Eland Publishing Ltd Forlag
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Hampshire: through writers' eyes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness.
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Forgotten Kingdom: Nine Years in Yunnan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to... Læs mere
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Coasting (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman
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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Said to have inspired Greene's The Quiet American, A Dragon Apparent chronicles the charm and grandeur of the ancient native civilizations that survived until the devastation of the Vietnam War.
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The Law (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Now back in print, the atmospheric 1957 novel that explores the mezzogiorno, the noonday culture of southern Italy. "The Law is an experience I will not easily forget." -V.S. Naipaul
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Hermit of Peking (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Unearths scholars with bizarre sexual fantasies, eunuchs, rare manuscripts and a malicious dowager Queen, and sets them all against the backdrop of a decadent and intrigue-ridden Imperial Court.
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Not a Hazardous Sport: Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Not a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of Caterpillars (both published by Eland).
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Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel books.
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The Purple Land: An Adventure in Uruguay - the Banda Oriental (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
`The Purple Land is a very sinister book if read too late in life. It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land. Ernest Hemingway
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A Pattern of Islands (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus.
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