Eland Publishing Ltd Forlag
Visning: Type : Alle | Sprog : Engelsk | Format : Paperback / softback Der vises kun varer på engelsk
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Travels into Bokhara (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The author has travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the Great Game. This title provides an account his travels.
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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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A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's nightmare (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, attended guerilla conference, and took tea with torturers.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
