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  • WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    BURTON, RICHARD
    This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world – as a traveler and explorer”. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton’s life, the book includes chapters on Burton’s controversial pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina, his travels to the city of Harar (in present-day Ethiop...
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  • ME, MY BIKE AND A STREET DOG CALLED LUCY -BRADT
    ME, MY BIKE AND A STREET DOG CALLED LUCY -BRADT
    HOLMES, ISHBEL
    This new title from Bradt tells the inspiring and emotional story of Ishbel Holmes, also known as 'World Bike Girl', a Scottish-Iranian woman who became a champion racing cyclist in spite of having been abandoned by her family, and who set off on the adventure of a lifetime despite her lack of experience, money or equipment.Ishbel Holmes was determined to cycle the world but he...
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  • FROM KHARTOUM TO JERUSALEM
    FROM KHARTOUM TO JERUSALEM
    MAIRS, RACHEL
    In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, ge...
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  • AMONG THE TIBETANS
    AMONG THE TIBETANS
    BIRD, ISABELLA
    Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties. But she was not the slightest bit fazed at the prospect of discomfort and possible death. And nearly die she did, at least once, before the trip was over. Isabella travelled over sever...
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  • SYRIA. THE DESERT AND THE SNOW
    SYRIA. THE DESERT AND THE SNOW
    BELL, GERTRUDE
    "You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt and was responsible for creating the boundaries of the modern state of Iraq,...
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  • IN SEARCH OF KINGS AND CONQUERORS
    IN SEARCH OF KINGS AND CONQUERORS
    COOPER, LISA
    At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers of their presence in the form of castles, palaces, mosques, tombs and temples. Among the many sites she visited were Ephesus, Binbirkilise and Carchemish in modern-day Turkey as well as Ukhaidir, Babylon and Najaf within the borders o...
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  • TRACING MARCO POLO'S JOURNEY
    TRACING MARCO POLO'S JOURNEY
    AHLUWALIA, MAJOR H. P. S.
    A famous mountaineer and an expert on the Himalayan region, Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia was conferred the fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society for his contribution to environmental studies. He has been climbing ever since he was a child and scaled Mount Everest on 29 May 1965. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri and Arjuna Award, he was also presented the Condor...
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  • PRINCE'S ISLANDS, THE
    PRINCE'S ISLANDS, THE
    SARTORIUS, JOACHIM
    Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes’ Islands, an archipelago of unusual natural beauty, which has long been considered the maritime suburb of the imperial capital on the Bosporus and effectively shaped by its manifold history. The poet Joachim Sartorius draws a loving portrait of the landscape and the light, the political observer Sartorius describes ...
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  • FULL TILT
    FULL TILT
    MURPHY, DERVLA
    When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pock...
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  • LIFE AS A VISITOR -62%
    LIFE AS A VISITOR
    NAZARIAN, ANGELLA M.
    After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, some 70,000 Iranian Jews fled the newly formed Islamic state and flocked to the United States; it is estimated that 45,000 Iranian Jews call Los Angeles their home. In her poignant and gracefully written memoir, Life as a Visitor, Angella M. Nazarian recalls escaping Iran as a young girl of eleven and starting a new life in Beverly Hills. The ...
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  • TRAVELLERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM BURCKHARDT TO THESIGER
    TRAVELLERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM BURCKHARDT TO THESIGER
    NASH, GEOFFREY (ED.)
    ‘Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger’ is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain’s involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from bot...
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  • IN SEARCH OF EDEN
    IN SEARCH OF EDEN
    WEIR, JAMES
    IN SEARCH OF EDEN ...
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