going on a European tour, Rachel Shukert--with a brand-new degree in acting from NYU and no money--finally scores her big break. And, after a fluke at customs in Vienna, she gets ...
ISBN: 9780061782350
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
As Remembered by Actors, Artists, Athletes, Chefs, Comedians, Filmmakers, Mayors, Models, Moguls, Porn Stars, Rockers, Writers, and Others
by New York Magazine
Who doesn't know someone who moved on a lark to New York - or plans to someday move there - and remembers or dreams of their own first, halcyon days in the big city? New York has always been the destination of choice for the tired, the poor, the ...
ISBN: 9780061963933
Binding: Hardback Book
$39.99
by Neven Maguire
Neven Maguire presents a radiant collection of recipes inspired by the food from our favourite travel destinations. From the al fresco trattorias of Italy to the street food of Vietnam, Food from the Sun will make your kitchen a place to enjoy ...
ISBN: 9780007348152
Binding: Paperback Book
$35.00
Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
by Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished alongside its sister volume Sidetracks. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever.
ISBN: 9780007204533
Binding: Paperback Book