Eland Publishing Ltd Forlag
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When Miss Emmie was in Russia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A biography of five intrepid women who, by travelling abroad and working as governesses in Russia, achieved an intellectual dignity, a purpose and an authority which was denied them in their homeland.
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Tibetan Foothold (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources.
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The Pharaoh's Shadow: Travels in Ancient and Modern Egypt (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In a ruined temple along the Nile, Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later that day, a policeman stops his taxi to ask to borrow a mobile phone to call his mother.
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Gavin Maxwell: A Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive adventurer, brave and handsome, with a deep sympathy for the underdog, a wonderfully curious mind and a dogged commitment to discovering the truth
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Old Glory: An American Voyage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple
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The View from the Ground: Peacetime Dispatches,1936-87 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night
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Warrior Herdsmen: Life with the Dodoth of Northern Uganda (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda.
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A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands of dominating... Læs mere
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For Love or Money (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul Theroux
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Begums, Thugs and White Mughals (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
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The Light Garden of the Angel King (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in the satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders - from Alexander the Great to Mughal, Persian... Læs mere
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Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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