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The Scorpion-Fish (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke, and certainly feverish. A razor sharp chronicle of experience that grew out of a seven-month stay in Sri Lanka.
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A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Tuscany and Umbria (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A cast of poets of spellbinding intensity bring this much loved region of Italy to life to show us two opposing natures of Italy, united by their differences.
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Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. This title brings together the best in their Spanish hosts, informed by personal fascination for horses, religion and Spain.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Trouble I've Seen (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House.
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Holding on (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of a street in London's docklands and of the family who lived on it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelwright family (originally dockers) lived there until its demolition in the 1960s, when it was replaced with tower blocks.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Chantemesle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine- a minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is a character in its own right. We meet a singing hermit, a disturbing spinster, and the author's first girlfriend in this magical work.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Arabia through the Looking Glass (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Affair of the Heart, An (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun?baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For centuries this account, the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained unread in a Welsh castle.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Growing: Seven Years in Ceylon (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard Wool
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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterranean island she and the Greek goddess of the harvest call home.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
