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Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy into a worldly wise multilingual intelligence agent on the point of becoming a formidable travel writer.
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Dinner of Herbs: Village Life in 1960s Turkey (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Innocent Anthropologist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
On a Shoestring to Coorg (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
A Plague of Caterpillars: A Return to the African Bush (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon where he had lived as a field anthropologist for 18 months.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Village in the Jungle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, this novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) includes a biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Lebanon (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A record of the people who visited Lebanon since 1800 BC; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland, their religions, their joys, their wars and their sorrows.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Tomb in Seville (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance The light lash of Lewis's humour and his sniffer-dog's nose for the oddball remain undiminished. - The Guardian
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen. Describing a little known aspect of WWII, a group of British Army soldiers try to prevent bloodshed between feuding Somalian tribes.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Sicily (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A useful companion for those travelling to Sicily, this work is part of a series that is a collection of writing, aiming to invest the traveller with a cultural and historical background to Sicily.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and protect its people.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
