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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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'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
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
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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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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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.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made ends meet.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud s life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.