Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of a people struggling to retain their identity in the face of insistent hostility, and to stand against the all-but-overwhelming fire-power of capitalism.
In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable... Læs mere
Madini and T'hami El Glaoui, sons of a Moroccan by an Ethiopian concubine, rose meteorically to power in the medieval state of... Læs mere
The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 until he ran away to... Læs mere
Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms below. It is the most remote, and probably the most beautiful, of all the Cook Islands.
Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s.
A selection of writing by the most unknown great traveller.
An anthology of poems celebrating Venice from well-known poets such as Byron, Shelley, Wilde, and Pound.
Based on his diaries and letters exchanged with Queen Victoria, here is the story of Sir James Reid and his relationship with the Royal Family, including his treatment of Princess Christian's opium addiction.
An account of two years spent as a house guest in remote Nepal, in a village a ten days' walk from the nearest road.